Mike Kumm @mkumm

I know name wheels are everywhere, but I really like mine. Mildly obsessed with it actually. Give it a try and let me know what would make it better. anyonewilldo.com

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Mike Kumm @mkumm

2 months ago

I don't know if my contributions were leet, but thanks GitHub!

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Built* a small Kafka sandbox demo that runs locally in containers. It simulates a city with hundreds of road sensors, streams events through a few services (filter → aggregate → dashboard), and shows live traffic state in the browser. Everything is wired together with Kafka + Kubernetes (minikube), so you can run the whole pipeline locally. The experience and the project helped me better understand Kafka. Thinking it might be helpful for others as well. Repo + setup steps in the post if you want to give it a try. mkumm.com/blog/kafka-sen…

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Mike Kumm @mkumm

3 months ago

The biggest benefit of AI in coding for me isn’t speed, but fidelity to my original vision. There have been many projects where I wrote everything by hand—one keystroke at a time. By the end, I always knew where I had compromised. Not because I wanted to, but because I ran out of time, energy, or simply didn’t yet have the skills to fully realize what I had in mind. Like a painter who can’t quite get the stroke right. AI is changing that for me. I’m ending up with projects that feel much closer to the original vision I had at the start. I suddenly have access to a much broader set of technologies than I would have reached for on my own. Recently, I built a randomizer in just a few hours. It was good—better than what I likely would have produced in a week on my own. But after another ~40 hours of AI-assisted iteration, it became something else entirely: a product that truly reflected what I had envisioned from the beginning. A product I truly love because in some meaningful way it represents what I wanted to make. Fewer compromises. The learning for me, a product that’s ~90% AI-generated can feel more like me than something I wrote 100% by hand. At the core, all creative work is about expressing something internal and sharing it with others. AI, for me, is making that translation more accurate than ever. I haven’t felt this excited about coding since my first projects in the 1980s.

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Mike Kumm @mkumm

5 months ago

@bcardarella 💯

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Mike Kumm @mkumm

6 months ago

Pro tip: Replace your YouTube homepage bookmark with your YouTube subscriptions feed (youtube.com/feed/subscript…). Assuming of course that your subscriptions are curated frequently.

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Mike Kumm @mkumm

7 months ago

🤔 Wasn't X supposed to evolve into some everything app? Something akin to WeChat with payments, etc.

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Mike Kumm @mkumm

7 months ago

Feeling pretty overwhelmed with all the new (and old) dev tech stuff I want to learn.

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Mike Kumm @mkumm

7 months ago

@Delta wondering if there is some glitch. I am trying to book a flight and each time I "purchase" I get a message - sorry price changed - which in these cases was about extra $200.

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Mike Kumm @mkumm

8 months ago

@pragdave Gotta believe this is a bit - like you're writing a book about the current state of hiring devs or something like that. But if true, I can't imagine the level-up you will bring to a company!