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The New World AI has changed software development forever - LLM’s are already capable of writing code as well as many software engineers, and we aren’t going to return to the old world of software development.

The Endgame We live in interesting times.

Risk I do a lot of sports which, when I talk about them with a layperson, provoke horror or eyerolling at the levels of risk they involve, but I don’t feel like I am a reckless person - their perception of the activity is coloured by a lot of misconceptio…

Implementing Auth on a Websocket with FastAPI.

Spring Flying Yesterday the flying forecast looked great, and I headed out for the first flight of the season.

Ocean waves, and Shaders Several years ago, I became interested in simulating an ocean surface with waves.

Vibe Coding As a software developer, the developments in AI, and LLM's have had a large impact on the perception of my field.

Tools, tools, tools One of my guilty pleasures is watching videos about tools on youtube.

Linters can go to hell Recently when going through some old notes, I found the following rant, which was clearly written in the fires of righteous fury.

Searching for Songs in a Sea of Hallucination.

A Traffic Light Even in a country with as perfect a public transit system as Switzerland, there are good and bad times to leave the house for a tram.

A New NAS: Eir A few years ago I built my NAS / Homelab, which I named Tyr, following my convention of naming devices on my local network after the Norse pantheon.

Another 3D Printer It's winter again, the season of endless grey, where going outside isn't an obvious choice.

Lyngen Expedition 2023 The winter in Switzerland was a warm one, which was great for the people whose war-ravaged gas heating prices were less of a necessity, but disappointing for us snow seekers.

Air Sensors v2 Since making some simple air sensors last year, I've enjoyed having the graphs of temperature and humidity through my house this winter.

These Old Gloves Sometimes, something won’t let you let it go.

Home Networking For most of my life, I've lived in a small enough apartment that a single wireless router was enough for my needs.

Soaring above the ridge, photo courtesy Tom Payne Last flights of the season Yesterday was probably the last flying day of the season and what a way to end the year.

ESP32 Air sensors One of the easier projects that I've had on the todo pile for a long time was a temperature and humidity sensor to plot a time series in home-assistant.

Escaping the FAANG Part 3. - An Update It's been almost a year since I started ordering parts for a homelab server to replace some of my dependence on the rent-seeking cloud vultures of the FAANG.

Some Summer Flying Last Sunday I flew at Rigi with some friends.

Processing Insta360 footage and uploading to Youtube as 360° video.

Stiegen Fliegen Last weekend with my parents visiting, we headed to the Bernese Oberland for some hiking and adventure.

Building the Voron 0.1 The seed for the idea to build a 3D printer was already planted in my head when I bought the Ender-3 at the beginning of the year.

Modern Software: A Metaphor in 1 act.

Paragliding at the Weekend A few weeks ago, I headed up to Jacob’s cabin for a weekend in the mountains.

Playing with the ESP32 With my new spare time recently I started revisiting some of my old electronics projects.

Escaping the FAANG Part 2. - Building a NAS In part 1, I decided to move away from the predations of FAANG and manage my data myself.

The Kindle is dead to me, and other thoughts on ownership I’ve owned a Kindle since the earliest versions and spent thousands of money on books from the Kindle store.

I got a 3D Printer.

Escaping the FAANG1 (Part 1.)

Flying up the Jungfrau We took off at the top of Schilthorn, a few steps from the James Bond lair, astride a jagged rocky ridge.

Simulating Ocean Waves Recently I wanted to add ocean water to my raytracer, and after some reading, found that the state of the art in Ocean water simulation is a paper called "Simulating Ocean Water" by Jerry Tessendorf.

Forging a Pattern Welded Sgian Dubh Last weekend I attended a knife making course with Ferrum D near Basel.

Machine learning is a silver bullet, but silver bullets never won a war.

First Flight in Fiesch On Sunday I flew from Fiesch for the first time, attempting to fly XC as far along the valley as possible.

An experimental visualisation of Earths gravity well

Climbing The Owens River Gorge Raw ochre mountains, steep dry and bony desert reaching up for the blue of the sky.

Climbing Mt.

A few months ago I started a company with my friend Niall O'Higgins.

Good Business Ideas.

Climbing Mt Tyndall Last weekend, some friends and I set out to climb Mount Tyndall in the Eastern Sierras.

The Bourne Legacy : A Review To review the Bourne Legacy, the newest in the "Trilogy Plus One" Bourne series, you have to understand how seminal the original Bourne movies were.

The Kalalau Trail We hiked the Kalalau trail in March.

Experiments on the Laser Cutter : Bitbeam I've used the laser cutter at techshop a few times, and one time I ran into @hugs who was working on a robot that played angry birds.

Chaos Code I recently watched a presentation in which the presenter had an environment that let him see changes in code immediately and visually whilst editing.

Testing Across Browsers with JavaScript and Webdriver I just posted on the Yammer engineering blog about cross-browser testing with node.js and webdriver.