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Stop Prompting, Start Coaching What Co-Active coaching taught me about getting better results from AI coding agents, and what treating an agent like a capable collaborator actually looks like in practice. -
Learning Agentic Coding On a Budget Budget-friendly approaches to learning agentic coding without expensive API tokens. -
It took me a year to write about AI and all I got was this stupid blog post... After more than a year of thinking, listening, and learning, I finally write about AI — the concerns, the nuance, and why I'm both an optimist and a skeptic. -
How to Learn a Programming Language in 7 Days Learn from a polyglot of 15 years how to pick up new languages quickly -
Declarative is the Wrong Goal Here lie half-baked thoughts… -
Tricks to Cleanup Git Sometimes in the rush of the work day your git repos can get pretty littered with branches you just don't need anymore. Here's a few tricks to clean up your repos. -
Better Things to Learn Than Coding The most transferable skills I picked up from coding aren't code at all — systems thinking, active listening, experiment design, and organizational techniques. -
Parens Are Your Friends A gentle introduction to Clojure's parentheses for developers who've been giving Lisp the middle finger — covering prefix notation, macros, and why the syntax is actually your friend. -
5 Lessons Learned Writing a Clojure Web App Five practical lessons from building a real Clojure web app: what worked, what bit me, and what I'd do differently with Compojure, Ring, and friends. -
Elixir for Rubyists Part 2 Part 2 digs into immutability and referential transparency in Elixir — answering questions from Rubyists who are still adjusting to a functional mindset. -
Elixir for Rubyists Part 1 Elixir is my new favourite language. Part 1 shows Rubyists the familiar syntax, pattern matching, and functional fundamentals through side-by-side code examples. -
Elixir Style Guide I kicked off an Elixir community style guide on GitHub, adapting patterns from the Ruby style guide to help bring consistency to a then-young language. -
Community Fluency To really learn a language, tool, or ecosystem, you have to understand the people around it: their values, defaults, arguments, and examples. -
Context Stewardship With AI-assisted or agentic coding, risk does not disappear; it shifts toward context management, verification, and system understanding. -
Readable Abstractions A useful abstraction is one that helps people read, reason, verify, and make mistakes less easily — not one that merely sounds more declarative. -
Playful Onramp Playfulness and delight are not distractions from learning technical craft; they are often what unlock sustained attention and deeper engagement.