Mostly Elixir. 🇵🇱 Compassion Over Ideology.
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At 77, what an amazing rendition.
"Ramble On" is 56 years old and Robert Plant just walked onto The Late Show and made it sound like he wrote it this morning.
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I know name wheels are everywhere, but I really like mine. Mildly obsessed with it actually. Give it a try and let me know what would make it better.
anyonewilldo.com
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Built* a small Kafka sandbox demo that runs locally in containers. It simulates a city with hundreds of road sensors, streams events through a few services (filter → aggregate → dashboard), and shows live traffic state in the browser.
Everything is wired together with Kafka Kubernetes (minikube), so you can run the whole pipeline locally.
The experience and the project helped me better understand Kafka. Thinking it might be helpful for others as well.
Repo setup steps in the post if you want to give it a try.
mkumm.com/blog/kafka-sensor-…
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The biggest benefit of AI in coding for me isn’t speed, but fidelity to my original vision.
There have been many projects where I wrote everything by hand—one keystroke at a time.
By the end, I always knew where I had compromised. Not because I wanted to, but because I ran out of time, energy, or simply didn’t yet have the skills to fully realize what I had in mind. Like a painter who can’t quite get the stroke right.
AI is changing that for me.
I’m ending up with projects that feel much closer to the original vision I had at the start. I suddenly have access to a much broader set of technologies than I would have reached for on my own.
Recently, I built a randomizer in just a few hours. It was good—better than what I likely would have produced in a week on my own. But after another ~40 hours of AI-assisted iteration, it became something else entirely: a product that truly reflected what I had envisioned from the beginning. A product I truly love because in some meaningful way it represents what I wanted to make.
Fewer compromises. The learning for me, a product that’s ~90% AI-generated can feel more like me than something I wrote 100% by hand.
At the core, all creative work is about expressing something internal and sharing it with others. AI, for me, is making that translation more accurate than ever.
I haven’t felt this excited about coding since my first projects in the 1980s.
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Pro tip: Replace your YouTube homepage bookmark with your YouTube subscriptions feed (youtube.com/feed/subscriptio…). Assuming of course that your subscriptions are curated frequently.
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It doesn't bother me that fly.io goes down - but not updating status... status.flyio.net/ during an outage is trust losing.
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Maybe you should have a "Now" page.
Popularized by Derek Sivers, it's a simple page that shares what's happening in your life right now.
If you have a website, consider adding a "/now" page. It's a small thing that helps you stay connected and keeps everyone up to date.
👉 Learn more at nownownow.com or check out my page for an example: mkumm.com/now
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Impressive. Sora created this within 5 minutes of me downloading the app. My first AI created video.
sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_68e2912…
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Mike Kumm retweeted
22 Sep 2025
This week we have 46 Elixir meetups happening all around the globe! Go join the one closest to you!
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Wow - after a couple of months of use typora.io/ is still wowing me. Quickly dropping in images with complete and elegant control to move the source file - fantastic! 10 out of 10!
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