‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245

This is quite unbelievable: the CEO of Telegram sent a message to Spaniards in Telegram with a message against the current Prime Minister of Spain 🤯🤦🏽‍♂️

Watching the Clawdbot / OpenClaw security drama unfold real-time. Who knew giving AI access to your entire system without limitations is a bad idea?

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

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This looks very interesting github.com/gavrielc/nan...

Got this bad boy for free today. Yeah you read that right. Family member didn’t have room in their kitchen cabinets for it anymore. 🥳🥳

Kernighan's Law «Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?» -- Brian Kernighan, 1974

Tried printing with color switching and no priming tower. The result is the slightly darker green near the bottom. Not terrible, but with infill purge I didn’t expect a change in color. Lesson learned! #3dprinting

Reading Hyperion for the first time. Felt a bit slow at the start, but I just finished the story of the priest and I am hooked. Very cool world building and grand overarching mystery so far. #books #scifi

In today's edition of "What could possibly go wrong", I show you, Moltbook, a Reddit-style social network for AI Agents. arstechnica.com/information-...

Was designing a DB schema for my side project today. Made a simple sketch on paper like I always do, but then I got the idea to take a picture and upload it to Claude Code. Lo and behold: Claude was able to create my entire schema in Entity Framework from just a simple sketch.

An hour and a half of cursing and frustration, summarized in one image.

Luckily there was nothing fragile in the package. It's the first time I've had a delivery guy actually throw things over. There's a large enough gap under the gate so he could've just used that. But why do things the easy way when you can do them the destructive way?

Lately I've been giving trainings to developers on how to responsibly use AI. Managers always ask: "How much productivity increase will we see?" Usually they just mean speed. But productivity = speed + quality. AI makes you faster yes, but without validation? You just ship garbage faster.

Any tech talk with two people on stage just ends in them rambling to each other and ignoring the audience. Every duo tech talk I have attended so far would always have been better with a single person on stage.

Just switched my talk up about AI. I'm going to launch a software startup with my audience in 45 mins. They're going to provide the idea, and we're going to use AI tools to generate everything: analysis documents, market research, designs, code, etc. I anticipate shenanigans and lots of weird stuff.

I'm giving a presentation this tuesday about using AI in any part of the SDLC and I'm still looking for some use cases I might not be thinking of. So if anyone reading this has any tips for cool tools or use cases I'd love to hear them. Credit will obviously be given 👈 #ai #softwaredevelopment

Found this pretty cool website to help people navigate the recent license changes in .NET libraries: dariusz-wozniak.github.io/fossed/

Something about her expression tells me she’s sick my shit 😅

I've been playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Only now, after more than 10 hours of playtime, I've discovered your character gets perks that makes him stronger. I was wondering how I was ever supposed to beat even a single bandit. Don't be like me, read the tooltips 😅

Same thing for FluentAssertions 😅

So I actually have a bachelor's degree as a teacher, even though my entire career so far has been spent as a developer. I'm thinking about creating a new session about what devs can learn from educational science. Like supporting self-organizing teams and how to create a learning organization.

So protein bars sounded like a good idea to get to my protein goal. But then you learn about sugar alcohols and their effects the hard way. And that’s the story of how I temporarily got banned from my own living room.

From last night, big new Wolverine release: Wolverine 3.6: Modular Monolith and Vertical Slice Architecture Goodies jeremydmiller.com/2025/01/12/w...

Just had an intern for the last 3 months, awesome junior developer. Takes the initiative, tries first by himself but not afraid to ask good questions, great problem solving skills, ... Sadly no room at the company to hire him. If you're looking for a junior developer in Belgium, hit me up!

These are the types of AI use cases I can get behind: took a screenshot of a list of questions I needed to answer for some mind-numbing administrative task, added the source document the answers can be found in and just asked it to "please answer the questions using the provided pdf".

Passwordless logins suck. Change my view. I'm already using a password manager with a unique password for every site. How is having to switch to my damn mailbox every time I want to login a better way of doing things? It's terrible UX, that's what it is.

Nothing like touching a 10 year old code base once for a small fix, and subsequently becoming the expert and go-to person for any and all questions about it.

Finished up a series of sessions about GitHub Copilot at a customer today. Cutting through all the sales bs and just showing what it’s good at and especially what it’s NOT good at, works way better for adoption at companies than just pushing AI on your development team.

It's a fairytale town, isn't it? How can that not be somebody's fucking thing, eh? #inbruges

Friend cooked an amazing meal yesterday. Ate so much I’m convinced I won’t be hungry for two straight days. Anyway, happy new year to anyone reading this!

In my quest to get enough protein I just mixed two scoops of protein powder with 200g of Skyr yoghurt. Someone on Reddit apparently really likes this combination. It turned the whole thing into a pudding-like consistency and my stomach feels like I ate a brick. Do not recommend 🤢

Not all businesses are run by Excel. Some are run by Notepad.

Almost time for “Nerdland voor kleine nerds”!

Project delivery bot completed!

Building a tiny delivery robot with my son! Totally didn’t buy this because I wanted to build one too…

Hey #dotnet folks if you’re using a CI/CD double check your resource URLs. A CDN has gone bankrupt and may cease operations in the next month. We are working to make transparent fixes but you can be proactive github.com/dotnet/core/...

I'm more and more coming around to the 'Event sourcing by default' approach when we're developing new enterprise applications. Having all your historic data right there is so awesome. The only real downside seems to be the initial learning curve for team members who are new to event sourcing.

I’m 4 weeks into strength training. Two full-body workouts a week. The amount of progress your body can make in such a short time is amazing. My neck pain and lower back pain are completely gone and I feel objectively stronger. Should’ve started this a lot earlier.

Grr EF Core query broke in .net 9. Error: Incorrect syntax near '$' - Fix was to change: options.UseSqlServer(builder.Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection")); to: options.UseSqlServer(builder.Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection"), o => o.UseCompatibilityLevel(110));

Finally! Improved #Blazor Server reconnection UX jonhilton.net/blazor-serve... by @jonhilton.net

New blogpost is up! Managing app settings and secrets efficiently can become annoying and insecure pretty quickly. Azure App Configuration combined with Azure Key Vault offers an elegant solution. Check it out! www.codecrash.net/2024/12/13/s... #azure #dotnet #softwaredevelopment

Another discovery is that GitHub Copilot is not yet best friends with .NET Aspire. It seems to make a lot of wrong suggestions. Not surprising though, seeing how recent Aspire is and the big changes / updates continuously coming through.

So I just discovered a glaring gap in my .NET knowledge. I was always writing my own Problem Details middleware, but it turns out this functionality is already included and you can just use .AddProblemDetails in your program.cs. TIL

After conference drinks with the colleagues.

A very interesting and enlightening session about choreography and orchestration at Cloudbrew today. Thanks @noctovis.bsky.social for the thought-inspiring presentation!

First time seeing one of these in real life. Pretty funny experience, especially since these were doors for a toilet.

The nice people at #oredev have uploaded a video of my talk about "Refactoring Legacy Applications The Right Way". Check it out if you're interested in how to approach refactoring applications and avoiding headaches! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaO5... #softwaredevelopment #refactoring #techtalk