Yesterday I attended the funeral of Joe Coates. He lived to the wonderful age of 92. At his funeral we had the chance to celebrate and bear witness to someone who lived life well. He loved his Lord and Saviour - Jesus, he loved his family and he loved his farm. He left an indelible mark on many people in that small farming community, including me.
Some finds are too good not to share. What a great podcast I stumbled across on YouTube. David Heinemeier Hansson of Ruby on Rails and Basecamp fame shared his thoughts on AI and the changing landscape for developers.
If you're serious about integrating AI into your business - not just talking about it - this Stanford CS230 lecture from Kian Katanforoosh is required watching.
It cuts through the noise and gets practical fast: how to write prompts that actually work, why RAG beats fine-tuning almost every time, and how agentic workflows are changing what businesses can automate. Real examples, real tradeoffs, no hand-waving.
Before you reach for a fancier model, get more out of the one you have. Better context. Smarter prompts. The right architecture for the job. This is the kind of foundational thinking that saves you from making expensive decisions based on hype.
Watch it. Take notes. Thank me later.
Seniors are often left out of the AI literacy conversation. The assumption seems to be that if you're not a knowledge worker or a tech enthusiast, the details don't apply to you. But that's backwards.
Not that long ago, custom software for small and medium businesses was a pipe dream. You'd need a designer, one or more developers, a QA team, and a project manager — and even a modest project instantly became a five-figure investment that took longer than anyone anticipated. AI changed that.
Back in 2013 I built PageProofer because I was drowning in feedback spreadsheets and bug report emails. Fast forward to 2026, same story, different problem — I kept reaching for SEO crawling tools to audit client sites and kept coming up empty. So I built one.
The awesome team at Tighten published a great document on how to implement RAG in a Laravel project with semantic search and vector databases.
Here's a nice collection of modern CSS snippets to replace older techniques.
For most of my career I have been a ‘David’, the solo freelancer battling projects and looming deadlines. It always felt like there were only so many stones I could sling at my Goliaths. There was a limit to how fast I could react, how quickly I could reload, and how hard I could sling. Then AI showed up.
Claude Code has three core extensibility features that can be confusing at first glance. Here's a breakdown of commands, skills, and sub agents - what they do, when to use them, and how they work together.
I'm still learning a lot about agentic coding and Claude Code specifically. Here's a list of some helpful tips and tricks to hopefully make your learning curve a little easier
Problem solving is a universal skill, and developers have a unique edge, our work trains us to think systematically. In DHH’s interview with the Primeagen they take a deep dive on a variety of topics, including being ready to figure stuff out.
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