In this video we explore the issues with vibe coding and introduce an alternative strategy of building software with agentic AI - Power Coding.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-07_stop-vibe-coding

CTA: Checkout my Power Coded C# library CinderBlockHtml - A C# DSL for Building HTML with Composable Building Blocks - https://github.com/SIRHAMY/CinderBlockHtml

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
01:05 - What is Vibe Coding? 
01:35 - Why does Vibe Coding fail?
02:30 - You don't provide enough direction.
03:15 - You miss problems as you build.
08:15 - You don't build knowledge about your system.
09:30 - How can we code with AI better? 
10:15 - Play your project before hand.
11:30 - Build one small feature at a time.
13:55 - Understand your system as you build.

Links:

- I Vibe-Coded a C# Library with Claude Code - Here's 6 Things I Learned - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJBp1NEYgek&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Introducing CinderBlockHtml - A C# DSL for Building HTML with Composable Building Blocks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75gFD8mfk78&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- My 2025 Job Search as a Senior Software Engineer - Results, Timelines, + How I Study for Interviews - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4sUmDaYyXM&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

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 vibe coding a C# library with Claude Code and lessons learned along the way.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-07_vibe-coded-csharp-library

CTA: Checkout CinderBlockHtml - a C# DSL for building HTML with composable building blocks - https://github.com/SIRHAMY/CinderBlockHtml

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:15 - What did I vibe-code? 
01:25 - The CLI didn't bother me as much as I thought 
04:10 - Claude Code is the best agent I've used so far
06:50 - Claude Code feels fast
10:15 - You still need to review Claude Code's code
17:45 - Claude gets overwhelmed so you should break down the project into small steps
22:30 - Claude still needs a driver

Links:

- Introducing CinderBlockHtml - A C# DSL for Building HTML with Composable Building Blocks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75gFD8mfk78&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- My 2025 Job Search as a Senior Software Engineer - Results, Timelines, + How I Study for Interviews - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4sUmDaYyXM&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- My Career in Programming Languages - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0iX5FdX0h8&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

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 whether removing Python's Global Interpreter Lock will make it significantly faster - and for which workloads.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-07_will-gil-removal-make-python-faster

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
01:25 - What is Python's GIL?
02:30 - Python's GIL prevents true parallelism
06:25 - Will removing Python's GIL make it significantly faster? 

Links:

- How to Run a Simple Python Program in a Docker Container - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmw6sbMcS48&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Build a Simple Result type in Python - and why you should use them - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P7J2wI46sg&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- 5 Reasons F# is a great Python alternative for scripting, side projects, and enterprise applications - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b12MFKsOVC8&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

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 reasons that throwing exceptions are bad and an alternative method that leads to more robust, composable, and performant codebases.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-07_5-reasons-to-stop-throwing-exceptions

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Exceptions break the type system
02:20 - Exceptions make it hard to handle all possible cases
04:55 - Exceptions break the control flow of your system
05:25 - Exceptions are slow, heavyweight operations
06:30 - Exceptions make it harder to compose robust systems
09:00 - What should you use instead of exceptions? 
13:05 - Does this mean you should never use exceptions? 

Links:

- Build a Simple Result type in Python - and why you should use them - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P7J2wI46sg&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- TypeScript - Errors as Values vs Exceptions Performance Benchmarks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuAl00ZD7zQ&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Types vs No Types - How Types Allow Code to Scale across Developers, Organizations, and Code Size - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntNGPompHsA&ab_channel=HAMYLABS 

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 the programming languages I've used in my 8 year career as a software engineer.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-06_career-in-programming-languages

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Programming Languages I've used in my career
01:25 - APT and MasterCard
03:10 - Instagram and Meta
06:25 - Reddit
11:15 - HAMY LABS
13:25 - Rippling
15:25 - Vanta

Links:

- My 2025 Programming Language Tier List - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEIvl2Nuneg&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- My 2025 Job Search as a Senior Software Engineer - Results, Timelines, + How I Study for Interviews - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4sUmDaYyXM&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Why F# is a fun programming language - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb7bnR5q4Bw&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

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 7 reasons F# sucks along with personal anecdotes about the good and bad of building software with F#.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-06_7-reasons-fsharp-sucks

CTA: CloudSeed F# Project Boilerplate - https://cloudseed.xyz/

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:25 - You start talking weird
02:45 - Nulls will haunt you
04:45 - Your buggy code won't compile
06:25 - C# steals F# features from 10 years ago
08:45 - The job market is a desert
10:55 - Making illegal states unrepresentable becomes an obsession
13:00 - You can't go back

Links:

- Why F# is a fun programming language - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb7bnR5q4Bw&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- How I got interested in F# - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQxuNw7R89U&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- The best way to get started learning and building with F# - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_jMUCEXUZ0&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

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 

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In this video we explore when to use exceptions vs errors as values and how they compare performance wise.

Original blog post with all links and code: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-05_typescript-errors-vs-exceptions-benchmarks

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
03:35 - Benchmarking errors as values vs exceptions
05:15 - Errors vs Exceptions results
07:25 - Errors vs Exceptions Benchmark Code
08:15 - When to use Exceptions vs Error Values

Links:

- Types vs No Types - How Types Allow Code to Scale across Developers, Organizations, and Code Size - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntNGPompHsA&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- My 2025 Programming Language Tier List - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEIvl2Nuneg&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Build a Simple Result type in Python - and why you should use them - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P7J2wI46sg&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

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 to answer "Tell me about yourself" questions in Software Engineer Interviews including an example of how I actually answer this in my own interviews.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-05_tell-me-about-yourself-swes

Chapters

00:35 - How to Answer "Tell me about yourself"
04:55 - My Elevator Pitch

Links:

- My 2025 Job Search as a Senior Software Engineer - Results, Timelines, + How I Study for Interviews - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4sUmDaYyXM&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- How to find a fulfilling career - no matter what you're into - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0IG8XQMGKU&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- 66 Companies Hiring Remote Software Engineers in the US in 2025 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uiggzQBsZc&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

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 my 2025 job search as a senior software engineer - covering my results, how long it took, and how I study for interviews.

Original blog post with all links and images: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-04_job-search-results

Chapters

00:30 - Interview Stats
07:25 - Interview Results over Time
14:05 - How I Schedule Interviews
17:40 - Common Interview Types

Links:

- How do you know it's time to quit your job? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPnB_z1Z8w&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- How to find a fulfilling career - no matter what you're into - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0IG8XQMGKU&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- My Career as a Software Engineer so far (6 yoe, ex-Meta, ex-Founder) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VupR_6tQEb8&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

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 Cloudflare Container pricing compares to other major offrings - Google Cloud Run, AWS Fargate, Azure Container Apps, Railway, Digital Ocean App Platform, and Heroku Dynos

Original blog post with all images and links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-04_cloudflare-containers-comparison

CTA: CloudCompare also has comparisons for Object Storage and Egress Costs - https://cloudcompare.xyz/

Chapters

00:25 - Cloudflare Containers
02:10 - How Cloudflare Container Pricing Compares to other Serverless Offerings

Links:

- Comparing Cloud Egress Costs - Azure vs Digital Ocean vs Google Cloud vs Railway - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx_bJiURsf8&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Hosting my Server-Side-Rendered F# site on Google Cloud for $1 per month - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktliIiBK2Vw&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Hosting my Docker Container on a VPS with Coolify as a PaaS with GitHub Autodeploys - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oRQT7Plndk&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

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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