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#2026

2026-04
Agent Kombat
2026-04
We are becoming Harness Engineers
2026-03
Podsync - I finally built my podcast track syncer
2026-03
Here’s my list of reasons for using Opencode. …
2026-02
Agentic Fluidity - OpenCode is OpenClaw for coding
2026-01
Which AI model do I use? …

#2025

2025-12
Forking subagents in an AI coding session with tmux
2025-12
Wi-Fi sharing is a killer Android feature
2025-12
AI is a motorbike for the mind
2025-12
Combating AI coding atrophy with Rust
2025-11
AI-assisted coding → Vibe Engineering ← Vibe Coding
2025-11
Go with monthly AI subscriptions friends …
2025-11
Firefox + UbO is still better than Brave, Edge or any Chromium-based solution
2025-11
Cognitive Burden
2025-10
Standardize with ⌘ O ⌘ P to reduce cognitive load
2025-10
Product vs Model Innovation
2025-10
Agent Skills: How is it different from command and other tools?
2025-10
Cargo Culting
2025-10
ExecPlans – How to get your coding agent to run for hours
2025-10
We are becoming Software Conductors
2025-10
Sorting Prompts - LLMs are not wrong you just caught them mid thought
2025-10
Build your own /init command like Claude Code
2025-10
Three important things to get right for successful AI Coding
2025-09
Vibe-engineering a Firefox add-on: Container Traffic Control
2025-09
Terminal command that tells you which USB-C cable is bad
2025-08
Google still knows how to really swag
2025-07
reclaiming em-en dashing back from AI and lowercasing
2025-07
Getting Into Flow State with Agentic Coding
2025-07
Introducing “shorts” for Henry (my Hugo blog engine/theme). …
2025-07
🦊 How to Firefox
2025-07
AI Programming Paradigms: A Timeline
2025-07
Keep your AGENTS.md in sync — One Source of Truth for AI Instructions
2025-06
AI won't replace good engineers - it'll make them invaluable
2025-05
Configure Karabiner with ease (& Kotlin)
2025-05
Taildrop - transfer files between Android and MacOS
2025-04
Why I still podcast for Fragmented
2025-04
🖤 Automatic Dark mode for Hugo using Tailwind CSS
2025-03
AirPods Max: now great for podcasters with 0 latency!
2025-03
AI & Software Engineering: Time for optimism
2025-02
Terrifyingly Inspiring - My Life in Weeks
2025-02
Styled checkboxes for Obsidian tasks without plugins or a custom theme
2025-02
Age of the AI phone
2025-02
How to enable custom fonts in Obsidian Mobile
2025-01
Powering your Hugo blog with Bluesky Comments - invest in a feed you control

#2024

2024-12
How to make the iPhone Continuity Camera work properly in Chrome
2024-09
My new programming font - Commit Mono
2024-09
Mobile Rewrites & Crisis Management
2024-09
Coroutine Testing - Controlling time
2024-08
Coroutine Testing - Never ending tests & backgroundScope
2024-08
Coroutine Testing - Picking the right Dispatcher
2024-08
Coroutine Testing
2024-07
Campground Pull Request
2024-07
Adding Tailwind CSS to a Hugo blog
2024-03
Pick the right JDK for Android Studio
2024-03
letter.kau.sh – 2024 Mar
2024-02
Option ⌥ key for shortcuts vs special characters
2024-02
letter.kau.sh – 2024 Feb
2024-01
Simplify & replace git-number with git aliases
2024-01
Let me help you get to Inbox 0 with Gmail
2024-01
letter.kau.sh – 2024 Jan

#2023

2023-11
Slashed 0 in IBM Plex - freeze alt. characters in otf fonts
2023-07
Toggle window snapping with Keyboard Maestro
2023-05
Supercharge Kscript with Github Copilot
2023-05
The magic that is Zakir (👂🏽) and his Tabla
2023-04
This year I shall Simplify
2023-02
Tootbot for Mastodon
2023-02
Own your online presence - Step 1 ☝️
2023-01
Share your macOS audio with multiple multiple bluetooth headphones or Airpods
2023-01
2022 Retro

#2022

2022-11
A few Kotlin constructs
2022-09
What does $0=$2 in awk do? learn awk
2022-08
Operating efficiently at scale
2022-08
What a Mac mini & Tailscale enables
2022-08
My new programming font - Recursive
2022-08
Yearn for the vast and endless sea
2022-07
High quality vector icons from Yoolk Ninja
2022-07
Keyboard Maestro as a Text Expander replacement
2022-07
Magic enter command for (fish/zsh) shell
2022-07
Manipulating images & PDFs using CLI commands
2022-06
Saving the world from code
2022-05
My productivity system
2022-05
Remove Terminal.app from Alfred & Spotlight

#2021

2021-10
Introducing Henry for Hugo
2021-03
Introducing Henry for Jekyll
2021-01
How to rate a movie
2021-01
2021

#2020

2020-09
iPhones, Pixels and lazy Android developers
2020-08
Technical leadership and glue work
2020-07
Jekyll footnotes as Edward Tufte inspired sidenotes
2020-07
Am I Yak-Shaving or Bikeshedding?
2020-04
My new programming font - Iosevka
2020-03
My 1st screen cast: awk program from scratch
2020-02
git-number to the command line rescue
2020-02
2020
2020-01
You should CD your blog (Firebase Hosting + Circle CI + Docker)

#2019

2019-12
Hacking your keyboard with karabiner
2019-10
Architecting Android and iOS app features for 2020
2019-09
Bob Iger remembers Steve Jobs
2019-08
Speed up your Android Studio
2019-08
assertLastValue for RxJava TestObservers
2019-06
Is iOS starting to get fragmented?
2019-06
Processing a sorted array is faster than an unsorted one?
2019-06
Space Shuttle style programming
2019-06
IO vs CPU operations
2019-03
.hide() your Subjects - RxJava tip
2019-03
Japanese Manhole art
2019-01
Kotlin 1.3.20 released
2019-01
New Year - 2019

#2018

2018-09
Unidirectional State Flow patterns – a refactoring story
2018-09
Free hackathon vote tabulation using Google Forms & Kotlin
2018-05
Supercharging your workflow with App Center and Azure
2018-03
Squircle and sweating the design details
2018-03
Smarter ToDos with Kotlin
2018-03
My new programming font - IBM Plex Mono

#2017

2017-08
Kindness and Positivity
2017-07
Rx by example – Volume 3 (the multicast edition)
2017-06
RxJava 1 -> RxJava 2 (Understanding the changes)
2017-06
RxJava 1 -> RxJava 2 (Disposing Subscriptions)
2017-05
That Time I Met Andy Rubin
2017-01
New Year - 2017

#2016

2016-11
What I learnt using the Presenter pattern
2016-11
Learning Rx by Example (Part 2)
2016-01
New Year - 2016

#2015

2015-08
Painless UI Testing
2015-07
A note about the warmth of the share and replay operators
2015-06
Ken Burns: On Story
2015-06
Learning Rx by Example (Part 1)
2015-04
The Audio Latency Problem on Android
2015-03
Fragmented Podcast - Episode #2 : Android Studio
2015-03
Rx Is Coming
2015-01
RxJava Tip for the Day - Share, Publish, Refcount and All That Jazz
2015-01
Interested in an Android Developer Podcast?
2015-01
DebouncedBuffer With RxJava

#2014

2014-12
New Year - 2015
2014-12
Implementing an Event Bus With RxJava - RxBus
2014-09
Learning RxJava With Android by Example
2014-06
Primer on Threading and Handlers in Android

#2013

2013-06
How I remembered Roshambo 2.0 (Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock)
2013-04
We humans are capable of greatness
2013-04
A developer's life
2013-01
Comfort in Coding
2013-01
New Year - 2013

#2012

2012-08
Music used on the new "All on iPad" commercial
2012-07
if Pixar did Justice League
2012-06
Learning and Looking Foolish
2012-06
on the new Twitter logo
2012-05
Stephen Fry - language
2012-05
Earth - the pale blue dot
2012-05
The Janitor from Columbia
2012-05
Use paper towels more efficiently - shake and fold
2012-04
the first rule of Markdown
2012-04
Learning is more important that Knowing
2012-03
Your Android phone is 15s incorrect ...
2012-03
Good insight on interviewing programmers
2012-01
Will it improve upon on the silence? - Sri Sathya Sai Baba
2012-01
how Tommy Emmanuel mics his acoustic guitar
2012-01
Programmer Competency Matrix
2012-01
Why it's important to know how to write for CS Majors

#2011

2011-12
Songs from TV
2011-12
What you need to know about memory and CPU
2011-12
Fonts used in new BBC TV series Sherlock
2011-10
Steve Jobs
2011-04
parkour wizardry @ Tempest Freerunning Academy

#2010

2010-12
great photography doesn't have to come only from DSLRs

#2009

2009-12
New Year - 2010

#2008

2008-12
New Year - 2009

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