5 July 2025

This place is not a place of honor… no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.
Having finally started using Cursor properly, this blog post has inspired me to try agents a bit more.
https://allenpike.com/2025/coding-agents
So far so good. I am on the road with my wife issuing orders to a posse of eager junior developers to add simple but useful features to various projects that I would never get around to.
It’s actually kind of terrifying. Not sure I’m being the company Emma hoped for while we fetch this horse.
I don’t even have my laptop with me.
My Trmnl arrived and I’m in love!
Stayed up too late last night making a dashboard for my wife’s business.
Might be a little more impressive looking if I hadn’t finished after midnight 🤦🏻♂️
I've used Cursor for ages, but just for much more expansive autocomplete. I've never really embraced vibe coding until today.
I'm not 100% sure it's quicker than by hand but its more fun.
Like pair programming with an enthusiastic golden retriever who is simultaneously an incredibly knowledgeable developer and a complete idiot.
Annual upgrade. Now using Django 5.1 and django-feed-reader 2
Full Changelog: v1.6...v1.7
It is now 11 years since I wrote my podcast catch-up service Recast. In that time I still haven’t found a podcast client that neatly handles listening to an existing podcast from the first episode. So I’ve given it its annual dust-off and upgrade and it will continue on again.
If you’re looking for something worth catching up on, I highly recommend Origin Story by Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey.
Listen at your own pace by getting a Recast link here: https://recastthis.com/source/1511/
Went to cast my futile vote. Almost tactically voted Tory to try and keep Reform from winning but if we’re honest are they really any better? 🤷
I’m listening to @siracusa compare LLM vibe-coding to 4GLs on @atpfm
Hard to believe 4GLs were going to be the next big thing. My (admittedly very bad) university course was filled with 4GL and CASE talk. I think the only thing I learned at uni that I still use today is SQL. Everything else was a future that never came or already on the way to being the past.
I don’t have favourite children but if I did, this is the kind of behaviour that would get you bonus points.
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