Archive - Code Like A Little Old Lady

The Lovable Diaries

Why I’m Rebuilding a 25 Year Old App, and What’s In the Toolbox

Jul 20 • Code Like A Little Old Lady

The T-Shirt Contest Wrapped Today

Today was the last day to enter a question to win a t-shirt.

Jul 16 • Code Like A Little Old Lady

The Lovable Diaries

How a “No” Turned Into a Series

Jul 14 • Code Like A Little Old Lady

The Lovable Diaries: Undo Isn't the Same as Version Control

Building a GitHub PR workflow on top of Lovable.

Jul 14 • Code Like A Little Old Lady

We've Left the Holodeck

We've moved to the Inner Chamber

Jul 8 • Code Like A Little Old Lady

AI Inherited Our Bad Security Habits

A free six-week bootcamp, and why I'm taking it myself

Jul 2 • Alison MacLellan

I Want Your Questions

(And I Have a Shirt to Bribe You With)

Jul 2 • Code Like A Little Old Lady

Writing Was The Barrier

On voice, rough thinking, and psychological safety in engineering

Jul 1 • Code Like A Little Old Lady and Alison MacLellan

June 2026

The difference between using AI to skip the work and using AI to do it better

Jun 29 • Code Like A Little Old Lady and Alison MacLellan

Fun Prompt - About You

This image was generated using this prompt.

Jun 27 • Code Like A Little Old Lady

Boring Is a Feature

The case for writing code like a little old lady

Jun 26 • Code Like A Little Old Lady

Why Depth Looks Slow

Code Like a Little Old Lady: Speed, The Micro View

Jun 24 • Code Like A Little Old Lady

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