At work, Tom Patterer and I built a working #Erlang/#ElixirLang C Node in #CrystalLang. This is pretty great. Blog post to come in the next few weeks.

There’s a lot of good vibe in the #Zig programming language and toolset. There is  some  clever out-of-the-box thinking and quite interesting tooling. How about bootstrapping your self-hosted compiler with WASM rather than the old C++ version of the compiler? 

https://ziglang.org/news/goodbye-cpp/

I spoke at the Augmented Software Engineering meetup here in Dublin last week.

My talk was on getting the most from code-completion #LLMs, and specifically Supermaven with its 1 million token context.

Now that #Apple's machines have the same CPU architecture as their devices, I cannot understand why we have not seen the iOS Simulator move to a real iPhone VM. It would solve so many problems for developers.

Web and app designers: no one born in 2025 is using your app/site.

Defaulting the birth year selector (looking at you, airlines) to the current year means every single person who uses your software has to scroll further, for nothing. On a phone that is a PITA. If your software/site is for 12+ then make it 2013 at least. If it's 18+ then 2007 at least. Better yet, make it 2000.

Something got unhappy and died on my K8s cluster that runs this service. I was dreading figuring it out. Luckily, I discovered that past me  from a few years ago left some notes about what to do when this happens. YAY, PAST ME! Thanks for that.

2024 was a busy year at a busy new startup!