Let’s bring this back to life. Mumblings returns.

AI is becoming more and more prominent and I’m pretty sure I’m only writing around 10-20% of my code now.

My work flow usually ends up being:

• use something like spec-kit to scope out the changes
• then getting opus 4.6/gpt 5.3 to execute the tasks
• finally tying up loose ends either myself or with AI

My PR throughput has increased dramatically. But so does the slop, it’s about finding that balance between getting increased value from my time and making it manageable in the long run.

Life

My life is on a pretty high calorie deficit whilst hitting gym to try not to lose much muscle mass AND keep up the running of 30-40km a week. Doesn’t sound like much but I am… tired. I sleep like a rock each night. Also… I miss climbing - I haven’t climbed in months now.

I broke my sobriety for my 31st too. Regret? None. My relationship with alcohol has successfully been reset after a successful 1+ year of sobriety. So either way, I am happy.

I’ve been pretty driven by my side projects of late.

• Raycast Obsidian daily note extension
• Lasso a TUI for managing Cloudflare Wrangler files
• TrailMapper for plotting GPX files on OpenStreetMaps

+ the redesign of this site… twice.

Finally my bookshelf, keeping track of the books I read/listen to. Last year was a record year for me and this year I see no reason why I won’t beat it. At the moment I have 3 books on the go for different situations. 1 book before bed, 1 audiobook for when exercising, and 1 technical book to learn from. I find this really helps me to keep up the habit of reading and learning.

🔗 Links

GPT 5.3 fixing a long standing Ghostty bug - GPT 5.3 continues to amaze me.

Rebooting my social life - It’s hard to break the remote work habit and James showed a great way to reboot it

How markdown took over the world - Isn’t it weird that Markdown is now the biggest file format in a while?

Pratt Parser - As part of my journey in bringing Gloop to life; I read deep into Pratt Parser concept.

Cloudflare rebuilt Next.js - This is awesome, Cloudflare rebuilt Next.js using AI. For a financially backed project this is cool. AI is fundamentally changing the way we approach projects.