Stevan

On a dark background, the phrase "I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive" is repeated, followed by a purple musical note symbol, suggesting a song or musical expression of being alive. The text is light gray, creating contrast against the dark background.

If you are going to have a health check, you might as well have some fun with it.

It's crazy how easy it is to get structured logs and traces working in your .NET app locally using OpenTelemetry and Seq or the Aspire Dashboard. If metrics are important to you probably use the Aspire Dashboard.

My oldest son turned 9 last month. The reality of how quickly that time has gone is what is motivating me so much to get uber serious and focused on my ability to save and invest. How different can I make our life look in the next 9?

“I carry the baby, the bills, and the stress”

Finding my value outside of what I contribute is something I struggle with and hearing someone encourage me about it felt good.

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I think I’ve said this before, but it’s wild how many people have such strong opinions about others and how they should live their life.

It’s all the more reason to make sure I offer equally strong opinions and examples to my sons.

The software engineering field seems to attract a particularly large number of people who probably be better off as professors or university lecturers.

Don’t get me wrong I love a good theoretical discussion as much as the next guy, but at some point you gotta put all the conjecture away.

Figma’s IPO shows you how schizophrenic the market is. In one breath we have people saying the rise of AI makes GUIs obsolete and then another doubling the price of a company explicitly aimed at helping people build GUIs.

That opening scene in The Last of Us season 1 is good.

Action really is the right response to anxiety. It works every time.

I don’t know who the hell Zillow things I am, but I’m far from a “let’s buy a half million dollar house” person. 🤣

People believing they can replace skilled and experienced humans with LLMs and markdown files is wild.

"Same, same but different" I feel like is an under used quote.

We are definitely in an AI bubble…I just watched a segment on cnbc about how AI is transforming restaurants…🙄

I vote that this becomes the official term for referring to your LLM of choice. "Lying Robot" 😅

It’s odd that so many of the things in the US that sort of qualify you for adulthood involve some level of consumption and on average a lot of leverage.

Buying a car
Buying a home
Getting married
Taking vacations
Etc.

I think we need some different ceremonies around growing up.

Running or self-hosting LLMs locally currently is much more of a party trick than an actual useful tool.

Median homebuyer age is 56 years old.
Median mortgage rate is 6.75%.
Median house price is $410,800.
Median household income is $80,610.

I think you can confidently say that home ownership is no longer a part of the American dream.

I think for the most part we vastly underestimate just how much our world is influenced by the opinions and decisions of a few people.

I don’t really care whether AI ever replaces the need for code written by humans. I’ll be doing it regardless. There is just something really enjoyable about crafting a solution. It’s the act of creating and “sculpting” something into existence.

@vscode.dev it would be awesome if in the extensions pane there was a category of extensions like "Unused in last 30 days" or something like that.

Not sure if that is possible but thinking it be nice to have an easy way to purge extensions that aren't adding value in my day-to-day workflow.

I think one of the fatal flaws of the "big" tech industry is that they've really created quite an insular bubble for themselves.

Some of the claims that are being made about the timeline on which generative AI will impact society are just flat out wild.

I had to buy a new mouse yesterday. I decided to bite bullet and upgrade from a logitech mx anywhere to a mx 3s. I have to be honest I kind of choked at the $120 price tag...but now that I've used it for 24 hours I get it.

Obsidian is so good, but in the vast majority of cases you are going to want some ability to sync your data across devices.

The solution I've found affordable has been using the self-hosted live sync plugin combined with an instance of CouchDB running on Fly.io.

Plugin: github.com/vrtmrz/obsid...

Youth sports is so out of control and out of touch.

My son‘s football coach said he needed a parent to film the games so that the coaches can watch the film and see what they need to work on.

My son is 9 what they need to work on is running, blocking, tackling, throwing, and catching. The basics.

My favorite side effect from learning to code has been having the ability to solve my own problems. It's great if other's find what I've built useful, but if you scratch your own itch first it is always time well spent.

When the first large security incident occurs whose root cause is “it was vibe coded” prepare yourself for the deluge of marketing campaigns for no longer AI-driven solutions, but rather hand-coded solutions.

People who try to build their brand and audience by tearing down all people’s is lame.

I’m coming to terms with how short a period of time parenting is going to end up being in my life.

Obviously I’ll always be a dad, but that intense chapter is really quite short in the overall timeline.

I want to schedule an appointment with my dentist for a cleaning.

Why isn’t it as simple as logging into a portal and picking an open appointment time on a hygienist’s schedule?

Going back and forth on scheduling has got to have wasted so much of humanity’s collective time.

I think one of the difficult things to come to terms with as an adult is that you have to behave as if a lot of things matter, but at the same time remember few really do.