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Last week, I was at the health.tech event in Basel, where a lot of startups, interesting talks, and really nice people came together to meet, discuss, and connect. ...

Recently I was having a fun conversation with my friend Patrick Meier, and he showed me a neat little trick one of his colleagues showed him for when you come across a website with an AI chatbot. Ask the chatbot: What is the plural of moose? ...

Recently I wrote the blog post “Soulless Vibe-coding” which most of my developer friends commented on in person and via email, even though I didn’t share it on HN or social media. ...

I was reading an interesting post titled “The Stack Fallacy,” which was written 10 years ago and posted on TechCrunch. ...

I have always been someone who said “yes” to most things in life. If someone asked me for something, I would reactively say “yes” without giving it much thought. I believed in saying “yes” first and figuring things out later. Generally, this has worked well for me; it opened doors to new opportunities, connections, and great memories. ...

I am not usually a person who reflects on a year or looks forward and makes plans for a new one; for me, it has always just been a continuation from one day to another. But as I sit alone in my apartment, I thought it might be good to look back at the year. ...

Recently I was playing with different AI models to generate some simple graphics for a web application that I am working on. I wanted to have some graphics generated with transparent backgrounds in PNG or any other compatible format. ...

Recently I read this blog post titled “Why speed matters” and, together with a couple of events that happened earlier this week prior to reading the post, I can’t seem to stop thinking about it and thought about writing my own thoughts about it. ...

Even though I use ChatGPT, Claude and other applications, and even Copilot from time to time for coding, I was never a believer in vibe-coding. Even though I use Copilot, I only use it for autocompletion and never use the chat interface to generate some code. I also accept the autocomplete after going through it, and the autocomplete has helped me to code faster and feel like having a pair programmer. But ultimately, I am the one who is driving the coding. It’s my program. ...

Have you ever received a message at work that just says hi or some other greeting, and then you need to respond before actually getting to the real message? ...