Ex WordPress Ad Astro Per Narthurius
2023-09-06Announcing the rebuild of the Beeminder blog I did, moving it from WordPress to Astro.
Writing
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Newsletter
- Small Treasures
- Goodbye Substack
- Hills to Die On
- Words In Mouths
- Why I’m Leaving Render.com
- The Limits of Vibe Coding
- Job Search Coaching, Hand-Writing Code, RSS Feeds
- Job Search Update: Giving Up on AI Writing
- GitHub CLI Alias to Prep Git for Your Next Task
- Tips for Effective Skill Design
- What Is Good Writing?
- Long-Distance Friends
- Changing My Approach to Writing
- Longer Resumes, Used Phones, and LEGOs
- Stream-of-Thought, with Stakes
- The Job Search Begins
- Finding Clients in the Age of AI
- Alternatives to the Big Social Networks
- Rethinking Social Networks
- MiniMax M2.7, OpenAI's Symphony, Etc
- Business Incentives of AI Token Pricing
- I am no longer a programmer
- TaskRatchet Database Switch, Making AI Skills Autonomous, Etc
- Consciousness Is a Rounding Error
- State of the Workflow: AI for Client Programming
- Pretentious, self-indulgent navel-gazing
- Writing with AI, Responsibly
- Skills, Bills, and Aligning Incentives
- Vibe Kanban, Claude Code Skills, Dotfiles, Etc
- Experimenting with Vibe Kanban
- My AI Illustration Workflow
- New Buzz Functionality; Terminal Screenshots
- Claude Cowork + Links Roundup
- Solution for Large Branches: GitButler
- Iterating on a PR Extraction Workflow
- Fast PR Feedback Review with Saved Prompts
- I Can't Wait for Remix 3
- Publishing My Dotfiles
- Digital Employees
- Choosing a Laptop, Updating Buzz, Etc
- Adding Sentry & Neon to TaskRatchet
- AI as Slot Machine Programming
- TaskRatchet Bugs, Cursor 2, & Rails Project Refactoring
- TaskRatchet on Cloudflare, Cursor 2, Etc
- Buzz Updates, Monorepos, & AI Dev Workflows
- Buzz: A Terminal Interface for Beeminder
- Terminal-First Dev & a Few Interesting Links
- Surfing Your Motivation
- Spec-Driven Dev, TUIs, Etc
- Link Roundup + TaskRatchet API Update
- Labor Day Update + Link Roundup
- Are LLMs Conscious?
- AI for Code Review: CodeRabbit
- Toward AI-Friendly Software Architecture
- Links: Measuring AI's Impact on Productivity, GitHub's New AI Coding Tool, & more
- AI for Coding: Collaborate or Delegate?
- Future Changes to TaskRatchet
- Agentic Coding Tool Failure Modes
- The Tools I'm Using
- On Writing Publicly
- AI After TDD, pt. 3: Preserving Risk Management
- AI After TDD: Keeping Test Coverage High
- Is Test-Driven Development Dead?
- Ensuring Code Quality in the Age of AI
- Will AI Make Us All Managers?
- Limiting Fixed-Bid Contract Risk
- Zed vs VS Code & Cursor
- AI for business data & using AI coding tools responsibly
- Issue 0
Beeminder blog
Beeminder vs CBT
2022-09-15Responding to the critique of Beeminder that it is a crutch and should be replaced by something positive like CBT.
The announcement post for TaskRatchet.