Vid Luther

Vid Luther

"Tongue Tied and Twisted, just an earthbound misfit, I."

My ramblings about AI · Technology · Personal Stuff

Articles I Wrote

The Impact of AI on Individual Growth

Regarding Anthropic's study about AI, coding skill development, and how it relates to individual growth.

personalopinionai

My Thoughts on Agentic Coding After One Week

My thoughts on agentic coding after one week of scratching my own itch.

personalagentic-coding

Linkblog Development - Week 1

Progress report on development of the linkblog. What I was able to accomplish in a week.

linkblogagentic-coding

I'm Starting a Linkblog

Resume Driven Development - Learning new tools, technologies and scratching a personal itch.

personallinkblog

Being a Good Netizen

Thoughts on netizenship, what it means to me, and some practical steps I'm taking to be a better netizen.

personalinternet

How to Remove Live Activity Widget from iOS Dynamic Island

A quick and easy guide on how to remove Live Activities from the dynamic island and lock screen.

iOSTech Tips

Installing the Latest Neovim on Raspberry Pi OS

A guide to compiling and installing the latest Neovim version on Raspberry Pi OS for LazyVim users

neovimraspberry-pilazyvim

How to Format Unix Timestamps in Postman Visualizations

A Step-by-Step Guide to Formatting Unix Timestamps in Postman Visualizations

postman

How to Change php.ini Settings on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

How to edit PHP.ini settings like upload_max_size and upload_post_size in elastic beanstalk

aws beanstalkphp

My Personal MongoDB Cheat Sheet

My personal cheatsheet on how to query data in mongodb.

mongodb

How to Install the Latest Ruby on MacOS Sonoma (14.0)

How to install the latest version of Ruby on your local development environment

rubymacos

AWS CLI Quick Reference

A cheatsheet/quick-reference on how to use the AWS CLI

awsaws-cli

Installing AWS-CLI v2 on Raspberry Pi 4

How to install AWS CLI version 2 on Raspberry Pi 4"

awscliraspberry-pi

Debugging WordPress

Tips and Tricks on how to debug WordPress sites

wordpress

Using Environment Variables and Cloudflare HTML Rewriter API

Using environment variables and HTML Rewriter API to create a dynamic ..static.. site

cloudflarecloudflare workersenvironment variables.html-rewriter api

Getting Past Anti Ad Blockers with Pi-Hole

How to get around anti ad-block detection on sites that ask you to disable your ad blocker

pi-hole

NodeJS Stuff for Mac

Notes on how to setup NodeJS on a Mac, using brew and NVM to keep multiple versions installed for easy testing

macosnodejs

Installing Plausible Analytics on a Jekyll Site with Minimal Mistakes

Installing Plausible Analytics with Jekyll and Minimal Mistakes

analytics

Tips and Tricks with Find

How to use the find command, to make your life easier on the linux or unix cli

linux

Screen Hacks for Your Raspberry Pi

Screen hacks for your Raspberry Pi

linuxraspberry-pitouchscreen

Using More Than One Account at AWS While Using aws-cli

How to switch between Amazon accounts while using the aws cli

aws

WP-CLI Cheatsheet

wp cli commands that I use often when dealing with WordPress sites

wordpress

How to Use Hide My Email on MacOS, iOS and iCloud+

How to use the Hide My Email feature in iCloud + / Monterey / iOS 15.

macos

How to Parse Apache Log Files with Awk

Using awk to get information from text files

awk

How to Configure Tailscale with Pi-Hole

How to configure Tailscale with Pi-hole, so you can block ads even when you're not at home.

tailscaleraspberry-pipi-hole

Articles and Things I Found Interesting

theverge.com

More on the ban on imported routers

I have no clue how this makes things safer

apple.com

Introducing Apple Business — a new all-in-one platform for businesses of all sizes

Apple today announced Apple Business, a new all-in-one platform that allows companies to manage devices and reach more customers.

supabase.com

Getting Started with Edge Functions (Dashboard) | Supabase Docs

Get started with Supabase Edge Functions.

arstechnica.com

arstechnica.com

x.com

Thariq on X: "Lessons from Building Claude Code: How We Use Skills " / X

Really informative, I didn't realize skills have come such a long way.

vikasz.substack.com

The Complete Guide to Zed: A Fast, Modern Editor for Python Developers

I've been using Zed for 18 months.. and still learned some things in this post.

techcrunch.com

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber steps down | TechCrunch

Graber explained that, as a more mature company, Bluesky needs a "seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution." Graber said she feels better suited to building Bluesky's technology itself.

kudelskisecurity.com

How We Exploited CodeRabbit: From a Simple PR to RCE and Write Access on 1M Repositories - Kudelski Security Research Center

The vulnerability is patched, so don't just skim the headline.

notion.com

Introducing Custom Agents

brianlovin.com

Syncing Claude Code settings between computers

Great minds really think alike.. I've been playing with stow and dotfiles..

shiori.sh

Shiori

Hmm.. looks like Brian was had the same itch as me.

docs.astro.build

Migrating from WordPress | Docs

searchenginejournal.com

The 10 Best Headless CMS Platforms To Consider

unsung.aresluna.org

Unsung heroes: Flickr’s URLs scheme – Unsung

I'm trying to mimic this url url scheme convention for the linkblog myself.

jeffgeerling.com

Expert Beginners and Lone Wolves will dominate this early LLM era - Jeff Geerling

Expert Beginners.. love the term. I'd like to think I'm a Lone Wolf.. just need to figure out what I want to build.

api.linkblog.in

OpenAPI Specs for Linkblog

Built using @nestjs/swagger

code.claude.com

Create custom subagents - Claude Code Docs

acmeweather.com

Acme Weather

Not sure if I have a reason to switch away from Carrot, but YAWA...

garryslist.org

Anthropic's War on Its Own Power Users | Garry's List

I really hope Anthropic changes course on this.

status.supabase.com

Supabase Status

bugsink.com

Track Errors First

aftermath.site

The Bell Finally Tolls For Tyler Perry

I never thought of him and his work this way.

medium.com

Advice to a Senior Engineer looking for work in an AI world | by Tal Rotbart | Feb, 2026 | Medium

This should be advice to anyone actually.

threads.com

@present.byk on Threads

/statusline Context: {contextWindowPercentage}% | ${totalCost}

threads.com

Boris Cherny (@boris_cherny) on Threads

We've been working on this for a while -- it's impressive (and scary) to see the kinds of security issues it has identified. Rolling out slowly, starting as a research preview for Team and Enterprise customers.

scripting.com

Scripting News: Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

docs.astro.build

Server islands

Combine high performance static HTML with dynamic server-rendered content.

sixcolors.com

Apple should rethink Face ID settings for our current era

Through no fault of Apple, Face ID is having a moment — and not in a good way. Sure, the biometric security feature works as well as it ever does, using a face scan to unlock your iPhone, con…

x.com

x.com

github.com

GitHub - github/spec-kit: 💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development

💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development - github/spec-kit

simonwillison.net

Introducing the Codex app

OpenAI just released a new macOS app for their Codex coding agent. I've had a few days of preview access - it's a solid app that provides a nice UI …