Reading up on zig. Never used it. But looks interesting .

I learned the hard way that open-source models aren't as strong as the fronteer models. But there are ways to make the open-source models awesome. For example: Use a ralph loop to run long-horizon tasks: github.com/wmeints/bosun

So, what if you were to put together a local LLM with a ralph loop, arc42 architecture docs, a bunch of feature files, and a graphical design? Maybe.... you can build software without touching code.

Putting together a config on my linux machine to start recording my screen for upcoming videos. Mostly because I can really.. :P

Moved my LLM setup to docker images in preparation for the upgrade to kubernetes. I can pretty much simulate our prod setup this way. Those Dell Pro Max machines are awesome!

Go is really growing on me. It's a really simple language but with awesome speed. This can be a nice second language to learn when you're coming from Python.

Yay, a new day. Figuring out a good structure to correctly measure usage. I found out Anthropic charges two different prices for cache writes, they ask more for 1h cache writes than for 5m cache writes. OpenAI has no price for cache reads and only one price for cache writes. Fun times.

Welp, today is a complete write-off. Had a great time fitting a new wheelchair this morning. Now time for the kids. Tomorrow is a new day!

One of the weirdest AI experiments I've seen so far: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nfy... This is so out there. I wouldn't want to run this on my machine though :P

Held off for a little bit upgrading to hyprland 0.55 because of the huge changes in configuration. The new lua-based configuration is way better! Highly recommended if you're running Linux. I combine hyprland with noctalia v5 now and its very very good.

Can I just say that Vert.x is very interesting? I've been playing around with it for a few hours after stepping away from it for a few years. Combine it with Quarkus and you've got yourself a very nice setup.

Broke one of the bearings on my wheelchair. Luckily I have a spare ride that I can use for now. And thankfully I have my handy wife who can help me tune a few things so I can ride with a little more ease :D

So many still don't understand the open source contract. I don't develop code for your needs. I develop code for my needs and share it with you to use however you like (in accordance with the license). Nothing says I have to continue working on it or accept contributions. I might, but I might not.

Now this is a useful video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq6y...

Since I'm building in typescript I also tried out the new vite+ tooling. Works great if you're building a SPA. Not so much with nextjs. Consider this a PSA :P

I am running with docker sandbox for two days now. My observations: works well on linux and mac. However, you will run into issues with file permissions quite frequently I've noticed.

Building a tool for myself to solve a really annoying problem. A great time to try out docker sandbox! Freakishly cool, it supports tmux!

The landscape for javascript is again changing fast! There are a lot faster linters and formatters out there. And I can recommend you give them a shot, it makes working in an agentic workflow a lot faster too.

Trying something completely different for next thursday. I sketched out the slides this time in Excalidraw. Hope it works out.

Turned the wire frame into a working coding agent. It's a nice upgrade from the pure shell implementation I had before :P

Having a bit of fun improving my coding agent prototype running on my local LLM setup. Claude Design is quite good for wire framing this sort of stuff.

It's the busy season. Next week I'm speaking at Move Up about building your own coding agents. Then on June 4, I'm speaking at J-Spring about scaling code reviews, and again on June 25 at AgentCon Utrecht.

My experience with AI is somewhat mixed in the sense that I see engineers forget about essentials. Give your whiteboard some love people! www.beyondautocomplete.nl/ai-doesnt-ha...

Back from the Gartner Data & Analytics conference in London. Loads of inspiration. Happy to be home too! It's been quite the week :D

Programming Go with an offline model. Because we can!

Exploring Go more for a new project I'm working on. Dependency injection seems like a good tool to have. Not sure if I like fx by Uber. Might have to build something to explore it some more.

I'm officially no longer a Microsoft MVP. Last November, I decided not to renew. Because I wanted to move on. Feels really good now that it happened.

My Arc42 skill in Claude Code can go. I found the grill-me skill works much better and leaves me more control over what is in the architecture docs. My workflow: I write the rough outline for the section, then use the Grill-Me skill to fine-tune it. And I finish up with a manual review.

Well, crap.

I used the grill-me skill from Mat Pocock last night to reevaluate a project that I'm working on. Just to see what it would get me. It was interesting.

The best programming tunes for some really artisanal programming : www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UCd...

Super nice! I can now use fractional scaling in Gnome 50. This is quite a big step for me. Much more comfortable.

Upgraded the home machines to fedora 44. Reminder: Don't forget to update to the latest patches for fedora 43, and REBOOT! I trashed my nvidia drivers because I didn't reboot. Good grief.

First time I had to take apart my 3D printer to resolve issues with broken filament. Not sure how it happened. Luckily the printer comes apart quite easily.

Trying out `sesh` to manage tmux sessions: github.com/joshmedeski/...

I cleaned up my .zshrc file this morning. It was getting too slow for my liking. zprof really helped to find the things that were slowing me down. Turns out sdkman and nvm are quite slow. I'm now using fnm for node versioning now: github.com/Schniz/fnm

Today is a coding day for me. Working on some pretty cool AI solution. Happy to be sitting in front of tmux and neovim with some Go and Typescript.

Combining Claude Code with Storybook is still one of the best moves when you need to build professional reusable components. It works for Vue, React, Angular, and many more.

Back from a day out and about viewing tulip fields and beautiful flower mosaics in the area where my wife was born. Writing more Go and Vue.

Spent some time yesterday exploring my options building a reverse proxy mechanism in go. It's as simple as it comes. The reverse proxy functions are offered by the base library.

Claude Code this morning: Thinking.... Hmm.... How intelligent.

Looking for some artisanal coding fun. Going to be working on building a custom desktop shell for wayland using quickshell. I feel the need since all else is AI now.

Compacting down the LLM gateway a bit so we can host it behind a single DNS entry. Much nicer experience for my colleagues :-)

It's deceiving to think that react and nextjs are well understood by coding agents like claude code. In reality, not so much, let me explain why.

Finishing up a few more smaller things in the AI gateway project. Aspire is really helpful with this kind of stuff.

It took me a while, but I think I have the hang of my dygma defy keyboard. This thing needs some serious configuration before it starts to behave like a normal keyboard.

Made the jump from local dev to devcontainer for claude code. The iptables dependency is rather broken for me. I had to switch to nftables.

Okey, openspec is rather interesting. It's very flexible. Love it more than the superpowers set to be honest.

First there was DevOps, then came along MLOps, LLMOps, and AIOps, and now they invented AgentOps... If anybody still understands, let me know.

Testing the ultraplan mode in claude code. That's pretty cool. I don't agree with the plan, but still..