Miron Blog
Learning to use the tools
A place about what these new tools make possible – for work, for craft, and for people who were told this was not for them. Written from the inside, while building.
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- Welcome This is my personal blog, a website built with Astro and deployed on Cloudflare Workers – a fitting home for someone who's spent years tinkering with…
- Seventy Weeks, One Epoch It was my son who alerted me. He noticed the whole thing early, the way young people do, and because he noticed it I started exploring early, and thinking…
Two pieces, read in either order.
Latest
- It Agreed With Me Both Times One day I decided that git would be the right way for my memory plugin to keep its history. It is a reasonable thought. The plugin writes small facts to disk,…
- Twenty-Four Times Out of Twenty-Five It seems we all know everything about AI these days. But are we actually looking into things? Are we reading? How do we study and comprehend?
- The Laptop That Does Not Sleep In June my feed kept handing me the same kind of post: someone had built a special app, or a container, or some small piece of infrastructure whose only job…
- A Team That Remembers Some time ago I worked out that Boris Cherny is betting big on Claude Tag. The evidence was a video: him and a team member, on camera, praising it. I do not…
- A Skill, Not a Trick In June I was catching up on LinkedIn and found two strangely weird ways of thinking about working with AI. On one side, very complex schemes – agents, loops,…
What this is
I spent years managing products before I started making things with my own hands. What changed everything was not a course or a bootcamp – it was tools patient enough to be asked the same question twice.
So this site is about learning to use them. Not only programming: I use these things for marketing, sales, design, research, productivity, and teaching, and I would like to write about all of it as it comes.
Learning with me
I teach a small learning-by-doing curriculum in coding and IT – a limited group, for children and for grown-ups who have been meaning to start for years. AI tools throughout, and an individual approach to each person, because at this size there is no reason to teach any other way.
You build things that are actually yours and that actually run. Nothing is a simulation of real work.
Concepts
Short, plain-language explainers of the tools behind modern websites – no background assumed. They turn up as hover definitions whenever the word appears in an article.