"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.

Ok @vuejs.org gurus, here's a question: How much more performant is shallowRef vs ref for primitives? If I'm rendering 1000 components, and they each have a ref<string>, what is the performance benefit to refactoring it to a shallowRef?

Wow, look at this pricing transparency for Google Cloud #gcp. Very nice!

This is embarrassing for some reason, but i learned javascript by using Copilot. I remember writing a for loop, pausing, and Copliot suggesting forEach. I kept seeing "await" in function definitions and had to look up Promises. People underestimate the power of these things as a teaching tool.

Beautiful spring snow today in Seoul. It's like a painting backdrop for a little morning coding session.

My coding session today was on an airplane. I am less prolific without AI, but it engages a completely different part of my brain. Every line is important, and every decision is deliberate. It's back to basics. Blocking and tackling. Hand flying the airplane without autopilot. Very productive.

Vibe coding with AI kinda feels like it used to be with compiled languages. Make a change, wait for 2 minutes, make a change, wait for 2 minutes...

@bolt.new is such a cool creative outlet for my daily random ideas but as soon as I go one step further and jump into the unfamiliar codebase I completely lose interest.

The idea that I keep coming back to from The Three Body Problem is this concept about how Western culture assumes each generation will surpass the previous one in prosperity and technology, while Eastern cultures, having experienced devastating cycles of collapse and renewal, hold no such certainty.

Just shipped a new feature in my scheduling app. It came in at 2500 lines of code, which is now a meaningless number now that AI can generate that in ten minutes.

I ran an experiment to see how AI-generated content performs on a newly launched website: - Launched a brand-new website with a perfect PageSpeed Insights score - Paid a service that provided both keyword analysis (targeting competitors/audiences) and daily AI-generated blog posts. The results: 😆

Spent a little time coding on the train in Osaka today. I will operate into a new (to me) Chinese city tomorrow. I feel so privileged to get to live this life. "The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it."

I was thinking today, while building with my son out of our misc LEGO bin, that this is thermodynamics in action. We were using our breakfast to reduce local entropy, and this was a microcosm of what makes humans so special and unique in the known universe

Really interesting workflow using the Cursor agent and a markdown checklist to get fully autonomous front-end development using Storybook. I tried to replicate this behavior in the new @vscode.dev agent mode, but it's not quite there yet. youtu.be/gXmakVsIbF0?...

I think if @firebase.com had spending caps, it'd be much easier to recommend to people.

Every month when I get my @firebase.com bill I think, "yeah, that's fair."

This exists now: I can have an idea in the airport, type it quickly into @github.com copilot workspaces, AI will create a new branch with an implementation, Vercel will automatically build a preview deployment, and I can open it up to view the new feature right away on my phone. Wild.

I feel like I encounter black magic while coding sometimes and have nobody to share my disbelief with. Like... I renamed my sitemap sitemap.xml.get.ts and now #nuxt dynamically renders whatever I want. How cool is that? Aren't there entire NPM packages dedicated to that purpose?

Quick review of outrank.so by @tmaker.io Add competitors and it comes up with SEO keywords using "AI" - pretty decent. My first article was SEO keyword AI slop, but that's kinda the idea. Video embed was of Minecraft, so still WIP I think. Webhook -> #supabase -> #nuxt = automatic blog. Neat.

I'm proud of this, but in all honesty I should have been working on driving traffic to my app instead.

Oh super, my vscode automated formatting settings are broken. This is exactly what I wanted to spend my time on today.