Advice I am pondering
"If a note could have been written by anyone who read that page, it's probably not worth writing."
I know name wheels are everywhere, but I really like mine. Mildly obsessed with it actually. Give it a try and let me know what would make it better.
anyonewilldo.com
Built* a small Kafka sandbox demo that runs locally in containers. It simulates a city with hundreds of road sensors, streams events through a few services (filter → aggregate → dashboard), and shows live traffic state in the browser.
Everything is wired together with Kafka + Kubernetes (minikube), so you can run the whole pipeline locally.
The experience and the project helped me better understand Kafka. Thinking it might be helpful for others as well.
Repo + setup steps in the post if you want to give it a try.
mkumm.com/blog/kafka-sensor-…
The biggest benefit of AI in coding for me isn’t speed, but fidelity to my original vision.
There have been many projects where I wrote everything by hand—one keystroke at a time.
By the end, I always knew where I had compromised. Not because I wanted to, but because I ran out of time, energy, or simply didn’t yet have the skills to fully realize what I had in mind. Like a painter who can’t quite get the stroke right.
AI is changing that for me.
I’m ending up with projects that feel much closer to the original vision I had at the start. I suddenly have access to a much broader set of technologies than I would have reached for on my own.
Recently, I built a randomizer in just a few hours. It was good—better than what I likely would have produced in a week on my own. But after another ~40 hours of AI-assisted iteration, it became something else entirely: a product that truly reflected what I had envisioned from the beginning. A product I truly love because in some meaningful way it represents what I wanted to make.
Fewer compromises. The learning for me, a product that’s ~90% AI-generated can feel more like me than something I wrote 100% by hand.
At the core, all creative work is about expressing something internal and sharing it with others. AI, for me, is making that translation more accurate than ever.
I haven’t felt this excited about coding since my first projects in the 1980s.
Pro tip: Replace your YouTube homepage bookmark with your YouTube subscriptions feed (youtube.com/feed/subscriptio…). Assuming of course that your subscriptions are curated frequently.
🤔 Wasn't X supposed to evolve into some everything app? Something akin to WeChat with payments, etc.
It doesn't bother me that fly.io goes down - but not updating status... status.flyio.net/ during an outage is trust losing.
Maybe you should have a "Now" page.
Popularized by Derek Sivers, it's a simple page that shares what's happening in your life right now.
If you have a website, consider adding a "/now" page. It's a small thing that helps you stay connected and keeps everyone up to date.
👉 Learn more at nownownow.com or check out my page for an example: mkumm.com/now
Impressive. Sora created this within 5 minutes of me downloading the app. My first AI created video.
sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_68e2912…
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This week we have 46 Elixir meetups happening all around the globe! Go join the one closest to you!
For what it’s worth, I think starting with być is the worst possible way to begin learning Polish conjugation (as an English speaking student).
Wow - after a couple of months of use typora.io/ is still wowing me. Quickly dropping in images with complete and elegant control to move the source file - fantastic! 10 out of 10!
