Coding agents are pretty great for projects where my first assessment is that they'd be more trouble than they're worth.

Consider Hofstadter's Law when making estimates: dontbreakprod.com/posts/things...

"Dude, sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something" - Jake the Dog dontbreakprod.com/posts/dont-b...

Ok! Next week I'm going to teach a bunch of elementary school kids about binary numbers and Boolean operators!

Starting to collect training data for a squirrel scaring program I put together this morning. If it works, it should blare metal super loud whenever a squirrel gets on to our bird feeder. 🐿️🤘

What now? dinosaurseateverybody.com/now

Gung Hay Fat Tuesday!

New keyboard day! I’m excited to feel like I’ve forgotten how to type!

I recently migrated the blog on my site over to Postwave (a blogging library I wrote). It's really nice to use a tool that works EXACTLY the way you want it to! dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/powered...

Done is better than perfect: dontbreakprod.com/posts/done-i...

No matter how much I clean my desk, there's always a cat on it.

Code is a habitat for bugs: dontbreakprod.com/posts/code-i...

I kind of forgot that I own daveschwantes.com (it just redirects to dinosaurseateverybody.com)

Oh good. I just bought a new keyboard. ⌨️ 💸

Fail productively: dontbreakprod.com/posts/fail-p...

Postwave 0.1.5 released! postwave.blog/posts/postwa...

New post about my adventures in self-hosting: dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/fine-il...

Clarity over cleverness: dontbreakprod.com/posts/senior...

... ... ... ... ... I should probably buy another domain for this little project...

I just started playing with @coolify.io in an effort to handle more of my own hosting (without having to actually do much real dev ops), so far it's pretty cool. I got postwave.blog fully moved over last night!

Habits Beat Motivation dontbreakprod.com/posts/habits...

I wrote a bit about Postwave, the blog engine I built: dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/postwave

My new bari sax just showed up! It is huge and awesome! 🎷

Aaaaand all of a sudden I'm doing a bunch of saxophone repair work. Tonight I used shellac and a small torch to reattach a key pad on my tenor and I just ordered a kit to re-cork the neck. I guess it was due for some love. 🎷

Hmm... AI gives much worse advice about Elixir compared to Ruby, Go, or TypeScript. Volume of training data seems to matter a lot.

Remember, careers have both direction and speed. dontbreakprod.com/posts/match-...

I haven't done any TypeScript outside of React projects at work, so I wasn't sure what the workflow for "just write a small program to run in the terminal" would be. I ended up just using Bun ( bun.com ) and everything was really smooth!

Alright! It's Advent of Code ( adventofcode.com ) season! 🎄 Maybe TypeScript this year?

My 4 year old recently got me into that Fallout Boy record about Spiderman that came out a few years ago.

Do not underestimate the power of caring about others in a way that makes them care about you. dontbreakprod.com/posts/build-...

As an engineer it's not what you do, but what your work does: dontbreakprod.com/posts/show-t...

Just what the world needs, another software engineer pontificating about AI! dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/random-...

New post about not using a phone for everything: dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/just-us...

π-thon www.python.org/downloads/re...

Reaching for increased effort or pushed timeline is often a crutch to avoid the important work of prioritization. Prioritize Ruthlessly: dontbreakprod.com/posts/priori...

My ability to get sucked into things like Cookie Clicker ( orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ ) is probably one of my biggest failings as a human.

Ok, I'm trying out @dev.to for posting about some tech things. I just wrote something about Postwave: dev.to/dorkrawk/int...

I finally put together a site (and example implementation) for the blog engine I've been working on, Postwave. It's ready for people to start playing around with. Check it out at postwave.blog

Find good problems: dontbreakprod.com/posts/find-g...

Lately I've had the strong urge to work on small tech/programming projects that nobody is likely to care about but me.

This is the AI that's going to take over humanity? Call me when it can do some basic tasks 🦖...

I wrote a bit about how it's nice to have things both configured and configurable after playing around with #omarchy for a while: dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/playing...

Get good at getting feedback: dontbreakprod.com/posts/handle...

Installing Omarchy on an ancient (2012) MacBook Air has led me ordering a replacement battery to address the horrible battery life. For about $30 this laptop that was gathering dust will be a very usable little machine.

Now: dinosaurseateverybody.com/now

Whoa, LocalSend ( localsend.org ) is incredible for moving files around heterogeneous devices (iPhone, Macs, Linux, Windows, etc.). It just works! No setup, no accounts.

So I dug up an old 2012 MacBook Air and installed Omarchy on it. I guess now I'm spending my night messing around with Arch and Hyprland?

Bad news doesn't age well: dontbreakprod.com/posts/commun...

We feed our leopard gecko live crickets. There is one remaining cricket in his terrarium that has been chirping all day for the past few days. Come on lizard! Just eat him, he's driving me nuts! 🦎

I wrote a blog post about writing and recording my last solo record: dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/another...