I'm Nick, a software engineer with 20 years of experience. I help developers work smarter and faster by exploring the ultimate workspace setups, mastering AI assistants, and customizing the best coding tools.
I really enjoy watching these videos. Nick has a lovely presenting style that is weirdly gentle and soothing. The Ollama related videos are top notch.
The cost of building software has drastically decreased. We recently rebuilt Next.js in one week using AI coding agents. But for the past two months our agents have been working on an even more ambitious project: rebuilding the WordPress open source project from the ground up.
What my job is, and what I pride myself in, is keeping the user in focus. Release fast, get feedback, create a healthy feedback loop. Build for the user. Instead, the loop I satisfied was my own dopamine receptors.
No, you’re not too good to vibe code. In fact, you’re the only person who should be vibe coding.
A heartfelt provocation about AI-assisted programming.
If you spend all day looking at code, letters, and characters—why not make it fun?
I find myself liking a functional mindset more and more. It's just simpler. I find it comfortable to split data and functionality, to keep my code as flat as possible. I'm still using classes and objects and their internal state, but overall these objects are looking more and more like functions: data goes in, data comes out. That's it.
Each year we explore the tools and technologies developers are currently using and the ones they want to use.
Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.
The only PHP library fully compatible with the CommonMark and GitHub-Flavored Markdown specs
Using the Wayback Machine to negate broken hyperlinks.
