Vacation with kids and land is a lot of work, but I'll have a beer with my Homie-steaders anyway

Should not be a hot take—but probably is… If you used an agentic ai on a production instance of a database and it dropped tables or otherwise deleted data, you should be more ashamed and less angry.

Big news! I'm joining @joshdholtz and @RevenueCat on the Monetization team! Fired up!! 🔥☝️

What I've learned about AI as a pair programmer is that it rabbit trails worse than a developer with ADD. It does well if you don't muddy the water with too many details about goals or "why" something should happened. Just that it should do x and you'd like to use y apis.

I've been opposed to "vibe coding" to date, but I'll be honest… I wasn't aware of the rails we could put the AI on to get more reliable output. So now I feel a bit behind. Who's willing to give me some pointed resources to catch me up on how to use AI as a pair programmer and to move faster?

Fork-fulls of syrup. That's what my daughter just said—quite excitedly—at breakfast. It's funny where my brain goes when my kids say things. At first I thought of our striving in general and the book of Ecclesiastes. Then I got to thinking about AI and Vibe Coding.

Setting up some infrastructure for a small side project that will handle some image processing. Any AWS pros care to look at this diagram and tell me if I'm doing anything dumb? gist.github.com/JZDesign/11d...

Photo Processing Architecture

Photo Processing Architecture. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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One thing I've become acutely aware of over the years is… I assume people are like me. So do (most of) you. And because of that creators of all kinds often think that people will like or use the things they create. Turns out, this is usually way wrong. 😅

This is going to be fun! See you there?

Deep Dish Swift 2027 • April 4th to 6th@deepdishswift.com · last yr.

📣 Speaker Announcement Writing code is hard. Writing code for the next engineer is harder. Let's learn how to write code that will handle a change in ownership! Jacob Rakidzich will be taking the stage with "Code That Survives 'The Handoff'" 🤝

I read an article recently on how to use an LLM to flesh out an app idea. I'm not an AI user in my day-to-day, but this has been a blast so far. In the article, he said it should take 15 minutes, but I suppose my app idea is too complicated, because it's been days 😅 harper.blog/2025/02/16/m...

My LLM codegen workflow atm

A detailed walkthrough of my current workflow for using LLms to build software, from brainstorming through planning and execution.

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Testing if my site's metadata is ready for BSKY jacobzivandesign.com/technology/n... 🔥☝️

Never Miss a Localized String Value Again | Jacob Zivan Design

Managing localized strings can be difficult. But, there are some tools on how to manage localized strings in iOS to make sure we don't royally mess things up. In this article, we'll cover how to utili...

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Hey! After 7 years away from all social media—I don't count linkedIn—I'm back online and ready to chat about the Swift language.