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It’s Not the Chisel
After 40 years of writing code by hand, I looked down on vibe coding. Then I tried it. This is a look at what people mean by “AI slop,” which complaints hold up, what AI means for developers who are still learning, and why slop was never about how the code got written. An LLM is a chisel: in the right hands it makes something worth keeping, and in mine, a lump. AI didn’t create slop. It just made it cheaper to produce.
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A feed reader in the spirit of Google Reader. You pick the sources, it shows what's new in the order it was published, and nothing ranks your feed for you. RSS, YouTube, podcasts, Mastodon and Bluesky, with read later, highlights and full-text search. Built on BoxLang and BoxExpress.
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boxlang-express
An Express.js-style API for building lightweight HTTP servers in BoxLang.
bx-activitypub
ActivityPub federation for BoxLang apps — publish posts to Mastodon and the fediverse, and accept public replies back.
bx-zork
A from-scratch text-adventure parser engine in BoxLang, loaded with the world of Zork I.
coldbox-graphql
A schema-agnostic ColdBox module that serves a GraphQL API from SDL files you supply.
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