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I recently saw a comment on Hacker News comparing React hooks with multiple inheritance in C++. I thought this was an interesting analogy and wanted to expand on it a bit. (7-minute read)

Bakery is an opinionated utility for building and releasing projects with Bun. It's intended for tools and executables, not libraries. (3-minute read)

In this post, I want to talk about an AI strategy for SaaS companies that I think will be cheaper, simpler, and more future-proof than the alternative. I call it Bring your own agent (BYOA). (16-minute read)

weave is a CLI/TUI for running multiple long-running commands and "weaving" together their output. I use it to solve a persistent pain point of mine -- running multiple dev servers / watchers / etc. at once. (3-minute read)

A tutorial about adding high-quality social media unfurling to your Astro content, including summary, tags, images, estimated reading time, etc. (6-minute read)

An explanation of dopamine fasts, dopamine traps, and why you should care. (5-minute read)

This post describes my process for developing with Claude Code, including the "transient micro-IDE" concept I'm using for managing multiple worktrees at once. (5-minute read)

In this post, I'll be talking about the ideas of coupling, decoupling, and modularization, and how coupling is tightly related to the idea of the software's design context. (12-minute read)

I've started streaming software development at https://www.twitch.tv/LukeTurnerSWE (past streams are available on youtube). In this post, I give a brief explanation of why I've started doing this. (2-minute read)

A quick, semi-scientific comparison of using Github Copilot, Cline, and Cody VSCode extensions to do Chat-Oriented Programming (CHOP). Their performance is compared for writing tests, refactoring, and adding features. (8-minute read)