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Matthew Lang

Family guy and web developer

I’m not on board with a fully automated agent-driven programming process. It might have its uses in certain scenarios, but as a solo developer, I have my own process. Research and write a detailed prompt, review and refine the results, and ship the final code when I am good and ready.

A fantastic day of golf for Drew and me today. We both played great today, and the weather was fantastic. Roll on the summer!

A golfer in an orange shirt and white Titleist cap mid-swing on a tee box, with leafless trees in the background.

Enjoyed a spot of ten-pin bowling this afternoon and grabbed some dinner from Wingstop. I finished last in each bowling game, but at least I couldn’t lose with my choice of wings for dinner.

A family of three—a teen boy, woman, and man—posing for a selfie at a bowling alley with purple lighting and scoreboards.

I’ve started keeping a section on my website called the den, for things I look up often. There are just a couple of pages here so far, but I expect it will grow gradually. It’s not in the website’s main navigation bar for a good reason, but I may share it here from time to time.

Cancelling my GitKraken.dev subscription this morning, as I no longer use it. What should be a straightforward process has turned into contacting support to stop them from trying to renew my subscription and cancel my account. You would think a dev support company would have this covered.

The Artemis II tracker is fantastic. Going to be keeping an eye on this for the rest of the mission.

Although Artemis II is only travelling to the moon, the distance is still vast, and even if it is currently travelling at around 1.24km per second, it will still take four days to reach the moon.

I can’t remember the last time I had a Rails codebase that was completely my own, and at the point where I could start implementing patterns and refactorings that actually improve an aspect of the application. Too many of my applications get forgotten about or thrown away. Not this one!

Looking forward to a few days off. With nothing special planned, we’re just taking each day as it comes.