#Programming

Declaration of scope

We made 75 private repos public on a timer. The internet noticed in 6 minutes.

How can I export Claude chat history to PDF without losing formatting?

OpenCV 5 release – New DNN engine with enhanced ONNX and LLM/VLM support, Intel, Arm, and RISC-V hardware optimizations

Adding Bluesky Comments to this Blog

How to Debug a C# program with LLDB?

Is it possible to debug a program that requires input from the terminal in VSCode/VSCodium?

Suggest improvements to my IPv4 ping census program

Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal

Nordic adds AI-assisted development to the nRF Connect SDK and nRF Cloud

Might this be a scam?

Building my Website – Where it started

Cradicle the p2p github alternative (based on Radicle) is looking for users/testers

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens

Ladies and gentleman, we have reached peak Agentic AI Coding - Goblin instructions in OpenAI's Codex system prompt

Ladies and gentleman, we have reached peak Agentic AI Coding - Goblin instructions in OpenAI's Codex system prompt

How to balance work, career development and personal projects

Is it worth to learn javascript for making a little incremental game as a side project ?

Programming Still Sucks.

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this…

Workslop

The bar for shipping quality work hasn‘t lowered just because AI can generate code in minutes — and if you‘re accepting AI output without reviewing it, you‘re part of the problem.

Harness Engineering: What It Might Mean For Your Job

Software engineering is going through an Extreme Home Makeover™, what will it look like in 2 or 3 years?

Read The Code (Sometimes)

Should you read the code agentic systems write, or it all assembler in a world of AI-assisted coding?

Claude Cowork

Anthropic‘s latest product brings Claude Code to everyone else — not just developers.

Build.ms: Making Technology Accessible To Everyone

Learn how to think about technology in a fast-moving world — I‘ll show you what matters and filter out the rest.

AI (Without the Hype)

I spoke at NSSpain this year and gave a wide-ranging talk AI, building from the fundamentals to real-world uses — with something for everyone.

Codex vs. Claude Code (Today)

Every AI tool has its strengths and weaknesses, and the only way to discover what they are is by using them.

Coding a Warming Gradient

Or: Why I feel like an idiot while coding

The Rule of Small and Large

A personal framework for choosing projects: focus on either small projects for quick learning or large projects for meaningful impact, while avoiding the medium-sized trap.

Empower Apps Podcast: Building Plinky as an Indie Developer

Leo Dion and I discuss building Plinky from scratch, the technical decisions behind using SwiftUI and Vapor, creating delightful user experiences, and the journey from working at Twitter to becoming a…

Compile Swift Podcast: Being Featured on the App Store

Peter Witham and I discuss the incredible experience of having Plinky featured on the App Store, the journey of indie app development, and how doing good work creates opportunities.

Writing My Own Language Server in Go (to Parse Chess PGNs)

I Followed a 40 year old Pascal Book (in Rust)

The Reasoning Computer

How will we solve problems in a new era of computation, where the very foundations of how a computer is expected to work are no longer deterministic?

Twitter Space: Making Data Storage Magical with Boutique

I joined the Github DevRel team to discuss building Boutique, my "magical" library for data persistence. We also dive into my journey from Twitter to indie development, and the harsher realities of op…

Coding As Creative Expression

Exploring whether coding is art or science, and how programming serves as a creative medium for solving problems and expressing ideas through code.

Building the Same App 5 Times

Empower Apps Podcast: Large Scale Teams

Leo Dion and I discuss scaling app development to thousands of people and millions of users at Twitter, communication, documentation, and the complexity of holding moral frameworks at a global level.

Dev Chats - Joe Fabisevich

An interview with Sam Jarman covering my career journey, the NYC tech scene, consulting vs full-time work, and advice for building a successful software career.

Notes from “The Passionate Programmer”

Last month I read a great book from the Pragmatic Bookshelf - “The Passionate Programmer”, another book in the not-directly-technical series of their books started with the original “Pragmatic Program…

On Open Source licensing

There are many posts and articles that compare available open source licenses. A lot of them aren’t objective and are biased towards some kinds of licenses based on author’s own preferences. Well, I …