July 2025 bakery

Claude Code Vibes

I used Claude AI to turn a family chore spreadsheet into an app for my kids. What started as a simple HTML file became a three-iteration journey through the promises and pitfalls of vibe coding.

Very NormalJesse Spevack

The Temuification of the American School System

Ed Reform is trying to fix our education system by shopping at Temu. You get what you pay for and oftentimes getting it for cheap is worse than not getting it at all.

Very NormalJesse Spevack

A fun little tryst with Claude Code and Patron LLM Saint Simon Willison

You know it's a good AI interview when the guest says, "I hope I'm wrong" at the end.

we've shipped taskmaster v0.20 🚀

→ mcp sampling support (zero api keys)
→ @geminicli integration & provider
→ advanced @claude_code rules
→ language override
→ @grok 4 support
→ @GroqInc support
→ parse-prd auto-selects task number
& more

follow + bookmark + vibe
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— Eyal Toledano (@EyalToledano) July 12, 2025

I've stopped using TaskMaster. I recommend it for people who are new to coding with LLMs because it does provide a nice scaffold to help keep you and the LLM on track. I've moved away from it in favor of creating feature level task lists and product requirement docs to guide 1 or a few coding sessions with the LLM. The way I was using TaskMaster had me enumerating tasks that I probably was not going to get to for months and then adding tasks in the middle of the plan as I discovered new things or wanted to take the product in a different direction. It's a very cool tool, but I've stopped using it for now. If you are struggling to find your vibe coding rhythm, it can be tremendously helpful.

1/ Last week I ran Code Bloom, a 3-day vibe coding bootcamp where 13 non-coders built functional full stack web apps without looking at the code once. It went incredibly well, here's an account of what we accomplished, how, and what I think it means for the future 🧵 pic.twitter.com/aRGmQtwlCi
— Yoav Tzfati (@yoavtzfati) June 14, 2025

I wonder if I could put one of these on...

How AI reshapes the craft of software engineering, with Yoav Tzfati

Transforming “I Can’t Code” into “I Ship Software” with Yoav Tzfati

Complex SystemsPatrick McKenzie

Podcast where I heard about the Vibe Coding bootcamp.

Vibe scraping and vibe coding a schedule app for Open Sauce 2025 entirely on my phone

This morning, working entirely on my phone, I scraped a conference website and vibe coded up an alternative UI for interacting with the schedule using a combination of OpenAI Codex …

Simon Willison’s WeblogSimon Willison

Willison documents how he created an alternative conference app, at the conference with only an iphone.

Environmentalists are the antichrist is a take.

Gen Z seems not okay.

Discussion of a new 900 page book on William F. Buckley. It is revealed that Buckley went skinny dipping with Ross Douthat.

Pieter Levels talks about being an indie dev with Stripe co-founder John Collison

The Ruby programming language chapter is really worth a watch. Amazing description of how Matz's faith in the goodness of humanity and the love of aesthetics make Ruby an incredible programming language. I also really like the idea of AI as hype man. It take energy and courage to ask a good question on stack overflow. Stack overflow and other forums can be hostile places. When I ask AI a question, no matter how dumb the question, the AI says, 'Damn, that's a good question!' AI gives us courage to ask stupid questions and to take on the tasks we'd otherwise avoid for fear of having to ask those questions.