Updates (the davis9001 blog)

An early preview of Dashboard—a personal productivity hub with weather, traffic maps, GitHub project tracking, and a calendar, all in one place.

As a self-taught developer turned engineer and architect, I support vibe coding as an on-ramp. But to grow beyond prompts and prototypes, new developers need strict habits: version control, TDD, and agile workflows—even when building solo with AI.

After implementing dark/light mode toggles on docs.deno.com and fresh.deno.dev/docs, I've settled on a UX principle that I believe should become the standard—the toggle icon should indicate the action, not the state.

After months of using Claude Sonnet 4.5 with GitHub Copilot Pro+, I've switched to Opus 4.5 which just achieved a perfect 100% score on SvelteBench. Here's my recommended setup for SvelteKit developers and how I'm building an AI-powered Agile assistant called Apollo.

Exploring how quantum computing is poised to revolutionize artificial intelligence, from quantum machine learning algorithms to solving optimization problems that classical computers can't touch. Dive into the intersection of two transformative technologies and what it means for the future of AI.

Every morning and evening in Lewiston, Maine, a spectacular phenomenon unfolds—a "river of crows" flowing across the sky. Join me as I share my observations of this daily corvid migration and my ongoing attempts to befriend these intelligent birds with unshelled raw peanuts.

After a brief hiatus, I'm diving back into coding and discovering how much the AI landscape has evolved. From LLMs and AI agents to MCP servers and GitHub Actions orchestration, here's what I've learned about the current state of AI development tools.

A behind-the-scenes look at how I’m combining Cloudflare, SvelteKit, and Discord to help *Space members publish their thoughts to a public web page—just by messaging a bot.

A tale of creativity, AI, and unintended consequences—my journey with AgapeVerse, from crafting poems for famous figures to facing a suspension on X.

In open-source development, as in physics, speed and accuracy are locked in a dance of trade-offs. My journey adding dark mode to Deno’s ecosystem taught me that progress isn’t about perfection—it’s about momentum, iteration, and knowing when to move fast or slow.

I added dark/light mode (themes) to existing Deno websites (fresh.deno.dev/docs and docs.deno.com). Here is what I learned and how you can eventually implement my solution on Deno Fresh apps.

Learn how to set up a global ignore environment notes file for your project.

Few things are more frustrating than a computer that randomly restarts for no clear reason, especially when you're in the middle of work (or a good movie). This Windows 11 machine seemed cursed—no error messages, no overheating, nothing super obvious in the event logs, just abrupt, unexplained reboots. I went through the usual suspects. Windows Updates, other software updates, GPU drivers, all other drivers, power supply checks, stress testing, and even a Windows reinstall via the Settings app. But just when I thought I had it solved, another reboot would strike. At some point, I even joked on Twitter that my next step would be tearing the machine apart piece by piece to reseat components and check every cable. And oddly enough, after making that public threat, the computer stayed stable for a while. Coincidence? Or does my PC have a sense of self-preservation? 😂 This post is a deep dive into my troubleshooting process and the unexpected trials and tribulations I had to go through. Did I finally solve this annoying riddle? Read on to find out! :)

Reflecting on a year and a half of learning SvelteKit and Deno, contributing to Deno Docs, spending time in Maine, and planning the future of *Space.