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.
Jun. 9, 2025
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. :)
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.
Sep. 14, 2017
How I Use Bear Notes
Talking about my note taking process with Bear Writer in the context of being a knowledge worker. This is what my setup/process looks like right now, for my work related notes.## Looking for a Notes App in All the Wrong PlacesAs I started a new job, I wanted to change...
Jun. 11, 2017
Scientific Method Over Anecdotal Evidence in Technology Choices
Note: This was originally posted as a comment on Goodbye, Object Oriented ProgrammingA friend sent me your article, and I had replied to him with this, telling him what I think (he suggested I post it here, so I am):Yeah, I’ve been thinking about this one a little bit lately....
Jan. 21, 2017
Explore vs. Exploit
I recently started listening to the audio book Algorithms to Live By - The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, and it has been very good. There are a few points that stuck out to me:Tradeoffs: In life, just like in computer science, it's all...
Jun. 8, 2015
Abstract Syntax Trees in JavaScript
An Abstract Syntax Tree (AST), is a powerful concept in computer science. It is something that allows you to do some interesting things, especially in JavaScript, that you may not have thought possible. If you didn't come from a computer science background, then I hope to show you how you...
Apr. 20, 2015
Things Great Engineering Managers Do
Reacts quickly, and decisively.Has a leadership philosophy. Has thought about it, a lot. Can speak at length about it.Is passionate about engineering. Is passionate about management. Understands the intersection of the two.When there is a problem, fixes it quickly.Cares about women being in tech. (Also see diversity.)Understands the engineering hierarchy,...