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Discover how iOS 18's hidden automatic observation tracking brings SwiftUI-like reactive programming to UIKit and AppKit, making your UI code cleaner and more maintainable.
Should you use Obsidian to write academic papers? It's great for knowledge management, but more than that?
Personal update post.
I heard you like linting.
\"Kubernetes v1.33: Key Features, Updates, and What You Need to Know
Turn your blind AI into a visual debugger with instant screenshot capture and analysis
How I migrated over 700 tests from XCTest to Swift Testing across two projects, with AI assistance and systematic refinement
How a simple terminal trick helps me manage multiple Claude Code instances without losing my mind (or my terminal tabs)
My brutal journey implementing Sparkle auto-updates in sandboxed macOS apps - from 40 failed releases to enlightenment.
A layered module system.
How I built Vibe Meter, a macOS menu bar app to track AI spending in real-time - from workshop demo to shipped product in three days.
There’s a growing attitude in the technology industry that LLM technology is, or will be, the next great innovation to our work. Business owners and workers alike seem to be in unlikely agreement: owners are thrilled at the prospect of ...
Harness AI to transform detailed technical YouTube videos into rich, automated blog posts—saving time while expanding your content’s reach and impact.
Scrum Masters, Release Managers, and the illusion of progress in a world that should know better.
Somewhere between title inflation and egalitarian delusion, the meaning of 'Senior Developer' got lost.
I run Claude Code with --dangerously-skip-permissions flag, giving it full system access. Let me show you a new way of approaching computers.
After spending heavily on AI tools for two months, here's why the math actually works out—and which subscriptions are worth every penny.
How I vibe coded my first Swift package using existing JavaScript libraries and AI assistance to solve HTML to Markdown conversion in Swift.
I spent Thursday at King’s County Court House finding out whether I was going to be called for jury duty. I used the opportunity to reach way back in the spark file for a silly side project, a web app ...
I demonstrate 'vibe coding' - a new approach to software development with AI, building two apps from scratch in a 3-hour live workshop.
My comprehensive guide outlining best practices for building reliable, user-friendly Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools with proper configuration, testing, and release management.
I reflect on my post-exit journey from emptiness to rediscovering my passion for building, sparked by AI's transformative potential.
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in May 2025.
Quoting for modules.
Why streaming isn't enough.
One does not simply serialize a module.
In the world of web infrastructure, what starts as a simple goal can often lead you down a fascinating rabbit hole of history, philosophy, and clever engineering. This is the story of our journey to build a simple, single-purpose, open-source ...
I’m hosting a regular afternoon edition tomorrow (Friday, May 30) to wrap up the month of May. After that, I’ll be away on vacation, so I’m skipping the first two Fridays in June and the first Friday in July. Here’s ...
A while back I posted about fixing an error installing the charlock_holmes gem on MacOS, well the error has returned. Here’s the newest fix. If you get an error that looks something like this: Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem ...
What do HTML, GraphQL, and RSC have in common?
This isn't progress.
🤔 I struggle with most research papers, but the Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents was an easy read. The paper follows a fascinating study where researchers simulate various LLM models running a vending machine business over ...
Want a dose of dry wit and hard-earned lessons at your event or in your codebase? I speak and consult on legacy systems, privacy, burnout, and fixing things that actually matter.
At WorkOS's AI onsite and MCP Night, I experimented with vibe coding. What started as a two-hour experiment with 5,000 lines of unseen TypeScript became a glimpse into programming's future.
Quick disclaimer before we start. This is well-trod ground. Nothing here is new or revolutionary, nothing about this implementation hasn’t already been done by smarter folks than I :) This is just my blog post about it. We’ll use webmention.io ...
It's easy to talk about everything when you've been writing software for half a century. Bhaskar has some amazing insights from his impressive career building software using everything from punch cards to AI. If you like learning about the past ...
I made an expensive technical decision on Phoenix Liveview for the Smol Talk webapp about a year ago that I now regret, and am jotting down some notes to self for why.
Today I learned about pdftoppm, a simple CLI tool that can convert each page of a PDF into separate image files. My use case was to chop up a few big PDF reports to make OCR and data analysis easier, ...
A cynical developer's guide to why OKRs often fail, how they sometimes help, and what to do when you're assigned 15 of them.
Scrum helped us escape the waterfall. But it’s become more ceremony than substance—and the real work is happening in the cracks between stand-ups.
The Cynical Developer is a blog for tired engineers, reflective skeptics, and anyone who’s seen too many “Next Big Things” end up as tomorrow’s tech debt. This site is maintained by a seasoned developer with a mild aversion to buzzwords ...
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Because @Stateless shouldn’t require 3 XML files and a blood sacrifice.
Anyone online has seen over the past years how the frequency of Palestinian accounts on Bluesky and other platforms has increased, two- and four-fold, folks asking for help and linking to GoFundMes. They share their stories and plea for help, ...
