having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.
Book cover of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd edition". It has a similar wild boar on the cover as the first edition, but it uses O'Reilly's new cover design, and the boar is now slightly colourised.
The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅
(BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)
Ha! Same workflow. Only reason I'm using VS Code is because Claude doesn't support VS yet.
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Comic. [Person talking to person with black hat.] PERSON 1: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean “a time loop experienced by one person.” PERSON 2: …What. [caption] Easily our weirdest holiday.
Groundhog Day Meaning
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Introducing Modem AI! New blog, new/first post, new app page, new app. Learn more about why I built this app and how to get it:
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True - it takes a fair amount of skill to know what to ask for and refine.
My MacBook has a Delete key that acts like a Backspace.
Memories from a prior lifetime building C++ and Java apps on Solaris.
Watching people use the term "AI" as if Generative AI is the only type of AI that exists.
I'll be speaking about WinUI, Windows App SDK, and the Windows AI APIs at @techbash.bsky.social 2025 this fall.
Register today w/ code SUMMER10 to save 10% on 3-day & 4-day tickets thru Labor Day. I'll see you there Nov 4-7: techbash.com
#dotnet #ai #windowsappsdk #windev #winui #csharp #windowsai
A practical guide on how to use the GitHub MCP server.
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#github #ai #docker #mcp #modelcontextprotocol #aiagents
MCP C# SDK Deep Dive | MCP Dev Days with Mike Kistler.
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#csharp #dotnet #mcp #ai #modelcontextprotocol #vscode
Publish your .NET MCP Server to NuGet | by ErikEJ.
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#dotnet #mcp #ai #nuget #dotnet10 #csharp #dotnetcli
...While the company is shut down, I might use it again in the future, rather than writing a RAG system from scratch and thought other folks might be able to use it too. So, it's open source again.
Re-released Generellem as open source:
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This is the underlying RAG engine for the @Generellem service. It was originally open source, until realizing that splitting time between open source and commercial wasn't an efficient use of time...
Is that because it defaults to a server component? Does 'use client' fix it? Just learning Next myself after working legacy CRA.
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“No one ever tells you that bravery feels like fear.”– Mary Kate Teske
Funny... but true (at least in my case)
It used to be a version of IBM OS/2.
Warp Launch Log 3 | by Olivia Johnston.
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#warp #ai #terminal #commandline #macos #windows #linux
New to me, but it's great.
Fearin' AI? That’s like bein’ scared of a wrench fixin’ your leaky sink.
My latest post digs into why panicking about AI misses the real point — our creativity still leads the charge.
www.woodruff.dev/mechanical-m...
#AI #FutureOfWork #Creativity
After watching Mission Impossible Final Reckoning, I'm convinced that too many people are spending too much time on The Internet.
Recently vibe coded a Blazor app from scratch - mostly as a forcing function to improve my skills. Initial coding wasn't too bad. Adding new features was a little harder. Fixing bugs was the most challenging. Improving feels like a combination of tools getting better over time and my own learning.
Announcing Telerik & Kendo UI Coding Assistants 🚀 | by Sam Basu.
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#ai #programming #productivity #coding #kendoui #dotnet
What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.
What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.
Re all that being said about StackOverflow dying, yes LLMs played a part, but how the moderation was done and the culture that formed mainly around moderation, which then extended to comments and discourse in general also played a part. LLMs do not judge or patronise.
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