Neil

CodePunk updates
Dropped the git working tree idea for accept/rollback — too complex for little gain. The current accept/reject flow works fine.
Switched focus to syntax highlighting. Couldn't find a good .NET lib, so I started writing my own (C# support so far). Might spin it out into its own repo.

Improved diff ui

This week in CodePunk (my open-source AI coding agent):

- Better code diff view (cleaner + coloured)
- New tools: glob, list dir, read many files, search
- Smarter prompts

Next up: a shadow git branch for safer edits + rollback.

github.com/neil-gilbert...

I forgot to do the Alt image tags 😔

Just a small update to CodePunk - improving the UI when visualising diff changes.
github.com/neil-gilbert...
#DotNet #Ai #CodingAgents

Been digging into AI coding agents lately — so I built my own. CodePunk: an early preview of an AI coding assistant written in C# .NET.
It can already read/write files, show diffs, and more.
Cross-platform + installable as a .NET tool. github.com/neil-gilbert...
Feedback welcome !!

We have a working group at the moment looking into using it. It's early days though.

Starfox game watch - super geeky but it even came with the original box

A room of vending machines

It also enforces the idea that 1 Jira ticket equals 1 PR which also seems bad practice - rather than many small low risk PR's we end up with 1 big one that satisfies the user story

Getting off the plane in the UK and being hit by the heat! 🥵

I don't get it, being paid to learn new languages is such a perk of the industry.

Usb switch for the keyboard, etc and then a monitor that takes both inputs and then switching/toggling between the two. It's a bit clunky but does work.

Jar jar binks

Just waiting for this guy to replace Musk at the Whitehouse

This is what AI is for! ...now how do I post this to linkedin and pretend I made it up.

I realized that even a toddler understood the fundamental need for observability better than our entire engineering team.

After my 4-year-old asked "But daddy, how do you know if your computer is sad when it breaks?" while I was frantically debugging a production outage at 2 AM with zero visibility into what was actually happening....

"Make up a short story that is very tongue in cheek about how my 4 year child inspired my journey on adding observability to my API."

I've seen lots of posts on here recently where people have that 'aha' moment and finally get what the AI hype is all about. Here is mine 🧵

You can fall on the wrong side of visa/MasterCard etc, if you change the Auth amount (increase it). It used to be ok depending on the biz type, i.e hotels who take a charge at the start of your stay for extras. Not sure how they got around the restrictions here

Shameless plug alert! Thought Control, the Pink Floyd tribute that I'm honoured to provide vocals for, are playing at Komedia in Bath on 25th May - komediabath.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

No click tracks or pre-recording backing tracks; everything is played live

I've been to so many gigs lately where the band are celebrating 20 years since whatever album was released (flaming lips on Monday). Makes me feel old all of a sudden!

It's also super annoying that you have to pay for API credit separately. I just thought for my £20 i'd get the web interface and the API thrown in and a rate limit across the board.... But nope you have to pay for both.

Where's the flat bed scanner ?

Then mobile development, merge into one massive app, released every 2 weeks and no one knows when it's actually in prod so no one really monitors and people are reluctant to roll back.... Observability is non-existent. Surely we can do better!

Watching a talk done by @charity.wtf and realising how far behind mobile development is. The backend, we merge PR's, deploy within 10 mins, one change at a time, whilst observing the deployment in production.

YouTube video by ThingsICantFindOtherwise That Name Again Is Mr. Plow (The Simpsons)

When you're talking about snowplow events at work and all you can think about is this:
youtu.be/QacpBRPonzM?...

My demanding work colleague

After being paged at 1 in the morning today.... Use SLO's people!, Also the mind shift needs to be a company one rather than just a team (ask me how I know 😴)

Helped by other great startups such as clickhouse

Bring back Ms visual SourceSafe - when people would forget to check in files, go on holiday meaning you can't work on the project... Good times ,