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Why I Always Say “Please” and “Thank You” to AI Assistants

You might think it’s silly to be polite with a machine. “It’s not human,” you say. Fair point — but hear me out: it’s not about the AI, it’s about me.

Stop Using AI to Fix Garbage Interfaces - Build Better Ones

We’re slapping AI assistants on broken systems and calling it innovation. Booking tickets, ordering food, hailing rides — all the places where AI is supposed to “help” are just UX graveyards we’ve created. You don’t hand over booking a flight to an AI because it’s beneath you — you do it because it’s a multi-hour nightmare.

Building a Retro-Styled Blog with Windsurf

I just vibe-coded this blog with Windsurf, really. The initial prompt was “Build a personal developer blog for github pages. Use 80th era style.” However, it came up with such eye-popping design that we had several iterations until converging to this.

IJ Conference 2025 is over

Had a lot of fun, got some interesting ideas. Trying to go to sleep now, while the party music is still booming somewhere below. Next week a break, then another week of KubeCon, where I’ll man the booth.

How to export saved URLs from the Safari Reading List

If you use Safari’s awesome Reading List feature, you may sometimes want to extract all URLs from this list for one of the following reasons:

• you want to export your saved articles to a different tool;
• you want to make sure they’re backed up;
• you need to extract them to use in some automation.

Don’t Say “I Don’t Know”: A Horrible Advice for a Tech Interview

I’ve interviewed hundreds of candidates for various software engineering positions, and one of the most annoying situations is when you ask a concrete technical question, and the candidate starts to ramble on unrelated topics instead of just admitting “I don’t know”.