Pot of gold

I'm probably not using enough AI since I'm not burning money fast enough compared to some of my peers, nor do I feel the need to purchase a very expensive, power-consuming box to run models locally. What's wrong with me?

Kareem Ali has some nice tunes youtube.com/watch?v=8JAO...

Blogged: Discriminated unions in #csharp and #dotnet 11 (for real this time) blog.maartenballiauw.be/posts/2026-0...

youtu.be/1sKP2-mXlgw?... this has been on a loop for a while now. AI music is on the rise …

Saturday in hell …

Mass production… #bakerman

The « Bro, I’m sleeping … fuck off » look

Working in an EXCEL file that has 401, 403, 404 and 405 as value in certain columns triggers my OCD.

Guess the sun is out … and she is down with it 😂

Been thoroughly enjoying my renewed SSR journey. Between HTMX, Alpine.js and Chart.js I've got pretty much all I need to not have to reach for JS much these days. I've purposely ignored the Angular, Vue, React FXs of this world - if I had to build a state-full front-end it'd be ELM inspired.

5 owls this year (extremely hard to photograph all at once). Nature’s 🖕 to AI 😂

Positional query parameters are not very refactor friendly when you are about to change the order or number of parameters.

Packing information into a tight space runs the risk of running into its limits but a little bit of research goes a long way.

I was looking for an object model in .NET that allows me to compose markdown documents similar to how Giraffe.ViewEngine offers one to compose HTML. Ended up writing my own, mapping it to MarkDig's object model to tap into its rendering capabilities.

Perpetual commotion ... that pretty much sums up the state of our world as perceived by many.

The handmaid’s tale … was this the script for ICE?

Some of the lyrics on these AI songs is something else ... it has become dirt cheap to speak your mind thru a song even if you can't sing yourself.

Talk about throw-away culture ... just got the offer for the yearly inspection of my fire extinguisher: 40 EUR more expensive to get it checked than it is to get a new one with a 1 year permit included.

Pasta al forno, smoked salmon, small flat oven breads … summer has arrived even if it’s raining today.

Wind …

youtube.com/watch?v=tc5i... saturday b like

Could have been a file format …

Started working on Tillys again ... I like to do these "consolidation by restarting" rounds where it kinda feels fresh bit you still do no have to spend a tremendous amount of cycles reinventing the wheel that was kinda working ...

Poldervuur 2026 edition … another round of the pop-up pizzeria, it’s happening, this summer.

No matter how much AI you throw at it … deeper insight takes time because it is you that needs to see the light, not the slot machine. Boundaries, models, structures and all that. I do think AI can help because often it pierces the hubris of “we’re unique” when it turns out what one is building is a

You can call me Jezus …

Language is a funny thing. Oddly enough it's patterns and practices that stimulate the use of natural language to "represent" that make you painfully aware of the ambiguity on one end and the importance of articulating well on the other.

Can highly recommend github.com/christiaande... if you're using QuestPDF, have to deal with localization and want to sprinkle some light markup (bold, color, italic) in your resources.

Claude: "... is a landmine for anyone reading the event later" Fuck you, Claude!

User interfaces, reports, analytics, search functionality are typical examples of "information magnets" that mess with the lofty goal of model purity.

That time of the year again …

New neighbors …

Putting constraints closer to the write / input path tends to put that responsibility in one proper place and removes a constant need to verify that same constraint in places it should not be ... all because there's a tendency to distrust.

Pretty neat idea if you ask me ... typediagram.dev

I've been dealing with some fairly large workflows in terms of # of messages they handle / emit lately. In an attempt not to run into storage / append limits, I've been chopping up the work in batches, having the workflow send continuation messages to itself as part of the batch, so it can resume

There's a second-system effect but there is no mention of the first-system effect ... stuck in the system (including its quirks) that is already in place with the accompanying inertia, the calcification of "this-is-how-it-is".

Naming is hard ... it still is. AMA.

WTAF?

The portability aspect of messages in a file is underrated.

AI fatigue ... are we there yet? Asking for a friend.

Names and addresses prove how piss poor our models are at capturing what is often the most basic of information.

If you are used to making your own fermented veggies then kimchi is overrated …

Bluesky waking up …

First time I reached for columnar JSON. Seriously cuts down on the verbosity.

Happy Easter 🐣

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ffZ... - !Let Da Weekend Begin!

TIL typst.app

I had not realized how well thought out OpenFGA openfga.dev is ... write your authorization model and write tests for it before shipping to production, using the same DSL, is an underappreciated feature.