Oct. 20, 2025
Started reading "The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2015 - 2025" by Dwarkesh Patel with Gavein Leech.
Dense with citations and definitions. Taking my time here. 😮💨
From 6/5/17 in one of my notebooks I wrote down this quote from Andreesen Horowitz - AI Playbook:
AI is the new relational database, about to get into every important piece of software we write.
This seems to have mostly come true in 2025.
Oct. 18, 2025
Magical Thinking is the belief that your thoughts alone is enough to affect the world. Success requires both appropriate action and realistic assessment of what's actually possible.
Just do it or you can just do things.
Critical thinking with concrete action. Always.
Oct. 16, 2025
Building a Bear Notes Skill for Claude Code
I've been using Bear for years. It's where all my thoughts go - meeting notes, code snippets, random ideas at 2am, links I'll definitely read "later" spoiler: I won't. But here's the thing: when I'm deep in a coding session with Claude Code, switching contexts to find that one note...
I've shipped the "notes" feature to my blog. When I'm logged in it shows a Twitter-like compose box, that creates short notes like these. So I can share thoughts on MY site, and not someone else's site.
THE WAY OF CODE, a project by @rickrubin in collaboration with Anthropic.
The way of code is a fascinating collaboration between Rick Rubin (yes, that guy), and Anthropic.
I was inspired by this, I love these kinds of canvas animations.
They did a good job as a marketing site for (1) Claude, and (2) Rick Rubin’s newsletter.
Oct. 15, 2025
Everyone Should Be Using Claude Code More.
Lenny is right, everyone should be using Claude Code.
It’s like having claude.ai that has access to your computer and all it’s files.
Claude Code isn’t about coding at all. It’s about having an AI that manages your entire process—whatever the goal might be.
Sep. 3, 2025
Github Readme That Updates
I’m going to do more of the Show Your Work thing here on my blog. Buckle up. I really like automation. Probably a little too much. Add my love of README files, and you’ll be able to see where this is going.
Jul. 6, 2025
I like this definition better. As we learn more about how to manage our words passed to LLMs, I think the nouns we use should change along with it.
Jun. 9, 2025
Vibe Coding
Yes, there will be vibes. Yes, there will be coding.
These can be separate, or they can come together into something really unique and interesting.
May. 21, 2025
8-Bit Spelling Game: Built with Claude
Wanted to share a fun little project I built this morning for my 9-year-old daughter: an interactive, retro-styled spelling game that she absolutely loves!🎮 The "8-bit Spelling Game" is a fun educational tool where players hear words through text-to-speech and type them out letter by letter, with cute dolphin animations...
May. 17, 2025
Cocogitto: The conventional commit toolbox
I highly recommend you incorporate cocogitto into your workflow.I've been using it for a few months now, and it's been great to tighten up my git commit messages, and enable a lot of things like changelog generation...
May. 1, 2025
📱 April Update: iOS, AI for free, and more.
My most-used, most-recommended app, just went mobile with an iOS app.
It started as a shortcut for everything, but now with all the LLM models, is my go-to for quickly asking AI questions throughout my day.
Apr. 29, 2025
Git Blame Ignore Revs
I've been a part of a lot of code cleanups, and touching legacy codebases. Often times I'd run prettier, or a linter or formatter across the entire codebase and change a whole lot that is not really changing the functionality, but the readability of the codebase. And I didn't like it when my name would be the last name on a git blame when I may not really know much about that part of the code, but my name is there because I ran that linter/formatter.
There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding"....
There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
This tweet has 4.9 million views.
I think this is the origin of "vibe coding"? I didn't know it was from Andrej Karpathy!
Goes to show you, everyone is moving from walled gardens, and moving towards blogging again.
Yay!
Apr. 26, 2025
Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI (addyo.substack.com).
I think Addy has the right take here.
You can avoid it and fall behind.
But if you go too deep down the rabbit-hole of letting AI write your code, you're asking for problems. Most importantly: skill atrophy.
How We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15 Billion Miles Away.
David Cummings (JPL) presents how they did it in this video. Incredible longevity from 1970s technology. Imagine trying to debug something, where you send a command and then wait 45 hours to see the result. 😅
The only human-made objects that are in interstellar space. Technology that's been going for 47 1/2 years at this point.
Fun facts: The programming language? A custom assembly language for the processor used in question. They don't have the source code, they do have the intermediary output, in a Word doc that was OCR'd in, so it has a lot of typos!
Apr. 25, 2025
Hello, There Will Be Some Changes
I've done it. This thing is no longer Next.js, but Django. Many reasons. But wanted to get this cut over, and continue from there.There will be some dust for a bit while I ramp this thing up. :)
Oct. 31, 2024
Hackertuah: From Idea to Top 20 on Hacker News in Record Time
Remember that "hawk tuah" meme that took over the internet? Well, I couldn't resist naming my latest Rust CLI after it. Meet hackertuah - and yes, the name alone got some chuckles when it hit the front page of Hacker News. This whole thing started when I wanted a better...
May. 23, 2024
React Conf 2024 - Unleashing the Future
It’s been a pretty exciting couple of days in Las Vegas attending React Conf 2024. Not only was it the 10th (+1) anniversary of React, but the vibes were awesome, and talking to the community was super inspiring. Both React and React Native are here for another 10 years.
Feb. 21, 2023
Weeknotes - 02/21/23
As mentioned previously, I've really enjoyed working on this native macOS app that is built with Tauri!
Feb. 10, 2023
Weeknotes - 02/06/23
These notes will be about what I've personally done during the week to ship, move forward, and will be a great way for me to keep track of my progress on things. All inspired by Simon Willson's weeknotes## Side Projects"Side Projects", (naming is hard, ok?) is a project that helps...
Mar. 3, 2020
A Decades Long Retrospective
Then I realized that if I limited it to only a decade, I would be cutting out half the journey. Oh. My. God. This is a long time.
Nov. 21, 2019
Choose Your Own Adventure
I loved the Choose Your Own Adventure books growing up. A childhood friend had almost an entire bookcase of these. Near the front door, on the side of the staircase, a short, squat bookcase, with an entire shelf dedicated to these gems.
Nov. 2, 2019
Flash is Very Dead
In April 2010, Steve Jobs, co-founder, and then CEO of Apple outlined why Flash was not going to be included on Apple mobile devices.
Oct. 29, 2019
The Internet is 50 Today
In the third floor of Boelter Hall on the UCLA campus, in room 3420 some historical computing happened at 10:30pm, the 29th of October, 1969
Oct. 31, 2018
100 Days of Sketches
I want to be a person who draws all the time. I used to do it all the time as a kid. My itch for drawing came back around again when I was doing sketches of Pokemon for my sons and putting it in their lunches for them to find.
Jun. 12, 2018
Indie Hackers Alfred Workflow
Easily browse Indiehackers.com with this Alfred workflow.
Sep. 17, 2017
On Technical Interviews
This post was going to be about technical interviews, and how they're broken in our industry.