Sean McCullough

RFK, Jr.: The Undead Kennedy

Or implement it as operational transformation, even.

Distinct from Ctrl+z, perhaps a separately managed undo buffer.

There should be a standard keyboard shortcut for "Undo whatever dumb shit the AI just did."

"A lab-what, now? Lab... booboo...? I don't get it. Is it a Wuhan reference?"

I’ll see your god dammit, and raise you a motherfucker. I have grown to really appreciate how well tailwind’s approach scales up with app ui / document complexity. Bummer.

Dude

i'm at the civil war

i'm at the great depression

i'm at the combination civil war great depression

Trying to learn how to write code by looking at source file contents is like trying to learn how to ride a bike by looking at photos of cyclists crossing a finish line. Your shell, debugger, IDE etc, all handle time-ordered events that explain things that can't be inferred from your commits alone.

Many (most?) major headaches in software engineering are a function of code change velocity. Prod outages, merge conflicts, code review latency, team communication and coordination problems etc - these only get worse, if you turn up the commit rate without making other changes to how you work.

IDK if agents help us code faster or better overall yet, but sometimes it really does feel like we're speed running the organizational challenges of a much larger traditional dev team.

if the democrats wanted to save america they'd be working on Project 42069

github actions pricing is the printer ink of compute

Edit as you review. sketch.dev/blog/right-h...

#hugops implies the existence of #drugops

Nothing never happens enough

The Sketch blog has become the one thing you need to read—along with @simonwillison.net—to keep the pulse of LLM-assisted development.

Senior engineers putting in the work and giving no-bullshit perspectives.

Read this one by @crawshaw.io through. Not skim or half. Especially if you are a skeptic.

Some recent experiences programming with agents. crawshaw.io/blog/program...

screen shot of MCP, the main antagonist character from the movie TRON. Text says "PIVOT TO MCP"

photo of a lot of locks attached to a bridge in paris

Fig 1: sync.Mutex usage, after you try to get the AI to modify some code that mentions concurrency

sketch.dev is great, it's banging away writing tests for me as I type this and so far they've been high quality and worth the $1 USD in Anthropic API credits I've paid for.

I think specifically the quality for Go projects above Claude is minimal but just enough that I trust sketch more.

If you are interested in an easy recipe for a merge queue, sans code review, this is my favorite so far: sketch.dev/blog/lightwe...

hypothesis: naive adoption of coding assistants can lead very small teams through initial short-term gains in IC productivity, but long term into situations where they get bogged down by communication and coordination problems we normally only associate with much larger traditional teams

So is there like some kind of vibe-sre that's gonna be on the hook to vibe-support all these vibe-coded apps? I wonder what their VLIs, VLOs and VLAs are.

Photo of the hosts of Wheel of Fortune

vapecoding is when the bill for your vibecoding session comes out to exactly $4.20

a hunch: prior experience with typos in embarrassingly short string literals, whose erroneous contents (but correct type) the compiler dutifully places onto the call stack without further consideration

Chuck Schumer is a call to action not a name