Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning

In case you haven’t been following the world of software development closely, it’s good to know that vibe coding — using LLM tools to assist with writing code —...

MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0

Over the last few months, all the nerds have gotten excited about Model Context Protocol , or MCP. It's a spec that was designed by Anthropic (the Claude folks)...

When Every App Crashes

Today, for about half an hour in the afternoon, pretty much every app that you might try on your iPhone would likely have crashed upon opening it. It's probably...

It's more than just "teach kids to code"

I’m skeptical about “teach the kids to code!” as a panacea for all of society’s ills. Yet today, I’m at the White House to participate in a summit on Computer...

The Blue Collar Coder

Much of the conversation about the shortage of technology talent in the United States focuses on how we can encourage more young people to go to college to...

Inequality

Maciej is (1) a friend (2) very funny and (3) in agreement with my beliefs, so I couldn’t resist linking to Dabblers and Blowhards , his new essay. But the key...

Productivity Re-examined

Any time a piece of writing begins with “ Yesterday I wrote a little program to play Minesweeper… ” you can tell there’s some serious productivity going on....

Now Playing

After being inspired by trying to help Matt in his struggles to add the “currently listening to:” item on his site, I added a Now Playing box over there on the...

bookwatch

PB has launched the Bookwatch Top 10 , another step towards machine-assisted collaborative serendipity. It’s a damned cool bit of coding that tracks the...

I already knew Ray was

I already knew Ray was cool, but now he’s really gone above and beyond by helping me track down some bugs in my CSS code on Internet Explorer on the Mac. He...

Thanks to a reminder from

Thanks to a reminder from Bryan , I’ve got a new skill to add to my resume: I read and write fluent Backwards.