hi, I'm vinny.
dev since 2014, educator since 2016. I write about claude code, ai-assisted dev, and what it's like to teach code for a living.
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recent posts
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the gemma lives on my laptop. the fable lasted three days.
6 min readin under two weeks google put a capable agent on my laptop and a frontier model from anthropic was taken offline by order of the us government. one of those facts is about sovereignty. the other is the solution.
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what survives when everything changes
4 min readfrom jquery and the browser wars to ai agents — what 13 years in the trenches taught me about what really matters in tests.
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git worktree: the feature agents were waiting for
5 min reada 2015 feature nobody cared about finally found its moment — and it arrived with artificial intelligence.
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teaching is the most selfish act of generosity that exists
5 min readthe best way to learn is to be forced to teach. the day i realized this changed my career trajectory — and it was all because of a bill i had to pay.
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the bottleneck just moved
6 min readreview isn't a validation layer left over after the others. it's the only thing keeping every piece of the system from getting a single owner.
testing in production
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