Tooling on NoRaincheck

Reflecting on Mitchellh's AI Adoption Journey Blog Post

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been re-reading Michellh’s blog post and reflecting on my usage of SKILL and Agentic coding, and have realised its somewhat similar and there are lessons I can learn.

Chatbot Sucks

The interactivity of chatbots is nice when you’re exploring something. However it is rare that you are exploring something when you are trying to deliver with agents. Instead the pattern ends up being:

Build a prototype
Review a prototype
Re-build the prototype

LLMs have gotten so fast, so quickly, that in the interest of speed having prototypes are cheap (think about the Github graveyard of ideas).

What if I tried self-hosting LLM Code Tooling?

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

What if I tried self-hosting LLM Code Tooling?

July 2025

Currently Code AI tooling is going through a weird cycle. We have the Windsurf x OpenAI deal falling through, Cursor with some interesting (bad) pricing changes, Claude Code being a loss leader – which leads me to think, so what would self-hosting this on a laptop look like?

Firstly, there are a lot of options which exist already, however the reality is that my using of AI auto-complete and agentic mode is fairly limited. With that in mind, I think my current setup is rooted mainly in the llama.cpp world of things.

Python & TypeScript - in Review (2024)

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Python & TypeScript - in Review (2024)

December 2024

One thing that I like to stress is the importance of tooling and relying on defaults. By being able to speak consistently within ones own projects or using commonly seen patterns reduces the mental overhead. These could be folder structures or idioms, especially things which permeate across different programming languages or frameworks.

Here are some of my thoughts on Python and TypeScript; coming from someone who is predominantly a Python developer and does minimal front-end work.