A developer’s perspective on why building on Bluesky’s API today is more valuable than waiting for federation

A new command-line tool powered by Claude AI to craft clear, context-aware Git commit messages effortlessly.

I share how I use ChatGPT-4 and a custom JavaScript function to make editing CSS for new and existing web pages easier.

I wrote a small Go program to parse a ChatGPT export file and generate a series of Markdown files from it, one per conversation, suitable for Obsidian or any other Markdown based editor.

I’ve migrated the blog from hosted Wordpress to Hugo. These are my rough notes for how I did the migration.

Everything needs configuration data. Some people use .toml files, others use .ini or .yaml. I don’t like any of those file formats and I also just prefer JSON for data in general. So at groups.io all our configuration data is in JSON formatted files. But I wanted the ability for config files to include other config files, which is not something that JSON normally supports, so I wrote a small utility function to support including JSON files in other JSON files.

Recently, I upgraded the Groups.io database from postgres version 9.6 to 14, using pglogical to do so. These are my rough notes, mainly for myself to refer to the next time I need to do an upgrade, but perhaps they will be useful to others as well.

Ask my kids and they will tell you, I am the party of no. No dessert before you eat your vegetables. No skipping out on 3rd grade to day trade stonks. No feeding your gremlin after midnight. I apply this principle to Groups.io devops as well.

David Heinemeier Hansson recently posted about Basecamp’s decision to leave Amazon AWS and move to self-hosting their own servers, Why We’re Leaving The Cloud. I think he’s wrong.

After a long dormant period, I am reactivating the blog.