In this post we discuss 5 AI coding best practices that actually work from a Google AI Director.

Original blog post with all links and images: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2026-01_ai-engineering-best-practices

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Plan before you code
08:00 - Work in Small Chunks
10:10 - Give AI the Right Context
12:45 - Automate your Safety Net
17:25 - You are the driver

Links:

- Stop Vibe Coding, Start Power Coding - How To Write Quality Software Faster With Agentic AI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akiymB1PyjY
- How I Actually Code with AI as a Senior Software Engineer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe64DwfiRBY
- How to Checkpoint Code Projects with AI Agents: Save Your Work, Stay on Track, Reduce Rework - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_vlctseWh0

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

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In this video we explore how good blogging habits can produce a book each year and a simple system for productizing your blog posts to create books.

Original blog post with all images and links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2026-01_blogging-a-book-a-year

CTA: Mini Book Model by Chris Stanley - https://amzn.to/4q26Ncs

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
01:10 - My Blogging Stats
01:35 - Productionalizing blog posts to books

Links:

- Why I write online as a Software Engineer - Unlocking understanding, memory, and progress - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcyf4SQXsYE
- Vibe Coding a Stats Page for my Website - Here's what I learned - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMXwzmZhsEU
- A note on writing - https://hamy.xyz/notes/writing

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

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In this video we explore how AI ate Tailwind's business and how you can make your business more robust to AI competition.

Original blog post with all links and images: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2026-01_ai-destroys-tailwind-business

CTA: Consider donating to Tailwind CSS to keep the library alive!

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:45 - What is Tailwind?
02:05 - Tailwind's business is dying
02:40 - How did AI kill Tailwind's business?
04:20 - What does this mean for Tailwind?
05:20 - Businesses at risk and how to defend

Links:

- If AI can code, what will Software Engineers do? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0pxiC_WfT4
- How I Actually Code with AI as a Senior Software Engineer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe64DwfiRBY
- Open Source Software is Unsustainable - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD0qmNXUn9M

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

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Discussing the future of AI with the looming AI and stock market bubbles.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-12_ai-is-here-to-stay

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:50 - What about the AI bubble?
02:25 - The pragmatic AI approach

Links:

- If AI can code, what will Software Engineers do? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0pxiC_WfT4
- Stop Vibe Coding, Start Power Coding - How To Write Quality Software Faster With Agentic AI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akiymB1PyjY
- How I Actually Code with AI as a Senior Software Engineer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe64DwfiRBY

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

Connect with me:

- Website: https://hamy.xyz
- Email List: https://hamniverse.substack.com/
- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY
- BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sirhamy.bsky.social
- Pod Cast: HAMY LABS POD - https://hamylabspod.buzzsprout.com/

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In this video we explore how I host my apps using Ansible to setup multi-server container deployments orchestrated with Nomad.

Original blog post with all images and links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-12_how-i-self-host

CTA: Get $20 off Hetzner Cloud - https://hetzner.cloud/?ref=8HuJz94yRocp

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:30 - How I host my apps
03:15 - Why I use Ansible
05:50 - How I use Ansible 
07:35 - Analytics Server
10:35 - Database Server
13:30 - App Servers
16:40 - Why self-host vs cloud?

Links:

- Postgres Over Everything - Why You Should Probably Just use Postgres for your next Web App - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAHLmdrdpE0
- Hosting my Docker Container on a VPS with Coolify as a PaaS with GitHub Autodeploys - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oRQT7Plndk
- Why I'm Ditching Coolify for Ansible for Deploying my Web Apps - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky9xL8o_7mk

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

Connect with me:

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- Email List: https://hamniverse.substack.com/
- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY
- BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sirhamy.bsky.social
- Pod Cast: HAMY LABS POD - https://hamylabspod.buzzsprout.com/

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In this video we explore the programming language death spiral - why it affects small languages, how the rise of AI impacts it, and some ways to fix it.

Original blog post with all links and images: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-12_programming-language-death-spiral

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Big Languages have a virtuous cycle
02:55 - Small languages have a vicious death spiral
07:55 - AI amplifies these adoption cycles
14:35 - There's still hope for small languages

Links:

- If AI can code, what will Software Engineers do? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0pxiC_WfT4
- Stop Vibe Coding, Start Power Coding - How To Write Quality Software Faster With Agentic AI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akiymB1PyjY
- How I Actually Code with AI as a Senior Software Engineer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe64DwfiRBY

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

Connect with me:

- Website: https://hamy.xyz
- Email List: https://hamniverse.substack.com/
- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY
- BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sirhamy.bsky.social
- Pod Cast: HAMY LABS POD - https://hamylabspod.buzzsprout.com/

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In this video we walk through a post mortem for hamy.xyz returning 404s for 19h on 2025.11.22.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-11_post-mortem-hamy-xyz-404s

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Overview
00:55 - Impact
01:35 - Root Cause
03:35 - Detection
05:40 - Mitigation
06:20 - Prevention

Links:

- How Meta runs blameless Post-mortems at scale - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzzv_Us0hrY
- Why I'm Moving my Blog from F# to C# - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08EkZvkqSvU
- If AI can code, what will Software Engineers do? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0pxiC_WfT4

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

Connect with me:

- Website: https://hamy.xyz
- Email List: https://hamniverse.substack.com/
- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY
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- Pod Cast: HAMY LABS POD - https://hamylabspod.buzzsprout.com/

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In this video we explore the future of the software engineering profession now that AI can code. Will AI take all the software engineer jobs? Will it take other roles as well?

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-12_software-engineers-ai

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:50 - New Technologies and Job Change
03:25 - How AI is different
06:25 - AI, Enginers, and Coders
10:05 - AI and other roles

Links:

- Stop Vibe Coding, Start Power Coding - How To Write Quality Software Faster With Agentic AI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akiymB1PyjY
- My Career in Programming Languages - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0iX5FdX0h8
- I Vibe-Coded a C# Library with Claude Code - Here's 6 Things I Learned - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJBp1NEYgek

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

Connect with me:

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- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY
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In this video we discuss code reviews with Claude Code including prompts I've found useful.

Original blog post with all links and prompts: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-12_claude-code-review

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:15 - Simple Code Review
01:30 - Code Review with Tooling

Links:

- Stop Vibe Coding, Start Power Coding - How To Write Quality Software Faster With Agentic AI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akiymB1PyjY
- How I Actually Code with AI as a Senior Software Engineer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe64DwfiRBY
- Review your AI's Code - A Simple Process for Building More Robust Systems Faster with AI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AjrL0HcAMg

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

Connect with me:

- Website: https://hamy.xyz
- Email List: https://hamniverse.substack.com/
- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY
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In this video we discuss Notion's recent data privacy incident and whether you should be worried about losing or leaking your private notes.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-11_notion-data-privacy-loss

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:35 - What happened with this Notion take-down?
01:15 - What does this mean for you and your notes?
02:00 - Should you be worried about this?
04:15 - What can you do about it?

Links:

- Why I'm Moving Back to Notion from Obsidian for Personal Notes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw_XUTXgW94
- My Simple Daily Todolist as a Software Engineer - Maximize Productivity, Minimize Waste - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMIqaPqxwPU
- What's the Best Value VPS Provider? Price to Performance Ratio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZRBw-_s8i0

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

Connect with me:

- Website: https://hamy.xyz
- Email List: https://hamniverse.substack.com/
- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY
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