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My website was banned from Lobsters as 'startup slop' for using AI agents to help write blog posts. When does tool-assisted writing become slop, and why are we having the wrong conversation about AI in content creation?
Vibe code is legacy code by Steve Krouse
Fresh insights on AI-assisted development: practical experiences with Claude Code and the evolving landscape of full-breadth developers in the age of AI
“To dismiss this entire problem as a "skill issue" and imply all is good now because an external library solved an issue that React will allow you to do is very curious to me. [...] You would think you can ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in July 2025.
After Claude Pro changed to weekly limits, I explored self-hosting Qwen3-Coder-480B with 400k context windows. Here's what I learned about costs, alternatives, and why Claude Code still dominates the landscape.
A little bit of everything, from our appreciation of Linear and well implemented Command Palettes, to how we're coding with AI, to Git worktrees, etc.LinearStatamic 6 Sneak PeakOpencode.aiCursor Background AgentsGit WorktreesAndrej Karpathy's TalkFind us on X@campfirecoders / @austencam / @jesseleite85Email ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the promotion of Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, effective immediately. In this expanded role, Malphas will oversee the company’s strategic initiatives in byzantine pricing models, confusing product nomenclature, and Generative AI. ...
Better Auth is so good that I almost switched programming languages When it comes to building APIs and services, my go-to language of choice is well, Go.
In this episode, host Brian Okken and guest Adam Johnson explore essential Git features, highlighted by Adam's updated book, "Boost Your Git DX." Key topics include "cherry picking" for selective commits"git stash" for managing in-progress work"git diff", and specifically its ...
A taste of Lean.
A TUI tool for trimming OpenAPI specifications down to size.
Gotta love those Superkeys.
Apple's logs redact your debugging data as . Here's what actually gets hidden, why old tricks don't work anymore, and the only reliable way to see your logs again.
Topics covered in this episode: Open Source Security work isn't “Special” uv v0.8 Extra, Extra, Extra Announcing Toad - a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the ...
How fast are pro cycling teams’ and manufacturers’ websites? A CrRRUX-powered deep dive into bike brand performance, visibility, and missed opportunities.
TLDR: because I want them to become seniors one day, and I want them to enjoy being developers
It's been almost a year since our last episode, we've all lost our jobs to AI, and we're going to another Laracon! Life is good!Laracon!DirenvCursorGhosttyFind us on X@campfirecoders / @austencam / @jesseleite85Email [email protected]
We're back and ready for (drumroll...) Campfire Coders: SEASON TWO!Join us as we discuss our sophisticated and intricate plans for the future of this podcast! 😎Find us on X@campfirecoders / @austencam / @jesseleite85Email [email protected]
Making sense—and use!—of the new Performance Extensibility API in Chrome DevTools.
theres a specific reason why i'm writing this post i can't disclose yet. but am sharing my prep work in public
I’ve been maintaining various Open Source projects for more than a decade now. In that time I have had countless interactions with users reporting issues and submitting pull requests. The vast majority of these interactions are positive, polite, and constructive. ...
I am convinced that it makes total sense to spend a certain amount of your (spare) time on this planet tinkering around and exploring stuff that seems totally useless or silly compared to what you normally do. And without having ...
The only data that matters
While working on Toad, it occurred to me there was a missing feature I would need. Namely streaming markdown. When talking to an LLM via an API, the Markdown doesn’t arrive all at once. Rather you get fragments of markdown ...
Today 404Media released a truly stunning report that almost beggars belief. The post Amazon Q: Now with Helpful AI-Powered Self-Destruct Capabilities appeared first on Last Week in AWS.
A TUI client for bitchat.
In this episode, special guest Adam Johnson joins the show and examines pytest-django, a popular plugin among Django developers. He highlights its advantages over the built-in unittest framework, including improved test management and debugging. Adam addresses transition challenges, evolving fixture ...
Topics covered in this episode: Distributed sqlite follow up: Turso and Litestream PEP 792 – Project status markers in the simple index Run coverage on tests docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable Extras Joke See the full show ...
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/514
Is this how we're living our lives now?
It's been one month since we released the first version of VibeTunnel, and since in the AI world time is so much faster, let's call it VibeTunnel's first anniversary!
Terminal Trove Talks with Orhun Parmaksız, one of the core maintainers of Ratatui, a modern terminal UI library built in the Rust programming language.
https://fafo.fm/storeThis Episode has a full spread of FAFOFM topics. Ellie has a breadth of knowledge across cloud, on-prem, hardware, and—of course—Kubernetes. We dive into some of the new hardware available as well as the importance of hardware to train the ...
An interactive TUI for Homebrew.
One of my favorite AI dev products today is Full Line Code Completion in PyCharm (bundled with the IDE since late 2023). It’s extremely well-thought out, unintrusive, and makes me a more effective developer. Most importantly, it still keeps me ...
Real progress needs systemic change and active involvement from men in positions of power.
Technical innovations often offer numerous applications with tremendous added value, making work easier. However, this also increases the potential for misuse, with the opposite effect—whether deliberately or through improper use. This also applies to advances in the field of Artificial ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in June 2025.
Topics covered in this episode: Switching to direnv, Starship, and uv rqlite - Distributed SQLite DB Some Markdown Stuff Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/440
A self-checkout system so broken it deserves it's own blog post.
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/513
Welcome, intrepid cloud explorer! You’ve decided to venture into the AWS jungle in 2025, where the services multiply faster than your monthly bill. Forget those quaint relics like S3, EC2, and RDS that everyone always gravitates towards—despite being the lion’s ...
“React isn’t just slow — it’s a bloated ecosystem with technical debt baked into its DNA. Yet despite this, it keeps being chosen. Why?”
Advanced MCP Protocol Debugger & Interactive TUI.
at long last, Gemini Nano is almost here for all Chrome users (i was originally misinformed that it was in Chrome 138 - but i checked my own facts and since Chrome 137+ it is starting to be shipped unflagged ...
