Nicholas C. Zakas

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With highly profitable companies using AI to clean room reimplement existing projects, it’s more important than ever to support independent nonprofit open source projects like ESLint. We’ve been doing the work for 13 years. eslint.org/donate

Do you prefer the Kindle reading experience? Send your saved Bredbox articles directly to your Kindle. blog.bredbox.app/blog/2026-10...

Is there such a thing as a customer service line that isn’t experiencing higher than normal call volume?

The Bredbox CLI gives you and your agents direct access to your personal library. Now available with the Pro plan. blog.bredbox.app/blog/2026-10...

It was quite an experience creating this video. ChatGPT wrote the script and directed the video. Claude Opus 5.5 created the animation and took all the screenshots. ElevenLabs created the voice and sound effects.

Got frustrated that Claude couldn't control the hinge on the iPhone Duo simulator and eventually found this skill: npx skills add artemnovichkov/hinge --skill hinge

It's a great time to try Bredbox.

AI may make you more productive but, at least in my experience, it still takes a lot of work to end up with a high-quality finished product.

Man, ChatGPT is so buggy. Sometimes it can write to project memory, sometimes it can't. Sometimes it can write to project sources, sometimes it can't. Sometimes image generation follows project instructions, sometimes it doesn't, and ChatGPT itself can't tell me why. 🤬

Cloudflare K2 doesn't have consumer bindings for workers? Yuck. I'm allergic to HTTP polling.

tfw you have an idea for an app and not only did someone already make it but it has basically the same name you had in mind. 🤬

Why does Claude Code feel the need to randomly point out that I’ve not connected my Gmail account? It has nothing to do with what I’m working on.

Today's LLMs are really good at producing code that works. They brute force a lot of the work, so it still needs someone to oversee the process and make sure prototype-level code isn't pushed to production.

Enjoying my Framework 13 Pro. It feels solid and high end. The display is really nice and the touchscreen works great. My only complaint is that tapping on the screen makes it bounce a bit. That means you can’t really use it with one hand, you have to hold the screen and then tap it. @frame.work

Finally have my personal CI system working. I have Gitea on my NAS for private products, but it’s not strong enough to run workflows. So I now have Gitea Runner up on my Mac Mini so it can run workflows in both ubuntu-latest and macos-latest. 🎉

The Bredbox mobile app is now available for iOS and Android! bredbox.app/downloads/mo...

GitHub pull requests are so hard to work with once you have more than around a dozen comments. I've been struggling to keep up with the comments on a recent PR, so I've been working on a tool to make it easier. Will share soon.

One of my drudgery tasks is going through and downloading bank statements and receipts and uploading them to Dropbox for my bookkeeper. Once a month that 30 minutes lost. Now Grokbot does it all for me. 🎉

I spend very little time reviewing AI-generated code. Instead, I focus on reviewing the tests to make sure they are correct and complete. Most agents put together lousy tests without explicit feedback and instructions. Trust the tests, not the code.

Impressed with Opus 5.5 so far. I've been using it on a project where I previously used Sonnet 5 exclusively and Opus 5.5 is not only better but it's actually using up less of the five-hour and weekly limits than Sonnet did while accomplishing the same amount of work.

GPT 6 Luna's pricing is now competitive with Cloudflare's hosted Gemma 4: Gemma 4: $0.10 in/$0.30 out GPT 6 Luna: $0.10 in/$0.50 out

Now you can take your reading library on the go with the new Bredbox for iPhone app! blog.bredbox.app/blog/2026-09...

I was using Gemma 4 to categorize articles on Bredbox. Just tested using Jev: same results, 127x faster, 1/10th the cost.

📬 You can now save email directly to Bredbox. Forward anything to your personal Bredbox email address and it’ll appear as a private save in your library. You can also use your Bredbox address to sign up for newsletters directly instead of your personal email. blog.bredbox.app/blog/2026-09...

Testing out a new process: have Claude create a bunch of related code and then have it split the work into stacked pull requests for easy review.

I've long felt like services should offer alternate logins to the same account that had limited capabilities. Like a read-only login to a bank account that you could give to your bookkeeper. Now with AI agents, I feel like this could be even more useful.

It's disappointing to see otherwise intelligent people arguing that because AI hasn't done anything truly terrible yet that it never will. This is the same faulty logic used by climate change deniers ever since the 1980s.

Getting WatermelonDB to compile into an Expo app was torture due to outdated docs on both sides. Here's what I did to get it working: https://humanwhocodes.co...

I've been wanting to for a while: treating PDFs and other documents as first-class citizens when I save them.

The VS Code Claude Code extension now shows you prompt cache information. This is quite useful.

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This was a lot of fun to build. Uses the web speech APIs to read your articles out loud.

In case you missed it, I wrote about the different ways software engineers interact with AI. There’s not a one size fits all approach and it depends on how much control you want over the output. humanwhocodes.com/blog/2026/09...

Not everyone uses AI the same way. I like to think of these different interaction models as roles we can take to co-create code. In my latest post, I discuss the most common roles and what it means about how we build software going forward. https://humanwhocodes.co...

Cloudflare has so many amazing APIs that it's impossible to know them all. Today I discovered AI.toMarkdown() that converts multiple different file formats into Markdown. Such a time saver.

Wow, the X API has different charges for posting content depending if it contains a URL. No URL: $0.015 per post With URL: $0.20 per post I just don't understand the hostility towards URLs.

Cloudflare’s lack of a multi-consumer event bus is a frequent source of frustration for me. It seems like a glaring omission from the offering that forces me into tight coupling where I don’t want it.

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"The role of software engineer has changed, probably forever, in the face of AI. There’s a collective feeling of grief as our jobs transition away from what we have been doing." Nice post from @humanwhocodes.com on the changing identity of SWEs: newsletter.humanwhocodes.com/posts/the-ch...

I never just ask an agent to implement something. If I don't know how to do it, I first ask for an overview of the approach. Then I ask questions until I understand it. Only then do I have it implement the change. If you're not using AI to learn, you're missing out.

New open source process: 1. You use AI to file a bug 2. I use AI to fix it 3. I use AI to review the fix 4. You use AI to integrate and validate the fix Faster feedback loop but it doesn’t feel nearly as collaborative. 😢

This setup has worked well for me with AI coding projects: 1. Have a repo template with AGENTS.md 2. Define the interface I want 3. Explain the algorithms, structures, and overall approach to use 4. Explain the tests to write to validate correctness

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