It's been a whirlwind month of May and we're only halfway through it!

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This week I had a chance to experience a preview of Epic Universe over at Universal Orlando. All I can say is, "Wow!" Super Nintendo Land was probably my favorite part, especially given that the Ministry of Magic attraction was closed during my preview. The Isle of Berk (How to Train Your Dragon) was a close second place, with Monster's Unchained being a distant last. I guess I'm just not into old monster movie. That said, it was impressive nonetheless. I saw the Burning Blade from a distance, and I must admit it's a cool effect.

Progress on my books has ground to a halt, so those of you who've signed up for my free previews will need to exercise a little more patience until I get back to them. That said, I'll get back to them eventually. See my Gumroad page to see what's available: https://walkingriver.gumroad.com

Vibe Working hit #1 on Amazon in its category for a few hours and has now settled back down to selling 1-2 copies per day. If you got a free copy for a review, I'd love to hear what you have to say about it. You can leave a review here: https://www.amazon.com/review/create-review?asin=B0F722NWPH

Vibe Working is still free to read for Kindle Unlimited Subscribers at https://amzn.to/4jUaJbX

On a related note, Pluralsight contacted me recently and asked me to produce two short courses on Ionic Framework with React. I haven't given them a firm answer yet, but I think I'm going to accept. Unfortunately, that will mean the books take a backseat to the courses, which will have a firm deadline of sometime around Labor Day or early Autumn. If you are a subscriber, you can follow me here and you'll be notified when those courses go live: https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/michael-callaghan

I've been using the Windsurf IDE more and more for my daily coding tasks. If you aren't familiar with it, Windsurf is a fork of VS Code that integrates Codeium's AI tools. It offers multiple models, including GPT 4, Gemini, Grok, Claude Sonnet, Deepseek, and more. Windsurf has both free and paid options; It and Grok are the only AI services I currently pay to use. If you want to give it a try, please use my referral code https://windsurf.com/refer?referral_code=8c684903e9

Last weekend I "vibe coded" an app in Angular that lets me analyze Amazon advertising reports. I swear I didn't write a single line of code, but simply asked Windsurf to keep refining it. If you use Amazon ads, you can try it out here.

My last coding update: CodeRabbit just announced a free code review tool. If you haven't heard of Code Rabbit, it's an AI-powered code review platform designed to streamline and enhance the software development process by automating code reviews, refactoring, debugging, and identifying security vulnerabilities. The new tool is an IDE extension that integrates with VS Code, Windsurf and Cursor, to provide real-time feedback and suggestions for improving code quality. I'm looking forward to giving it a complete workout soon.

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