Writing & Videos — Page 7
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January 2026
My thoughts about AI
AI coding tools are just the next abstraction over code, and I argue that's a good thing. Ever since Opus 4.5 I let AI write 80–90% of the code in my projects and I only review it for clean structure, reuse and…
My experience vibe coding an entire app (as a real software engineer)
I built an entire jump rope tracking app—over 7,000 lines of code—without writing a single line myself, using Google Anti-Gravity and AI prompts, and I show how to do it without producing vibe-coded trash. The core is…
The only WebSockets tutorial you need
I explain how WebSockets work by contrasting their event-based, bidirectional model with HTTP’s request-response cycle, then show a minimal Flask and native JavaScript demo where the server pushes events without…
JSON is slow, use this instead
JSON wastes bytes on boilerplate, so for performance-critical apps I built a custom binary protocol and benchmarked it against JSON in a multiplayer game server demo. I show a central server broadcasting every player's…
Syncing projects with Google Drive - Part 19 (oAuth web server)
I build a minimal Go web server on localhost:8998 to handle Google OAuth callbacks and capture the authorization code from the redirect, so re-authenticating doesn't dump you on the broken localhost page. I add…
December 2025
The best way to integrate Django 6.0 with Tailwind V4
I wire Tailwind v4 straight into Django 6.0 templates — no REST API, no separate front-end — by running Tailwind's CLI in watch mode to compile a globals.css into a static output.css that my base.html loads through…
Syncing projects with Google Drive - Part 18 (Connecting the new gitignore parser)
I connect my custom gitignore parser to DriveSinker's sync algorithm by replacing the old ignore checks with a single GitIgnore.shouldIgnore call. I refactor the file-counting and folder-upload functions to accept the…
Syncing projects with Google Drive - Part 17 (The shouldIgnore() func)
I write the shouldIgnore() function for my custom Gitignore parser in Go, deciding whether a given path should be ignored, skipped as a directory, or uploaded. I convert absolute paths to paths relative to the sync…
Syncing projects with Google Drive - Part 16 (Custom gitignore parser)
I build a custom .gitignore parser in Go for my Google Drive sync tool, replacing the naive line-by-line matching with one that understands the full pattern syntax. I show how to skip empty lines and # comments, then…
Syncing projects with Google Drive - Part 15 (Bug hunting)
I hunt down and fix three small bugs in my Google Drive sync project before building further: the project-exists query was matching any folder in the parent instead of checking the folder name, the project-tree walker…
Why I hate JavaScript
I hate JavaScript because it has no proper standard library and an npm ecosystem that rewards tiny, fragile dependencies instead of fixing the language. I walk through the left-pad incident and packages like is-even…
Syncing projects with Google Drive - Part 14 (Deleting ghost files)
I add ghost-file deletion to my Google Drive syncer so files removed locally are also moved to Drive trash instead of lingering remotely. I collect every local file and folder path during upload, convert the tracker's…
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