Stephan Miller articles - 34 total
Jules AI - The (Currently) Free Coding Assistant That Can't Follow Directions But Gets Shit Done
Jules is currently free, so I figured it was worth a try. Of course, I had to find out what I could...
Creating an Obsidian Plugin with Claude AI
With this post, I took a break from the Electron project I am building with Claude Code to see how...
Building an Electron App from Scratch with Claude Code
I have been curious about “vibe coding” ever since I heard about the process, even though I hate...
Vibe Coding With Claude Desktop and MCP Part 2 - Switching to Scrapy
In my first blog post on vibe coding with Claude Desktop and MCP tools, I was winging it. I wasn’t...
Claude + MCPs - 'Vibe Coding' Without Specialized IDEs Part 1
First, I have to say I hate the term “vibe coding”. But I was curious after seeing some of the apps...
Exporting Mac OSX Book Highlights into an Obsidian Vault or Markdown Files
Readwise is a great idea, but probably more useful for someone who highlights and takes notes on...
Obsidian's New Web Clipper - You'll Want to Try It
A few months ago, I “settled” on the process I’d used to collect information from the web when I...
How to Install, Activate, and Update Obsidian Plugins
The biggest thing I don’t like about Obsidian is that it’s closed source, but the fact that you...
How to Sync Obsidian Across All Your Devices (Including Free Methods)
I liked the idea of Obsidian, but before I started using it I had to make I could sync my vaults to...
Writing a You Go - Technical Article Writing Made Easy
If you are a working developer like I am, you should never have a problem coming up with an article...
How to Add Search to Your Static Site Generator (Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, Nikola, etc.)
I do love static site generators. Before Jekyll, I used Wordpress and if I forgot to babysit the...
How I Finally Ditched Evernote for Joplin
I signed up for Evernote like 15 years ago, first for the free plan and then I paid for it when it...
JavaScript Reduce - A Complete Guide to the Only JS Array Function You Really Need
While the JavaScript map, filter, and find functions will help you do a lot with JavaScript arrays,...
Originality AI - Or How Aliens Replaced My Mind with AI
A few months ago, I got an email from a company I write for. “We’ve detected that your article was...
Never Run Out of Freelance Work - An Exhaustive List of Writing Job Lists
Well, so much for the claims I made in my last blog post. After I wrote that, my freelance writing...
How to Lose Your Writing Voice and How to Get it Back
In the last four years, I have published over 850 articles, but you’ll only find about 10% of those...
My Ultimate Set of Morning Rituals
I have been told all my life about the importance of getting a jump start on the day, about how...
How to Store JSON in PostgreSQL
Often the data for an application won’t fit completely into either a relational or NoSQL world. This...
Why Do You Write Code - The Career, The Code, or The Results?
First, a disclaimer and that disclaimer is that there are two types of people: people that classify...
What I'd Do Differently if I Could Rewrite My Android App
This is a story of hindsight being 20/20. I have been a full stack web developer for something like...
The Time They Tried to Replace Our Whole Engineering Team and It Backfired - A Cautionary Tale
This is a story about a lesson I learned when I was a fledgling corporate developer in my 30s. I say...
How I Keep Myself Interested in Coding
I think the key to staying interested in programming is constantly trying something new with...
When Taking a Pay Cut as a Programmer Might Be the Right Choice
Working as a programmer is great work if you can get it. And there are usually plenty of...
How I Spent a Month Building a Cryptocurrency Trading Platform
I have always been interested in statistics and machine learning. Boring, you say. Yeah, I like it...
Good and Bad Times as a Contrarian Programmer
When I think of the traditional leaders in tech, I realize almost all of them were contrarians. I...
Developer, Programmer, Engineer - Decoding the Titles in the Coding World
I have written code for a couple of decades now and have been called a lot of things during that...
The Secrets to Keeping Your Programming Career Balanced
Programming is a rewarding job, and I consider myself lucky to have a programming job. I was...
Navigating Coding Roles - Startups vs. Big Tech
Just about any company you can imagine is in the software industry. If they don’t build their own...
Just Code It
I taught myself to write code. If I look back on it now, it was a lot of work and took a long time to...
Programmer, aka Soldier of Fortune
Loyalty is overrated in a career. It used to be a thing, but so did pensions. But any more it does no...