People say “you’re Batman and AI is Robin”. I don’t buy it. It’s Lilo and Stitch: powerful, brilliant, and fully capable of wrecking the house in a sec if you get distracted!

New Beta from @ramtop.bsky.social Process Over Magic: Beyond Vibe Coding Coding with AI Assistants - a more natural, powerful, safe, and genuinely productive way. How do the best developers amplify their abilities with AI? It’s not magic. It’s process. pragprog.com/titles/...

Yay!!! My book “Process Over Magic: Beyond Vibe Coding” is now live on the Pragmatic Programmers site: pragprog.com/titles/ubaid... I hope this book helps people adopt a workflow that fits their situation. I worked hard to show how different techniques behave in different contexts.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

My book on Functional Kotlin is now 50% off with SAVE50 coupon lnkd.in/etQRfGqa Also ChatGPT agrees that's the best book to learn about full application functional architecture in the JVM!

This discussion on how Kotlin should expose time zone data is super thoughtful. Whatever the outcome I sure appreciate the process.

Glorious sun rise at camping

It's very trendy for the woke left to mock the police these days, but this is the kind of thing that you and I might miss.

Yay this paper is now published in Empirical Software Engineering! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Super deal only for today for my book! If you ever wanted to learn kotlin and functional programming it's your chance!

They’re torturing Greta Thunberg for trying to bring baby formula to starving babies and the world is doing nothing.

Honored to deliver the closing keynote at JAX London 2025 on the role of AI in software development. For those interested, here’s the slide deck: speakerdeck.com/ramtop/are-d... Video will follow

Workshop on AI assistants at Jax London has started!

www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-flo... The video and polished transcription of my talk with Alberto about AI Assistants

My flow with AI assistants with @ramtop.bsky.social 🛜 Info When: Sept 25, from 13 pm (CEST) Join the Live Streaming! www.meetup.com/avanscoperta...

Trump’s priorities are Trump, Trump and Trump.

7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.

Already in love with my BigMe B7 A much better kindle, faster, sturdier, colour, with pen, decent sw for almost same price of a Paperwhite

I got tired of the nonsense some AI leaders were coming out with, and so I wrote this for @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

suno.com/song/0f2e4ee... My daughter (10yo) composed this song with AI. Just hummed the lyrics and described the arrangement. Not bad at all!

folks are building lists of all the Tesla robotaxi failures, and it's important to remember that we're talking about a fleet of <20 vehicles, over three days, in one the smallest and easiest geofences possible, based on coverage from 100% fanboy influencers www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivin...

In case you ever wondered why there was a Japanese print image on the first Mac paint app and commercials nobi.com/en/entry-121...

Sam Altman: “A subsistence farmer from a thousand years ago would look at what many of us do and say we have fake jobs, just playing games to entertain ourselves.” Funnily enough, that’s exactly what my wife thinks about my job *today*.

My talk will start soon!

Watching Cassandra Chin presentation at the Japan Jug Community conference

Studying for a boat license in Japan...

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In vibrcoding for sure!

Cherry blossoms 🌸

I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

My flow with AI assistants is getting more and more refined and "standardized". I miss 2 features: - automatically save the prompt in the commit message (I rarely commit with more than one prompt) or in a separate file. - have an easy way to apply the same prompt to a set of files iteratively.

In honor of today's special event, Mattel has created a Pete Hegseth Commemorative Doll.

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What did people think they were getting

This is so backwards thinking, it’s like someone made it up...but nope, it's real.

I remember it being unpleasant & a lot less fudge-y.

The "Agentic Workflow" is the new IFTTT. Good luck!

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

Apply for Google Summer of Code – I can be your mentor. 🤗

My favourite YA series currently running!

Like, I dunno folks, slavery and stealing land from natives was also pretty bad.

I've used a lot of LLM-powered assistants, and I'm not convinced that: - They are here to stay. - They will change how dev teams are organized and work. - They won't replace humans anytime soon. But they are not easy to use. 1/3

@antonarhipov.bsky.social is there a way to configure Junie to be able to run tests (or even any gradle command) without asking confirmation but not be able to run git or other shell commands? This is how far I trust LLMs. :)

After reading this great post www.oreilly.com/radar/the-en... I've bought the book on wages during industrial revolution by James Bessen

For me, the most incredible artefacts from the ancient world are the letters people wrote on clay tablets and sent to one another over thousands of years in Mesopotamia, going back to more than 5,000 years ago. They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites.

Trying to understand how to replicate the Dobble game I've spent evening hours learning about projective geometry.