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Avalonia: An Open Source Option for Cross-Platform UI Work
The problem with .NET has always been that Microsoft were somewhat slow to embrace non-Windows systems. To find a UI library that uses C# but runs on a MacBook is harder than it should be. One...
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Warp vs. Ghostty: Which Terminal App Meets Your Dev Needs?
After the recent review of Ghostty on The New Stack, I thought I’d take a look at it from the point of view of a Warp user. They are both terminal apps (GUI shells, if you like), although Warp is...
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How To Set Up and Run a Local LLM With Ollama and Llama 3
I’ve posted about coming off the cloud, and now I’m looking at running an open source LLM locally on my MacBook. If this feels like part of some “cloud repatriation” project, it isn’t: I’m just...
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Developer’s Introduction to the Replicate AI Playground
Right now, there is a whirling gyre around what to look at next within the LLM world. Should a developer be playing with existing models, extending existing models, or creating those models from...
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Introduction to Bolt: Does It Suit Professional Developers?
As a developer, I know my responsibility is to create or work with maintainable solutions — and we usually consider that to mean writing in such a way as to transmit knowledge to other human...
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Augment Code: An AI Coding Tool for ‘Real’ Development Work
I’ve been working in Visual Studio Code with Copilot running, just for the completions. But I’ve found them to be fairly solid — a bit like a junior dev who has an idea what you might want to write...
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Jujutsu: Dealing With Version Control as a Martial Art
Like most developers over the years, I got comfortable with a handful of git commands that I needed daily — and tried not to get into large merge battles. Even though I have regularly pushed the use...
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Gemini Code Assist Review: Code Completions Need Improvement
It was never going to be long before Google got into the game of code assistance with Gemini. The headline is the number of completions being offered for free on their platform — 90x what GitHub...
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Developer Review of Warp for Windows, an AI Terminal App
While I have been using the Warp terminal on my MacBook for some time, there has always been one problem: it never had a Windows version. While most tech these days is Linux-based, there are still a...
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Poisoning the Well and Other Generative AI Risks
One of the recent groups damaged by illicit AI generation are YouTubers, the video creators who host their own shows on YouTube. There are numerous cases of YouTube videos — specifically informative...
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Introduction to the OpenAI Agents SDK and Responses API
As OpenAI introduced what everyone else is calling the Agents SDK, it admitted that using the existing capabilities in a joined up fashion “can be challenging, often requiring extensive prompt...
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Developer’s Guide to the Built-In Tools of OpenAI Agents SDK
In my previous post, we looked at using the new OpenAI Responses API with the Agents SDK. In this post, I’ll look more closely at the built-in tools featured — and show how they can be used. I’ll keep...
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Cascii and Why Developers Should Use ASCII Diagrams
“Is that something devs do regularly, ASCII diagrams?” This post is an answer to this editorial challenge. It started after hearing about the Cascii app and reflecting on the fact that the development...
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Claude Code and the Art of Test-Driven Development
While I mostly like code completion, LLM assistants have given me quite a few problems with Visual Studio Code. When changing large language model (LLM) extensions for reviews, VS Code almost had a...
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Internal Projects: Working Inside the Panopticon
Developing and releasing internal projects within an organization is something most developers do when they join the corporate world. Usually, the aim of an internal project is to introduce a new...
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Wing: The Startup Failed, but the Language Has Potential
If “Dev Ops had a baby” wrote Elad Ben-Israel, CEO of Wing Cloud, it would be a combination of infrastructure and runtime code in one language. Wing was a “programming language for the cloud.” I used...
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How the UK Is Guiding the Use of Generative AI
I hope a few more people looked at the Vatican’s Antiqua et Nova after the Pope’s passing, as it has a fairly mature ethical examination of generative AI. Weighing in at over 13,000 words, I wouldn’t...
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How To Set Up a Model Context Protocol Server
In this post we’ll walk through setting up a simple Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. MCP is, for now, the defacto way to communicate between LLM models and developer tools. You can read our deeper...
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Windows 10 End of Support: Should Developers Be Concerned?
While I enjoy developing and writing on my MacBook, I have a couple of Windows boxes at home. One is a pretty old system running Windows 10, but is fine for developing code on. So I was slightly...
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ACID-Compliant Distributed SQL Enters the Agentic AI Era
Virtually every application has a datastore, whether for user data, capturing events, or customer transactions and interactions. If it’s a cloud-based application, then one of the containers will...
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Tutorial: Set Up an MCP Server With .NET and GitHub Copilot
There has been an explosion of interest in Model Context Protocol (MCP), which is a good sign that people are trying to build different solutions using Large Language Models (LLMs), but now with their...
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Ladybird: That Rare Breed of Browser Based on Web Standards
There appear to be a lot of different web browsers available — but on closer examination, this isn’t entirely true. Many browsers are based on Chromium, the open source code behind Google’s Chrome...
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Exploring the JetBrains AI Assistant for Visual Studio Code
A while ago I looked at the JetBrains AI assistant for its own stable of IDEs, but we can now work in Visual Studio Code with JetBrains AI Assistant as an extension. As I’ve noted before, I’ve had...
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Claude Opus 4 With Claude Code: A Developer Walkthrough
Claude Opus 4 has already grabbed quite a bit of attention in the short time it has been public, and in some ways I feel I’m a little slow to the party. I was reading a very detailed breakdown that...
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Clippy Comes of Age: Raycast and Replacing the GUI
As the internet and HTML combined in modern tools and apps, people could play with the new potential and we understood why software is eating the world (referencing the classic article by Marc...
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Agentic Coding: How Google’s Jules Compares to Claude Code
After my successful use of Claude Code, I was keen to try other equivalent agentic large language model (LLM) tools that aren’t IDE-based. These have better ways to interact with a plan than staring...
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