Updates from the bridge: I finally released my blog post on programming minnimalism on my main blog! If you're interested here's a link Been making small tweaks to sipp and one of my favorite additions is a small bash script that works like a CLI. Just point it at any file and it will turn it into a snippet URL you...

One of my favorite videos I watched recently was by Pewdiepie, and while the title is “help, Im going through a midlife crisis…”, you realize about 3/4 of the way through that it was just bait. The real topic of the video is minimalism, and a great story about the philosopher Diogenes and his bowl. Diogenes was...

A few days ago OpenAI released Sora, which was not only the latest version of their video generation model, but also a social app. Humans sign up, but the only content is that generated by users through AI. If you’re like me, the very thought of an AI-only generated feed might have given you the “ick.” It’s not the...

Recently a local news station in Maine reported a story of some middle schoolers calling their friends with landline telephones. Their parents thought they were too young for cell phones and wanted to hold off on that aspect of reality, so they got an old phone from the 90s, and soon their friends also got phones....

One of the most common problems encountered when building decentralized applications is the disconnect between the smart contract and the client. A normal flow might look something like this: solidity -> byte code & abi -> EVM <- byte code <- abi <- client Thanks to the ABI (Application Binary Interface) that is...

Even if you haven’t read the book or seen the movie, you are likely familiar with the famous yet humorous answer to the meaning of life: 42. Just a number. The original author didn’t intend any deeper meaning and stresses that it means nothing. Ironically I think like everything in life, it holds an ounce of truth...

I think most developers out there would agree that we’re in a bit of an AI hype bubble, yet one piece of AI tech that has recently hit the market which developers can’t stop talking about might be different. Of course I’m talking about “agents” like Claude Code or my personal favorite Opencode. With a few prompts...

I’m sure many who read this are familiar by now with the term “vibe coding,” a euphoric style of programming where you prompt AI models or IDEs to write software and just “vibe.” One of the more popular instances that made the practice takeoff was the indie hacker Levelsio building a flight simulator entirely in...

The chances are that if you are a modern developer or if you’re starting out, you probably don’t know what jq is, and that’s why I’m writing this post. It won’t take long to explain what jq is, so let’s just get that out of the way. jq could be labeled a command line tool, but in truth it‘s a very “high-level...

> When I was first getting started in web development I remember seeing someone’s website and was immediately impressed by one thing: a guestbook. You could sign in with Github and leave a message, similar to someone’s Facebook wall back in the day. I thought that was the coolest thing but had no idea how to build...

I think every developer has their own text editor journey and how they landed on the tool they use today. Perhaps I’m a geek but I love those stories. I have a great appreciation for developer tools and the work that goes into them. This post is for the other geeks out there that also care, and I hope my journey and...

> “I don’t know why this isn’t working” is a question I get often, and I usually respond with “could you share your code with me?” Next thing you know I get a cell phone image of someone’s fingerprint covered laptop screen with a blur of code on it. I wish this wasn’t the first time, and I certainly hope it’s the...