Tag: dev
The verification I never verified
I wrote a whole post about two-way standard.site verification. One of the two directions had been returning a 404 in production the entire time.
XKCD 1319: we now live on the theory curve
XKCD 1319 set the theory and reality curves of automation against each other. With LLMs writing the scripts, the theory curve has won.
My Atmospheric Website
Hopefully the final home for my data
Getting a reTerminal DM running as a Nerves kiosk in 2026
A guide to running Elixir/Nerves on Seeed's reTerminal DM with its custom DSI display, capacitive touchscreen, and a Cog/WPE browser kiosk---including the workarounds you'll need for touch input.
Building a Custom Bluesky Feed, Part 3: Polish and Ship
Building a Custom Bluesky Feed, Part 2: Iterating Over It
Building a Custom Bluesky Feed, Part 1: Starting Simple
Ben's dev setup 2026 edition
Ghostty, zellij, helix and a life lived in text tokens---why I ditched Zed and went back to purely terminal-based development.
Coding agents and the plasticity of code
Code has always felt brittle---most changes break it. Coding agents change that dynamic, absorbing the cognitive load of big refactors and making code feel plastic rather than rigid.
Fixing slow Zed agent startup times
Claude Code sessions in Zed were taking 30 seconds to start. The culprit: npx fetching Playwright MCP on every launch. The fix involves global installs and mise shims.
Switching from Jekyll to VitePress
After ten years on Jekyll, I moved this site to VitePress. Notes on migrating content, components, reveal.js slides, and data loading.
11ty and Vite for modern static websites
How to set up 11ty with Vite and Tailwind v4 for static sites that need proper asset bundling, HMR, and npm ecosystem access.
The great 2025 email yak-shave: O365 + mbsync + mu + neomutt + msmtp
Rebuilding a terminal email setup with OAuth2, Office365 and neomutt in Zed---the hard-won config so you don't have to waste as many hours as I did.
Running Claude Code within Zed
Switching from Zed's Agent panel to Claude Code for flat-fee pricing, with a simple task config to keep the workflow inside Zed.
Automated RPi Web Kiosk Setup in 2025
A fully scripted burn-and-boot process for setting up Raspberry Pi 5s as fullscreen Chromium kiosks with Tailscale, WiFi and 4K support.
Fluxo linear de sucesso: escrevendo código limpo em Python
Agentic Elixir superpowers: Zed + Tidewave + AshAI
How to wire up Zed, Tidewave and AshAI as MCP servers for an agentic Elixir development workflow, with a helper script to glue it all together.
Python Generators: What They Are and What Problems They Solve
Tuples and Lists in Python
Não compartilhe captura de tela do terminal para pedir ajuda
Do not share a terminal screenshot when asking for help
Format Markdown on save in Zed using Prettier
Zed config snippet for auto-formatting Markdown files on save with Prettier, including prose wrapping at 80 columns.
Inter and the Power of Fonts: Why Typefaces Matter More Than You Think
Open up the potential of your designs with a deeper understanding of what variable fonts like Inter can do.
Unlocking A/B Testing with PostHog: Improving Newsletter Signups
Optimizing signups by testing, trusting statistics, and fine-tuning UX using data from PostHog
Unlocking A/B Testing with PostHog: Improving Newsletter Signups
Optimizing signups by testing, trusting statistics, and fine-tuning UX using data from PostHog
How to source and use expert knowledge for your work
One of the most effective ways to grow as a developer is by tapping into the vast pool of knowledge available in the developer community.
Debug tips from a lifetime newbie
Debugging problems with code (especially production code) is something that is rarely taught in university classes or code schools. Here are some tips that I've come across from watching smarter people than me debug problems.
Struggling with TypeScript: why not?
One of your biggest skills as a person-on-the-internet is your ability to research and learn new things.
Keep your tools sharp
The tools we use to get our work done are incredibly important, and taking the time to tune them to work just right can make a huge difference in our productivity and happiness.
Why new frameworks make better developers
A look at the cognitive science behind the Hierarchy of Competence, and how dabbling with new frameworks and tools can make you a better developer.
Take my money! Some of my favorite tools... and why I pay for them
I'm a huge fan of products that use their a free tier to prove their value, and then convert me to a paying customer. Here are a few tools I pay for, and why I think they're worth it.
Brian Douglas - Open Sauced, GitHub
Brian Douglas, former GitHub DevRel head and Open Sauced founder, discusses GitHub Actions, Copilot, and building better social graphs for developers.
Why do I use Neovim? The candid response
Daniel Roe - Nuxt, unJS
Daniel Roe reveals his transition from law to leading Nuxt's core team and how community-driven development shapes the Vue.js ecosystem.
Jekyll build speedups for Ruby 3.2
Ruby 3.2's YJIT gave my Jekyll builds a 4.8x speedup---from 17 seconds down to under 4.
Handling Square Webhooks in Phoenix
How to receive and validate Square payment webhooks in an Elixir/Phoenix app, with code for HMAC signature verification.
rclone: exclude all git repos
A bash script to auto-exclude all git repos from rclone backups, since rclone's built-in filtering can't do it alone.
The case for continued learning, and getting side projects out the door
The end of 2022 brought about a ton of change for me, and a major shift in my career. I'm excited to talk a little about what's next, and to show off a side project I'm readying for release soon.
Devs: It's okay to use no-code tools
Embrace no-code tools to save time, boost efficiency, and complement your coding skills. No-code is the future - don't be left behind!
So this is how it feels when the robots come for your job: what GitHub's Copilot 'AI assistant' means for coders
A pointer to my Conversation article on GitHub Copilot and what AI coding assistants mean for programmers.
So this is how it feels when the robots come for your job
GitHub Copilot is a genuine force multiplier for coding, but human expertise is still crucial---a Conversation article on what AI assistants mean for programmers.
Redacting craiyon prompts with imagemagick
A one-liner ImageMagick command to batch-redact the prompt text from craiyon (DALL-E mini) screenshot outputs.