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What is vibe coding?

Vibe coding isn’t a formal technical term, but it’s become a slang or colloquial expression among programmers and tech communities—especially on social media and in creative coding circles.What “vibe coding” usually means:Coding based on intuition or feel Instead of rigidly planning everything out, you’re:Freestyling as you codeTrusting your gutLetting ideas evolve naturallyFollowing the “vibe” of what feels right in the momentFlow state or artistic mindset It’s often associated with being in a…See More
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Mark Cuban reveals why being a lifelong learner is essential to success. Building anything great requires relentless learning and hard work — no shortcuts. H...
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You can now download the source code that sparked the AI boom

Learning about artificial intelligence? You may find this interesting.https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/you-can-now-download-the-source-code-that-sparked-the-ai-boom/See More
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The "art of the start", social networks, content management systems, blogs, small business innovative research, iPhones, Android, sensors, cyber security, rules engines, podcasting, Java, Groovy, Ruby, Python, Turbogears, operating systems (especially OSX and Linux), relational databases, The Semantic Web, Web2.0 and enterprise architecture.
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What is vibe coding?

Posted on June 9, 2025 at 9:37am 0 Comments

Vibe coding isn’t a formal technical term, but it’s become a slang or colloquial expression among programmers and tech communities—especially on social media and in creative coding circles.

What “vibe coding” usually means:

  1. Coding based on intuition or feel

     Instead of rigidly planning everything out, you’re:

    • Freestyling as you…
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You can now download the source code that sparked the AI boom

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Learning about artificial intelligence? You may find this interesting.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/you-can-now-download-the-source-code-that-sparked-the-ai-boom/

Software language criteria

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This is worth a read.

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We have some exciting news to share with you. Otavio will be joining us to discuss the latest version of Camel in an exclusive presentation. Presentation Details: Speaker: Otavio Rodolfo Piske Topic:…

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We have some exciting news to share with you. Otavio will be joining us to discuss the latest version of Camel in an exclusive presentation.

Presentation Details:

Speaker: Otavio Rodolfo Piske

Topic: Camel 4:What to Expect

Date: 07 September 2023

Time: 19:00 Ist Time

Duration: Approximately 1 hour

Register URL : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/700456483197

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Software defined radio…cool!

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At 1:54pm on September 5, 2019, Ian Darwin said…

Thanks for the invite!

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At 7:20pm on January 17, 2019, Bradlee Sargent said…

I didn't mean to make you feel bad, I know how busy you must be.  It's just we could do more to promote this site.  Does the twitter thingie work for you?

At 3:30pm on December 28, 2018, Bradlee Sargent said…

Thanks so much for the birthday wishes. I know it's so late getting back to you but I don't check this website very often.

At 12:11pm on November 1, 2018, Michael Redlich said…

Thanks for the invitation and the birthday wishes, Mike!

At 8:44am on October 23, 2018, Joe McCall said…
Hi Michael. I hope CodeOne is going well. Any idea when the next JUG event will be?
At 7:50pm on October 9, 2018, Joe McCall said…

Thanks. I'm interested either way (either 10/25 or the rescheduled day). 

At 1:38pm on October 4, 2018, Ramya Beesam said…

Sure Mike. I can do that

At 9:46am on October 4, 2018, Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez said…
Hey Mike! Conference is awesome. Hoping to post talks as soon as they're up. My talk os tomorrow! Also that's great I would love to hear his talk!!! We're doing a lot with AOP and metaprogramming
At 4:29pm on October 3, 2018, Joe McCall said…
Hi Michael, nice to meet you. When is the next meeting? I may need some time to prepare and practice. The talk I'm writing outlines how we use Docker with the Gradle build tool to empower local development of cloud applications. Examples will include Grails and Spring Boot.

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