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Is there such a thing as too many lizards? Well… 🤔
This one was found in my bedroom. 🦎
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Darling Gardens.
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Some advice for other developers using these coding agents to “vibe-code” something: stick with technologies that you yourself understand. In my experience using these tools, while I get almost what I want, it’s never exactly what I want, and I’m usually left with something slightly broken or with a few things I’d like changed. This is where my skills come in, to finish the job.
Of course you’re free to use tech you’re not familiar with: I’m not telling you what to do here, and seeing code in an unfamiliar tech stack could potentially be a good way of learning it. But if all you want is a thing, if you’re not in a position to go in and make changes yourself, you’re kind of stuck with what was produced or spending tokens trying to get it exactly the way you want.
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It is interesting seeing so many people on the IndieWeb take on an us-verses-them approach to Big Tech, as if they’re rebels against “the Empire”. That’s not how I like to approach my participation in the movement, such that it is. I believe effective participation comes from using the technologies of the open web: blogs, RSS, etc. It doesn’t require a combative approach to people spending their in the walled gardens, or those who own the gardens themselves. I do believe there are plenty of problems with their business models — that’s generally why I stay away from them — and do believe those that enjoy said gardens are missing out on something, but who am I to tell them what to do? For me, it’s just enough to just be. Be myself, write for myself, in topics I’m interested in. I’m sure others will disagree, and express their disagreement on their own blogs. But hey, isn’t that the whole point?
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Good thing I checked the laundry basket first or I would’ve smothered this guy with my washing. 🦎
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Easy to forget, while browsing through the style classes in UI component frameworks like Bootstrap that… you can just write your own CSS rules.
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TUIs Are Underrated
There’s still room in this world for UIs made of line characters. Continue reading →
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Seems like matcha is the hot new craze round here. Lots of cafes are offering drinks with it now. For myself, I do like matcha. Prior to this craze, I managed to secure my supply from those at work bringing into the office goodies from their trips to Japan.
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🔗 Google’s New Sideloading Restrictions for Android Include a 24-Hour Waiting Period
Ugh! Google is just dead set on ruining Android, aren’t they. If I wanted a locked-down mobile OS, I would’ve bought an iPhone. At least that way I would’ve had access to better apps. 😒
Via: Daring Fireball
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Been trying out the coding agent skill Superpowers over the last few days. Seems to work quite well for larger changes. It feels a little slower, what with the agent asking questions and walking through a plan, but I think it produces better work overall. Just make sure to run it on a branch.
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Meta talking about platform fees for the metaverse feels to me like a school rock-band talking about how they’d divvy up revenue from ticket sales before they get their first gig.
Sounds like the band’s breaking up.
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The YouTube algorithm has decided I’m interested in city planning videos from Canadians, particularly Ontarians (not without cause). As a consequence, I’ve learnt the names of a few national and provincial public transport authorities. Via Rail? GO Trains? I know what those mean now.
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Found out that
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The ability to reply to posts from Inkwell is a nice feature. Really adds to the value of following Mastodon accounts via RSS.
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name a musical album you listen to, more or less, once every day. Strict ruleset. You REALLY listen to it every day, unless life intervenes, as it is wont to do
Probably closer to every other day, certainly 2-3 times a week, but Tubular Bells III, by Mike Oldfield.
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📘 Devlog
Well Read - One Week Later
It's been a week since I learnt about Inkwell's API and got an agent to start work on an RSS reader. Since then, Well Read has been in a state of flux, as I ask for agents to make changes to the interaction and layout. I think I've got it in a pretty good state now, certainly in a state that works well for me. The earliest screenshots of Well Read, taken on 11 March 2026 The Today and Recent tabs still retain their original behaviour, although the idea of using 6:00 pm of the previous evening as the cutoff for " Continue reading →
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Anyone else notice that AWS names their US regions after states instead of cities? It’s curious. Is it because naming us-west-2 “Portland” could spark confusion as to whether it’s located in Oregon or Maine? Surely the “us-west-2” would be a hint as to where it’s geographically located. 🤷
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Word of the day: kenopsia, (n) the strange sensation experienced while seeing a place that should be/is usually filled with people that is empty or abandoned.
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On my commute. I wanted “Mark all as Read” added to Well Read. Cracked open the coding agent to make the change, push it to Forgejo to build the release, which I side loaded onto my phone. By the time I arrived at my station, it was there. Pretty nice!
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It looks like Go’s getting a UUID package added to the standard library. Someone’s been reading my mind, or at the very least reading my blog. 😏
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It’s kind of fun seeing what product decisions coding agents make when you slacken the reins a little. Without being specific, I asked an agent working on a TUI to have a way to indicate that a row in a table is selected. I would’ve expected it to highlight the row, but no: it opted to indicate a selected row by showing a bullet in the left-most column, much like a checkbox on a web-based table. Interesting choice.
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Does anyone else keep a blog and not want people they know know about it?
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It’s interesting seeing people get caught out with how the doors work in the Metro Tunnel. At every other station, you need to press the button to open the train doors, but in the Metro Tunnel, they’re automatic. Maybe if they opened as soon as they started beeping (there’s a few seconds delay).
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A lot fewer people on the train into the city today.
