“On average your favorite game was released when you were 12” @JeremyCMorgan at #CYC2025

Woo the preprint copies made it in time to hand out at #CYC2025 🥳 Love how it turned out. Looks great printed

TypeScript won. If you want typed javascript, that’s the choice. If you made a different choice, migrating is worth it. #cyc2025 @cmgriffing.bsky.social

Stop asking why it’s built weird, ask how do we want the code to work now? If it feels like a bug, it’s a bug. Even if it worked right to spec last year. ~ from dinner conversations at #CYC2025

It’s kinda funny – we have more and more tooling to treat HTML or JSX as the API protocol at the same time as AI needs more and more machine readable access Must discuss with @AllenHeltonDev #CYC2025 his talk was about making APIs easier for bots

That was fun. I should do more deeply technical talks but I def sounded like a crazy person and the audience did not follow. At least the demos were cool

There’s more to production software than code. Vibe coding won’t cut it, you need viable coding. @nnennahacks at #CYC2025

Please use meaningful html tags instead of div soup + aria. There’s a lot of hidden UX you’ll forget to implement yourself ~ Vishnu #CYC2025

Shut up and take my email!

“Senior engineers think this is all gravy. They could do it themselves, AI just does it faster. You need the experience to guide the output” ~ Matt Mcdole #CYC2025

“With these modern AI tools, you don’t want long contracts. In 6 months, 8 months, it won’t be the hot tool anyone wants to use anymore” ~ Matt McDole, CTO of KFC et al

me doing my talk about HTMX, RSC, and TanStack Start tomorrow #CYC25 #CYC2025

Missed my flight this morning, got through airport in 9min for afternoon flight 😅 Guess it’s make your talk better time

when you see a useEffect that updates a useState and returns a value, you might be looking for a useSyncExternalStore. This is my current vendetta. swizec.com/blog/you-may...

I get more engagement on the orange site than the blue sites these days 🤷‍♂️

Thinking about retitling my talk for #CYC25 It’s really more about “React Server Components, HTMX, and TanStack Start” but that sounds like buzzword soup

Woohoo finally getting a bit faster again

Having a fun time debugging this one. How can we make plasmids show up on first paint? thought it was ResizeObserver but it's actually compute 🤔

Deep thinking is the super power of wit swizec.com/blog/how-to-...

I like this page

Tell it to me straight, chat: How bad is a persistent tingle in my fingertips? been keyboarding every day for ~28 years, if that matters

how to be witty and off-the-cuff

how to be witty and off-the-cuff as a slow deep thinker

Super negative split today but slow overall. Pizza and beer is not good fuel, who knew

I just want pre-release copies of my book to hand out at Commit Your Code in 2 weeks is that so much to ask for

Thinking of joining an AI startup? Look for this swizec.com/blog/should-...

Hey dinos 🦖 we’ve been cooking up something new in your library… Now you can: 1. Quickly align any two sequences from your history or uploads 2. Search across everything you've sequenced with us We'd love a few of you to try early access & help build this. Reply if you're in!

gee I wonder why USA is starting beef with Venezuela

It’s 2025. I have a supercomputer inside my iPad. To multitask I have to open Notion on the web and Notion as the app. It runs on HTML.

Feels like I’m getting slower and slower. Gotta start taking this more seriously if I ever wanna do that 3h marathon

Please note that all those dudes selling you the grindhustle morning routine got rich and successful years before the routine started. You can do the routine when you pay others to do the work. 5h/day for self-care is the ultimate luxury

One interesting aspect of living in SF is that you really get to see the difference between owning a large percentage of something small and a small percentage of something large. I know so many millionaires 😅

Why is sprint planning/triage so much easier to do late in the evening with a glass of bourbon? I don't understand how people do this during work hours

Ok so an interesting downside of a fully written out talk track + teleprompter is that my delivery is too smooth and there's time left in the slot 😆

It's crazy how much calmer you feel after writing out 2000 words of stuff that's been on your mind. this @TheTechLeadConf talk gonna be great

The more TanStack we add, the faster we move ❤️

So hot I’m looking forward to the ice bath

Ball of Mud – the one true architecture we all use

Ball of Mud – the one true architecture we all use

The best feature requests sound like "I have a convoluted workaround for my issue and ran into this little bug can you help?" 1. Fix the bug 2. Build the feature that makes their entire workaround unnecessary that's the spirit of XY Problems

You know what work is important but it’s hard to admit. So you stuff your sprint full of stuff, don’t get it all done, feel bad, then do it again next sprint.

I find that there's 2 types of pair programming: 1. when you need to move fast, the more experienced person drives 2. when you want to teach, the less experienced person drives The second option can be super frustrating but it's more effective long-term.

What if survivorship bias is all there is? doing it "better" doesn't matter if you don't survive

Ok running the day after leg day is not ideal. The 90% humidity didn’t help either 😅

In a fast-growing company software engineering feels like spinning plates. Nothing ever stays fixed. Fix things too shallowly and you'll never make progress. Fix things too deeply and the business collapses around your perfect little sandbox.

You’re basically a new company every 12 to 18 months. Stop trying to build the forever system, get through the year.

One of the amazon reviews on Serverless Handbook was “too much trust me bro” so Scaling Fast comes with receipts

Well this is neat: I have a vibe coded script that turns every link in my book into a proper citation. Title, Author, Date, Link. Goes through my book and looks for links. Then downloads and parses the HTML, maybe runs Chrome to handle JavaScript, or parses a PDF. OpenAI API then extracts metadata

the food escaped my venus flytrap and started eating it

Let's be honest: Half the APIs you write are for a specific purpose in a specific component on a specific page. Re-usable in theory but you've never tried. That's where Server Components shine ... but what if your server isn't JavaScript? 👉 HTMX swizec.com/blog/htmx-se...