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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. code Tended March 29, 2026 9 min

Learning Agentic Coding On a Budget Budget-friendly approaches to learning agentic coding without expensive API tokens. code Tended March 24, 2026 10 min

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. leadership Tended March 19, 2026 6 min

How to Learn a Programming Language in 7 Days Learn from a polyglot of 15 years how to pick up new languages quickly code Tended March 19, 2026 9 min

Undeleting Myself: Embracing Cringe and the Joy of Code Once upon a time, I was told 'if you need this to be fun, this probably isn't the job for you'... leadership Tended March 19, 2026 9 min

Declarative is the Wrong Goal Here lie half-baked thoughts… code Tended March 19, 2026 2 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. 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. code Tended November 17, 2015 2 min

Continuous Deployment of a Phoenix App with Travis and Heroku Sloppy but useful notes on setting up a continuous deployment pipeline for an Elixir Phoenix app using Travis CI and Heroku. devops Tended March 19, 2026 5 min

Getting Started with .NET 5 on Linux! A quick guide to getting the early .NET (then called KRE/KVM) running on Linux — for developers curious about C# and F# now that CoreCLR is open source. Tended April 2, 2015 2 min

A Quick Hack for Slightly Less Mutable Ruby Objects A fun Ruby pattern for working with objects as if they were immutable values — not a replacement for Hamster or Adamantium, but a useful mental shift. Tended February 26, 2015 1 min

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. 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. 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 — covering prefix notation, macros, and why the syntax is actually your friend. 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. code Tended March 19, 2026 4 min

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. 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. 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. code Tended September 24, 2013 1 min