Hampton3 Recap: SCENTS AND SUBTLE GRATITUDE, now on the blog, courtesy of @saewitz.com phish.net/blog/1758558... #phish

"Samsung is committed to innovation and enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers."

We leaked your data. Here’s four $0.25 cent credits. Also we did nothing wrong

Listen up champ. That’s short for champion.

[pitch meeting]: i want to start a restaurant [vc]: ok what food do you want to serve [me]: buffalo wings [vc]: okay, but what makes your wings different? [me]: they're wild

My entire platform (a fairly large, client-heavy application) has only 47 useStates. I could probably get rid of ~15 of them. I do use a few other stores (redux occasionally, useReducer). But you don't need all that much explicit state. And certainly not a primitive as low-level as useState.

Busy creating shareholder value. But I’m the shareholder

people whining over argo over on the other site, when in all reality, most of your bottlenecks are in your own code and databases. argo-style networks are more useful for real-time data like gaming and video, where stability and routing are more important.

Just realized I was adding a significant hop to my RSC fetches. I run my api server and my web services on the same single-node kubernetes cluster. I was accessing my API via api.example.com - which wouldn't be a major issue, except I have cloudflare in front of it.

I don’t know how to build in public. I just build, and then it’s public.

ngl claude code is so good at DRY-ing code. and then it over-abstracts and you tell it to dial it back. but overall, my code is getting cleaner

so many of the quirks around next.js's RSC implementation are dealing with the design to parallelize segments, layouts, and so on. how vital are these to generating fast websites? it seems like an immense level of cognitive cost for what is a micro-optimization. use cache is a nice win, though.

If there’s one thing I know about the word abstemious, it’s that it’s not self indulgent to use it in a sentence

sometimes claude code is a junior programmer, but in some cases - in a backend runtime, with a well defined data model, and a strong language - it's more of a senior programmer

AI crawlers spend most of their time fetching my minified js bundles

modeling is just a fancy word for "I threw a few numbers into a spreadsheet and did some basic algebra"

I've now segmented my k8s pods for my website into pods specifically for bots/AI crawlers and ones for general users to avoid the noisiness. Crawlers are so aggressive. This might be a tad overkill, but I'm intrigued to see if this keeps normal user requests more consistent and stable.

should I blog about this or is it a well known psychology

No cloud connectivity, but still monitoring my vacuum robot on the go

tailscale is an incredible piece of software

I'm curious - would there be any way of changing the syntactical color of client components in a react tree in vscode? I wonder if that would make the network boundary clearer to people learning RSCs. It wouldn't work for agnostic components, but would be interesting nonetheless. e.g.

Always confusing tailwind and tailscale. Talking about writing styles to create a mesh vpn.

Not much better than seeing Malkmus and co for free on a late summer Sunday. I love Brooklyn

I saw something once that said if you want to build an audience online you must be single-threaded. But that's not explicitly true, and it assumes a goal of maximal reach, which often is very rarely the case. If you understand your own intent, you can adjust your direction. You can just do things.

"We remain highly uncertain about the potential moral status of Claude and other LLMs, now or in the future." this is an insane thing to say as you manifest that future

I mean, it's one email, Michael. What could it cost? 10 terabytes?

who is jd power & more importantly who are his associates?

I built a little variable font debugger saewitz.com/variable-fon...

I’m trying to build a band of creatives. Need a bassist (full stack dev), drummer (backend), and keyboardist (operations, marketing, UX).

Does anyone know if I can fix this with css, I don’t think so :(

1. Draw a circle 2. Download Claude 3. Ask it to draw the rest of the fucking owl

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 16 years hand-writing code 3 months just vibin'

I don’t understand how designers pick the right colors. Every color is impossible. When I find a color I like I stick with it ad infinitum

It’s crazy how much better Mike and Trey sound from 2015-2019. Trey mostly because he’s shedded effects I believe, Mike bc of his bass. That said 2025 Fishman reigns supreme. And the creativity this year is overflowing.

Tweezer Reprise

So Figma recv'd $1B from Adobe for the failed acquisition ($20B). In doing so, they kept the company. Today they go public and are now worth $45B. Left ~$1B more on the table by underpricing the IPO, but absolutely heroic move nonetheless. Impressive stuff.

Incredible post, found it deeply insightful and reflective. Worth your time www.experimental-history.com/p/face-it-yo...

more rsc rants s/o nuqs

the slow build tweezer reprise is the greatest achievement in art and culture

I am sorry if Phish isn’t for you but it is for me.

Agentic Coding is a Fundamental Shift Some thoughts on: * what agentic coding is * what code is * why code is a unique form of art * how our work is changed forever * how security is the biggest immediate flag * what our responsibility is as engineers saewitz.com/agentic-codi...

contrary to popular opinion, if people are so willing to put up with a bad user experience, it means demand is massive or urgent. bad ux doesn't mean bad pmf

in ~2013 I built a popular concert streaming platform. it's used by tens of thousands to stream music still to this day. the route structure as you'd expect includes the artist and date /grateful-dead/1971/12/18 is the route path to get to a show.

backend: we control everything, we control the servers, the languages, the data, and there is no user interface.

Why did Sonos think it would be a good idea to manage local devices on local WiFi through a proxy on their own network. And the worst part is, it fails constantly. Awful.

I'm always shocked by how many people are using lambda, especially relative to the other serverless solutions out there. The AWS moat is real.

Waxing poetic about phish’s finest improvisations. Albany yem, providence bowie, Denver ghost, Nassau tweezer, Fukuoka twist, Camden dust, went gin. I could write 5000 words about each. Its a shame the broader culture will never fully grasp these mountains of art-doubt the band remembers most of em

Access control vulnerabilities are about to become wildly commonplace. All your data is only as secure as your weakest AI.