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When it comes to writing, I only used AI for smaller requests for a long time: fixing a typo, or smoothing over a clumsy sentence - the sort of thing a spellchecker does. I always found that handy, especially in English, which isn't my mother tongue, but

I have a mild habit of building my own version of things that surely already exist. This time it's a timer web app - one that counts down, beeps, and reads activity names out loud. The main use-case is workout or stretching sessions that consist of repeat

A tale from 1001 Nights, but with passkeys

This blog post is a silly adaptation of the tale of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and tells it as if the equivalent of passkeys were used instead of the (rather insecure) password "open sesame". I. The Word The thieves kept their cave shut with a word,

Have you ever reviewed a pull request (PR) with a diff of a few hundred lines of code, for which the PR description merely said something like: "Add CSV export for messages"? I believe that a good PR description serves two main purposes: it documents a ch

(Number 4 will drive you crazy)

Do you remember $GOPATH? It's from the era before Go modules came to be, where installing Go libraries used to be a manual, rather frustrating experience. (This also isn't that long ago, actually.) Say what you will about Go modules, but compared to the $

Today, I finally got around to fixing a fundamental issue with klog (my command line tool for time tracking): if someone were to use klog on a daily basis for a few trillion years, there would be an increased risk of incorrect computations due to integer