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Kerrick Long (blog)

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Posts
31 from 2 Mar 2025 to 3 Jan 2026
Posting
weekly (24 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog
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2026 1

  1. A Power User Guide for Google Antigravity

2025 30

  1. 2025 in Books: Software, Business, and Magic
  2. Useful Work Produced by People We Find Reprehensible
  3. AI Agent “Security” in One Screenshot
  4. “I am Antigravity. I am ready. Go.”
  5. Ratatui Bindings for Ruby
  6. Programming Ruby 4 (The 6th Edition of the Pickaxe Book) Available Now (Beta)
  7. Re: Affordances and Lean CSS
  8. Re: More Fluent Method Signatures in Ruby
  9. One Weird Choice That Makes Font Sizes Easy
  10. This Great Tool Helps You Name Any Hex Color
  11. Use AI to Stand In for a Domain Expert
  12. Did 37Signals Just Accidentally Make Writebook Open Source?
  13. Humble Bundle Abandons History of DRM Free Media
  14. A New Best Practice for User Friendly 404 Page Design?
  15. Peter Coad Slams Alexander’s “Pattern” Theory. Is He Right?
  16. Re: Emily Bache on Ward Cunningham’s Fearless Refactoring
  17. Acceptance Tests and Unit Tests as Documents First, Tests Second
  18. Learning to Code Without a Map: Mentorship and Entry Paths in the Post-Bootcamp Era
  19. Re: One Soft Navigation per Page Load
  20. I Vibe Coded a WordPress Plugin and Shipped it to Production
  21. The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake
  22. Automated Tests as Waste vs. Needed
  23. Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship
  24. Ship Software That Does Nothing
  25. Kerrick’s Wager: on the Future of Manual Programming
  26. What Books Should I Read to Learn ASP.NET Core and Blazor?
  27. I Started Reading 26 Books About C# and .NET. Here Are the 2 I’ll Actually Finish ASAP.
  28. Fizz Buzz, Object-Oriented Edition: Exploring the Open/Closed Principle With Polymorphism and Metaprogramming
  29. 30,656 Pages of Books About the .NET Ecosystem: C#, Blazor, ASP.NET, & T-SQL
  30. Why I’m Learning C# and .NET After Two Decades of Programming