Martin Gratzer
@mgratzer.com
👨💻 Software Engineer 🏠 Raising two little padawans 🚵 Weekend warrior on the road bike 📷 Hibernating photo walker http://mgratzer.com
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Weekend project that got a bit meta: I build an agent skill that coaches you how to build a coding agent from scratch. Eight steps and you understand what's happening when these tools work. mgratzer.com/posts/from-o...
From Ore to Iron: Build Your Own Coding Agent | Martin Gratzer
I used a coding agent to build a skill that runs inside a coding agent to show how to build a coding agent. It's agents all the way down.
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I haven't posted here in a while, so naturally I'm coming back with a blog post about AI. I know. Over the winter holidays I built an app for my kids using agents. The interesting part was figuring out how to make the agent follow my process. I wrote up what I learned. mgratzer.com/posts/forgin...
Forging a Workflow: Agentic Engineering in Practice | Martin Gratzer
A side project, a workflow, and the case for keeping humans in the loop when agents write the code.
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Just finished Super Mario Wonder with my kids. The joy on their faces the whole way through… Nintendo just gets it.
Ich hab einen 1.5 Stunden Workshop zu generativer KI gebastelt. Für ein nicht-technisches Publikum, das verstehen will, wie das alles so ca. funktioniert, was es kann und was es nicht kann. Bräuchte Freiwillige, die bei einem Online+Testlauf mitmachen. Nächsten Mittwoch, 21:00. DMl me bei Interesse
A small rant on the contemporary Zeitgeist for the weekend. Fuck 996. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/4/996/
996
There is cost to your lifestyle.
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Among the books in this year’s Software Architecture humble bundle: @andrewhl.bsky.social : Facilitating Software Architecture and @dianamontalion.com : Learning Systems Thinking Software Architect Books from Humble Bundle www.humblebundle.com/books/softwa...
Humble Tech Book Bundle: Software Architecture 2025 by O'Reilly
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Als jemand der weder E-Auto noch Strom vom Dach hat, erlaube ich mir das mit folgenden Worten zu kommentieren: "Habens euch jetzt vollkommen ins Hirn geschissen?"
Wer Strom am Dach selbst erzeugt und ins Netz einspeist, soll künftig Netzgebühr zahlen
Das neue Gesetz für den Strommarkt nimmt langsam Gestalt an, dabei werden die Netzkosten neu verteilt. Besitzer von Photovoltaik-Anlagen sollen mehr zahlen, auch das Betanken eines E-Autos kann teurer...
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Our three-year-old often holds the controller upside down, finger's crossed this print helps 🤞. makerworld.com/models/1492385
Oh. I haven't recognized the port on top yet. Great addition.
NeoNacho@neonacho.bsky.social · last yr.After a week with the Switch 2, I think the biggest upgrade is having a charging port at the top and bottom
He did it again! Congratulations Klemens.
Klemens 🦆 The Art of Fauna 🦆@strasser.bsky.social · last yr.The Art of Fauna just *WON* an Apple Design Award in the Inclusivity category. 🤯 But it is also a finalist for Social Impact. 💚 Two nominations, one win. I still can't believe this. What a year 🥹 #indiedev #WWDC #WWDC25 #TheArtOfFauna
And that’s how he came to realise that there are higher instances in this world, like DHL. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump tariffs: DHL suspends high value US deliveries
The postal giant will stop shipping packages to American consumers after a rise in red tape at customs.
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Just in time for Follow Friday, we're live @swift.org. And with a post about how popular task manager Things now powers their app front to back with #swift. www.swift.org/blog/how-swi...
How Swift's server support powers Things Cloud
You might be familiar with Things, a delightful personal task manager that has won two Apple Design Awards and is available across Apple devices including iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vis...
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Swift Language@swift.org · last yr.Learn more about how the team behind Things, an award-winning personal task manager, rewrote their backend in Swift with a threefold reduction in compute costs: www.swift.org/blog/how-swi... @vapor.codes
I can only share the sentiment. My fanboyism died a while ago, and I am moving on by viewing them as just another platform.
Martin Höller@martinhoeller.net · last yr.The recent episode of Under the Radar is really hitting a nerve. @marcoarment.bsky.social and David Smith (mastodon.social/@_Davidsmith) did a great job putting in words what many of us probably feel. If you are a dev in the Apple ecosystem go listen to it: www.relay.fm/radar/312
Our kids dodged any virus for the whole winter season, and I was proud, but pride comes before the fall.
This was a hard one. But we, as developers for Apple platforms and as humans, have a responsibility to respond. www.massicotte.org/leverage
Leverage
I’m really not sure how to start this one. Normally, I write about technical topics. But, that’s not what this is. This is different. So I’m just going to say it.
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Today, I built my first web page with the static site generator Hugo and was amazed by its flexibility. For example, adding a custom shortcode to draw inline Mermaid graphs from markdown took me 10 minutes.
We open sourced Xcode’s build system github.com/swiftlang/sw...
GitHub - swiftlang/swift-build: A high-level build system based on llbuild, used by Xcode, Swift Playground, and the Swift Package Manager
A high-level build system based on llbuild, used by Xcode, Swift Playground, and the Swift Package Manager - swiftlang/swift-build
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Here's a glossary for Swift concurrency. I've been asked about this a few times, and I finally sat down to do it. www.massicotte.org/concurrency-...
A Swift Concurrency Glossary
It would be nice if there was a single place to go to look up all the terms, keywords, and annotations related to Swift concurrency. So here it is. By no means do you need to understand everything her...
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Buying ice skates the moment our lakes freeze is excellent timing 🤦♂️. The store is empty, folks are lining up, and there is only one expensive model left. Luckily, they are my size. There is no way around it; the kids need entertainment. ⛸️
The winter downtime reading hattrick is done by rereading a book every software engineer should know: Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout. It's a concise journey with practical advice on reducing software complexity. I ended up with more notes than the publisher allowed 🙃.
New content on NSHipster 😱, the best news of 2025 so far. nshipster.com
NSHipster
NSHipster is a journal of the overlooked bits in Objective-C, Swift, and Cocoa.
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Oh, Apple TV+ is free for everyone next weekend. It's a good chance to get hooked on some of the best TV shows with high production value and excellent casts. techcrunch.com/2024/12/30/a...
Apple TV+ will be free to stream this weekend | TechCrunch
Apple is allowing anyone to access its Apple TV+ streaming service for free this weekend, from January 3 to 5. The company made the announcement on Monday
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I am happy to finish my second winter downtime project — ending the year with the Festive 500 challenge. It was a grind this year, as my time window for riding is late at night and indoors. Putting a checkmark behind this challenge feels excellent, though. content.rapha.cc/at/en/story/...
