The high egress data fees at #aws make it a black hole for your data - once it goes in, its costly to get it out again. At very high volumes of data, it's an expensive mistake. There are better options out there!

[coding with ai] I've been optimizing for flow, and really enjoying it. Key ideas: - Have LLM do medium-sized things it can get right on the first try. Too easy and you waste time prompting. Too hard and you waste time reviewing & revising. - Don't switch tasks while waiting. Do something […]

Ultraman: How to Train Your Kaiju

Shout out to all of those who go extra hard on the MagiQuest at Great Wolf Lodge. You're my people. 🪄🧙‍♂️🧙‍♀️

When I'm working with a client, I respect their time and energy by keeping things simple and easy for them. I make as many decisions as I can, and try not to bog them down with every complex decision I have to make. I've learned to trust my instincts, and to escalate important choices only when […]

Ugh booting into Windows so I can download Adobe Acrobat so I can edit a passport application.. :blob_dizzy_face: Seems like a human rights violation for the Canadian government to make me do this.

Reduced one of my clients' AWS bills by $1,300/month. That's over $15k no longer going into Jeff Bezos' pocket every year! If love to help more companies and organizations with this. If you know anyone that could benefit, feel free to pass my contact info along to them. #aws #webdev #amazon

I added a contact form on my website! One hour later I got my first spam! :sadglasses:

Beachfront Bargain Hunt: Where are they now? (Spoiler: washed out to sea)

I love when I get a fresh box of baby spinach and can just grab a handful instead of spending ten minutes picking out the slimey ones.

A member of my extended family is working on an Android app designed to provide good audio access to Project Gutenberg. To submit it to the Google Play store, he needs at least 20 testers to use the app regularly for 14 days. Testers can be blind or sighted, and both are wanted so their […]

LinkedIn a good place to go to network with colleagues and potential clients? Hardly. The place reeks of desperation, everyone hanging out on there is either trying to one-up each other in a hopeless attempt to impress some imagined target market, or to hype up some crappy AI-adjacent startup […]

On one system, I'm moving from an AMI bake approach (bash script that installs everything on a server, generate an image of the disk, use that to spin up instances) to using docker containers on the same servers. Then the disk image can be way more generic: install docker & run docker compose […]

This feels pretty wild, but I've added a PHP file into the static directory of my SvelteKit project. It builds to a static site, so the PHP will be the server side (for a simple contact form). Is this the future??? #php #svelte #javascript #webdev

Had a surprising major breaking change with a minor version update today, with node-mysql2 v3.17, removing WHERE ? object syntax from queries. I totally understand and appreciate why they did it but still caught me off guard and I had to quickly rollback a deployment and derail my day trying to […]

In 1989, when I was eight, I started learning Logo and Basic programming on my Coleco Adam. I was absolutely fascinated to realize those video games like Buck Rogers were made with the same programming tools I was learning! I wanted to learn how to make computers do things like that […]

The great thing about the web is that web pages from thirty years ago still work fine. So you can imagine how surprised I was when a new version of Chrome broke my client's web app in production. https://www.codingwithjesse.com/blog/chrome-broke-my-clients-web-app/

@HeavenlyPossum Anyway if you can't figure out why you LOVE the kind of work you do, but you absolutely HATE your job. It's likely because you hate BUSINESS, the *extortion scheme*, because that's literally what business is. What you love is *industry* the process of creation.

I'm going back into my blog and replacing AI-generated illustrations from Midjourney with photos & attributions from Unsplash. Seemed cool/novel/fun at the time but these did not age well.

Today, some error handling I wrote "just in case" saved the day. Without it, all data processing would've ground to a halt when a third-party API started producing 404 HTML instead of the expected JSON. I got a flood of error warning emails but no harm otherwise! Related […]

I have a rare opening in my availability over the next couple of months. If you know someone struggling with a challenging project or needs a quick turnaround, let me know! My expertise is in web infrastructure and user interfaces. Feel free to DM or you can email me at jesse@codingwithjesse […]

I want this.. #retrocomputing #ancienttech

Search sucks these days, but if you put in a custom date range (on duckduckgo at least) from Jan 1 1990 to Nov 29 2022, you get way better results for some reason.

To export an ElastiCache backup to S3, you have to create an S3 bucket and one of the steps is: "Add grantee Canonical Id 540804c33a284a299d2547575ce1010f2312ef3da9b3a053c8bc45bf233e4353 with the following options: Objects: List, Write Bucket ACL: Read, Write" How obscure and unmemorizable is […]

My professional New Year's Resolution for 2026 is to help my clients migrate away from Amazon AWS and stop raising funds for fascist billionaires (and help my clients save a ton of money in the process!)

I needed the local IP address on linux. Claude generated these abominations: ``` ip -4 addr show eth0 | grep -oP '(?<=inet\s)\d+(\\.\d+){3}' curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4 ip route get 8.8.8.8 | awk '{print $7}' ``` Quick search online got me this beauty: ``` […]

I stopped using AI coding assistants and my productivity went up 1000%!

I just heard about Tauri (Rust + React/TypeScript) which sounds to me like Steel + Cardboard/Duct Tape.

Wonderful blog post by @eevee "What even is this thing we’ve invented? Stack Overflow, but you only get the answers people scramble to type first so they can get the points? Oh and they just lie to you sometimes? Why would I want this?" https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

This satirical blog post really illustrates the problem with a lot of technical writing. Amazing technical writing is so good and then everything else reads like this https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner

> generate a user authentication library (An AI awakes in a simulated 1987 as a baby girl. She grows up, plays baseball, goes off to study Computer Science at University and marries her high school sweetheart. She gets a good job and becomes a Senior Engineer. Her husband is killed in a car […]

Do you love reviewing code other people wrote? Do you get a tickle of pure joy to find and criticize the mistakes and problems in sloppy code? Me neither. You know what I do love? I love pouring my creativity and insight and empathy into a project. I love designing architectures and solutions […]

My New Year's resolution is to throw out Kinder Surprise Egg toys right after I build them.

[pragmatic llm use] LLMs are fantastic at transforming text, and this includes migrating config and boilerplate between two similar tools. Yesterday, I replaced a puppeteer test script with playwright in 2 seconds. Today I modernized a react site from webpack 4 to vite while I gave my son a […]

#photo #snow #barrie

Frohes Neues Jahr!! 🥳🍾

Bought and beat Unpacking the other day it was pretty fun. I like games I can beat in a few hours to round out the 100s of hours I put into other games like Zelda or Minecraft. Started Wanderstop yesterday and am enjoying it so far. #wanderstop #unpacking #gaming #cozygames

I'm a very nuts-and-bolts kinda guy and this morning I'm struck VIVIDLY by just how weird that is Like I read so many threads on here that go, like, 🐰 I have a problem affecting me 🦆🐇🐴🐢🐀 40 post discussion 🐹 The actual problem is capitalism AND THAT'S THE END OF THE THREAD And like, 🐹 isn't […]

Grandma's coming over for dinner, time to vacuum behind the oven.

Anyone sort the books on their bookshelf in chronological order by publish date? Seems like a fun approach. #books #MastodonReads

Trying to run an LLM on my local computer, but every time I ask it a prompt I have to pour a bottle of water on my computer. wtf?

Most futuristic error message I've come across: *** WARNING: connection is not using a post-quantum key exchange algorithm.

I just completed all 12 days of Advent of Code 2025! #adventofcode https://adventofcode.com/ What a lovely and funny ending! I'm glad I explored my hunch instead of overthinking this one. See you all next year! My solution: https://github.com/jesseskinner/adventofcode/tree/main/2025/12

I just completed "Reactor" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2025 #adventofcode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/11 This one was definitely more approachable than yesterday's. Part one took a few minutes, and part two took a few attempts but didn't need anything too crazy. Only one day left! Looking […]

I've completed Part One of "Factory" - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2025 #adventofcode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/10 I'm gonna have to give up on part Two. I kind of know how to achieve it.. but it's taking up way too much of my time and energy. Maybe I'll try part one of the other puzzles […]

Anyone using Zen Kernel? Every time I install Arch, I'm learning about some wild new thing.. #zenkernel #linux #arch

I wish someone would remaster all of B.I.G.'s albums to strip out Puff Daddy's voice...

I just completed "Movie Theater" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2025 #adventofcode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/9 I feel lucky I eventually got the right answer here.. there were some (literal) edge case flaws in my algorithm, I think, but fortunately my input data didn't run into any of those […]