Kendall Morgan
@kendallmorgan.com
It's your world squirrel, I'm just trying to get a nut. Distributed systems, hip-hop, and photography 📍 Outside 🔗 kendallmorgan.com
This is a pretty good write up on where we are with new AI tools. Nicely done Lisa Eadicicco @lisaeadicicco.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/t...
No one can agree on whether AI is the next big thing or all hype. Here’s why | CNN Business
AI is either your most helpful coworker, a glorified search engine or vastly overrated depending on who you ask.
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The irony of Anna's Archive being taken down after the courts okay'd AI companies using the files indexed by Anna's Archive to train their models is wild.
The top level directory in our repo's have a ton of .json, .yaml, or .*ANOTHER_APPLICATION* config files in them. This hurts my OCD tendencies every time I see it as most apps don't let you define a custom directory. I guess thats just something I have to live with, like astigmatism.
I've been playing around with Antigravity over the past few days and I am pleasantly surprised!
An issue I've run into a few times with the #go `net/url` package is that `url.Values{}` is a map so `Values.Encode()` sorts the params before encoding. Some api's expect a specific order and and sorting breaks those API calls. The fix is to manually encode the values but I wish I didn't have to.
When we said build an app with alternative inputs, @leonnoel.com said SAY LESS. See what he and @ericaxtech.bsky.app built together: codetv.link/wdc/s2e10
I’m not anti-ai, but I am a realist. I hope AI gets to a point where software can be seen as a commodity and to some extent it is. For small projects used by an individual it’s great! The flip side is that it falls apart at scale, like most technology.
Its been a solid month for music, we got some dope drops from Clipse, JID, and Gibbs. A lot of things made it into rotation in the last 30 days.
Same time, different day. #art #photography #itap #streetphotography #urbanphotography #nyc #subway #train
“Mastery matters as well, but it’s not just pure mastery. What matters for a successful career is mastering rare and valuable skills.”
Adam Gordon Bell@adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 12mo agoNew Podcast episode about learning, economics and brain eating in the age of coding agents. corecursive.com/red-queen-co...
I actually hate the #reddit error page. Telling the users they did something wrong when there is a 5xx error is a pretty poor user experience. Don't blame the user for your mistakes...
One thing I'm struggling with using AI agents is managing virtual environments. I use them for most of projects but agents don't cooperate well with venvs. I tried defining `flox activate` or `mise use` in the prompt, but that has been finicky at best. Anyone have things that work for them?
This is succinct and well written. As backend engineers we are now designing APIs for humans, software, and agents. Different concerns for different clients.
Jeremiah Lowin@jlowin.dev · last yr.For years, we've designed APIs for maximum discoverability. The more features a developer can find, the better. In an agentic world, that entire philosophy is a liability. The best API for an agent is the one it can't see. Even more on designing products for agents: www.jlowin.dev/blog/curatio...
One interesting thing with the GCP outage yesterday is that some of our builds failed because it could not pull down packages from pkg.go.dev. So even though we don't use GCP infra we were still sort of impacted.
#unpopularopinion: Liquid glass has a lot of potential. There are some pretty big issues with it in its current iteration, but it feels fun. #Apple's UI updates have historically been bad on the first iteration. We just have to wait for iOS/MacOS/iPadOS 27 for this it to be as dope as I hope.
Deploy Empathy is only 24 copies from selling 5,000 copies, which is absolutely WILD ...so the Kindle version is now on sale for $ | £ | € 5.00 to get it over the line www.amazon.com/Deploy-Empat...
I finally wrote a thing that has been in my drafts for a long time.
Protocol-Agnostic Design for Scalable and Maintainable Backends
When building out backend services, I have a general philosophy of isolating the boundaries of applications. This translates to one of the core principles I use when building applications: Abstract th...
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Just got an email about this. I was a pretty heavy pocket user, but this giving me an excuse to finally self host karakeep.app
Karakeep
The Bookmark Everything app. Hoard links, notes, and images and they will get automatically tagged AI.
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The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.Mozilla is shutting down Pocket
Keith Murray didn't know it, but he was talking about Iceland. "The most beautifullest thing in this world, is just like that." #art #photography #itap #travelphotography #landscapes #iceland
Chapter 9 (“The Trouble with Distributed Systems”) of the second edition of DDIA is now available in early release for O'Reilly Learning subscribers learning.oreilly.com/library/view...
Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there...
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“Complaining there is not enough sugar in the tea while the building is on fire 🔥” @venkats.bsky.social at @devoxx.uk
Highly recommended!
Jason Lengstorf@jason.energy · last yr.WEB DEV CHALLENGE IS BACK 🔥 this was a HUGE effort by so many people and I can’t wait for y’all to see what we have in store this season - team challenges - upgraded studio - bigger builds - even more web dev fun watch the full first episode now: codetv.link/wdc/s2e1
Even with the best onboarding partners, 3rd party integrations are always a challenge.
