Nick Taylor

Nick Taylor @nickytonline

About: GitHub Star and Microsoft MVP. Developer Advocate & Software Engineer who live streams tech content solo & with community friends.

Location:
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Joined:
Mar 11, 2017

Nick Taylor
articles - 250 total

Clawspace: A Browser-Based File Explorer for OpenClaw

I've been working with OpenClaw for a while now. If you're not familiar, it's a self-hosted personal...

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Let Dependabot Merge Its Own PRs

Dependabot opens PRs automatically. That part most people have set up. But then those PRs just sit...

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Stop using cat

If you use cat in your daily workflow, this is a tiny upgrade with lots of upsides and honestly, no...

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Five Git Config Settings Every Dev Needs

You've probably added some settings to your Git Configuration, but here are some you might not have...

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BenQ RD280UG Review: 28-Inch 4K Programming Monitor for Developers

This is a sponsored post, but it's an honest review. BenQ sent me their new RD280UG monitor to...

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From Fresh Mac to Productive in 30 Minutes

I've been hearing developers talk about their dotfiles for years. "Oh yeah, I just clone my dotfiles...

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My 2025 Year in Review

2025 was wild. I wrapped up 2024 with OpenSauced getting acquired by the Linux Foundation, which...

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What Makes Goose Different From Other AI Coding Agents

I just finished Goose’s Advent of AI. Everything from CI automation to hand-gesture controlled apps...

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Advent of AI 2025 - Day 17: Building a Wishlist App with Goose and MCP-UI

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

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Advent of AI 2025 - Day 16: Planning With .goosehints

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Advent of AI 2025 - Day 15: Goose Sub-Recipes

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Advent of AI 2025 - Day 14: Agent Skills

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Advent of AI - Day 13: Goose Terminal Integration

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts for the Advent of AI. If I'm...

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Advent of AI - Day 12: MCP Sampling

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts for the Advent of AI. If I'm...

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Advent of AI - Day 11: Goose Subagents

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts for the Advent of AI. If I'm...

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My Newsletter: Growth, Fun, Slow & Steady

Beehiiv just dropped their 2025 rewind stats for my newsletter, One Tip a Week, and honestly, I’m...

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Advent of AI - Day 10: Understanding Arguments in Goose Recipes

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

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What are AI Evals?

I did a livestream with Jim Bennett (@jimbobbennett) from Galileo recently where we talked about...

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Advent of AI 2025 - Day 9: Building a Gift Tag Generator with Goose Recipes

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 9: Building a Gift Tag Generator with Goose Recipes I've edited...

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Advent of AI 2025 - Day 8: Messy Data to Structured Output

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Advent of AI 2025 - Day 7: Goose Recipes

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Advent of AI 2025 - Day 6: Automating GitHub Issue Triage with Goose

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Advent of AI 2025 - Day 5: I Built a Touchless Flight Tracker You Control With Hand Gestures

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Migrating from Ingress NGINX to Pomerium Ingress Controller

The Kubernetes community announced that Ingress NGINX will be retired in March 2026. After that,...

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Advent of AI 2025 - Day 4: Building a Winter Festival Website with Goose

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I Switched Shell History Tools. Here's Why

Your shell's history search is probably slowing you down more than you realize. Whether you're...

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Advent of AI 2025 - Day 3: Building Data Visualizations with Goose

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Advent of AI 2025 - Day 2: Building a Winter Festival Game

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Advent of AI 2025 - Day 1: Getting Goose to Generate Daily Fortunes in CI

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How I Automated My GitHub Profile (And You Can Too)

Keeping a GitHub profile updated is tedious. New blog post? Update the profile. New newsletter issue?...

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