First session of the season at the local surf wave park today. Related LLM query: "should I be discouraged that i am still bad at my hobby after 10 years?"

Coding on the road this week in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, and Guangzhou. Almost all maintenance. What's it called when you vibe code with the only goal of increasing robustness and maintainability?

sibling-index() and @starting-style on everything

I got an early invite to ui.sh by the team that built @tailwindcss.com Really neat tool already, but it burns tokens in Claude code. If you have a Github copilot subscription, you can install the same MCP server, and an entire design pass in Opus can be done in a single request - really efficient!

Heard a passing reference to @antfu.me on @syntax.fm @vite.dev (+) episode by @w3cj.com - basically saying that he is blocked from migrating to this awesome new toolchain because oxfmt cannot replicate the stylistic rules that antfu's eslint flat config provides. me too! youtu.be/A673RO0xnjs?...

I didn't want to have to spend my weekend rewriting my personal blog using @voidzero.dev , but here we are.

You ever think maybe you should just use Firebase?

@npmx.dev feels like Vue. I mean, it is Vue (Nuxt) but it also FEELS like Vue. If you know what I mean.

Do I subscribe to @github.com Copilot for another year, or switch to @anthropic.com Claude code? I am really productive with Opus using Copilot, but understand that I may be missing out on... something.

It's 2023, and I'm writing my new cyberpunk novel. "Github copilot CLI is now available on Opencode. I wonder if I could use it with sprites.dev if I plug in the built in claude skills. Gonna vibe code a new character in my agent orchestror. Token burn rate up to 1 million per hour."

Sprites.dev by @fly.io is a very cool new thing: it solves two of my pet problems at once, developer sandbox environments for coding agents and a JSON API for executing untrusted code I wrote more here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/9/s...

400 comments on HN about using tailscale, tmux, and codex/claude code to code on your phone. @warp.dev be like 👀 VC backed terminal looking for an exit? Next acquisition target for Anthropic after @bun.sh? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4651...

What exactly are people building with all these agent orchestrators? More agent orchestrators? Are there really so many features you are building simultaneously that you need 3/5/10 agents working at the same time?

My first post on my new personal website explains how this rambling tool was born. iamjoshcarter.com/articles/may...

I spent dead week learning about self hosting using @coolify.io . It gives me a lot of respect for the engineering required at @cloudflare.social and @vercel.com and @netlify.com . It's really impressive that they created these secure, easy to use systems that abstract away all this complexity.

New landing page! (Built in #Nuxt). Pivoting to custom software services for small to medium sized businesses. It better reflects the type of work I'm doing. www.acroroster.com

I just disabled all of my self hosted AI powered automations. The convenience is not worth the potential security implications.

Are typos in an email now a sign of respect? Like virtue signaling your human effort by demanstrating you arent using an LLM?

I do all my own customer support, but I need a little help these days. Using @coolify.io, I took 5000 customer support emails, put them in a vector database, and setup #AI to generate draft emails. They still need a human touch, but it's a few less times I need to write "Please restart the app."

Looking for a virtual assistant recommendation or referral. Need 2-4 hrs/week for expense tracking, personal admin, and emails. Asia timezone, fluent English (Korean a plus). Flexible arrangement. DM me if you know someone. #VirtualAssistant #Hiring #remotework #korea #southkorea

"It follows, I think, that the luckier you’ve been, the more humility and generous spiritedness you need, and the unluckier you’ve been, the more compassion for yourself you need, and unfair as it may seem, the more you need irrepressible resolve." Edward Packard (edwardpackard.com/wp-content/u...)

"All you ever were was a little bit of universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 bit, 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, right 𝘯𝘰𝘸. All the rest was fantasy."

What is javascript development going to feel like when typescript is in Go and we have rolldown and oxlint? Right now my MacBook heats up just linting and type checking my Vue project.

Coding with AI is like connecting little black boxes together. If you make little composable boxes, you can be really productive. In big black boxes, danger lies.

Started messing around with Basic in middle school, got a degree in Electrical Engineering from a California school, spent 10 years as a fighter pilot, then found a niche and built a startup. A tale as old as time.

Yes, vibe coded apps may have security and maintainability issues. The bigger issue, if you're trying to sell that software, is that if you can vibe code it, you’ve demonstrated that it has no value. If making it is easy, why would anyone pay for it?

Who is doing your s corp taxes? Any recommendations?

Generating a zod schema from an OpenAPI spec - it looks like there are a few options. Anybody got a recommendation? Preferably compatible with zod 4 because the number 4 is bigger than 3? Yes, this my first time doing this.

Helm. Helmet. Ohhhhhhhhh.

End of a season. Customer #1 and I agreed today that acroroster.com is feature complete—my employee scheduling app shaped entirely by their feedback. Ready for everyone now. My first swim season: 80 km total. Proud of both. Onward.

"Utility is seven-eights Proximity." Iain M. Banks, Surface Detail

"But what ultimately makes this ok for me is the prospect of creating new memories and the faith that the crucial lessons from past experiences are embedded in me. And if not it's always an opportunity to relearn everything with more attention." news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4419...

@jensimmons.bsky.social Great @shoptalkshow.com today! I have a favor to ask - I'm super excited about Declarative web push, but I use @firebase.com cloud messaging and it's incompatible with the new JSON format. Do you know anyone on the Firebase team to ask if they can implement the new field?

I feel much more inclined to open my wallet for personal software now that I build products myself. That "little utility" that organizes your folders or whatever took a thousand hours to get right.

My son was having trouble visualizing equivalent fractions, so we made an app. Then we moved on to decimals, and we added to the app. Then long division. Fun activity with him, and a good use case for vibe coding. We even made it a PWA for his iPad home screen. fractions-compare.pages.dev

Sometimes I see a really cool coffee shop sign and think, "I want to make a web site like that," but it's not the asthetic, it's the feeling the style itself invokes. I get the same feeling watching Star Wars or Alien. I want to build a site that feels old but new. Chunky and simple and glorious.

My new agent litmus test is "Implement a long division calculator, with highlighted explanations for each step." Claude 3.7, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Bolt.new, they all choke on it.

Custom software... is there a business model for building multiple 1 customer SaaS products?

If there is an emoji at the end of a #buildinpublic or #indiehacker post, there's a 90% chance the post is vapid slop.

applying for jobs again

"Burnout does not just come from overwork. It comes from overresponsibility. And programming, once internalized deeply enough, makes everything feel like your responsibility. The bloated website. The inefficient script. The clunky onboarding process at your job. You could fix it. So why aren’t you?

I think i like this medium better when I think of it as a messaging memory service to my future self rather than some tool to build human connection.

Today, instead of coding, I went to the park with my kids and learned how to ride a surfskate. When I write it like that, it sounds obvious that I made the right choice. At the time I felt like I was maybe being irresponsible.

Javascript changed my life.

"Self, you're getting pretty good at this whole building websites thing." After listening to @nerdy.dev talk about css with @chriscoyier.net and @davatron5000.bsky.social: "I am apparently a total amateur at this stuff. #shambles

Allowing my users to build custom shift templates for regular (and irregular) patterns

Anybody ever play MUDs (multi user dimensions) in the 90s? I have this vague idea where I hook up one of the old MUD c++ repositories to an LLM in agent mode and tell it to recreate the game using modern tools.

Staggered decaying grid entry animation. @starting-style + javascript, on css sub-grid

"Man, I need to just sit down and relax a little bit." *opens up vscode*

I built acroroster.com. I'm proud of it. I'm proud of the interface, and proud of the infrastructure details. I have happy customers. I'm working on finding more.