Singletons are most over user and underused pattern. There is something to be said for understanding the other classical patterns. Many have applicability to other languages with some adaptations.

New Book: Python the Good Parts!

It was a great film! Groundhog Day + Starship Troopers. At least that’s my recollection of it.

A powerful lesson about understanding what libraries and frameworks are doing , and not just learning g to use the magic.

Movies are about story telling, not special effects or the quality of the medium.

Search first. AI second. Chocolate always.

Love this!

Very sensible and spot on!

RAD, Rapid Application Development, with near Figma style designer interface, drag and drop and click to create, was all the rage. The old Vibe Coding. Similarly it promised that you didnt have to know as much about programing.

Thinking about it as a simulation is a really helpful mental model. Already started experimenting with this approach.

People disagreeing are good at prompt engineering or don’t know what good looks like.

The original self-driving car and AI all into one.

Markdown runs the world! Fun look back at the origins and some internet history to go along with it. anildash.com/2026/01/09/how…

Been using this technique for years in React. Probably ~150 lines of code total to convert json to any UI.

Impressive.

This could and will happen to many industries, including software to a degree. Curation will be the premium.