I Like Kill Nerds

Claude Code fell off a cliff these last few weeks.

Scrum had a moment.

I have lived through a few waves of tooling changes.

Look, I’ve built on a few different blockchains over the years, and I’ll be straight with you: most of them are a pain in the backside.

This isn’t my first air fryer, but it’s the first one that feels like it could actually replace half my oven.

I finally wrote the book I kept threatening to write for a few years on and off: Why Developers Code In Dark.

I like good tools as much as anyone, but the last couple of weeks around Anthropic’s Claude 4 family have been a reminder that you can’t build your working life on shifting sand.

For a long time this site hasn’t had comments.

I write software for a living, often as a freelancer/consultant.

I built a small app called Regex Battle.

I learned early that a day job will keep you busy, but it will not always stretch you.

I have been cooking with the Meater Pro XL for a while now after coming from the original Meater Block.

Almost two years ago I deactivated my LinkedIn.

I love Nintendo hardware and I was excited for the Switch 2.

For the past ten years, every good opportunity in my career has come through people.

I have spent a lot of years writing documentation, first for Aurelia 1 and more recently for Aurelia 2 at docs.aurelia.io.

I built a new thing: Hive Ships.

WordPress is underrated.

WordPress is underrated.

I write code for a living, but more and more I feel like my job is designing systems.

I like boring technology.

Let’s get one thing straight: the only people demanding a return to the office are executives who still think “synergy” happens in fluorescent-lit conference rooms and that “collaboration” requires smelling someone’s tuna sandwich from three desks away.

Welcome to the main event: an AI free-for-all where OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic swagger into the ring with their trillion-parameter hype machines—then promptly lose their cool when a ragtag Chinese startup named DeepSeek R1 strolls in, spending less than

Let’s rewind to 2010.

When OpenAI announced Operator this week a ChatGPT-powered AI that can supposedly autonomously book flights, shop online, and manage your life, I immediately envisioned Jarvis from Iron Man casually ordering me artisanal croissants while I nap.

For years, the AI frontier has been dominated by a handful of players: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta.

I wanted to be wowed.

Whenever someone says, “let’s set some OKRs,” I feel a part of my soul leaves my body.

Algorithms.

When I joined WIP.co, I was hopeful.

Have you ever wanted to get rid of that content editor block in your custom post types?

The WordPress community is in turmoil, and at the center of the storm stands Matt Mullenweg, once hailed as a visionary but now increasingly viewed as an open-source dictator.

Aussie Broadband has just unveiled a new line-up of NBN plans that Aussie power users and professionals have been asking for a while.

I caught myself doing something embarrassing the other day.

The TypeScript team has unveiled the beta version of TypeScript 5.6, and it’s brimming with features designed to make our lives easier.

Look, we’ve all been there.

On July 19, 2024, a seemingly routine software update became a global nightmare.

If you think dumping a bag of charcoal into your Weber kettle barbecue is the key to BBQ nirvana, you’re about to get a wake-up call hotter than your overloaded barbecue.

Let’s chat about everyone’s favourite corporate euphemism: the Performance Improvement Plan, or PIP for short.

Well, things are starting to make sense to me.

In this blog post, we’ll explore the concept of deep observation in TypeScript and learn how to create a deep observer using proxies.

With the release of Aurelia 2 Beta 15, there are some important changes to be aware of regarding decorators.

Let’s face it: React’s popularity is a classic example of being in the right place at the right time.

It’s a question that has haunted the minds of philosophers, scientists, and conspiracy theorists for ages: are we truly native to Planet Earth, or could we be the extraterrestrial visitors we’ve been searching the stars for all along?

Remember the 1990s when Microsoft was the big bad wolf of the tech world?

JavaScript has been around for over 25 years, yet it’s more popular and dominant than ever.

I’m always looking for fun little coding challenges that are not full projects, and I thought I would do a fun little licence key generator using Typescript.

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room—or, should I say, the AI in the code editor.

WordPress, a flexible content management system, allows various customisations to enhance user experience and streamline site management.

The wait is finally over.