Tech-Inclusion

I was on LinkedIn this morning making a quick post about my experience with Omarchy, and then this showed up in my feed. “Local dev setup makes zero sense to me now.” It’s a comment from Matt Pocock, who we all know by now, the TypeScript educator, creator of the /grill-me skill that half the industry has been grilled by at this point (including myself), with a clip from The Pragmatic Engineer podcast. The post goes on: every dev has a hundred terminals, those terminals should be available to your whole organisation, available from everywhere. So for him that means he’s on a train chatting to his Hetzner box in Discord, and therefore an expensive laptop feels like wasted compute. ...

Many many moons ago when I was still a teen, one of my favourite things in the world was having a LAN party with my friends. For those generations reading this who grew up in the always online era who might not know what a LAN is, since it might be hard for you to imagine a time where you couldn’t just hop on Discord or Teams or whatever and talk to your friends and play online together, but back then, bringing your computers and consoles together and hooking then up to a local network was the way to go. ...

🤔 The thing about how much AI agents and tools have improved is that I’m finding myself in a weird spot. I’m always working. Even when I’m not working, I’m planning and brainstorming in Claude Projects so I can use the spec and plan files later in Claude Code. In a recent interview with The Pragmatic Engineer, Mitchell Hashimoto, the founder of HashiCorp said his “new rule for building software: always have an agent running in the background doing something.” (link) ...

🎯 This morning’s YouTube recommendation: someone coding purely by voice using Cursor agents and Windows dictation tools. My first thought? Not “wow, how cool!” but “seriously, is typing that hard now!?” 🙄 My second thought: “Good luck remote debugging a Linux server at 1am to fix what your AI buddy broke…” First we outsource thinking to AI, now the typing… it’s like nobody wants to actually do this job anymore! 🤦 But here’s the thing - after my initial skepticism, I realized this IS actually pretty cool. Just not for the reasons filling up your social media feed. ...