A collection of short-form posts. It’s like Twitter but there’s only one idiot: me.
If software development was always just about writing code, then why does agilemanifesto.org not mention the word “code” even once?
I’ve added a small /ai manifesto to explain how I use generative AI on this site (and also outside of it).
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Ham’s blog now also features “Moments”, as a way to share smaller thoughts and everyday moments on his own site.
Love to see more people adopt this way of sharing their thoughts outside social media platforms, just on their own websites. I really, really like following the people I care about. I just don’t want to open Twitter or Bluesky most of the time.
Slowcial media, baby!
Replica Metrics (one of my first projects at Railway) is now in GA! You can check how your replicas are doing, spot hot or underutilized regions, and catch replicas going wild.
choo choo 🚅
https://docs.railway.com/reference/metrics#replica-view
I started adding storage Buckets into Railway this week. It’s Day 2, and I can already create and deploy a Bucket.¹
I’m excited af about this because I’ve always experienced Buckets as this boring table UI in some cloud console, and to create a Bucket you had to fill out a huge form. But look at this! Right-click, Bucket, boom, here you go, now build stuff with it!
¹ right now the Bucket is just an empty shell and you can’t yet do anything with it. But tomorrow is the day where I will turn it into something usable
Share every small win. When you’re on a roll and have one small win after another, just share them. A big win is just a collection of many small wins over time. It helps you notice the progress you’re making, and as a nice side effect, others will notice too.
I can now post images! I can just send sent them to my Discord bot and ✨ they are here. Discord even supports alt text which is really handy.
To verify this works, here are two DALL-E images I recently generated.
Most of the code I’ve written today could’ve been written by Claude, with some manual intervention and guidance in between. Because it was a lot of work where you look at similar implementations in the codebase and do roughly the same, which AIs are generally good at.
But
Then I would’ve only learned a tiny fraction about the existing code, and I likely wouldn’t understand half of it. By doing everything by myself, I learned so many things about the codebase that will be massively helpful in the future.
I also built a small Discord bot with n8n to automate posting. I added it to my private Discord server (which I use for various stuff), and whenever I post into a specific channel, it creates a new post here!
Tomorrow: crossposting to other socials. I think. Or maybe images first.
I added short posts as a new post type. Basically as an alternative to posting on Bluesky or Twitter. Like in the old days.
It’s scrappy, there’s a bug in timezones with relative times, and I want to add a bunch of stuff. But I can use it.
I still don’t feel like I want to open Bluesky or Twitter. It pulls me in too much and messes with my inner peace. But I’ll definitely set up some cross-posting in the future, and I also want to pull in likes (and maybe comments? dunno yet) from socials.
Test Test
Hello?
Is this thing on?
