GitHub Copilot with Claude Sonnet 4.5 generated this; some pretty solid advice about not taking your secrets to email or slack: ### ❌ DON'T - Commit `.env` files to git (already in `.gitignore`) - Share secrets in Slack/email - Use the same AUTH_SECRET across environments

I updated my GitHub Copilot instructions file to this today. Here's the gist to it: gist.github.com/mkelley33/bc... Please feel free to copy and change in any way you wish, including suggesting edits and forking the gist. #githubcopilot #ghcp #ai #gist

Reading docs for Video.js bit.ly/483x16H "A lot of the root source directory is JSON configs for various package managers because, Internet." 😂😂😂 Many big projects evoke Nietzsche's "gazing into the abysss," bit.ly/3WBSA95 Gaze not into code rewrite, rather remember: "because, Internet"

This message is dedicated to all my fellow tab hoarders!

I sort of just rage quit all browser tabs and windows had open, regaining about 8 GB or so of memory. It felt so dangerous. It felt so good. It was worth it. Totally. Oh, and I wasn’t really raging nor did it stop me from creating new tabs. I closed the tabs in Visual studio Code! All my editors!

And this is what just putting the heading “Ideal” under my other four prompt-generating headings yielded. “It looks like a Lawrence Ferlinghetti poem out of a Coney Island of the mind” unlike the other four headings this one doesn’t stop spitting out words. It starts repeating them! #AI #GHCP

I started with four headings to prompt the AI to deliver an even better response than the one before for each heading. And Claude Sonnet in GitHub copilot does a fantastic job. Tonight I wondered if I might strike a chord with the AI by giving it the heading “Ideal” and it wrote a full page prompt!

@addyosmani.bsky.social has spoken, and vibe coding shall not pass youtu.be/dHIppEqwi0g?...

AI tool just told me it had synthesized a typescript pattern name as its “honest” answer as to where I was getting its info. Nice feature, but do I have to prompt where it’s getting its information from every time I use it? Anyone heard of const assertion object pattern?

My favorite new GitHub copilot trick: Create a markdown file. Establish four headings: Good, Better, Best, and Outstanding. Write your first prompt under the heading Good: “As a senior software engineer…” Repeat this process for each heading and let GHCP iterate over the prompts. I get great mileage

I have two vs code windows open, running GitHub copilot in both running the same prompt, and my computer still hasn’t run output of memory yet. Good vibes only

I feel the urge to merge

Copilot finished iterating on the prompt, and told me this with emojis: Charles Xavier would be impressed with this level of mental organization 🧠✨

Would love any suggestions on how to add a little more flavor to my shadcn-ui components, then please let me know—not really a designer per se.

Trying to encourage my AI coding assistant with this prompt: “Fix the linting errors that occur when you run npm run lint.” “Then just to mess with the AI: Charles Xavier and Cerebro could do it, but I bet you can do it with your hands tied behind your back”

Well, I’ve exhausted the GitHub copilot premium requests for my personal account this month using the Pro subscription. I’m already scraping the piggy bank for more. Today so far: a meager spend of two bucks or so. Will I make it to the end of the month on a $15 budget?

Holy Batman. GitHub copilot is running python to fix my typescript errors. What is the world coming to? What am I doing with my life?

Anytime I’ve type a long command for the 1000th time, I get the urge to make an alias for it and save my precious hands from all that typing

My dad watching my editor generate code using GitHub copilot, shrugs and says: “Oh yeah, I’ve seen the Matrix” like what was happening on the screen was so yesterday

Me talking to AI as I review the code it generated: Yeah, that looks right—kinda how I used to do it. Whistles. And merge.

GitHub copilot flow: 1. Prompt it with lotsa context 2. Click allow always buttons 3. Click continue always buttons 4. Curse hallucinations 5. Take the time to review the changes 6. Make it write unit tests for code added 7. Lint and fix errors 8. Make it review the code it just wrote And so it goes

When AI coding assistant goes all rogue and starts vibe coding with opinions that aren’t mine

Sometimes my AI prompts make me feel like that person in a long line line at Starbucks trying to order a Venti, half-caf, sugar free caramel latte (exactly 6 pumps), add whipped cream, skinny, with a few shakes of cinnamon on the froth and cup sleeve to protect my stupid hands!

When AI mocks the entire thing you’re trying to test:

Lately I’ve been fascinated by how often palindromes occur in any sample be it numeric, linguistic, or the time on a clock. They are everywhere in any alpha numerical system, and I think they’re lucky, so I make a wish every time I see a palindrome. Curious to know if uuids have palindromes?

Do yourself a favor every now and then, and ask whatever AI or LLM you’re using to review your code as though it was a senior application development engineer (my position and persona) It’s like basic self-care: you should do it early and often (don’t forget to commit!)

In military time (24-hour format), there are 16 total palindromic times in a full 24-hour day. Now write the best algorithm in TypeScript to create a list of all the possible palindromes in military time. Go! Seems like a fun exercise, and I’m sure there exists some very clever mathy way to do it.

I feel like I can never have enough zsh aliases, but then there is a hard limit for the number of possible 3 character long combinations. It’s 250,047 (that’s a-zA-Z0-9_) I’ll think I’ll be okay.

I’m seriously learning to appreciate the power of sed as my editor continues to execute it to fix my code.

Just gave GitHub Copilot a nontrivial amount of code to review in my code base. Working…Working…editing my code all over the place like it knows better, learning from its edits, and it just dropped a cold, hard review in my editor’s chat. Fun times

Writing tests with GitHub copilot makes me think of this xkcd.com/303/

For all you haters I finally found an LLM that chokes on replace double quotes with single quotes in a file. Smh. It’s this kind of stuff that genuinely gives the AI haters and doubters some proof, that yes, even AI fails on the dumbest tasks sometimes.

I think the only good way to decide which tabs to close on the browser is to rage quit all but the necessary five I still have pinned!

Having that great feeling from successfully provisioning and deploying a NextJS app to AWS EC2 (Ubuntu 24) and CDN backed by S3, and everything just works. **Takes a sip of favorite beverage, sighing in accomplishment.** Cheers to devops and automating all the things 🎉🥳🤩 Now off to spin up MongoDB!

Who remembers the Konami Code? Feeling nostalgic and thinking of adding it to a web app I’m building. I love playing some Contra written in TypeScript!

Fun times with Claude Sonnet 4 making this very special landing page in two minutes or so for my users that try to visit my CDN root directory:

Thank you @addyosmani.bsky.social for being the one to call out the distinction between vibe coding and AI assisted engineering. What a good read: open.substack.com/pub/addyo/p/...

Really impressed by Claude Sonnet ability to answer a simple QA about how to devops all the things

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... Just listened to this, still cringe at the phrase vibe coding, but can appreciate doing it

Please stop trying to make vibe-coding a thing. Learn to use AI tools and such for sure, but that buzzwordy phrase makes my even my daughter cringe

Having trouble concentrating on a great YouTube video to learn a new technology because the presenter uses double quotes, arrow function with single argument but no parentheses, and asi (automatic semicolon insertion) in TypeScript. Congrats on doing it the hard and inconsistent way dude. #peeves

Anyone else wish that the H in GitHub was lowercase? #GitHub

I often think I hear writing on a hard drive, but it's really just a coke zero fizzing, bubbling, and popping next to my keyboard.

Remember when you could tell how badly something was taxing your computer by the sounds it made on the *hard* drive? Chrome now regularly occupies nearly 20 GB of RAM. I hoard tabs. I use tab groups too. I @pinboard.bsky.social to bookmark all the things at pinboard.in/u:mkelley33. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New song teaser! Song and video drops Wednesday! Its a collab with Ceschi! Surf Rock Anthem (lofi study beats remix). It's not a remix of a song, just a song that has remix in the title. Lol. Vinyls, shirts, and tapes on the Bandcamp still!

TIL: you can type npm urn storybook, and it just works. Yes, urn, not run.

Hacking a @hackerrank.bsky.social problem well after my bedtime. This is worse than video games. I won’t spend a single hacko towards a solution. Feels wrong and obstinate, but I have my pride tucked away somewhere around here.

I'm trying to create an Angular 19 app with GraphQL and more, but I'm getting errors that do not seem to go away when I follow their suggestions. Here's my stackoverflow question: stackoverflow.com/questions/79...