there’s even background music!

I’ve actually had a surprising case where I did get much more consistent results from gpt by using a custom format based on semicolons.

Ohhhh!! I totally misinterpreted 😅

Where did you migrate fastmail and buttondown to?

A screenshot of the AWS S3 docs mentioning the Adobe Flash Player: "Some versions of the Adobe Flash player do not properly handle HTTP responses with an empty body. To support uploads through Adobe Flash, we recommend setting success_action_status to 201."

I did not expect to find a reference to Adobe Flash in 2025. But here we are.
I wonder how much Adobe Flash might still be out in the wild if AWS S3 documentation still mentions it.

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/lat...

It's 2030. There is a massive demand for human senior developers to fix garbage made by Vibe coders. 🙃

Gibt's Datatrans eigentlich noch…?

Nein. War tatsächlich eine naive Nachfrage 😅

Was war das Problem mit Adyen?

This, but applied to tech workplaces.
When I started, the senior folks seemed to have knowledge that was way out of reach.

But then I realised they were just some guy with a debugger and a ton of war stories about the time the thing caught fire in prod.

It is well worth reading the Font Story for APN Chora here: www.alphabetspatricknell.com/article/font... and I celebrate @patricknell.works for writing it!

All designers should do this. #typography

Book cover showcasing the styles of APN Chora

App showcasing the styles of APN Chora

Shop front showcasing the styles of APN Chora

Book spread showcasing the styles of APN Chora

APN Chora now available via Monotype and alphabetspatricknell.com: a rationalized humanist typeface optimized for legibility in extended reading. Available in just two styles—roman and italic—yet fully equipped for all needs of refined typography.

#typedesign #renaissance #book

It actually is! Works flawlessly. Used it a couple of times over the last years. Latest was for migrating from gsuite to mailbox.org

It feels very comfy after some time. But once you don’t look at it for 2 weeks, it looks like an alien language all over again.
LLMs are surprisingly good with it tho

How do they handle multiple inboxes? (E.g. family members, organizational separation like invoices etc.)

100% Hetzner. Im a very happy customer since 2008. Most Personal projects and smaller client stuff runs on their machines.

Should you need a Cloudflare alternative, bunny.net is doing some great work there.

New blog post: AI is useless, but it's our best bet for the future => antirez.com/news/148

Not right now. My current workaround is liking or copying into notes

Which, thinking about it, is probably also a very human centric approach. Can’t keep it in your head? Split. Can’t explain it in a few simple sentences? Split.

For some reason this feels weird. Probably because software architecture is rarely taught like that

I find myself organizing code, that I create with AI, based on context windows and on how easy it is to explain a relationship.

Screenshot of my tool's UI. It's an input box where one can enter a python package name. After clicking a button, the latest version information is displayed.

Hence, there's a new tool on my site: The #Python Package Version Checker. www.originell.org/tools/python...

It all runs in the browser, thanks to the #pypi JSON API.
This is also my first native Web Component. Yay for web standards!

It saves me some clicks already. Aiming to further improve that.

Grab pkg name, search in pypi, click the correct pkg, look at the version, find changelog link, if it's not there hope for a repository link, copy new version, paste it. Repeat.

It's quite mouse-heavy and my IDE Isn't helping much either. 2/3

I LOVE upgrading dependencies. Finding out that there's a new version of something and then checking the release notes… It's the exact same feeling I get on birthdays and xmas.
Sadly, my workflow here is kind of clunky 1/3

Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? Most coders want AI to write code faster: I want AI to write FASTER CODE.

New year, new blog post: I had a random question, what happens when LLMs are prompted to write better code, again and again? Do they actually write better code? The answer is yes*! minimaxir.com/2025/01/writ...

just launched a tools section on my website, inspired by @simonwillison.net

first tool is for calculating how long #ffmpeg encoding still takes. also mostly AI generated using Claude via bolt.new - big fan.

www.originell.org/tools/ffmpeg...

(yes my og tags still need improvement)