First release of SatPulse was focused on a fairly narrow use case: transferring time from GNSS to a PTP Hardware Clock, which required some pretty niche hardware. It's now moved far beyond that, and is turning into a fairly general purpose tool for doing precision timing and positioning with GNSS. I just created a new doc satpulse.net/recent-changes.… that has an list of all the new features implemented since the first release. It's a lot! The website has fallen behind, but the man pages section is up to date. It would have been completely impossible to implement this amount of stuff in this time without AI help. SatPulse started off a several years ago in the pre-AI era. As coding agents have got better, I have been making increasing use of them. But SatPulse is definitely not AI slop. I care deeply about code quality. Coding agents can help not just improve velocity but also improve quality. But it takes sustained effort, because the default is slop. So that's another thing I am going to talk about.

It's very hard to tell the difference between slop AI and legitimate AI. For an example, one can create a SKILL file by just prompting, while another can create it by iteratively growing it to be minimal yet effective. Both will look the same.

Give a man a plugin, you solve one of his problems - poorly. Give a man an MCP to build plugins, you solve many - and better.

MCP is the SOAP of tool calling

When I wrote this code only Opus and I understood the code now neither of us do.

Future desktop software should have a built-in MCP interface. UI should reflect the actions taken via MCP. Eg: select-address tool will select a UI element in the address book app.

I'm super hyped about joining @lambda_conf in a couple of weeks! Can't wait to talk about @ballerinalang with all the programming language enthusiasts there.

Win a Tesla Cybertruck! @Tesla #Cybertruck

The latest update to the Ballerina (@ballerinalang) VSCode extension now allows for XML files to be seamlessly converted into records.🎉🎉 #ballerinalang #vscode

The @ballerinalang programming language works hard to ensure that error management isn't something you do as an afterthought, when production outages force you to--it's something you do as part of everyday software engineering. 👇 stackoverflow.com/collective…

Ballerina had all these features from day one. It was not retrofitted and the difference is quite visible. @ballerinalang @java piped.video/watch?v=UQAw3pvZ…

The #BallerinaLang #compiler involves many #algorithm, including inferring numeric literal types. Check out my demo built with the help of OpenAI & Copilot to see how it works 👉 bal.tips/docs/expressions/li…. Let me know if you implement this in Ballerina. I'd love to see your code!

Here, I am visualizing the application design just from the code in #VSCode, and this image never goes out of sync with the code. How cool is that? 🙂 This is the Google cloud microservices demo.

I finished my #dogbunnypuzzle in the 70th percentile 🐰🐰🐰 🐰🐰🐰🐰 🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶 🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 🐰🐰🐰🐰 🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 Try it yourself: dogbunnypuzzle.com

My internship project at WSO2 is to implement a WebAssembly backend for the @ballerinalang native compiler nBallerina. Here is a blog post with details on initial implementation poorna.info/posts/wasm-backe…

I wrote a blog to explain why @ballerinalang is a language - what it does that could not be done except with a new programming language blog.jclark.com/2022/05/why-…

Ever wished that creating and combining network services were a little more ... effortless? The leap into Ballerina is COMING SOON! 💫 #sliit #sliitfoss #foss #WSO2 #ballerina @wso2

Ballerina 2201.0.0 (Swan Lake) is finally here! #Ballerinalang radically simplifies how you use, combine, and create network services for real-world, cloud native applications. Release announcement ⬇️ blog.ballerina.io/posts/2022…

✅ I hope you're happy Louis.

I will be presenting some practical aspects of adopting SRE for your organization & how Kubernetes can help in that journey, based on my experience in building the SRE practice at WSO2. The WSO2 SRE team runs the @ChoreoDev & @asgardeo clouds. Join me @ 2nd Feb 2022, 5:30PM IST.