The vibe coders dilemma

Beautiful views from Elsie’s Peak across Glen Cairn, Simon’s Town and Fish Hoek this morning. #trailrunning #capetown

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Llandudno beach, Cape Town sunset. Dogs living their best lives…

“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.” hear hear

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Holy hell, what an obituary

Exploring new places on Vlakkenberg mountain above Hout Bay today… #capetown #houtbay #tablemountain #hiking

Slightly late, but @incident.io surely deserve to win a prize for their 2025 Wrapped Campaign: it's a comic strip narrative of a production incident you were involved in. It's so good! At this point, probably half my SRE coworkers have changed their Slack avatars to their Wrapped cartoon form.

Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa, by @sominisengupta.bsky.social. (Also, featuring a photo of my dog, Pixel 🤣🤣) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...

Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa

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Took part in the Three Peaks Challenge race today, running from central Cape Town, up to three peaks overlooking the city: Devil’s Peak (1002m), Maclear’s Beacon (1085m) on Table Mountain and finally Lions Head (669m). A great day out with big climbs(1700m over 30km)

A few days ago, with the fam, completed the Pondo Trail hike ~70km over 4 days in Pondo Land, Transkei, South Africa. Easily one of the best holidays I’ve had in a while. Pure magic: waterfalls, rock crayfishing, river crossings, unbelievable landscapes, warm people. South Africa is incredible.

I’m very confused. I upgraded my iPhone to the latest operating system, but somehow it’s running Windows Vista now.

The best Damian Willemse has ever played???

Sorted out another big networking mess in my house with 3d printed organisation using a custom size Lab-Rax 4U Network Rack, openGrid, and Underwear Cable Management. Before and after pics:

Sunday Table Mountain Back Table Trail Run: Constantia Nek, Woodhead Dam, Kasteelspoort, Grootkop, Llandudno Corner. 750m vertical over 14.5km. Beautiful winter weather and spectacular views.

Finally surrendered and brought myself a 3d printer, a Bambulab A1 Combo. I’m loving it. Currently printing a Lab Rax 10” 4u mini rack for my network equipment which currently exists as a knotted bundle of cables and boxes. So many things to print!

One thing that's struck me as I've been vibe coding recently: languages with real static type system are *much* nicer to use for vibe coding than those that don't. Having types also provides good guardrails and an early warning to let you know when the AI has fallen off the wagon.

Gaza.

Imagine how difficult it would be if you had two colleagues, one called Ian and one called Iain, but Iain only had one eye.

Took part in the GONE4GOOD trail run from Constantia to Hout Bay this morning. 16km with 800m vert. Reminded of just how glorious winter in the Cape can be. #capetown #trailrunning

State of the AI Support Bot, 2025, British Airways edition.

What a win for South Africa. A hell of a chase against an all-time attack after being rolled on Day 2. A fairytale, with Temba Bavuma at it's heart: one of the most gentle, humble, dedicated cricketers you'll see. What a journey it's been for him ❤️ Deserved champions, Test cricket is the best 💯

Thursday nights is for running with Trail Leopards 🐆 Today it’s Llandudno to Sandy Bay Dunes.

Re-upping this again because it's properly on point.

Chad Fowler@chadfowler.com · last yr.

I’ve been saying this in talks for years: Code is a liability. The system is the asset. In the LLM + agent era, this has become literally true. 🧵

Lesson learned. If you're in South Africa, looking to purchase Apple products, I strongly recommend avoiding iStore.co.za. First, "next day" deliveries are "delayed", many days later, still nothing arrives. When you cancel the order, they'll withhold funds. Plus, hours wasted with support.

“.. Mixed into the deck of papers he unveiled before South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa, however, was a months-old blog post featuring a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo ..” 🤡 @barrons.com www.barrons.com/news/trump-d...

Good day for a wet, rainy run to Skeleton Gorge. It definitely feels like winter is on its way now.

This is the best thing written about monorepos I have ever read blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...

Why wouldn’t you use vi?

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · last yr.

Microsoft open sources a command-line text editor and more at Build

Out trail running this morning, I came across this river of cloud, streaming through Constantia Nek and into Hout Bay. Pretty spectacular! #capetown #trailrunning #clouds #timelapse