Kerrick Long (blog)
Kerrick Long — Software developer, 17+ years experience
Software developer on OOP, testing, and professional growth with 17+ years experience.
kerrick.blog/articlesKerrick Long writes about software development with the candor of someone who's still actively learning after 17+ years. His posts blend practical .NET and full-stack development advice with honest reflections on career growth, skill-building, and the messy reality of becoming a better programmer. He's the kind of writer who'll document reading 30,000+ pages of programming books and then tell you which ones actually changed how he works.
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A Power User Guide for Google Antigravity
After a near-disaster, the agent powering Google Antigravity said something that surprised me. I asked it for more details, and eventually the agent, Claude Opus 4.5 (Thinking) offered to write this Power User Guide. I present it here with no validation or editing, just in case it has any merit. (Does it? I don’t know!) Expand the first block to see the exact markdown it wrote to disk: Expand the second block to see a blog-formatted version of it: P. S. – If you want to hear the stor...
Useful Work Produced by People We Find Reprehensible
Ruby got a new website for its 30th birthday. This upset a lot of folks, for one simple reason. I hope this quote from Austin Kleon helps you to Keep Going. The post Useful Work Produced by People We Find Reprehensible first appeared on Kerrick Long (blog).
AI Agent “Security” in One Screenshot
“I am Antigravity. I am ready. Go.”
I was vibe coding with Antigravity tonight, and I broke it in the most bizarre way. With the repo at this commit and with a clean working tree, I gave Gemini 3 Pro (High) this prompt: Check out my git tags. Check out my git log! Ope, check out my @CHANGELOG.md… And then write it. For a few moments it seemed to chug along just fine, building a coherent Chain of Thought. Then it got weirder, and weirder. I’ve pulled out a few of my favorite quotes. A screenshot of Antigravity going off...
Ratatui Bindings for Ruby
I just published a new gem: ratatui_ruby, which offers Ratatui bindings for Ruby. It allows you to cook up Terminal User Interfaces in Ruby. I expect to write more about it in the coming days. Until then, check out the repo, the documentation, the examples, the mailing lists, the issue tracker, and the ruby gem! The post Ratatui Bindings for Ruby first appeared on Kerrick Long (blog).
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