A Developer's Notebook

Fringe cults have been talking about artificial intelligence in religious terms for decades.

The LLM hype and AI bubble seem unfazed by 2026.

This year I’ve had little time or patience for denser reads, so I read mostly novels, mostly scifi or scifi-adjacent (I’m now taking a break from literature and going into Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads), and a lot of Neal Stephenson.

TLDR We launched Podlettr - go check it out!

It’s been a year since I moved my company’s infrastructure away from AWS.

Since Rails 5, Rails has had an encrypted credentials.enc file which you can use to store secrets like API tokens and passwords.

The “catastrophe scenario” of AI in the software engineering job market has gained quite a lot of popularity, with people pointing out that current models already “do a better job” (what does that even mean?)

I’ve been working on a side project with a friend for well over a year now, and in addition to the joy of working with someone you like on a problem of your choice, I’ve had quite a lot of “aha” (or “oh…”) moments.

So dreary I didn't need to compact this image.

OpenAI is so much fun!

Sapiens in an image.

Hvalsey church ruins, Greenland.

I’ve been playing with dalle-mini the last few weeks.

This could have been a subway.

Immigration sucks.

Here’s something I’ve been wanting to write for a while: all the times (the ones I can remember, anyway) I bombed a software engineer job interview.

I’ve been using LinkedIn basically since I started working as an intern back in 2012.

A couple of years ago I interviewed at one of the largest Ruby shops out there.

TLDR A simple metrics-based ranking system is good enough to decide who gets how many resources.

TLDR I built android-analytics, a web analytics tracker running on my phone.

Try searching for “free dynamic dns https”, “free domain with SSL” or anything similar.