Quickbooks is *designed* to make your blood boil, right?

I love working on these little big details

one of those days where I replaced every filter in my house 💆‍♂️

I recently wrapped up a project for @larvalabs.com, animating their “Quine” generative art series, and I wrote about the process: destroytoday.com/blog/animati...

me, wanting to work on my personal site vs all my other priorities

Going independent again: destroytoday.com/blog/going-i...

Already had a great plumber and a great electrician. Finally found a great drywall guy.

New profile pic! 🤗

I just discovered that HBO has 24 seasons of “How It’s Made” 💆‍♂️ www.hbomax.com/shows/how-it...

i'm hiring a 'growth engineer' to work side-by-side with me at val.town in brooklyn we're a small team on a mission to spread the joy of programming we're looking for someone self-directed, loves talking to users, write english & typescript, and own projects end-to-end if this is you, reach out!!

@aaron.mn 🦅

If anyone’s had to deal with disputes before, this is one of the most practical and useful applications of AI I’ve seen.

Happy NIN Tron soundtrack release day for those who celebrate! open.spotify.com/album/47pjW3...

Two somewhat contradictory beliefs I hold: 1. You should absolutely overengineer your personal homepage/blog/projects. Experiment with as many things as you can as quickly as possible. 2. If you _really_ wanted to write that blog post, you'd figure it out with a .txt file. Don't overcomplicate it.

Had a blast sharing a new side project at the AIR Show & Tell last night at Index Space. (and love seeing all the smiles after the fact since it was tunnel vision for me during the talk 😅)

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All I want is a Love Island season where someone takes the money.

I wish I could have AI in my IDE in the sense that I could tell it to never show me certain auto-suggestions ever again and it’ll listen and maybe even apologize.

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In case it’s helpful to anyone else… my local `vercel dev` randomly slowed down to 1-2 sec for every request that went through it—even assets. No idea what it was until I realized that the requests were directly affected by the number of files in my repo. Using `.vercelignore` instantly fixed it. 🌠

Just troubleshooted (shot?) an issue that stumped multiple AI models, but was the first Stack Overflow result when searching Google. 🙃

Update: I got my hopes up too soon. While the fixed worked locally, it broke production and further attempts by the AI agent to fix it ended up down red herring rabbit holes and used up all my “premium request” credits for the month… in a single night. 🙃 bsky.app/profile/did:...

If this actually works, I’ll never say anything bad about AI ever again. (if only coding agents were around when we had Webpack…)

Diving into the complex world of push notification logic…

I think the reason I’m having so much fun building a native app with Capacitor is because it feels like Adobe Air did for my Flash apps—nothing’s different about the code I’m writing, but now I have access to the OS’s SDK. If you’re not a React person either, check it out: capacitorjs.com

I’ve officially joined the “Waiting for review” club 🥱 (the web club is way better 🤫)

Trying to get an app on the App Store and wondering at what point the bridge troll asks me to solve 3 riddles.

I can’t believe this is real life. 🏀

Going through the ropes to set up an Apple developer account so I can build for iOS and I already miss the web.

When you’re excitedly building something fun for the web, but reach the point where you need to wait for DNS propagation.

There are 3 walking speeds at IKEA: - I have no idea what I need - I know exactly what I need - I want a divorce

Pacers fans have it too good. 😭

Several months ago, my dad invited me to go with him to the Indy 500, which is this upcoming weekend, and it couldn’t be a better weekend for NYC basketball, so I took full advantage of the opportunity…

👋 Looking for a full-time backend engineer to jam with. - a plus if they’re into AI - a bigger plus if they’re into automating personal finance - US-based (a huge plus if NYC/east coast) Would love some help asking around. 🙏

When you finally fix the bug that’s been haunting you all day.

Late to the party, but I’m blown away by YouTube TV—a great example of a service that breaks the traditional design paradigm. Instead of focusing on channels and a scrolling guide, just pick the shows & sports you like and we’ll pin those and DVR every single time they’re on TV… like every time.

Lovely talk by @sdw.bsky.social on Apps as Art and the making of Halide www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qU...

I’ve since learned that this happened because Plaid routinely closes accounts for companies that go under, and a different startup with the name “Cushion” went out of business, but Plaid mistakenly thought my account belonged to that company, so they closed it. Goodness. 😳 bsky.app/profile/jonn...

Somehow my Plaid account (of 8 years) has fallen into a weird state where they think I’m a new user who hasn’t been verified, so out of nowhere, my users see “internal error” when the Plaid widget opens. And because I’m not “verified”, their dashboard doesn’t let me contact support. Serenity now.

Working on something very important. 🏀

I love collaborating with a remote designer by giving them an ngrok url and tweaking the code while they see the changes in realtime. Not as good as pairing IRL, but almost.

While I’m not a fan of AI writing frontend code (I still enjoy doing that myself), I did realize something I’d actually use: “Take this SQL that I wrote 10 years ago and make it more efficient using the latest version of Postgres.” ✨

PSA: Remember to purge unused Docker images. I got a “disk almost full” notification (what year is it?) and realized I had over 50gb of Docker images from years ago. 🙃

I’d be broke in less than 24 hours.

Making fun interactive inputs with @vincejoy.bsky.social for era.app. 💅

Our internet was slower than usual, so I called the internet provider and they overnighted a new modem for free with speeds that are now 5x faster than we had before. me:

Today is pretty much a holiday in NY based on this weather. The park is going to be shoulder-to-shoulder. ☀️

🌠 TIL you can use `navigator.maxTouchPoints` to detect if touch events are supported on the current device.

My productivity always spikes when Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross release a new soundtrack. open.spotify.com/album/6KQhtd...