Category: Culture
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Adventures in Vibe Coding
I like creating software again I’ve been seeing a lot of my peers — web developers like myself who have been doing this for 15-20 years+ — talk about how “vibe coding” has renewed their old love for writing code building software. I get it. My interest in software started as a way to scratch…
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Time for Usonia
The fact that we refer to the USA as “America,” its citizens as “Americans” has always mildly annoyed me. “America” describes two entire continents. Canadians are Americans. Colombians are Americans. Why does one country get to own the word? The recent events in Minneapolis, a city I love dearly, pushed that mild annoyance into something…
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On directories. And vibe coding.
I seem to have an obsession with directories. During COVID I helped build letsorder.delivery: a directory of local restaurants offer non-app delivery. Today I launched new one wpg.beer: a directory of local brewery taprooms. I’m not entirely sure where this obsession comes from. Maybe it’s nostalgia for the early web — before search engines and…