Thoughts on Tech, Leadership, and the Occasional Rant
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Late to the AI-Party – Part 4: More than code
Welcome back to my ongoing journey of discovering AI capabilities that everyone else figured out months ago. If you’ve been following along, you know I’ve covered GitHub Copilot’s custom instructions (Part 1), autonomous coding agents like OpenCode (Part 2), and why you shouldn’t use a sledgehammer to crack a nut when it comes to model…
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Late to the AI-Party – Part 3: Picking the Right Model
Welcome back to my ongoing series about discovering AI tools that everyone else has been using since forever. If you’ve been following along, you know I’ve covered GitHub Copilot’s custom instructions in Part 1 and autonomous coding agents like OpenCode in Part 2. Today, I want to talk about something that doesn’t get nearly enough…
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Late to the AI-Party – Part 2: More autonomous tools
Welcome back to my journey of discovering AI tools that probably everyone else has been using for months. If you missed Part 1, I talked about GitHub Copilot’s custom instructions – a small but mighty feature that makes your AI autocomplete actually useful. Today, I want to talk about something that feels almost like magic (no…
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Late to the AI-Party – Part 1: Custom Instructions
Hey, I’m Lars and I’m late to the party. Like, really late. While everyone else has been talking about AI coding assistants, building entire apps with prompts, and sharing screenshots of their productivity gains, I’ve been… well, I’ve been in meetings. And reading architecture docs. Maybe doing some budget planning. And trying to remember when…
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End-of-Life Disaster Response for my non-technical spouse?
I have a non-technical spouse. She isn’t into technology at all. She knows I have a blog, but I doubt she knows the URL (and that’s ok). She has no idea about my Uberspace server, our smart home setup, or our home wifi. And don’t get me wrong, I don’t expect her to know about…
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My Coding Journey
I have been coding for most of my life. My father taught me the first basics using Delphi (formerly Object Pascal) around 1997. I still remember my first „real“ project I created with my dad during a vacation in Sweden. It was a simple quiz that read the questions and possible answers from a text…
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Distribute iOS apps “over the air”
Most app developers have heard the following request at least once in their professional life I have this cool app idea that would help me in this very special use case. I don’t want to distribute it over the AppStore, it’s enough to have it on my phone only. If you are writing Android apps,…
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Blog Questions Challenge 2025
I discovered the #blogQuestionsChallange hashtag on Mastodon a few days ago. Initially, Ava on Bear Blog came up with the challenge, which was bear-blog-specific. Kev Quirk liked the idea and adapted the question to be platform-independent. And long story short: I like it. Here are my answers. 🙂 Why did you start blogging in the first place?…
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How To Slowly Kill A Coding Dojo
Have you ever found yourself in a coding dojo with just you, your thoughts, and the lonely hum of your CPU fan? Yep, that’s where I was last Thursday. Well, not really. I’m working on a MacBook with an M1 Pro, so there’s no humming of a CPU fan. But the rest is true. I…