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@kzhen.bsky.social

I'm a decent software developer, a wannabe long distance runner πŸƒβ€β™‚οΈa wannabe artist πŸ–ŒοΈ and a wannabe gardener 🌿

39 Followers  |  98 Following  |  154 Posts  |  Joined: 06.10.2023  |  1.8494

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How hard can it be to build a browser from scratch for three platforms anyways?

Apparently 20K lines of code and ~70 hours from first commit to last.

emsh.cat/one-human-on...

#llm #llms #ai #codex #openai

27.01.2026 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch embedding-shapes was so infuriated by the hype around Cursor's FastRender browser project - thousands of parallel agents producing ~1.6 million lines of Rust - that they were inspired to take …

The latest entrant in the coding-agent-constructed web browsers is here, this one by @emsh.cat, and it's REALLY impressive - 3 days of development, 20,000 lines of Rust, no Cargo dependencies and it renders HTML+CSS extremely well
simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/27/...

27.01.2026 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5

What is ZAP?

24.01.2026 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Must be the only Microsoft product not doing something related to AI

19.01.2026 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This piece really really speaks to how I see it

18.01.2026 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The year everything changed Far from my best years being behind me, it feels as though everything in my life has been leading to this moment: building a completely new category of product where the most useful lessons come not f...

If you're a developer surrounded by people debating the utility of LLMs, you are being misled.

The advent of agents decisively settles the conversation. The real question is: how do you ship software that leverages their power?

I spent 2025 answering this question

networkgames.fyi/the-year-eve...

17.01.2026 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 8

Bought an EV. Next is getting some repairs done to our roof, then solar. Heat pump is a long way away

05.01.2026 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep, it's cold alright! I'm thankful we didn't get as much snow as this time last year!

05.01.2026 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Subzero temperatures so I've turned the flow temp on the boiler up... But the house is warm at 48C.

Not too bad @tomasmcguinness.bsky.social I'm thankful for all the various videos you've done on low flow temps πŸ™Œ

05.01.2026 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Been having a fun time learning about #mqtt on #azure with event grid. Need to write a couple of blog posts because the docs are a bit lacking in places.

20.12.2025 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Where/how do you learn this? Is it just by doing it over and over and slowly getting better...?

03.12.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Results from Gemini 3 Pro "thinking"

21.11.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Great read, very interesting. Where do you see this being particularly useful, rather than just a fancy wrapper around custom code?

Will VS Code bicep extension pick up intellisense or will it show everything as being invalid syntax?

30.10.2025 09:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is why you can't just trust everything #copilot spits out

#dotnet

29.10.2025 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tahiti isn't in Europe...

26.10.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@tombuildsstuff.bsky.social @locally.build long flight coming up... Any chance I could try out Locally?

21.10.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Would have been cheaper to buy them... But I managed to actually grow some chillies this year πŸ”₯

21.10.2025 11:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You could say it's starting to heat up..

15.10.2025 11:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Are you going to get copilot to fix them for you?

13.10.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@tombuildsstuff.bsky.social Hiya... I'm still hanging out for an invite 😁

01.10.2025 06:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Haha I did a double take and then realised this is #saltaire

28.09.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ever wanted to work on open source full-time? Come join me at the @openhomefoundation.org; we’ve got 5 new roles on @home-assistant.io.

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28.09.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Aspire 9.5 Release Party + Unboxing
YouTube video by Aspire Aspire 9.5 Release Party + Unboxing

not just one, but TWO streams this week!!! tomorrow at 7p EST, join us to celebrate the release of #aspire 9.5 (πŸ‘€πŸ‘€πŸ‘€ stay tuned for more info), and for #aspirifridays we're going to try to deploy bingo AGAIN. subscribe!! see you soon!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=29zI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=80ck...

24.09.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Chris you're absolutely right. A few months ago I built an internal webapp to enable testing, it used boring technology (Razor pages) and a little bit of JavaScript where interactivity was needed.

I built it in no time at all, it's easy to deploy to a container app, no complex pipelines etc

24.09.2025 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Excellent read and one I completely agree with! SPAs have not delivered on their promises and lead to huge amounts of complexity with very little gain (especially for glorified CRUD applications)

24.09.2025 10:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Building custom deployment pipelines with Aspire A blog post about how to use Aspire to deploy a static site to Azure Storage with Azure Front Door as a CDN and some exploration of Aspire’s evolving deployment abstractions.

This is a blog post about how to use Aspire to write custom deployment code to deploy a static site.

More importantly, it's really about the current shape of deployment abstractions in Aspire and how the space is evolving.

blog.safia.rocks/2025/09/07/a...

#aspire

07.09.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’‘πŸ’‘πŸ’‘πŸ’‘πŸ€―πŸ€―

18.09.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you need me to resubmit my email address?

16.09.2025 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trying to join the queue. Got this after signing in with GitHub and submitting my email address

16.09.2025 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

How long is the wait on the waiting list to try this out?

15.09.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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