The ever-provocative Steve Yegge joins us fresh off a vibe coding bender so productive, he wrote a book on the topic alongside award-winning author Gene Kim. Steve tells us why he believes the IDE is dead, why babysitting AI agents is more fun than coding, when vibe coding might take over the enterprise, how software devs should approach coding agents, and what it all means for society.

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• Claude Code
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• Revenge of the junior developer
• Steve’s book

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If you've heard the phrase "Automate the boring things" for Python, this episode starts with that idea and takes it to another level. We have Glyph back on the podcast to talk about "Programming YOUR computer with Python." We dive into a bunch of tools and frameworks and especially spend some time on integrating with existing platform APIs (e.g. macOS's BrowserKit and Window's COM APIs) to build desktop apps in Python that make you happier and more productive. Let's dive in!

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Ah renewing certificates - my favorite tasks as an 'amateur' sys admin, running my own servers.

I run a private Filezilla server on a port blocked IP address, and more than once I've stumbled on trying to set up the self-signed Filezilla admin certificate. I look it up every time, and waste more than a few minutes in trying to pin down the problem. So I'm writing it down!

Issue is this:

• Trying to renew my Administration Server Certificate
• It's a self-signed certificate
• Prompts for Hostname (auto-fills)
• Prompts for Distinguished Name

For the Distinguished name which is typically provided as a hostname, any reasonable person would put in the... well, the hostname:

but unfortunately this is what you get in response:

Yeah, not really helpful, that! 💩

Distinguish This!

The problem is that Filezilla actually expects a full Common Name entry so what's required is something like this (at minimum):

Now it works.

Unintuitively, you have to provide a proper Common Name (CN) formatted string. It doesn't help that the dialog calls this the Distinguished Name, which is the domain part of the Common Name, which normally with other certificate requests refers to the DNS domain name.

With Filezilla you need a CN formatted string:

Minimal (works)

CN=ftp.example.com

Full

CN=ftp.example.com, O=Example Corp, C=US

   -- O for organization, C for country.

And that's all it takes. I didn't put those in here and it worked fine without - only the CN entry is required especially for the local admin certificate.

Summary

Filezilla isn't known for nice interfaces and the Admin interfaces are clearly very Unix focused and assume a lot of things. This is one of those cases. It's not the first time I've stumbled on this, which is why I'm here writing this trivial bit of information down in the hopes it will help burn it into my brain so I remember next time. 😁

Hello Windows Insiders, We’re excited to announce an update to the Microsoft Photos app, now rolling out on Windows 11 across all Insider channels. This release brings powerful new features on Copilot+ PCs, designed to help you enhance, rediscover, and organize your photos with ease.

Relight

The new Relight feature lets you take control of lighting like never before. You can position up to three light sources, set the light color, and set the focus point where all lights automatically point. Brightness and intensity controls provide additional fine-tuning to achieve the desired effect. For quicker edits, built-in presets offer ready-made lighting styles that can be applied with a single click. Relight simplifies complex lighting adjustments into a visual, intuitive experience for correcting poor lighting or applying creative effects. NOTE: Relight will be available on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs, with AMD and Intel® powered Copilot+ PCs coming in the next few months.   [caption id="attachment_177950" align="alignnone" width="2968"] Adjust lighting sources, target, color, and intensity with Relight in Photos.[/caption]

Improved photo search with natural language

Finding the right photo is getting easier as we’re enabling the improved, semantically-based Windows search in the Photos app. You can now quickly find the photos you’re looking for, using your own words, simply by entering descriptions like “sunset at the beach” or “family outdoor fun” —and Photos will surface the most relevant results. You no longer need to remember the exact file names or try to find what you’re looking for based on other properties like date, time, or file type. The improved search works on photos in your Pictures Library that are saved locally and have been indexed. Learn more about how semantic indexing works on Copilot+ PCs including supported file types and languages. [caption id="attachment_177951" align="alignnone" width="3548"] Semantic, natural language search in Photos.[/caption]

Entra ID Support for Restyle Image and Image Creator

Commercial users signed in with Microsoft Entra ID can now access Restyle Image and Image Creator, previously only available to users signed in with their Microsoft accounts. To get these new features and fixes, update your Photos app to version 2025.11060.5006.0 and higher. As always, please share your feedback via Feedback Hub (WIN + F) under Apps > Photos. Thanks, Yvonne Hsieh, Principal PM Manager