Vibe Coded

I'm back from vacation—a road trip through Northern California and Southern Oregon with my brother—and I return with a clearer perspective on the things which matter to me. Yes , to this show! And also, yes to building...

Yep, I've been hard at work on a new web software application—not for nerds, not for developers, it's for everyone. This is a new concept for me, so I'm stoked to tease a few initial details with much more coming soon...

Apple CEO John Ternus is a monster! He is an angel! Everyone is rushing to define this guy. And I think that says much more about the sorry state of tech media than anything about John Ternus. Here’s an episode that is...

This is about the Ruby developer community, but it's also about so much more than Ruby. It's about all of us, and what we can do to hold fascists and white supremacists to account. (As well as clanker supremacists, and...

Mastodonians and Discorders ask questions about regulations in technology and bringing guests on the show , and I answer them. Then we get into the meat of the episode: what the hell was Clammy Sammy thinking? You can...

Vibe Coded has turned 1! It's hard to believe a year has gone by already, and in so many ways I feel like I'm just getting started. Thank you, my audience, for helping it grow, for all of the wonderful feedback I've...

There's a malaise in our society. Something has gone very, very wrong. People are craving mentorship, professional nurturing, a sense that someone's got their back. And increasingly, that someone is a chatbot. Oh no...

Many news media publications and rights holders seem to be bowing at the altar of Big AI. The New York Times is not among them. “We cannot allow AI cheerleaders to dominate the public conversation” says NYT publisher...

<p>Hype—any hype, but in this instance tech hype—only works because humans are fallible. We fall prey to quirks of the mind, real-world hacks which dilute our rational thinking and cause us to sink into a mire cynically...

<p>It's a jungle out there. Disorder and confusion everywhere. No one seems to care. Well I do! Hey, who’s in charge here?</p><p>It may seem like I'm quoting from a famous Randy Newman song, and…OK yes, I am! 😂 But...

<p>Marketing has taken over product design. Usability used to mean something. Now software is becoming less "human", a symptom of a wider business culture sucking up to AI companies because of far too much capital...

<p>If you’re like a lot of folks now wondering if it’s even possible to build delightful, human-centric & humane SaaS products for the web anymore, Ellipsus is proof that yes it’s possible!</p><p>One of the great things...

<p>In a phrase I never expected to utter: I wholeheartedly endorse the upcoming Chinese regulations! Yes, China is getting ready to crack down on so-called "digital humans", requiring proper labeling as such as well as...

<p>Welcome back to the 2026 season kickoff of Vibe Coded! In this episode, I cover the phenomenon of how open source software projects are either fending off or embracing the onslaught of agentic coding services, and...

<p>The state of play in late 2025 and my expectation that the bubble will burst in 2026. The “Agentic Age” did not materialize this year. Anti-AI activism is heating up…people are noping the f out of the Torment Nexus...