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How to stay sharp while coding
⎯ 👏❤️3A few months ago, I had an interesting conversation with a friend. We were discussing how beneficial or detrimental using AI agents for coding might be to our individual intelligence. He stated that using AI for coding might make one lazy and could diminish one's learning abilities; he cited recent studies suggesting we are getting dumber. I understand where this observation comes from, but my exp…
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Zoom-out, zoom-in
⎯ 😂🤔2When I was a kid, I had many dreams, programming was just one of them. Another relevant one was drawing. It was the activity I did the most to fight boredom in high-school. I was not specially good at it, but neither that bad. At certain point, when I wanted to create a full illustration, I curated my own technique to properly place all elements in the sheet. Some of you maybe faced the same prob…
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Wearing all the hats
February 2024, the first Local First conf (no pun intended) is happening in Berlin. As a local-first (previously offline-first) enthusiast, I’m thrilled to attend this conference with some friends. The talk that left a mark on me was the one given by Maggie Appleton, Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot developers. The plan So, after quitting my job in mid-March, I decided to try to be an Indie Devel…
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Why's everybody talking about vibe coding?
The vibe-coding meme “Vibe-coding” is the word of 2025, according to Collins Dictionary Vibe-coding is everywhere, you can now find it in every tech-related online community, Telegram, Discord, Slack, X, Reddit, etc. Usually with a negative connotation, to denote that an application is low-quality or improvised without clear vision. Some of us even started using vibe- prefixed words in order to …
