Vibe Coding Andrej Karpathy coined this term "Vibe Coding" back in February 2025. It's basically where you tell an AI what you want, and it generates the code for you. No need to understand what's happening under the hood. Just vibes. With vibe coding,...
Have you ever seen the movie Demolition Man? It's set in a future where every restaurant is Taco Bell. Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars, so now all the restaurants are Taco Bell. When I think about the current state of LLMs and...
There's been a bunch of talk in the news this week around a group from China claiming to break RSA encryption with a D-Wave quantum computer. In discussing this, first we need to distinguish between the two types of cryptography that we use on the web today: symmetric...
I typically use ASDF when installing Elixir and Erlang so that I'm able to pin versions for projects. In most cases compiler warnings will cause builds to fail so we need to test things with new versions before we're ready to fully migrate. KERL_BUILD_DOCS=...
** Spoiler Alert, this site is Ghost, running on Fly.io ** Up until recently I have been hosting my blog as GitHub pages. They work well enough and it doesn't make a lot of sense to pay for something. However, recently Ghost announced that it was working on federation...
I spent some time today working with pre-signed S3 URLs for uploading content to AWS S3. Normally when I upload a file to S3 it's from the front-end of a web application. The process is a multistage approach where: * a pre-signed URL is requested. * content is posted to...
With content harvesting and AI generated slop, it's getting tough to be a human out there. 😏