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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. Seedling code Tended March 29, 2026 9 min
Docker Dream Land This blog post describes an idealized version of what a dream development environment that uses Docker looks like based on my own experience. Evergreen devops Tended March 19, 2026 4 min
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. Budding code Tended November 17, 2015 2 min
Getting Started with .NET 5 on Linux! A quick guide to getting the early .NET (then called KRE/KVM) running on Linux β€” for developers curious about C# and F# now that CoreCLR is open source. Budding Tended April 2, 2015 2 min
Better Things to Learn Than Coding The most transferable skills I picked up from coding aren't code at all β€” systems thinking, active listening, experiment design, and organizational techniques. Seedling code Tended March 19, 2026 1 min
3 Simple Steps to Better Github Notifications Tame your GitHub notification inbox in three steps: unwatch everything, be selective about what you re-watch, and use @mentions instead of noise. Budding Tended December 19, 2014 1 min
Parens Are Your Friends A gentle introduction to Clojure's parentheses for developers who've been giving Lisp the middle finger β€” covering prefix notation, macros, and why the syntax is actually your friend. Evergreen code Tended March 19, 2026 5 min
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. Evergreen code Tended March 19, 2026 4 min
Elixir for Rubyists Part 2 Part 2 digs into immutability and referential transparency in Elixir β€” answering questions from Rubyists who are still adjusting to a functional mindset. Evergreen code Tended October 10, 2013 4 min
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. Evergreen code Tended September 27, 2013 3 min
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. Budding code Tended September 24, 2013 1 min