Posts

🔍 I’ve said before that I’m worried about where software development is heading. But it’s not just AI that’s the problem — it’s what AI is revealing. We’ve built an industry that rewards speed, hype, and surface-level skill over depth, safety, and real user value. And it’s starting to show — in the products we use, the people we hire, and the damage being done. 📈 This started before AI. During the pandemic, bootcamps exploded. Thousands of people pivoted to software for the remote work and high salaries. The market got flooded with junior devs trained just enough to build a CRUD app — but not enough to understand why and how things should be built. ...

The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect It describes how someone reads an article in their area of expertise, finds it full of errors and oversimplifications, but then turns the page and takes the next article, on a subject they know nothing about, at face value. I only learned this term recently, although I’ve always kinda knew and understood the concept. And with all the content LinkedIn and YouTube have been force feeding me, I’ve been thinking about how this idea extends beyond just “reading the news” to our skills and expertise. ...

Introduction I keep saying my next post won’t be about AI, and then inevitably, I post something about AI. It’s hard to ignore, it’s the big bubble we are dealing with, and there is so much hype that needs to be ignored and filtered so we can get to the actually good stuff… I’ve been playing around with various tools over the last 3 or 4 months, and I think I’ve settled into what I find to be most useful for me. And while the topic says no-one asked, truth is, this actually does come up in a few discussions on other platforms and groups I’m part of, so I figured I’d love to share, but more importantly, hear what others are doing and why you agree or disagree with me. ...

Here it is folks, a new release with a few features and bugfixes 🎉 I did not test the Android version on an actual phone, having trouble with the Android device I use for testing, so there may be some issues… Screen layouts have been in issue in the past because of the different aspect ratios. Just let me know in the comments if you have problems, I’ll try and test ASAP. ...

The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct: My Unfiltered Thoughts The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct seems to have people up in arms about things. There are a lot of comments flying around, and I have some opinions on them - some of them gonna be unpopular, some I hope will be a voice of reason (at least from my perspective), and others I’m just downright annoyed about… Keep in mind that my opinions are informed by my own experiences, which includes over 30 years of gaming (console, PC and handheld) and over 20 years in the software industry, with only the last 3 or so having any kind of direct gaming industry involvement (if solo indie dev counts). ...

New Blog FTW! Hello! I’m excited to continue sharing my thoughts and experiences through this new blog. I’ve migrated my content to Hugo, a fast and flexible static site generator, with the beautiful PaperMod theme. What to Expect I’ll continue writing about various topics that interest me, including: Technology and programming Personal projects Thoughts and experiences Gaming and other hobbies And much more! Stay tuned as I migrate my existing content and add new posts! ...

I’ve been playing around with Cursor and Windsurf, because I keep seeing on social media how great these tools are and how easy it is to build things. And you know what? It’s…. ummm… better than before? Okay, look, it’s impressive. If I compare it so some earlier versions of the IDEs and other tools like Bolt.new, sure, it’s improved. But sheesh, does it take poking and prodding and coddling to get somewhere. Maybe I’m using it wrong, I don’t know, but I wish I could share the transcripts of my chats with these tools so you’ll understand… (can I export those? am I missing a feature somewhere?) ...

Wow, the new Mac Studios look really impressive. I can’t find the post that I saw last night about it, so I can’t share that author’s thoughts (I thought I commented or reacted at least, apparently not…), but what was interesting is the M3 Ultra goes up to 512GB of unified memory. 512GB… Of unified memory… If you’ve been playing with LLMs locally, and you have Apple Silicon, you’ll know that Apple’s unified memory is pretty performant, and it’s great for running local LLMs because the GPU uses the same system memory as the CPU, which means it can access most if not all of the RAM. ...

Okay, small update again, just want to keep this up showing there is progress. I’ve made some tweaks to the skills and I can now add the VFX animations and particle effects to it, and there are some things I can tweak to make it a bit more visually appealing. I do however still see some weirdness, with things not being centered when I expect them too, or other animations being way too small. I’m going add something to scale those effects, and also have them get bigger as you level up the skills. ...

🧩 I fell into a trap. One I’m often warning others not to fall into. Two of them, actually. 💻 The solution I’m building for one client isn’t necessarily a hard problem. There are existing solutions, but we want a simple MVP at lowest cost, so most paid services are off the table. With our custom integration needs, we decided to roll most of it ourselves. No, this wasn’t the trap. ...