Klaas Cuvelier
@klaascuvelier.be
👨🏻💻 Programmer | 🏃🏻♂️➡️ Runner | 📍 Ghent, Belgium / SF, CA
Principal Engineer at showpad.com
I love solving problems and building things.
https://klaascuvelier.be
Principal Engineer at showpad.com
I love solving problems and building things.
https://klaascuvelier.be
Turning AI chaos into real dev wins. Here’s how we built the AI Productivity Guild and scaled knowledge across Showpad. medium.com/showpad-engi...
July 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Turning AI chaos into real dev wins. Here’s how we built the AI Productivity Guild and scaled knowledge across Showpad. medium.com/showpad-engi...
Really interesting idea of not always avoiding "clever code." There are many occasions when choosing a more complex alternative can be beneficial.
It's over a week late but I have a new newsletter out! Read 'write the most clever code you possibly can' with your tongue firmly in your cheek, and because it's all about how why you it's good to write code that nobody else can understand buttondown.com/hillelwayne/...
Write the most clever code you possibly can
Clever code is a bad idea 95% of the time, this is the other 5%
buttondown.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Really interesting idea of not always avoiding "clever code." There are many occasions when choosing a more complex alternative can be beneficial.
Great read! Building News Agents for Daily News Recaps with MCP, Q, and tmux eugeneyan.com/writing/news...
Building News Agents for Daily News Recaps with MCP, Q, and tmux
Learning to automate simple agentic workflows with Amazon Q CLI, Anthropic MCP, and tmux.
eugeneyan.com
May 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Great read! Building News Agents for Daily News Recaps with MCP, Q, and tmux eugeneyan.com/writing/news...
This blog post by @simonwillison.net is exceptionally informative, detailing his utilization of LLMs to help in code writing.
Here's the table of contents for my lengthy new piece on how I use LLMs to help me write code simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/...
March 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
This blog post by @simonwillison.net is exceptionally informative, detailing his utilization of LLMs to help in code writing.
I’ve always used Apple’s Health app to remind me to take my medication. Now, I need to do physiotherapy exercises three times a day, but the app doesn’t allow me to set reminders or track them. 🙁
February 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I’ve always used Apple’s Health app to remind me to take my medication. Now, I need to do physiotherapy exercises three times a day, but the app doesn’t allow me to set reminders or track them. 🙁
Damn, Raycast just sherlocked Hyperkey and Karabiner. I'm glad I no longer need a separate app for Raycast functionality. Keep shipping great stuff! :)
February 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Damn, Raycast just sherlocked Hyperkey and Karabiner. I'm glad I no longer need a separate app for Raycast functionality. Keep shipping great stuff! :)
Just had a merchant trying to convince me to pay cash, because electronic transactions store data and that’s bad for the environment 🙃
February 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Just had a merchant trying to convince me to pay cash, because electronic transactions store data and that’s bad for the environment 🙃
I had a fantastic time at Showpad’s AI Innovation Hackathon! It kicked off with an AI advancements overview, followed by coding sessions, lightning talks, and fun gaming activities like racing a beam robot through the office, Mario Kart, and FIFA. We wrapped up with impressive demos.
January 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I had a fantastic time at Showpad’s AI Innovation Hackathon! It kicked off with an AI advancements overview, followed by coding sessions, lightning talks, and fun gaming activities like racing a beam robot through the office, Mario Kart, and FIFA. We wrapped up with impressive demos.
According to our GitHub Copilot stats, we have a Neovim user among us. But here's the twist: we have absolutely no idea who it is. Somehow that person is NOT talking about using Neovim.
January 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
According to our GitHub Copilot stats, we have a Neovim user among us. But here's the twist: we have absolutely no idea who it is. Somehow that person is NOT talking about using Neovim.
Reposted by Klaas Cuvelier
What are the traits and skills that make up a "strong" engineer? 💭
Sean Goedecke, Staff Software Engineer at @github.com believes it boils down to four things: self-belief, pragmatism, speed, and technical ability.
Read the full blog and highlights below: www.seangoedecke.com/what-makes-s...
Sean Goedecke, Staff Software Engineer at @github.com believes it boils down to four things: self-belief, pragmatism, speed, and technical ability.
Read the full blog and highlights below: www.seangoedecke.com/what-makes-s...
What makes strong engineers strong?
Self-belief, pragmatism, speed, and technical ability
www.seangoedecke.com
January 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
What are the traits and skills that make up a "strong" engineer? 💭
Sean Goedecke, Staff Software Engineer at @github.com believes it boils down to four things: self-belief, pragmatism, speed, and technical ability.
Read the full blog and highlights below: www.seangoedecke.com/what-makes-s...
Sean Goedecke, Staff Software Engineer at @github.com believes it boils down to four things: self-belief, pragmatism, speed, and technical ability.
Read the full blog and highlights below: www.seangoedecke.com/what-makes-s...
The blog posts from Nikhil Suresh are often lengthy, but they are so interesting and worth the time to read. “Brainwash an Executive Today” is another excellent post filled with relatable situations. ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/brainwa...
Brainwash An Executive Today! — Ludicity
ludic.mataroa.blog
January 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The blog posts from Nikhil Suresh are often lengthy, but they are so interesting and worth the time to read. “Brainwash an Executive Today” is another excellent post filled with relatable situations. ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/brainwa...
Product idea for Slack: an automatic “change tone” (to friendly yet professional) on message before sending them.
That way I won’t have to copy paste al my messages to an LLM before sending them
That way I won’t have to copy paste al my messages to an LLM before sending them
January 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Product idea for Slack: an automatic “change tone” (to friendly yet professional) on message before sending them.
That way I won’t have to copy paste al my messages to an LLM before sending them
That way I won’t have to copy paste al my messages to an LLM before sending them
If you want to learn WebAssembly in 2025, this is the course you are looking for 👇
🚀 Thrilled to announce my interactive #WebAssembly course!
Learn WebAssembly from the ground up with:
🔍 Custom-built debugger & VM
📊 Live stack & memory insights
💻 Hands-on exercises
🛠️ Build real projects
Level up with WebAssembly! ✨
👉 learn-wasm.dev
Learn WebAssembly from the ground up with:
🔍 Custom-built debugger & VM
📊 Live stack & memory insights
💻 Hands-on exercises
🛠️ Build real projects
Level up with WebAssembly! ✨
👉 learn-wasm.dev
Learn WebAssembly
Take your programming skills to the next level with this comprehensive, code-first, and hands-on WebAssembly course - the ultimate gateway to mastering the fundamentals of this revolutionary technolog...
learn-wasm.dev
January 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If you want to learn WebAssembly in 2025, this is the course you are looking for 👇
Not how I expected to end my first working day of 2025, but I wrote some AngularJS proof of concept to show how we could easily work around a bug we have in the legacy part of our codebase.
January 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Not how I expected to end my first working day of 2025, but I wrote some AngularJS proof of concept to show how we could easily work around a bug we have in the legacy part of our codebase.
The amount of times I double press the camera button instead of the power button to open Apple Pay on my iPhone is ridiculous. I constantly need to clean my camera roll 😅
January 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The amount of times I double press the camera button instead of the power button to open Apple Pay on my iPhone is ridiculous. I constantly need to clean my camera roll 😅
Advent of Code 2024 (adventofcode.com) has started. Just a reminder that @ferrycolum.bsky.social created this nice ts-oac-starter that scaffolds out all days with input and result files: github.com/nrwl/ts-aoc-...
Advent of Code 2024
adventofcode.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:20 AM
Advent of Code 2024 (adventofcode.com) has started. Just a reminder that @ferrycolum.bsky.social created this nice ts-oac-starter that scaffolds out all days with input and result files: github.com/nrwl/ts-aoc-...
Reposted by Klaas Cuvelier
While Bluesky looks like other social apps on the surface, it’s actually quite different. It’s an open network.
I blogged about it here:
I blogged about it here:
Benefits of an open network
emilyliu.me
November 24, 2024 at 11:53 PM
While Bluesky looks like other social apps on the surface, it’s actually quite different. It’s an open network.
I blogged about it here:
I blogged about it here:
Reposted by Klaas Cuvelier
Not sure who to follow? Bluesky members have created over 9000 starter packs for you to choose from!
blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs
blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs
Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
blueskydirectory.com
November 16, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Not sure who to follow? Bluesky members have created over 9000 starter packs for you to choose from!
blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs
blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs
Nice read on downsides of using tools like Copilot and the value of maintaining and refining our coding skills.
This is your brain on LLMS:
"There’s a moment there where your brain almost shuts off, as you stare at the screen waiting for something that will never arrive. After a couple seconds, you’ll snap back to your senses and continue typing."
thomasvogelaar.me/po...
"There’s a moment there where your brain almost shuts off, as you stare at the screen waiting for something that will never arrive. After a couple seconds, you’ll snap back to your senses and continue typing."
thomasvogelaar.me/po...
The Copilot Pause | Thomas Vogelaar
How does a reliance on AI code completion affect our efficiency and learning as developers?
thomasvogelaar.me
November 12, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Nice read on downsides of using tools like Copilot and the value of maintaining and refining our coding skills.
Can’t wait for @raycast.com for iOS so I can add it to my iPhone Action Button
November 11, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Can’t wait for @raycast.com for iOS so I can add it to my iPhone Action Button
Surprised that we still cannot create a reminder straight from iMessage on iOS or MacOS. Aren’t other people missing this flow?
November 9, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Surprised that we still cannot create a reminder straight from iMessage on iOS or MacOS. Aren’t other people missing this flow?
Reposted by Klaas Cuvelier
If you're in the Angular ecosystem I've got a starter pack for you to follow. Reply or DM me if you want to be added!
🅰️
go.bsky.app/hLveAd
🅰️
go.bsky.app/hLveAd
November 1, 2024 at 11:38 PM
If you're in the Angular ecosystem I've got a starter pack for you to follow. Reply or DM me if you want to be added!
🅰️
go.bsky.app/hLveAd
🅰️
go.bsky.app/hLveAd
I very much share this sentiment on quality software deserving hard-earned cash as @stephanango.com wrote here stephango.com/quality-soft.... I've felt the same way for a long time but had never been able to word it so nicely as he did in this post.
Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash
Quality software is like quality food from the farmer’s market. A jar of handmade organic jam is not the same as mass-produced corn syrup-laden jam from the ...
stephango.com
November 4, 2024 at 10:44 AM
I very much share this sentiment on quality software deserving hard-earned cash as @stephanango.com wrote here stephango.com/quality-soft.... I've felt the same way for a long time but had never been able to word it so nicely as he did in this post.
Reposted by Klaas Cuvelier
Also, this one for the JavaScript
go.bsky.app/6jDsWb5
go.bsky.app/6jDsWb5
October 31, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Also, this one for the JavaScript
go.bsky.app/6jDsWb5
go.bsky.app/6jDsWb5
Gitlab's lazy loading of changed files in merge requests is so depressing. You think you're almost of the end of a review ... but no, here's a new chunk of files 🥲
November 8, 2023 at 8:34 AM
Gitlab's lazy loading of changed files in merge requests is so depressing. You think you're almost of the end of a review ... but no, here's a new chunk of files 🥲