davep
davep
Dave Pearson
My personal blog which covers a handful of main topics and wanders through all sorts of subjects. Mostly you'll see me writing about coding and Python and a bit of Emacs and so on; but sometimes there will be more random thoughts and personal stuff.
Latest Posts
The previous release of BlogMore had some work that improved the HTML, ensuring that the HTML validator was happy with the generated code. Yesterday evening I ran it over more of the pages, and found a couple more things that made sense...
As I've written about a few times in the last week or so, the journey with AI-based coding tools has hit an interesting time when it comes to prices, quotas, usage, availability and all that. Having come into all of this via a place...
Now that we're near the end of the free or cheap GitHub Copilot party, I thought it might be interesting to look at how much BlogMore has "cost" me to build, and what it would have cost under the proposed new pricing structure that is...
The recent changes to pricing and usage, in relation to AI, aren't just about agents and coding. Not only have I seen GitHub Copilot and Gemini CLI hugely restrict their offerings for the same price, it's also come to at least one...
Part of my morning routine, when I sit down at my desk, is to run updates. This ritual updates, amongst other things, anything I've installed via Homebrew. As this ran I noticed antigravity-cli turn up as an addition to the index of...
Following on from the previous release, which was all about trying to get a big PageSpeed Insights win through image optimisation, I'm chasing some more validation from that site by trying to squeeze just a little more performance out of...
Well, what a surprise, nobody could have seen it coming: it does seem to be bait and switch season in LLM/agent land. As I mentioned earlier today, when I ran up Gemini CLI to have it work on a change to BlogMore in the background, I got...
I just sat down at my desk and fired up Gemini CLI to get it to make a change to BlogMore, and I see this: I've yet to actually look at AntiGravity, so I know pretty much nothing about it at this point. After a brief glance at the link...
Pretty much every project that I actively maintain on my GitHub account has a change log of some description. For a long time now, whenever I add a new entry to the log, I'll include a link to the PR that implements that change....
I've made a minor bump to OldNews, my terminal-based client for TheOldReader. There's no significant change in this release, but it does change the dependency on html-to-markdown. Since I initially released the application, this library...
Quite a few weeks ago now -- I think it was around the time I started work on blogmore.el and got the new MacBook Air -- I remember sitting in a cafe in Edinburgh and via Mastodon having a conversation with Andy about tweaking better...
Over the weekend I read a comment, I think it was on Hacker News, where someone said they were having fun building things using AI. This was in response to someone saying that using AI took the fun out of programming. In their reply, the...
The first company I worked for full-time had two offices. One in the south of England, another in the north. Despite being a northern lad, I'd somehow found myself working in the southern office. While the company used a few languages,...
Well, this week didn't quite go according to plan, so I didn't get to test out the Steam Controller straight after it arrived. This afternoon, after messing about with code and agents for a few hours, I decided it was high time I stopped...
Following on from this morning's initial experiment, I think I'm settling on a winner. Rather than be annoying and have you scroll to the bottom to find out: it's Gemini CLI. Here's how I found the process played out, and why I'm...