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HAMY LABS POD
By Hamilton GreeneTechnology
HAMY LABS POD episodes
- The Missing Programming Language - Why There's No S-Tier Language (Yet)
In this video we discuss the missing programming language. What I mean by an S-Tier language, why there is no current S-tier language, and the languages that come close.
Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2026-01_missing-programming-language
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:40 - Programming Language Wish List
03:00 - My Definition of Expressive Types
07:05 - The Programming Language Landscape
09:45 - C#
12:50 - Kotlin
14:20 - TypeScript
17:10 - Go
18:40 - Rust
20:45 - Swift
21:55 - Java
23:45 - PHP
24:55 - F#
27:15 - Python
29:05 - Ruby
30:10 - C/C++
31:00 - Gleam
32:10 - Lua
32:50 - Elixir
33:40 - Zig
34:25 - Why does this Gap exist?
39:50 - Is there hope for an S-Tier language?
Links:
- My 2025 Programming Language Tier List - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEIvl2Nuneg
- The Programming Language Death Spiral - How Small Languages Die in the Age of AI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Gf04W_ff8
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/
# Support the Channel
If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a HAMINIONs supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions
Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses
Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!
Additional ways to support:
* YouTube channel members get early access to videos (sometimes weeks before they go public!)
* Sponsor posts on the blog / channel: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors
* Buy merch from my shop - https://shop.hamy.xyz/45 min - How I think about writing quality code fast with AI
In this video we explore vibe engineering - and how I'm thinking about using AI tools to code faster while still maintaining high quality.
Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2026-01_how-i-think-about-vibe-engineering
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:20 - AI Mental Models
05:25 - Vibe Engineering Workflows
09:30 - Better AI Planning
13:05 - Better AI Build Iterations
14:30 - Better AI Reviews
Links:
- 5 AI Coding Best Practices from a Google AI Director (That Actually Work) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No5yW9Q7Wck
- 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
- BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sirhamy.bsky.social
- Pod Cast: HAMY LABS POD - https://hamylabspod.buzzsprout.com/
# Support the Channel
If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a HAMINIONs supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions
Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses
Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!
Additional ways to support:
* YouTube channel members get early access to videos (sometimes weeks before they go public!)
* Sponsor posts on the blog / channel: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors
* Buy merch from my shop - https://shop.hamy.xyz/18 min - 5 AI Coding Best Practices from a Google AI Director (That Actually Work)
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.
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/
# Support the Channel
If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a HAMINIONs supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions
Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses
Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!
Additional ways to support:
* YouTube channel members get early access to videos (sometimes weeks before they go public!)
* Sponsor posts on the blog / channel: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors
* Buy merch from my shop - https://shop.hamy.xyz/21 min - How Good Blogging Habits Yield a Book Each Year
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.
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/
# Support the Channel
If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a HAMINIONs supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions
Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses
Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!
Additional ways to support:
* YouTube channel members get early access to videos (sometimes weeks before they go public!)
* Sponsor posts on the blog / channel: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors
* Buy merch from my shop - https://shop.hamy.xyz/5 min - How AI Killed Tailwind's Business - And How To Avoid a Similar Fate
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.
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/
# Support the Channel
If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a HAMINIONs supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions
Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses
Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!
Additional ways to support:
* YouTube channel members get early access to videos (sometimes weeks before they go public!)
* Sponsor posts on the blog / channel: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors
* Buy merch from my shop - https://shop.hamy.xyz/16 min - AI Is Here to Stay
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/
# Support the Channel
If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a HAMINIONs supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions
Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses
Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!
Additional ways to support:
* YouTube channel members get early access to videos (sometimes weeks before they go public!)
* Sponsor posts on the blog / channel: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors
* Buy merch from my shop - https://shop.hamy.xyz/5 min - How I self-host with Ansible - Multi-server Container Deployments Orchestrated with Nomad
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:
- 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/
# Support the Channel
If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a HAMINIONs supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions
Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses
Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!
Additional ways to support:
* YouTube channel members get early access to videos (sometimes weeks before they go public!)
* Sponsor posts on the blog / channel: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors
* Buy merch from my shop - https://shop.hamy.xyz/20 min - The Programming Language Death Spiral - How Small Languages Die in the Age of AI
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/
# Support the Channel
If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a HAMINIONs supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions
Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses
Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!
Additional ways to support:
* YouTube channel members get early access to videos (sometimes weeks before they go public!)
* Sponsor posts on the blog / channel: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors
* Buy merch from my shop - https://shop.hamy.xyz/19 min - Post-Mortem: hamy.xyz returning 404s (2025.11)
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
- BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sirhamy.bsky.social
- Pod Cast: HAMY LABS POD - https://hamylabspod.buzzsprout.com/
# Support the Channel
If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a HAMINIONs supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions
Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses
Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!
Additional ways to support:
* YouTube channel members get early access to videos (sometimes weeks before they go public!)
* Sponsor posts on the blog / channel: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors
* Buy merch from my shop - https://shop.hamy.xyz/9 min - If AI can code, what will Software Engineers do?
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:
- 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/
# Support the Channel
If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a HAMINIONs supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions
Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses
Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!
Additional ways to support:
* YouTube channel members get early access to videos (sometimes weeks before they go public!)
* Sponsor posts on the blog / channel: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors
* Buy merch from my shop - https://shop.hamy.xyz/15 min
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Building Simple Scalable Systems for Software Projects, Businesses, and general Creation Cycles.