If you’re a returning visitor, you might notice the header image on this blog looks more sharp and crisp—that’s because it is! ✨ After creating my own URL shortener, I wanted to modernize my header image. I built it back then in 2022 using p5.js, but the resolution wasn’t great. Now I wanted a more …
Yesterday, I re-implemented my custom URL shortener glez.me from scratch. I have a Claude Pro plan with Claude.ai, and just a week or so ago, they announced that it includes access to Claude Code as well, which is Anthropic’s agentic AI coding tool, so I decided to let Claude Code do it for me. I wa…
Back in the late 80s, I was a computer-enthusiastic teenager helping my mother, who was leading the German consulate in Rome at the time. I still remember teaching her secretaries how to use PCs for word processing instead of their trusty typewriters. I guess that was my very first gig as tech suppo…
This weekend, I added Webmention support to this blog. What is it? From the Webmention W3C recommendation:
Webmention is a simple way to notify any URL when you mention it on your site. From the receiver’s perspective, it’s a way to request notifications when other sites mention it.
Think of it as…
As of today, this blog has a “now page”. What is a “now page”? It’s a really good idea by Derek Sivers. From nownownow.com:
a page that tells you what this person is focused on at this point in their life.
Back then in the good old days of Unix, we called it a .plan file. Today, it’s not easy to f…
I remember a colleague, let’s call her Sarah, who was checking her phone every minute during our 30-minute meeting, apologizing for being distracted, mentioning her endless to-do list. She was drowning, and she didn’t even know it. Sounds familiar? Here’s what I learned: overwhelm is not a time mana…
154 months of building solutions at AWS taught me something unexpected: the most resilient professionals are people who can build cloud architecture, debug a cultural problem, coach a group of executives, mentor a struggling colleague, and learn something entirely new by Thursday. Think Robert Heinl…
It’s been a while since I was up to date on image formats for the web. Back then in the 90s, I actually read the original JPEG paper in order to understand how it worked, because I was preparing a presentation to my study group on the MPEG paper and needed to understand how I-frames were encoded. At…
While refactoring my blog, I discovered the IndieWeb community. From the website:
We are a community of independent and personal websites based on the principles of: owning your domain and using it as your primary online identity, publishing on your own site first (optionally elsewhere), and owning…
About two weeks ago, Zed, my favourite code editor, introduced agentic coding, replacing its previous assistant panel on the right of its UI. A blog post walks through the way agents work in Zed now. The documentation now has an Agent Panel section. I’ve used it a bit for tweaking some stuff around …