October 15, 2026 - http://austinhanson.comI’ve thought about writing this blog for quite some time and maybe not for the reasons you might think.
You see - my first and longest passion in life has been programming. I remember, in vivid detail, my dad sitting on the carpet with 6 year old me and a big, clunky, mold-injected, dark-grey …Read more →about How I Learned to Give Up Programming and Accept AI
September 30, 2026 - https://trevorarnold.substack.com/Impressive AI generated mountains
This has been something I have been talking to a lot of people in the tech space for a couple of months now. A hypothesis of what the role of software developer (engineer) looks like now that AI development has gotten so good. I have been using these AI dev tools …Read more →about Future of software development
September 18, 2026 - https://mwop.net/I’ve known about webmentions for years, as well as microformats; I’ve even included microformats in my markup for probably close to a decade at this point. But accepting and sending webmentions, while it seemed like a great idea, just never really made it to my priority list.
Until it …Read more →about Web­men­tion support
August 31, 2026 - https://mwop.net/I recently was troubleshooting how to force the browser to hyphenate a PHP class name, and discovered something new.
The HTML entity ­ is a “soft hyphen”; it won’t display unless the browser decides to introduce a line wrap at that point.
It’s shy like that.
HTML …Read more →about HTML Hyphenation Hints
August 17, 2026 - https://www.aligneddev.netMicrosoft recently released improvements to the Microsoft Testing Platform, enhancing the reporting capabilities for .Net applications. This article was certainly written by AI and has a lot of content, but not a good example to follow. I had some time, so I got it working and have an example to …Read more →about Microsoft Testing Platform and Reporting Improvements
August 8, 2026 - http://austinhanson.comtl;dr - AI is not the dark side or the light side. But, after the last year, it sure feels like the Force.
That is a goofy sentence and I know it. But it is also the closest metaphor I have for what this has felt like.
Sometime around August or September of last year I remember pushing back on my …Read more →about AI Isn't the Dark or Light Side
August 4, 2026 - http://austinhanson.comtl;dr - I had a TikTok collection full of book recommendations, collected over roughly two years, and no sane way to read it. So I pointed agents at the mess, made them OCR the videos and image slides, and ended up with 3,217 book mentions across 412 TikToks.
This started in the deeply respectable …Read more →about Turning Two Years of TikTok Bookmarks Into a Reading List
August 4, 2026 - https://www.aligneddev.netIt was another great year attending Nebraska.Code. I’ve been attending Nebraska.Code() (and HDC before that) off and on for a long time and have always enjoyed the speakers, topics, and meeting other professionals. The theme, “Rise of the Machines” captured AI’s impact on the technology industry. …Read more →about NE Code 2026 Recap
August 3, 2026 - https://trevorarnold.substack.com/Over the last month, I have been heavily utilizing the pro plan for CodeRabbit, an AI code review tool. It might just be my media usage, but I have been seeing tons of ads for CodeRabbit for a while now. If you have been seeing these same ads and wondered if this was for you, well I’ve got the …Read more →about CodeRabbit: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly