If you are hoping to do great work, then you had better be ready and content to look foolish for a while.

I'm burned out on sentences that start like: "In full transparency ..." "We need an LoE for ..." "Let's circle back to ..." It's human generated meeting slop.

I really despise poor quality and lazy design. Here is a string of backyard lights, with each bulb individually wrapped in red plastic, which is super frustrating to remove. This is a Hampton light set from Home Depot What a waste of human brain cycles.

"The Terminator" and "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" were both really good. And a great pair to see the evolution of James Cameron as a director, 7 years apart (1984 and 1991). "No fate, but that which you make" Still rings true 42 years later.

"The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination." - Fred Brooks (Mythical Man-Month) This is why I love programming.

The Model Y is like the Model T of the new age of the automobile. Best car I've ever owned.

I'm getting back into the list of films I want to watch (or re-watch). Inglorious Basterds was really good. The first 2 Terminator movies are next.

Watched "Inglorious Basterds" last night. It was really good. The film seems to be Quentin Tarantino's fantasy for how World War II should have ended with the Nazis. www.imdb.com/title/tt0361...

Coders in the northern part of the northern hemisphere: I think there should be a two week holiday straddling the winter solstice where we don't go anywhere and just hole up, get cozy, and write code in the dark while it snows outside.

We're not going to do take home problems in our hiring process anymore, so I need to find something that fits that role during the interview. But, I despise coding tests. I need something that's fun and breaks the ice and allows a person to showcase their best selves.

When I'm sick, there's nothing that brings relieve like a long hot shower and fresh brushed teeth.

You need to be courage enough to remove code that your boss wrote.

So, today I wrote a JavaScript loop attempting to iterate over an object which was not iterable. TypeScript would have caught that. But you know what else caught it? Just refreshing my browser page, because my build happens in about 10 milliseconds.

I'll be impressed with a mechanical hand that can open a cough drop wrapper. Not impressed with the picking up an egg thing.

Geeking out while working on fresh implementations of a few well thought out industry specifications. It's like being out to dinner at a place with a great chef.

Embedded JS application development environments have really come a long way since I first started on Xbox in 2014. Living room smart TVs, cable set top boxes, kiosks, etc. And we're building a new one for PlayStation and Xbox too. JavaScript haters be damned ;-)

I love kicking back with a good technical specification. Hypertext Transfer Protocol datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc... HTTP Live Streaming datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/dra... Media Source Extensions www.w3.org/TR/media-sou...

I finally get to use the JavaScript Set#intersection() feature in a real-world (not contrived) use case! And, it's saving me a lot of code I have to write to make up for it :D

In a software development world where AI abounds, there is such a satisfying feeling to manually type code into a plain old text editor and make it run.

It infuriates me that so much of the web created by big tech companies (including my own) is really just piles of wildly over-complicated JavaScript/TS like this Google developer docs page, which should just be a simple HTML page: developers.google.com/identity/pro...

It infuriates me that so much of the web created by big tech companies (including my own) is really just piles of wildly over-complicated JavaScript/TS like this Google developer docs page, which should just be a simple HTML page: developers.google.com/identity/pro...

I like being on my keyboard in the early hours of the morning. It’s one of my favorite parts of winter in the northern hemisphere— it’s dark longer, which is great for my focus. But dev tools like this AWS login with the bright white background just kill the vibe

Thanks for the support so far on DevHunt! I know these launch platforms can be gimmicky, but it is a good way to document what the Kixx web development framework hopes to be and get a sense of how strong the need is. 3 days left; keep voting!

An open source development platform should come up just short of being a religion. Let’s call it a movement. If it’s too close to a religion then people make too much of it as sacred. If it’s not close enough to a religion then it brings no opinions and no value

Initial documentation for the Kixx templating system for server-side rendering: github.com/kixx-framewo...

People who look for shortcuts will always look for shortcuts. AI (or any other trend) never changes that. It's discouraging to see them win in the short term, but we all know that "success" is fleeting.

In a large corporation, most people don't have other options, so will behave in unpredictable ways to keep or grow their position in the company. If you're willing to play that game, then you had better commit to it. If not, then you'd better create more optionality for yourself.

Foundational/general LLMs consume stolen data and bleed the planet of natural resources. Real engineers build solutions. An LLM built and trained for a single programming language using a single framework all be done on a single commodity laptop.

The Kixx framework is launching on DevHunt today! Would love to get your vote. Check it out: devhunt.org/tool/kixx

I find that I can make much better/faster design decisions about the code I'm writing when I have some guiding principles. These are my principles for the Kixx web development framework: 1. Optimize for productivity. 2. Have opinions 3. Software is a craft done by humans. 4. Remove complexity.

Best advice for new developers? Trust your gut and go for it, even when the "experts" tell you that you're doing it wrong. Maybe it will turn out wrong, but you'll learn and get better at a faster rate than everyone else who is learning to code in conventional ways.

Rebranded the site for the Kixx framework, and added a bit more content. Working on moar docs now :-) Kixx is an AI first rapid application development framework -- which makes it really great for humans too ;-) www.kixx.dev

Are we building bloated client side apps for our own indulgence? www.reddit.com/r/webdev/com...

I'm working on Kixx: An AI first web development framework. Use plain old HTTP & HTML to rapidly build maintainable web apps without the bloated client side garbage. www.kixx.dev

Why do so many web developers over index toward building fat client JS/TS applications? If you start small, you can stay small. Build tooling like Vite is invented to solve problems that 95% of web applications shouldn't have.

The Self is the Platform One of the most interesting pieces I've seen written on what a post AI future might look like. On today's edition of Kixx News www.kixx.news/editions/202...

I like to do things that cause a little (good) pain: - Park far from my destination and walk - Take the stairs instead of the elevator - Write vanilla (ES5) JavaScript on circa 2015 embedded devices

@jimmy.path.pub I love the concept of path.pub I'm trying to do something similar with www.kixx.news

JavaScript is a really, really nice language in 2025 ... when you strip away all the web framework garbage, TypeScript, tooling, build processes, etc Writing code the way we did in 2008 with the JavaScript of 2025 is really amazing!

What kills motivation? This and more great web developer reads in Tuesdays edition of Kixx News www.kixx.news/editions/202...

Make your own luck www.kriswalker.me/essays/make-...

What kills motivation? "Maybe, working hard doesn’t lead to burnout, but the lack of hope leads to burnout" Great read from @justinjackson.ca justinjackson.ca/kill-motivat...

What are your ambitions? Your dreams should get your best hours. www.workingtheorys.com/p/best-hours

overheard from table next to me: "All these Chat GPTs are taking away entry level marketing jobs" Is "ChatGPT" becoming a noun and a verb? Like "why don't you google for that?"

The Boomer Cloud; Ouch ... LoL

By the time 20 talented and well paid programmers and managers have: - created the requirements docs - gotten the estimates - approved the budget - refined the requirements - debated who owns it One programmer could have just done it in 1/20 the time.

What would you need to see on the home page of an open source web development framework to think "damn, I really need to try that"?

Here is the core problem for agentic coding: I get the best results asking an AI agent to implement little things here and there ... which leaves me with just enough time between tasks to ... make a cup of coffee?

Thinking about rebranding the nascent little Kixx web framework www.kixx.dev

Slop is always in you. You just need to be an honest critic of yourself to see it. AI (or any platform shift) simply provide new mechanisms for puking that slop out into the world.