Christian Findlay

This is exactly why Apple have gone all in on E2EE

It just derisks a whole category of issues

Breaches aren’t possible because they can’t access your data

Why would a company even want the risk of spilling all that data when it’s not their core business?

I don’t get this…

If an app implements E2EE, it implies they don’t have your keys

WhatsApp doesn’t have your keys. There’s actually an incentive not to have your key because it means they don’t have to deal with subpoenas etc

It reduces their liability.

Chocolatey

Demand End to End Encryption for absolutely every system and piece of hardware you use

This is the only way that privacy and security prevails

Don’t depend on systems that require your data to make money. This is destroying humanity

Pretty good coverage for dart_node

I love this. I can imagine him saying it with his thick German accent, but as the character he voice acted for in Rick and Morty

My workflow shifted again…

I didn’t bring my laptop on vacation, so I tried the phone version of Claude Code

It checks out your code on a container and you use it just like normal CC.

A bit harder without vscode to check the changes, but totally possible to work this way

How do you convert to PDF? I usually find Chromium of a container is the most reliable open source way

Yes, exactly

Yep, I think that’s right

Not true but I get what you mean. That’s not a bubble though. That’s just inability to extract profit

It can be done though. Just need cheaper, more efficient models like DeepSeek. They’re around

Only been using agents for a year or so and already forgotten tonnes. Coding muscle memory is gone and I don’t care

In VB6 days I memoed every keyword cos I no Google. Now, I don’t memo anything

“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders”

Let’s get “ai slop” trending mfs!

#aislop

Windows…

Seems to be degrading. Perhaps it’s just a hype cycle. Or perhaps it’s a transition from human driven dev to AI driven dev

But, the problem is not the manpower involved. The problem is all the bloat and legacy garbage

Why don’t they just end backward compatibility?

Has anyone read any up to date papers on where the software industry is headed over the next few years?

Actual hard data and patterns…

I don’t think we need fewer devs. But I do think that anyone still hand coding won’t be by the end of this year

Why not just build websites with React in C#? H5 is a .net to JS transpiler. Works fine.

2026 AI Predictions

Agents become more efficient with tokens

Models like DeepSeek etc become staples for agent swarms at scale

More services that automate every aspect of dev: PRs, bug fixes, testing

Fewer problems agents can’t smash through

Cursor, Windsurf dying off

What’s the etiquette for ownership of AI generated code in your team?

Do you say “I got AI to build this” ?

“I vibe coded it”

“I built this”

All have problems, especially when people just plain don’t like AI

AI is not a bubble. A bubble is when people repeatedly pay an inflated price for something worth less than the market price. The burst is a market correction

AI is actually dirt cheap right now compared to its actual value. Big corporations are giving it away and cutting losses

If you were using a website for live music gigs in your area, what would you want from the website?

What kinds of band / venue info?

What do the best websites get right?

Mostly AI

GitHub - MelbourneDeveloper/RestClient.Net: The safest way to make REST calls in C# with an MCP Generator The safest way to make REST calls in C# with an MCP Generator - MelbourneDeveloper/RestClient.Net

Please to consider not using HttpClient directly as it is the worst designed piece of code in the .net ecosystem and a major source of bugs.

Please to consider RestClient .Net
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“Vibe coding doesn’t work”

I agreed with this 6 months ago

AI assisted software engineering is a better approach, I agree

But my revised view is that you CAN create robust tools without even reviewing the literal code as long as there are good quality tests

YouTube video by Constitutional Clarion Will Reddit's challenge to Australia's "social media ban" succeed?

Just to point out how wrong this is…

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Would your company pay to put an agent over the top of their public API with a nice chat widget that can sit in their app, website, or both?

Nice UI features like charts, data export, PDF generation etc.

Problem tracking systems are useful for coordinating what people are working on, but horrible for storing documentation. They always fragment information.

I love that we’re going back to spec driven development

Stick a clear markdown doc in the root, delete all the fluff in JIRA tickets and point them at the spec

A good agent can just read that and build the app for you

t was pretty arrogant of us to believe that machines wouldn’t surpass us at coding in the blink of an eye

After all, computation is discrete and coding is nowhere near as complex as say fine motor is for the human brain

It’s so funny when I talk to AI hesitant coders…

Some are downright petrified of AI

Others just have anxieties

The first use of a good agent is cautious. The next is exploratory, but after a while, the conclusion is always: 🤯

I upped my plan to Max 20x

Expensive? Yes, but what I've been able to achieve with it is well worth it