Rob Conery
@robconery.com
Former VS Code/Copilot at Microsoft, Author of The Imposter’s Handbook, A Curious Moon. Founder Tekpub. Creator: This Developer's Life. I help devs get their AI groove on at bigmachine.io
You blinked well over 182 times so please stfu
Dylan Beattie@dylanbeatt.ie · last mo.You’ve dreamed your last theater.
Honestly I would be happy if Finder remembered I want things in columns.
Just read a LinkedIn celebration of “made it to 6 months at Microsoft” and I still can’t decide if it’s satire. Is this what we’re celebrating now?
Well this messed me up with my Swiftie niece and friends. Not true at all. Damn. Sorry @filmgirl.bsky.social
Great discussion between @carlfranklin.bsky.social, @richcampbell.bsky.social, and @robconery.com about AI in the development world podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
How AI Changes Development with Rob Conery
Podcast Episode · .NET Rocks! · April 15 · 58m
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Well this hits home. it’s me all the way through youtu.be/G5YmIqYSqA0?...
Psychology of Gen X
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Any senior .NET devs looking for a new gig? We’ve got openings doing some pretty impactful stuff. My DMs are open.
I replaced all the app icons on my iPhone and iPad with widgets, and it's been extremely helpful in reducing distractions. I am also leveraging shortcuts and focus modes; and I thought I would share the process with you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBLM...
Reduce the noise in iOS 26 by leveraging widgets and shortcuts
YouTube video by Rob Conery
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Oh yeah - I have a Black Friday thing going on that you can also gift, if you're interested. Trying to rev up my content game again :) because it's fun and I want it to be my job again... bigmachine.io/articles/lif...
An Idea for Black Friday
Giving gifts is so fun, don't you think? Especially if it's for yourself!
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Tried out Gemini 3 with all the VS Code tools and it was really really not good. The Code Assist extension crashed 5 times and then refused to start *at all*. I then put Gemini 3 up against Claude on a not-so-simple task and my goodness it failed miserably.
Keep it one hundred On the land, the sea, the sky Pledge allegiance to your hands Your team, your vibes
If you've ever had to proof a docs page or "make sure the code runs on the README", I made a video for you... thenext.dev/articles/all...
Checking Your Docs with Claude
I did a short stint at a startup over the last month and one of the things they asked me to do was verify the steps on one of their quick start pages. Super exciting stuff 🙄 but that's exactly the kin...
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What I'm really after with this project is dredging up "crap code". 99% of this was created by my direction, and I've reviewed and found it to be pretty solid. That said - if you dislike AI in general - now's your chance to skewer me (/cc @fransbouma.com... it's data access... right up your alley!)
Rob Conery@robconery.com · last yr.I goofed off with Claude Code this weekend to see how hard it would be to turn SQLite into a document database with a MongoDB API. It took 3 tries but I think something fun came of it - throw daggers at it if you like: github.com/robconery/gadz
I goofed off with Claude Code this weekend to see how hard it would be to turn SQLite into a document database with a MongoDB API. It took 3 tries but I think something fun came of it - throw daggers at it if you like: github.com/robconery/gadz
GitHub - robconery/gadz: A MongoDB API for SQLite, turning SQLite into an embedded MongoDB. Sort of.
A MongoDB API for SQLite, turning SQLite into an embedded MongoDB. Sort of. - robconery/gadz
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I don't normally write posts like this, but I truly believe it: thenext.dev/articles/opi...
Online Courses are Toast
It'll take a few years, but it's going to happen: interactive learning with AI is here, and it's going to replace horrible, boring video courses (and the good ones too).
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Need help prompting? I made a fun thing with @aaronw.dev that works like "gi" for gitignore, but with prompts. Need a react component and don't know the prompt? Try "peep react-component" in your CLI: tek.pub
peep | Prompts on demand
AI prompting made easy with ready-to-use scripts for developers and creators
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Looks like that’s the extent of it. Small surges out with now waves, small surges in with slightly more wave activity. Thankfully looks like it’s not getting bigger.guess I’ll sign off…
Water is pulling off the reef. Waves have stopped. First wave is here
So far so good. Nothing happening aside from a few clowns walking the beach
So here’s what things look like now. We’ll see if anything changes in 9 minutes
I remember studying this at university for my geology degree. Professor explained it was pulse energy - a pressure differential made the force horizontal. Typical wave energy is sinusoidal, which is changes in vertical energy. At least I think that's what they said... I might have been asleep...
Jeramiah Dooley@jeramiah.net · last yr.They move. At the speed. Of a commercial airliner. 😳✈️🌊
It'll be an interesting sunset tonight here in Honolulu, with light winds, some high clouds and a tsunami. I live in a big building with a small view of the coast and the first wave is supposed to hit here in just over 2 hours. I'll post pictures.
I've heard every single Mack glocky cover in the style of and Deftones - Paranoid Android may be the best youtu.be/_Rp7duGN7V4?...
if Deftones wrote "PARANOID ANDROID" by Radiohead
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It's super inefficient (and expensive) to have an LLM work on your data and files (CSV, markdown, whatever) directly. Have it create a script for you instead. I made a video about "compiling" markdown to one of @adamwathan.com's new Tailwind templates this way: thenext.dev/blog/creatin...
Creating a Markdown Compiler
One of the most powerful things that AI can do for you is to create a script that does a thing you don't want to do. Mind-numbing, boring tasks, like compiling markdown documents into a format for a d...
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Lily Ray 😏@lilyray.nyc · last yr.The past 2 weeks with ChatGPT Me: please take this CSV file and do this basic thing with the data ChatGPT: no problem, done Me: this is bad. Most rows are empty and you didn’t do the thing I asked ChatGPT: “you’re absolutely right” (Yes, Claude or Gemini usually work better)
