DeepSeek v4 Flash Free in OpenCode performs much better than I expected. I find myself reaching for it where I might otherwise reach for Sonnet.

AI moved the bottleneck in software dev. Writing code is now the fast part, but most team rituals were designed around code being slow. This dev makes a case for questioning all of them. { author: @joshsaintjacque.com } dev.to/joshsaintjac...

Had so much fun making this. The View Transition API is so powerful. #css #js #rails

On the same day OpenAI offers businesses two months of free usage to just to try it out, Anthropic nerfs Claude's subscription subsidy by 25x for programmatic uses. Anthropic needs to put a product person in the driver's seat before they drive off a cliff.

Finally got around to collecting together Ruby resources into one place. Some really cool stuff in here.

Software teams built rituals for a world where code was expensive. AI didn’t make software easy. It moved the bottleneck.

The entire software development lifecycle was built around code being expensive and hard to change. Now that it's the fast part, so many of our processes need to be questioned and deconstructed.

New book note: The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

New cheat sheet: Clean Code

New book note: Clean Code by Robert Martin

How do you do, fellow kids? #SpotifyWrapped

Being on call when AWS goes down is like being on a bucket brigade on the sun.

Raycast's clipboard history is actually really nice. I bind it to cmd+shift+v and it's very handy.

@hankgreen.bsky.social's take on Sora 2 misses something crucial: it's entirely about data. It's a platform for humans to provide massive amounts of free training data to OpenAI by viewing/engaging/remixing videos.

Yep.

Watching someone you admire descend into madness in realtime is an awful feeling.

With GitHub's launch of its own CLI/TUI for AI we now have Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent, and Copilot CLI. The competition in this space is crazy.

Slack is fine. If you're more excited to open Discord than Slack it's probably because you use it for fun things. If you had to use it for work you'd feel the joy sucked out of it, too.

Man ChatGPT cuts deep 🥲

I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.

Thiel is the same guy who argued that monopolies are actually good for consumers. Guess I should get a refund on all those econ courses I took in college.

I've heard billionaires make some creative arguments to discourage regulation, but Peter Thiel warning that regulating AI will bring forth the Antichrist is truely something special.

Some good points here about the problems with defaulting to React. I'd go a little further and say many of these team don't need a frontend framework at all, see HTMX, Hotwire, and so on. https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-won-by-default

Oh, you want a text confirmation of the payment? Just enter your number... again... Also, THIS TIME IT FORMATS IT FOR YOU WTF

And a $7 service fee for the privilege of paying my ticket...

Paying a traffic ticket and the website requires I add the hyphens to my phone number. The effort required to build that validation is about the same as just formatting it on the server but that's done of my business...

It's neat that Tailwind has child selectors and all but I wonder if at this point you should just use a stylesheet.

It's been a decade and I still run into neat little things buried in Rails. say_with_time "Reverting all service rates to nil." do Service.update_all( :rate, nil ) end # Output -- Reverting all service rates to nil. -> 0.3451s -> 2233 rows

React hooks were a mistake and I don't mind saying so.

Hot take: We were better off when you needed a class component to have state and side-effects.

The feeling when you've listened to rain sounds for white noise so much you actually developed a preference for certain kinds of rain.

I love how extreme these opinions are. Like, sometimes an OS update is just an OS update.

I'd like to see more developers get comfortable with the idea of throwing away system tests. Use them to drive the development of the thing you're working on, but if it's not adding value that exceeds its costs it's ok to delete them.

I'm really exctied about Turbo handling offline support in Rails. This is a use case that's a real pain to handle without a lot of JavaScript at the moment.

Enjoyed DHH's Rails World keynote this year. Really good points about the costs of complexity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcwzWzC7gUA

Raycast + Bluesky extension is really nice. I have hyper + x set to post to Bsky and it's seemless.

If you like the window management magic you've been seeing on the Omarchy demos but prefer to stay on MacOS I'd encourage you to check out Loop. I'm loving the slick animations and shortcut controls. github.com/MrKai77/Loop

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

It was about time, wasn't it? 😅 👇 But now, with Firefox 138 all major browser engines support import attributes to import JSON from within your ECMAScript modules. 👇 ✅ Chromium: 123+ ✅ Safari: 17.2+ ✅ Firefox: 138+ (released 2w ago) PS. This syntax works in modern Node.js, too!

skype has officially shut down today after 22 years. the end of an era. RIP 🩵

But eggs were really expensive.

Winamp:

The new ATF director is also the Army Secretary. 🤔

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So they have CMS and can push content right away and DOGE wants to replace that with code pushes. Any engineer with real experience would understand this is a bad idea, which makes me wonder why DOGE doesn’t have any experienced engineers.

WOW WOW WOW LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF NGC 346!!! 🌌

I'll allow it.

The replies to this are very angry that people are having fun.