Mike Kumm

Mostly Elixir. 🇵🇱 Compassion Over Ideology.

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"You've hit your limit · resets 9am"
- Thing I could have been saying to my managers my whole career.

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@bsharpe Bespoke software is nearly in reach of everyone!

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At 77, what an amazing rendition.

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"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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@FlorinPop17 @DavidMcBacon Ava the AI?

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@FlorinPop17 Can you share a good example of someone doing something like that?

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@linuz90 Looks great!

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Advice I am pondering

"If a note could have been written by anyone who read that page, it's probably not worth writing."

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@FlorinPop17 I can’t even get 100 actives at $0 a month. Feeling the shame :/

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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.

https://t.co/7k1xnSYjRX

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I don't know if my contributions were leet, but thanks GitHub!

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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.

https://t.co/5MAXVzsMxr

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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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@bcardarella 💯

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Pro tip: Replace your YouTube homepage bookmark with your YouTube subscriptions feed (https://t.co/D35pineU52). Assuming of course that your subscriptions are curated frequently.

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🤔 Wasn't X supposed to evolve into some everything app? Something akin to WeChat with payments, etc.

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Feeling pretty overwhelmed with all the new (and old) dev tech stuff I want to learn.

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@Delta wondering if there is some glitch. I am trying to book a flight and each time I "purchase" I get a message - sorry price changed - which in these cases was about extra $200.

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@pragdave Gotta believe this is a bit - like you're writing a book about the current state of hiring devs or something like that. But if true, I can't imagine the level-up you will bring to a company!

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@jpohhhh @tomus_sherman It was about 5 minutes - and no updates here: https://t.co/P3X0wmrcfw