Demand End to End Encryption for absolutely every system and piece of hardware you use This is the only way that privacy and security prevails Don’t depend on systems that require your data to make money. This is destroying humanity

Pretty good coverage for dart_node

My workflow shifted again… I didn’t bring my laptop on vacation, so I tried the phone version of Claude Code It checks out your code on a container and you use it just like normal CC. A bit harder without vscode to check the changes, but totally possible to work this way

Only been using agents for a year or so and already forgotten tonnes. Coding muscle memory is gone and I don’t care In VB6 days I memoed every keyword cos I no Google. Now, I don’t memo anything “Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders”

Let’s get “ai slop” trending mfs! #aislop

Windows… Seems to be degrading. Perhaps it’s just a hype cycle. Or perhaps it’s a transition from human driven dev to AI driven dev But, the problem is not the manpower involved. The problem is all the bloat and legacy garbage Why don’t they just end backward compatibility?

Has anyone read any up to date papers on where the software industry is headed over the next few years? Actual hard data and patterns… I don’t think we need fewer devs. But I do think that anyone still hand coding won’t be by the end of this year

2026 AI Predictions Agents become more efficient with tokens Models like DeepSeek etc become staples for agent swarms at scale More services that automate every aspect of dev: PRs, bug fixes, testing Fewer problems agents can’t smash through Cursor, Windsurf dying off

What’s the etiquette for ownership of AI generated code in your team? Do you say “I got AI to build this” ? “I vibe coded it” “I built this” All have problems, especially when people just plain don’t like AI

AI is not a bubble. A bubble is when people repeatedly pay an inflated price for something worth less than the market price. The burst is a market correction AI is actually dirt cheap right now compared to its actual value. Big corporations are giving it away and cutting losses

If you were using a website for live music gigs in your area, what would you want from the website? What kinds of band / venue info? What do the best websites get right?

“Vibe coding doesn’t work” I agreed with this 6 months ago AI assisted software engineering is a better approach, I agree But my revised view is that you CAN create robust tools without even reviewing the literal code as long as there are good quality tests

Would your company pay to put an agent over the top of their public API with a nice chat widget that can sit in their app, website, or both? Nice UI features like charts, data export, PDF generation etc.

I love that we’re going back to spec driven development Stick a clear markdown doc in the root, delete all the fluff in JIRA tickets and point them at the spec A good agent can just read that and build the app for you

t was pretty arrogant of us to believe that machines wouldn’t surpass us at coding in the blink of an eye After all, computation is discrete and coding is nowhere near as complex as say fine motor is for the human brain

It’s so funny when I talk to AI hesitant coders… Some are downright petrified of AI Others just have anxieties The first use of a good agent is cautious. The next is exploratory, but after a while, the conclusion is always: 🤯

Legit scary! 😧 AI agents are again so much more powerful than you can imagine They’ve surpassed the point I thought would be the limit They rarely spiral now I can’t even find a challenge for them anymore

@bsky.app is the first app to request my age verification under the ridiculous new Australian social media laws. Furious! I understand that Bluesky needs to follow the law but other apps are avoiding the sledge hammer approach by analysing user signal Not hating on Bluesky but may close account

Look, I’m entirely convinced that if you need to build a React app, you write it in Dart and share business logic with Flutter and/or React Native. All my experiments with dart_node are frictionless. You can even share the state management solution

U can build whatever u want No limits now Wtf are you doing?

K, so have to give credit to ServerPod. It’s a great technology. However, and I didn’t really figure this out until a few weeks ago… You can also build Dart on top of the Node ecosystem with dart_node I’ve just ported the mcp library to dart and the sky is the limit…

dart_node already has 49 stars 🌟 and lots of people using it and experimenting It’s clear that this has momentum. Let’s build a community around this and push it as far as it will go Keep those stars coming 🙏

Absolutely massive release of dart_node - especially for React Check out all the elements that have been implemented dartnode.org/api/dart_nod...

To what extent do companies like Microsoft, Google etc FUND LLM training for their tech? Think about it. If OpenAI or Anthropic trains their models on C#, that makes C# a worthwhile language. If not, it’s basically useless Microsoft has a massive incentive to FUND training

I have so many open source projects going right now. It’s like a smorgasbord of stuff to work on Maybe I should make an app where people vote for which project I spend my time on 🤔

My latest project allows you to build React, React Native and Express.js apps with Dart. Stars appreciated please 🙏🏽 dartnode.org

All the vscode forks like Cursor and Windsurf have had their day. The agents are alright but Codex and Claude Code prove that the whole IDE is not necessary Cursor and Windsurf etc need to pivot to vscode extensions or die off

There is some merit to the “vibe coding produces junk” mantra. I’ve built so many incredible things lately, but not one of them is a complete product, except for maybe RestClient .Net 7 Vibe coding is perfect for prototyping but there’s no avoiding the next step: generalization

Seen so many software consulting nightmares. I can’t figure out how clients and consultants get themselves into these situations It’s almost always centred around the consultant gouging the client and then the client being left high and dry with no support We should do better!

C# has hit critical mass for FP style code. It’s now more concise to write just about anything with function composition rather than inheritance Makes you wonder why we use OOP at all

How exactly does one become an “AI Consultant”? Wtf does that even mean? You want me to teach you how to use agents? Hell, I can build you an agent! Stop getting sucked in by snake oil salesmen!

❌ fix this bug ✅ add a test that fails because of this bug ❌ fix this test ✅ analyze this test failure and FIX the CORE issue

Recently built a Vscode extension and it’s awesome 🙌 Only I can’t show you because it has platform specific dependencies and I can’t figure out how to deploy them properly Can you believe that! Exactly the same problem as React Native and Flutter on Node. Endless xplat pain

Microsoft has painted themselves into a corner with Windows. The promise has always been that enterprise apps will continue to run on the current version This guarantees that insecure, buggy software is open to malware attack. Ironically, enterprises won’t allow security

Software industry is extremely homogenized, particularly here in Australia Every scale up that transitions from startup is like a clone of every other scale up The basic structure of Scrum, DDD based teams etc is ubiquitous Could it have gone another way? Why this structure?

Have you tried RestClient .Net 7 yet? I’m keen to hear your thoughts on discriminated unions in C#

Name your code elements with the most obvious and direct description of WHAT IT IS. I can’t get over how many variables etc I’ve seen where the writer bends over backwards to name it anything but what it actually is.

Seriously, if you’re not pushing well crafted languages like F#, OCaml, Rust and Zig, you are hurting the software industry and guaranteeing we have keep swallowing warmed over garbage for the next decade Stop being lazy! Get AI to teach you these and push them at work!

Anthropic bragged about dumping RAG from Claude Code and the result seems to be that CC duplicates code all over the place If you force it to search for code before writing new code, it hopelessly fumbles around climbing up and down the folder structure like a noob

What is the internet for these days? The point of the internet used to be that anyone could broadcast content and find an audience on Reddit, YouTube, Twitter That’s no longer the case and not even paying for reach works TikTok kinda works but still unpredictable

FP programmers are terrible ambassadors for FP programming They’re always banging on about lambda calculus and category theory and it makes FP sound like this daunting thing that lay people can’t grasp The reality is that FP makes most programming simpler and easier to grasp

Honestly not too unhappy with C# since I got exhaustiveness checking working with the Exhaustion package 📦

Doesn’t matter if you totally automate an iOS or Android build. You turn your back for a few months and it’s broken. 😡

I'm convinced Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a step backwards It constantly lies and tells me tests are passing when they're actually failing It constantly adds useless tests that don't prove anything and then jerks itself off about it being "Perfect" Really hard to get meaningful tests

The joy of handing Gradle and Xcode errors over to AI and just saying “fix it!” is just immeasurable 👌

Point me to your API with an OpenAPI spec and I’ll generate you an MCP Server in C#

AI has made me question my writing style. I used to avoid en dash and em dash altogether But ultimately, this means you need to start sentences with “This” or “Is” and even Grammarly complains So yolo Ima put dashes everywhere now

My C# book is not too far away… Been working on it for about a year now Need to think about how to market it on Amazon. Anyone know the best channels?

How do you know when a project becomes a sunk cost? I usually prototype quickly and iterate until I can envision a release If that feels too far away, or others are not interested, I abandon the projec

Have you tried this C# REST library yet? github.com/MelbourneDev...