i know it's not news but the floating address bar in Safari in iOS 26 is such a "fuck you" to web app developers and their users

i know it's not news but the floating address bar in Safari in iOS 26 is such a "fuck you" to web app developers and their users

I miss email. Here's why I don't like Slack: 1. Conversations not organized by subject 2. Messages feel ephemeral, so everything feels urgent 3. Not easy to add new participants to an existing private conversation 4. Basically impossible to send someone a message without interrupting them

How many exceptions do you tolerate in production? joel.drapper.me/no-exceptions/

"Remember how cheap inference was in the 2020s?" is going to be the "remember how cheap Uber was in the 2010s?" of the next decade

They called it the Great Depression, I don't think it was that great. People are saying my depression will be much greater. Some say it could even be the greatest depression. I don't know, we'll see. But it could be.

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Using AI to help me think of a library name for an idea I’m playing with, and look who pops up in one of its ideas. @omgsean.com 25.8% CoffeeScript 🙈

Are we human? Or are we computer?

a million JS/TS devs today:

the orbstack is a little old place where we can run containers

up late stressing out about what to wear to my first day at trade war

strategic beanie baby reserve

"Your item has been shipped!" is the biggest lie of the modern era

watching figma as the designer changes everything on the screen i just finished coding

got my work done quickly, call that prompt engineering

if Canada joins the EU can I still eat dinner at 5:45?

don't use ai to write your code? ngmi use too much ai to write your code? believe it or not, also ngmi

i know a useEffect when i see one

if you use cool white lightbulbs please don't invite me to your house

Xmas decorations all put away, now to enjoy 65 days of drab darkness and biting cold

AI is cool and all but I still think it's incredible that we live in a time where you can have breakfast on one side of the continent and dinner on the other

Can't believe I'm stuck at the airport just sitting here scrolling my stupid phone. I should be at home. Scrolling my stupid phone.

insane that anyone would play scrabble when boggle exists

It's so weird that Claude asks followup questions now and tries to keep a conversation going. at this point it's becoming a better conversationalist than some people I know.

It's the most wonderful time of the year (when we claw back our daylight 30 god damned seconds at a time)

I've been admiring Gleam from afar since the 1.0 release, finally got around to trying it via Advent of Code this week and wow is it ever different than anything I've ever worked with. Fun to feel like a complete noob again.

It brings me no pleasure to report that going for a walk made me feel better

no. one of the greatest perks of being over 35 is I no longer have to think about what cut of pants is in style.

lord help me I'm about to return errors as values in a Ruby class.

@lpil.uk I gotta know, is the "Hello, Joe!" in the gleam tutorials a Simpsons reference? I can't see it without thinking of this youtu.be/AIf2NyzKoHM?...

coded for like an hour in Go without running anything and everything just... worked? no "undefined method" no "wrong number of args" just make the red squigglies go away and the code runs on the first try? beginning to see the appeal here.

me: hey Google does golang have Google: I'm gonna stop you right there. whatever you were gonna ask, the answer is no.

an interesting parallel between learning a new programming language and learning a new spoken language is you don't need to learn a whole lot just to get your point across

Mac 512k. to be fair it was a few years out of date when we got it the machine I really learned on was a Compaq Presario CDS 520, which came into my life on Christmas Day 1994. i learned QBASIC and HTML on that machine and became a nerd for life.

if you're doing Advent of Code to learn a new language here's some advice on using LLMs to help: 1. TURN OFF COPILOT. you will not retain anything without manually writing the code 2. Your questions to an LLM should be vague. "What's the idiomatic way in <lang> to <do thing>?"

And now for four months of "am I getting sick or is it just dry as hell everywhere?"

do you really want to start a company, or do you just want to work on a greenfield app?

For people who use React or other frontend frameworks with Rails or other fullstack tools, what's your preference: 1. Totally separate repos 2. Same repo, but frontend is built and deployed separately 3. Frontend code is built by Rails (e.g. using vite-rails) and mounted in a Rails view

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when i spot a useEffect while doing code review

texting my wife about the Taylor swift concert she's at and my phone keeps correcting swifties to SwiftUI's

so now that we all love owning our own data can we talk about how the adoption of Discord as the go-to solution for communities has been an absolute disaster for information sharing? it's time to bring back forums.

loaded up a bunch of home gym equipment into my cart on rogue fitness and when i went to check out shipping was $780. I understand shipping heavy things is expensive but can we go back to when VCs just paid companies to lose money?

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains

Working on a Ruby version of cva.style for organizing Tailwind classes on Phlex/ViewComponent components. i'll be open-sourcing this soon when I'm happy with the API and have some tests written. (button styles are from @shadcn.com, which was the impetus for writing this)

i wish there was Gmail-style filtering for push notifications on iOS. if you're gonna let marketing slop through at least give us the power of regular expressions