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Vibe coding is the next evolution of Prompt Engineering, when you instruct your AI Agents to run autonomously.

If we think writing code is dead, and AI is generating all codebases, I still think the bigger problem is people or full teams not knowing anything anymore about the system architecture or the intent behind why certain choices have been made.

Neomd is a keyboard-first TUI email client where you write in Neovim, render as Markdown, screen senders first, organize emails once.

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If we think writing code is dead, and AI is generating all codebases, I still think the bigger problem is people or full teams not knowing anything anymore about the system architecture or the intent behind why certain choices have been made.

Everyone who can write has a competitive advantage because not everyone can do it.

Querying Bluesky directly with DuckDB and SQL is easily possible because the AT Protocol is publicly available and has a Jetstream that you can read. # Examples # Engagement Stats This is the recent Bluesky Engagement Stats ordered by engagement, including

I’ve been writing long before AI, starting in 2015 to publish on this very blog, and then AI came, and I still write manually.

Neomd this is my way of implementing a email TUI based on my experience on Neomutt focus on Neovim (input) and reading/writing (Markdwon) and navigating, Vim Motions.

Newsboat is an RSS/Atom feedreader.

Apache Spark™ is a multi-language engine (Cluster-computing frameworks) for executing Data Engineering, Data Science, and Machine Learning on single-node machines or clusters.

JavaScript-based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically.

If you want to be a data engineer, learn these concepts & patterns.

Vibe coding is the next evolution of Prompt Engineering, when you instruct your AI Agents to run autonomously.

I noticed my personal feeling of using LLMs and GenAI too much, that I get exhausted pretty quickly.

That’s my answer to “is writing code dead?”

I’ve been writing long before AI, starting in 2015 to publish on this very blog, and then AI came, and I still write manually.

To me, AI writing always results in this: They always look nice at first sight, but over time, they look all the same: complex, unnatural, and busy.

Own your own website, buy a domain, and start with a static website, or if you can’t, use Substack or others, but link it to your own domain, so later you can move and keep all the links and traffic via the domain.

A curated list of many open-source data engineering projects collected over the years.

The Data Engineering Toolkit To thrive as a data engineer, you need various skills—from fundamental (Linux commands, containerization, programming languages) to Kubernetes orchestration.

Just an idea, could I write a book about my passion, instead of Obsidian, a course on note taking, i go broader, «On Writing» maybe?

That’s my answer to “is writing code dead?”

AI Writing differs from coding because it’s consumed by different stakeholders.

To me, AI writing always results in this: They always look nice at first sight, but over time, they look all the same: complex, unnatural, and busy.

Vibe coding is the next evolution of Prompt Engineering, when you instruct your AI Agents to run autonomously.

dbt (data build tool) allows you to establish macros and integrate other functions outside of SQL’s capabilities for advanced use cases.

The dbt Fusion Engine shares the same familiar framework for authoring data transformations as dbt Core, while enabling data developers to work faster and deploy transformation workloads more efficiently.

DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP database management system.

Learning to Think Again, and the Cost of AI Dependency.

Slowing down, like Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman) and Slow Living is the best way to live life.

To me, AI writing always results in this: They always look nice at first sight, but over time, they look all the same: complex, unnatural, and busy.

Writing in public today is all about trust and credibility—if you start today, there’s no way for readers to know if you can write without AI.

To me, AI writing always results in this: They always look nice at first sight, but over time, they look all the same: complex, unnatural, and busy.

It’s about trust and credibility - I have written more at: AI Writing Very related to It’s Hard to Finish an Idea that is not Yours.

I like Naval’s take, as elaborated above, which says it all depends on who the customer is along the lines of writings are for humans to read mostly, so they should be written by a human.

AI Writing differs from coding because it’s consumed by different stakeholders.

Omarchy turns a fresh Arch Linux installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system based on Hyprland by running a single command.

Learn for life was my earliest Mantra and slogan in my blog.

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Slowing down, and just slow living, is another important concept.

I think Social Media Addiction is a big thing, and I’m noticing more that AI and Generative AI are facing the same problems.

Doing the same every day, like a life of a novelist or writers (inspired also by the book Novelist as a Vocation (Haruki Murakami)) is to be called a boring life.

Are pivot tables making a comeback in 2024?

Git like versioning on top of object storage/Data Lakes and databases. # What are the benefits?

Writing has been my new job after writing for myself for nine years.

Slowing down, and just slow living, is another important concept.

Inspired by YouTube how to convert to a dumb phone, I tried to convert my “smart” phone to a “dumb” phone, to use it more intentionally.

Everyone is using Obsidian for AI, or wants to use it to become more productive.

While I use Claude Code a lot for my Omarchy plugins and Linux optimization/failure detection, I don’t use it for writing and note-taking, especially for coming up with unique ideas and driving them home by writing them through to the end. ^6a26e0 It’s so…