… That feeling of loss though can be hard to understand emotionally for people my age who entered tech because we were addicted to feeling of agency it gave us.”

Kellan’s back with a real banger.

“It’s reasonable for people who entered technology in the last couple of decades because it was good job, or because they enjoyed coding to look at this moment with a real feeling of loss…

What a world huh Lemon it’s still struggling to be born

I'm a rusty programmer, with no real SwiftUI experience, and this was a walk in the park. What an incredible time.

I'm no expert in "good" SwiftUI code, but what Opus 4.5 generated looks great: separate concerns with classes for animated thumbnail views vs shelf views, a nice simple model struct to represent videos as downloaded from JSON, etc.

It helped me troubleshoot odd focus/blur behavior, etc.

Zero configuration is needed to make AWS Cloudfront nicely stream mp4 files to Apple's standard AVPlayer. You get all the niceties of instant playback, fast-forwarding, scrubbing with thumbnails, etc.

A shell script crawls a folder structure of videos and creates a JSON inventory (titles, sections, runtimes). Also creates multiple thumbnails for animated video previews, then syncs it all to s3.

Apple TV & iOS apps are written in SwiftUI, distributed to the fam via TestFlight for now.

Over the holiday break, I built a quick set of apps w/ Claude Code. We have hours of old digitized home videos, and my parents aren't really the Plex crowd. An hour of vibe coding and I had an Apple TV + iPhone + web app, all streaming video hosted on S3 + Cloudfront. The basics:

- Mark Litwintschik @ tech.marksblogg.com —doing serious GIS, DuckDB & other data work.
- Nelson Minar @ nelsonslog.wordpress.com —The mundane daily nerdery (email, home networking)

What a blast to watch pros work, tinker, & learn. (Even if it's just finding a cheap mic for an AI birdsong monitor…)

Some recent favorites:

- @lemonodor.bsky.social @ heavymeta.org — hacking on ADS-B, GIS, and GPS.
- Chris Dzombak @ www.dzombak.com/blog/ — writing on devops, SWE, LLM coding and random hardware.

A hard part is finding the practitioners, past the empty hype artists. (They don't have equal loudness.)

One of my favorite mediums is the worklog. Software types who simply journal their work process — without fear of looking like a noob for a goofy shell script.

I really miss the Twitter of the 2010s, and so rather than sulking, I'm hoping to become a bit more of a participant — as much as my "don't-be-cringe" sense will allow.

To me, we're in one of the most exciting moments in software: bigger than web 2.0, mobile, Rails, or cloud.

Howdy! Forever chasing that 2006-2010 Twitter high. Cautiously hopeful that this is the place.