Aaron Crowder

Hi, I'm Aaron Crowder. Or—if you know me online—CrowderSoup.

Father of two, Software developer, and lover of the open web. I like to take things apart (and sometimes even put them back together). I can frequently be found tinkering with some bit of code in my spare time.

Pronouns: He/Him, They/Them

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I usually give AI little coding tasks. Go off and fix this one thing, make this small tweak, add this one feature that I will review. Today I had it help with something bigger. I iterated on the plan, then it worked for 30 minutes. Prett...

I’ve seen lots of people say they’re having AI go off and do 30 minutes of work. I think I usually prefer to have the loop closed much tighter than that because that’s a lot of wasted minutes if AI is doing the wrong thing.

2026-01-23 Aaron Crowder

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Watched: The House. An anthology in three parts about the same house, directed and animated by different teams. The style and tone from first to second part was jarring. At times beautiful, at times bonkers and creepy. 🍿

Now this definitely sounds like my kind of movie 🍿

2026-01-21 Aaron Crowder

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We should slow down in 2026. Take more time to read longer posts. Full stories, not headlines. This is why when I cancelled all of my news subscriptions, I kept only The New Yorker. Longer, thoughtful posts that I read once a week instead of all the time.

Instead of subscribing to short form content in 2026 my goal is to slow down and read more blogs. Read detailed analysis instead of hot takes.

When I read a blog post I love, I usually find my favorite part of it to quote in a short post on my own blog. Sometimes I can’t find a single excerpt that fits, so I turn it into a full blog post and add more commentary. Such is the cas...

2026-01-21 Aaron Crowder

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An IndieWeb Fuelled Week Most of the free time I had in the past week (writing this weeknote a bit late; it’s already Wednesday) was spent surrounding topics I discovered while exploring the trove of information from indieweb.org. Re-dis...

I used to use Hugo, and did for a long time. But sending webmentions was always tricky! Eventually I broke down and just built my own blogging platform lol.

2026-01-11 Aaron Crowder

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Intro# It was during the Christmas period when I was looking for a book to read. I picked up “Pragmatic Programmer” from the shelf. Cover of book The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt, David Thomas The Pragmatic Programmer Your journey...

This is such an awesome adventure just to read. Nice work!

2026-01-11 Aaron Crowder

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Lately there’s been a brewing culture war in the software community regarding the usage of LLM-based coding tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.), and I’m seeing a lot of hardline discourse on both sides, but especially from the anti-AI ...

I have a hard time finding fault with anyone using AI tools in their jobs. With the economy the way it is, I won't begrudge anyone who feel they need to use them to stay ahead of the curve.

2026-01-09 Aaron Crowder

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Hello, webcrafter! I added a functional comment section to my static site using IndieAuth and thought it might be helpful to explain how I implemented things. There were quite a few pitfalls along the way that I want to make point of to ...

This looks awesome! I have thought about building something like that before. Nice work 🎉

2026-01-09 Aaron Crowder

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You know it’s a good night when you don’t bother to put the lid back on the bottle of Maker’s 46 after the first pour.

Oh hell yeah man! Hope you had a great night, cheers 🍻

2026-01-09 Aaron Crowder

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I may have found my people.

This is amazing. Maybe I’ll start an SLC Ludd club lol

2026-01-06 Aaron Crowder

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iCloud Bridge was developed with the AI-assisted methodology I posted about recently. You can dive into the design and implementation plans in the repo - https://github.com/cleverdevil/iCloudBridge/tree/main/docs/plans - The app was deve...

This is awesome! Can't wait to try it out tomorrow!

2026-01-05 Aaron Crowder