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Mike @mikenikles.com · 05/10/2026

How do you migrate a @tauri.app app's Typescript code to Rust so it can be shared with a CLI, TUI, and MCP server? Step 1: Generate 500k lines of fixtures code Step 2: Migrate & write tests Step 3: Delete 500k lines of fixtures code

A screenshot of Github's Code frequency chart. It shows hundreds of thousands of lines of code added, then removed shortly after.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 05/10/2026

And the seaquel.app desktop client is now refactored to use plugins as well. For people with existing @duckdb.org connections, the DuckDB plugin is downloaded automatically on app startup after the next update. For anyone adding their first DuckDB connection, a dialog confirms the plugin download.

A screenshot of the Seaquel desktop app with an open dialog that is checking

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 04/10/2026

Someone who uses the @seaquel.app TUI for Postgres shouldn't have to download ~11mb for @duckdb.org support. DuckDB is the first plugin 🎉. Now I'm going to rip it all apart so Seaquel interfaces (desktop, CLI, TUI, web) are bare minimum, then download plugins on demand.

A screenshot of the Seaquel TUI with a dialog that tells people DuckDB support is a separate download.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 28/09/2026

Try Codex, they say. It's fun, they say.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 27/09/2026

And with data sharing turned on for that specific connection 🎉.

A screenshot of Claude Code where the user asked How many orders do we have? and Claude replied with 500 orders.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 27/09/2026

That's right, @seaquel.app is going to get a MCP server that respects your AI privacy settings.

A screenshot of a Claude Code conversation where Claude uses the new Seaquel MCP server to access a database, but doesn't have privileges to do so.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 25/09/2026

What do you think? It's v0.0.1 after a single prompt last night, this was the result when I woke up. seaquel.app

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 24/09/2026

Write two <pre> SQL blocks and get broken vs fixed query tabs to teach people with specific bad and good examples. Here's a @postgresql.org 22012 error page with the widget in action: seaquel.app/sql-errors/p...

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 24/09/2026

I updated seaquel.app/learn-sql/in... and built a web component that lets you run SQL queries against Postgres in the browser thanks to @pglite.dev. Someone tell W3Schools about it, their current user experience is less than ideal 😥. Blog post about the widget: seaquel.app/blog/run-sql...

A screenshot of the Seaquel powered SQL widget. It shows a select query with a results table below.

A screenshot of a code snippet with the necessary code to load the SQL widget on a website. It needs a script tag with the widget's Javascript file and a <seaquel-sql> custom element.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 19/09/2026

At which point does the situation become possible 🤔?!

A screenshot of a localhost:5173 error that reads "An impossible situation occurred"

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 16/09/2026

This is now a dynamic list of topics, refreshed weekly on Sunday with the latest updates from @anthropic.com's docs. Bookmark it, come back regularly and keep up to date with the latest features of Claude Code.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 15/09/2026

The same question, two answers. One correct, one wrong. First screenshot, AI claims it read data from the official website: wrong numbers. Second screenshot, AI read data from civic-lens.ca: correct numbers. All source badges in the first answer link to 404 Not Found city pages!

Port Coquitlam 2025 council expenses displayed in a table. Each expense value is wrong.

Port Coquitlam council expenses sourced from Civic Lens, displayed in a table. All expense values are correct.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 14/09/2026

My take on the use of AI for Tuxedo (1.7k ⭐). AI-generated, bloated issue and PR descriptions are the second worst thing you can use AI for. The worst is personal / business communication via email. github.com/webstonehq/t...

A screenshot of the Tuxedo Readme. It reads: Use of AI (as a heading).
Go for it, except in issue and PR descriptions 🙏. If you don't take the time to write, I won't take the time to read and close the issue or PR.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 09/09/2026

I envy you 😊. For one, @zurichjs.com! But also... Rivella 😋.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 06/09/2026

Never miss a council meeting summary again thanks to civic-lens.ca 💌. Either get an email for any council meeting, or configure topics you're interested in and receive tailored content. Tired of emails? Create an account and see it all in one place.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 06/09/2026

Nothing to see, just a handful of AI bots casually sending tens of thousands of requests, fetching gigabytes of data from civic-lens.ca over the last 24 hours. In return, I get ~50 visitors per day.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 05/09/2026

It's been a good run with @anthropic.com, but "Continue" to resume a task that stopped because I ran out of credits results in 8% of my tokens used instantly. As I typed the above, it's at 12% used. Time to evaluate alternatives 👀. Codex comes to mind, what else do people use these days?

A screenshot of Claude usage on a Max (5x) plan. It shows 8% used with 4h 54min to go in the current window.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 02/09/2026

Look at all those people from around the world who are interested in Canadian municipal records... With that, civic-lens.ca is no longer available to anyone outside Canada and the USA*. * Why USA? I'm rebranding the project and expanding to cover the USA too.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 26/08/2026

Responsive charts are hard, yet you must make sure they work. Otherwise you end up with this chart on a mobile device.

A table with two columns and a row per year from 2022 to 2026. The second column shows a bar chart with $ numbers. The bar charts for 2025 and 2026 are nearly identical in length, yet their values are $3.6B in 2025 and $6.2B in 2026.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 23/08/2026

This is getting out of hand... A @svelte.dev web app with over 100k pages, growing at 50 - 100 new pages per day. It finally covers its own costs too, not something I can say of all my projects 😂. Not ready to link the project to myself just yet, but if I ever did, it'll be before October 17.

A screenshot of the Google Search Console "Submitted sitemaps" table. It lists a blurred Sitemap, a Type as Sitemap index, Submitted as 18 Jul 2026, Last read as 18 Aug 2026, Status as Success, Discovered pages as 101,110 and Discovered videos as 0

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 17/08/2026

Remember to always sign up online with a + email address. Once again, Facebook leaked my email address and I'm getting spammed now. The worst part about a project where customers spend time on Facebook is the need for a Facebook account 😭.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 13/08/2026

Two days ago it bothered me that I hadn't configured any bot protection. So... I spent some time configuring things just in case. Two hours ago... thousands of requests started hitting and my bouncer @cloudflare.social kept them from hitting my origin server.

A screenshot of the Cloudflare web analytics dashboard that shows 5.85k visits, an increase of 20,000%

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 08/08/2026

My "Block bots" rule hard at work 💦

A screenshot that shows 7.51k bot requests were blocked in the last 24 hours, making up 44.3% of all traffic

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 28/07/2026

Come on Google, you can do it 😂! The reason for the not indexed pages is "Discovered – currently not indexed"... So close, yet so far.

A screenshot of two stats from the Google Search Console. It shows 65.9k pages not indexed and 17.4k indexed

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 26/07/2026

I take it back, Cloudflare AI blocking is delayed but works well! With 75k pages publicly avaliable, plus tens of thousands of PDF documents accessible, I'm not going to pay egress fees for AI training. Goodbye 👋!

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 26/07/2026

AI bots have arrived... Facebook AI training, Semrush, and others. Cloudflare's settings to block them has exactly 0 impact. Nothing a WAF rule can't handle.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 26/07/2026

When you operate at tens of thousands of PDFs, even the tiniest improvement has a big impact. Tonight's fun: OCR memory consumption improvement

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 23/07/2026

Lunch time well spent to reduce my @railway.com memory spend 🤑. This is a job that runs whisper.cpp on hours-long meetings with many attendees. Changes: • Chunk a file and send it to whisper in windows • Clean up files loaded onto disk

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 20/07/2026

75,884 pages indexed, without a doubt my biggest @svelte.dev web app. It's also the one that has generated the most revenue in the first four weeks since its soft-launch. I'm working with journalists to announce it. It's a slow but steadily moving process.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 17/07/2026

I think ti's fair to say that, yeah. I've dealt with a bit over 16k PDFs recently 😂. @kettanaito.com feel free to DM me, it's a fun world out there in PDF land 😰.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 08/07/2026

Detail view for parallel tasks. 🟩 is what you want to see 😂

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 08/07/2026

Introducing Orchestrator ⚡. A single-binary workflow engine that just works™. To scale horizontally, start the binary in worker mode on as many machines as you want. Orchestrator distributes the load automatically. github.com/webstonehq/o... 👇 Orchestrator in action for a stealth project.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 07/07/2026

I needed an orchestrator, like @kestra.io or windmill.dev. 4 hours later, I have my own. Windmill benchmarks coming soon™. A single binary that ships a @svelte.dev app as a single HTML file - bundleStrategy: inline. Run the same binary in worker mode to scale workflow execution horizontally 🏎️.

A screenshot of Orchestrator, a workflow engine with a web UI to author workflows in yaml or in a WYSIWYG editor.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 02/07/2026

You had me at <see screenshot>. I'll check this out tonight, via your referral link!

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 23/06/2026

It's Windows defrag all over again 😂.

A screenshot of claude CLI's /compact command, showing Compacting conversation... with a progress bar below.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 19/06/2026

It doesn't stop 😂. And I also found where most of the people come from: YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT1t...

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 18/06/2026

Here's a design suggestion 😎

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 16/06/2026

@zed.dev has been awesome for the last 12+ months for me. I initially used the AI features, but recently turned it all off in favour of harnesses I access through the CLI.

A screenshot of the Zed settings that shows "Disable AI" turned on.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 11/06/2026

500+ ⭐ Interesting to see todo.txt has such a large community. github.com/webstonehq/t...

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 06/06/2026

I've been touching water in underground lakes, so pardon me for asking... Do we still do AI? Has the bubble burst yet?

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 04/06/2026

Looks like tuxedo was mentioned somewhere 😱. I noticed a few feature requests and PRs, then saw the star count and downloads jumped quite a bit. github.com/webstonehq/t...

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 04/06/2026

@dagster.io could you check your logs please 😅? I can't sign up at dagster.plus/signup.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 02/06/2026

Last one for today 🙂. A look towards the Swiss Alps.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 02/06/2026

I've seen enough, taking the cable car for the upper part of the mountain 🥵. My brother is on track to hike the entire mountain in under 2h... The difference between someone who lives and exercises in Switzerland vs someone who lives in North America 😂

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 01/06/2026

Love the idea of using an ATV haha. Photo of the mountain attached, ATV not possible 😞. We're going to hike it on the left side, bottom to top.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 29/05/2026

For me, it's an early morning exercise, for the tourists likely the highlight of their day 😂. For me, it's time for water and some snacks. For the tourists it's photo time. CHF 5 to enter the pier. Smart move, city council! #iykyk #crashlandingonyou

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 22/05/2026

I'm experimenting with codeberg.org as an alternative to @github.com. Initially, it looked like there was no CI environment nor anything for releases... Boy was I wrong! Both can be enabled in settings. Migrating a basic CI workflow takes 5 minutes (diff attached). Next up: Releases

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 15/05/2026

I have global AI privacy settings and this UI for per-connection overrides. Click a toggle and the "Use global default" unchecks automatically.

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 14/05/2026

Here's another AI workaround, fairly recent.

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