I write to learn, and publish to share.

I introduced the new Pinecone AWS Reference Architecture with Pulumi and explained infrastructure as code

A comic strip about casting magic spells

A wordless comic strip about a typically brutal day at work, that nevertheless has a positive ending

Deploy production-ready systems using Pinecone in minutes with the AWS Reference Architecture

An examination of the Reference Architecture components and functionality

Design your side projects, blog posts and even your fun experiments to triangulate multiple learning paths simultaneously. Then, use them to build out your portfolio.

Control your own destiny, build your personal brand, and master web technologies by running your own tech blog.

There are only two people I am aware of named Zachary Proser, with that exact spelling. This article is only for Zachary Proser.

I have used StableDiffusion, AUTOMATIC111, DALLE and Discord bots to generate images in every style for blog posts. You can too.

Going the extra mile only to be unrewarded by your company feels like a personal slight and a waste of your time. It is not.

As of October 10th, 2023, ChatGPT4 and Codeium are still my favorite AI-assisted dev tool stack. Here is why

I have evaluated everything from ChatGPT to CoPilot to Codeium to Cursor, to Sourcegraph Cody to CodiumAI. All suffer from the same bugs

I got Copilot access for free as an active GitHub open-source maintainer, but would I pay for it?

These common mistakes are dooming your AI-assisted developer tooling startup to failure. Don't make them

Practices and protocols that keep me humming along, healthy and productive on a given day

CodiumAI's PR-agent integration leverages Pinecone under the hood to perform semantic search for similar GitHub issues

Programmers are people, and this is how I feel when...

If you're coming from Hacker News, I've learned that I need to spell out at the beginning that this post is partly facetious...

A history of package management and virtualenvs in Python and why we migrated the Pinecone Python client to Poetry

Jupyter Notebooks are surprisingly easy to get started with - especially when using GitHub and Google Colab

I built a custom opengraph image with '@vercel/og' that includes a fallback image for index pages

6 Technology trends position JavaScript developers to reap the rewards of the GenAI boom

How to reduce hallucinations in your Generative AI applications

Making the pivot from pure software engineering to developer advocacy

Stop yourself from committing a secret to git with ggshield

I get this question a lot: how do I get into coding? This is my best advice.

I open sourced my next.js AI chatbot and the Jupyter notebooks I used to build it, plus created a video series walking through it all on YouTube

Generally unimpressed with GitHub's Copilot (not Copilot X), I gave the alternative, Codeium a shot.

I have open sourced my automations project, which is a collection of shell scripts that automatically handle git operations, provide local code reviews, pull requests, and more!

Autogit is an open source shell script that you can wire up to your `cd` command to ensure you always have the latest code, branches, and remotes when you open up a local git repository.

If you're like me, you can't type your complex password correctly when your entire team is staring at you on a pair call. And now, you no longer have to.

After re-doing my personal website in next.js and deploying to Vercel, I reflect on how much better the developer experience has become.

Combining a lightweight state machine plus the Bubbletea charm library leads to a very powerful pattern for tooling that needs to orchestrate slow or expensive steps.

Join me as I delve into the infuriating, yet enlightening journey of maintaining my own Javascript-heavy website. Learn how battling DNS issues, dependency chaos, niche CSS pre-processors and constant painful upgrades has led to one of the most rewarding projects I've ever created.

As a Senior Software Engineer, I'm always looking for ways to refine my skills and optimize my workflow. This weekend, I experimented with integrating ChatGPT-4 into my developer toolkit alongside GitHub Copilot, which I've been using for several months. The goal? To see if these AI-powered tools could help me complete a side project more quickly.

In the past 3 years, I've been promoted 3 times. I reflect on the habits and activities that helped me improve the most.

A tutorial on how to write and use shell functions to fetch your tokens from the BitWarden CLI with one command.

Teatutor is a Golang CLI leveraging the Bubbletea Terminal User Interface (TUI) library from Charm.sh. It can be served over an SSH connection.

A full technical deep-dive on my optimizer app and its features

Pro tips for working with CircleCI configurations

As a developer, I often want to test my code on Windows, but don't have a Windows box handy. This tutorial demonstrates how to use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to make provisioning Windows test instances easier. In this post, I also provide a working Packer template and Terraform configuration to deploy your own Windows test instance, as well as instructions for mounting a local folder over RDP.

I obssess a decent amount over my own developer productivity and my customized tmux, neovim and awesome window manager linux setup, and now I pass my best learnings on to you

A tutorial, along with working Terraform code and Dockerfile, that you can use to deploy and operate your own Quake 3 server in an ECS task.

Git-xargs allows you to run commands and scripts against many Github repos simultaneously

An open-source example repository and technical deep-dive on using AWS SAM, Golang, CodePipeline and CloudFormation to automate continuous delivery.

A ridiculously over-engineered CatFacts prank written in Golang and deployed via Kubernetes

I open sourced my first HTML5 game as a resource for other developers working with Phaser.js or wanting to build their own game

PICK UP THE PHONE - ITS CATFACTS!

A technical deep dive on building a portfolio site that is beautiful, blazing fast and 100% SEO optimized

A wikipedia crawling application