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Ben Hoyt is an experienced software engineer at Canonical. He and his wife and three daughters live in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Updating a side project with AI in 275 commits
I used an AI agent to make a big update to my GiftyWeddings.com website, taking it from a gift registry to a full website builder in 275 commits.
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Fun with an indecisive AI coding agent
In which I have some fun with Claude Opus 4.6, a seemingly indecisive AI coding agent.
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Every dependency you add is a supply chain attack waiting to happen
Dependencies are a huge supply chain security risk; the more of them you have, and the more often you update, the bigger the attack surface.
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Don't fear Python subprocess or Go codegen
Discusses some design choices used in Jubilant: Python subprocess.run to wrap a CLI tool, a code generator to convert Go structs to Python dataclasses, and the use of uv with a simple Makefile to run commands.
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The small web is beautiful
A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.
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