Thread on progress after reading half of The Progress Principle Progress is, in my mind, becoming one of the clearest metrics of health in individuals. Progress as referenced in the book is in line with work people do. But it is much much bigger than that. And I think we see it by is inverse

Before I teach a single thing, I always start with the same 3 questions. They set the tone, build trust, and often save the whole course. Here’s the video: youtu.be/Xsuf0KIEu5g What’s the first question you ask when leading a group?

Excited to share that I am starting a new job as a Content Engineer with @inngest.com! Looking forward to helping developers build with clarity and reliability with Inngest

For writers and authors: Taking Kathy Sierra's "what if the previous page vanishes" idea for how to maintain forward flow What if that idea was combined with Ted Nelson's parallel pages idea? I am just genuinely curious where this thought process could go.

Ok, hear me out, A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor

This Kathy Sierra video is truly on repeat in my brain and has absolutely captivated me One of the first thoughts was why it is so hard for React devs to use web standards Thinking of my convos with @brianleroux.bsky.social and @bell.bz Highly recommend listening youtu.be/i0oo2KxcW3s?...

Well I discovered @kathysierra.bsky.social’s YouTube. And have now discovered more videos I have not seen This is for you @alexhillman.com maybe you have seen this youtu.be/i0oo2KxcW3s?...

One of the least quoted lines probably from Star Wars is from the Viceroy of the Trade Federation about reporting the Jedi to Lord Sidious “No need to report that until we have something to report” This is my new approach to social media I will log out until I have something to report

Very interesting and worthy paying attention too

Hear me out: Cut throat app experiences While the world optimizes for battery life, give your app a random battery life either on a session or the token itself If they don't save progress it gets wiped back to the last check point

Found that @kathysierra.bsky.social was on a podcast recently and it is a fascinating discussion www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca86...

Hey @aaronfrancis.com I think @bell.bz would be a great person to discuss a site redesign for your database school. There are so many people that could do it but I think the work they are doing is fantastic.

If people are going to vibe code, and it will be as common as googling for a really long time How can we build better vibe coding tools to give them sensible and good defaults? @bell.bz I am thinking about a tool that generates UI based off your patterns around UI rather than v0/lovable stuff

@jason.energy I have another connection for you for a fun Learn With Jason episode and a nice follow up to your CodeTV episode on graphql @statisticsftw.bsky.social is building out Isograph and I think it could bring much needed sanity of mind to using graphql.

@jason.energy I think it would be cool for you to have @redwoodjs.com friends on to educate about their framework, web standards, and how they are using their framework to educate beginners in various places. Lots of good things there and I think you and Peter would vibe well

Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done. I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED

This is a big deal to me. Along with this comes a lot of "byproduct" investing in the unjs ecosystem. Nitro also is known for its vast amount of deployment targets so this could very well be the beginning of Vercel opening Nextjs to being deployed to a variety of places

One of life's greatest difficulties is speaking about something incredibly meaningful and helpful to you, knowing others could benefit, but getting blank stares in return or it being brushed off as nbd You can't expect people to have your enthusiasm but man finding the "you too" people is hard

Seems odd @brianleroux.bsky.social

My most spicy of takes Most employees to be effective at their job actually doesn’t require them to be an expert at your companies domain knowledge Some yes Depth no

The defacto way to learn react server components should be @redwoodjs.com RWSDK also treats rsc as a hypermedia implementation

And this is why I choose to largely still spend my time coding The coworkers who use AI for some small level of assistance are killing it The ones who rely on it will become screaming tyrants over their computers brute forcing things to happen with no knowledge or care of the consequences

Is there a job whose role is somewhere between marketing, recruitment, and team success/health? From my counseling days I care a lot about the people I'm around I care a lot about showing possibilities and then getting people what they need to accomplish the possible

@alexhillman.com as someone who is highly relational and needs people in my day, when considering coworking spaces for remote work have you seen relational people succeed when they aren’t with their team in a coworking space? I find I just want to go be around the people 😅

@amyhoy.bsky.social and @thomasfuchs.at found it at a yard sale. Figured I’d see if yal had thoughts on it. I know nothing

If you’ve ever wondered why people don’t easily leave react for another technology Here is a beautiful explanation Hard fought knowledge is not easily left behind

I still think about this way too often and it eats me alive

@danabra.mov i have someone interested to talk to you about your recent progressive json article and he is building out @data-star.dev in the hypermedia space Would you be interested in a conversation with him? I know you had thoughts on htmx not be your preferred approach or not agreeing with it

I love personality assessments but often they lead to things or beliefs like “it’s just the way I am” or something similar which leads to making working on a team difficult cause you are considering how you fit in a team My love for The Working Genius has been reignited for its subtle difference

Anyone got any good behavioral science type book recommendations? I’ve been reading Badass by Kathy Sierra. I’ve read Drive, most of the Jon Acuff books, Power of Habit, and a few others Just wanted to see if there were any “beloved” ones worth reading I enjoy these types of books a lot

The urge to pivot all the things to AI to just have some form of creative autonomy is so big right now Send help

(As primarily a react dev) If react devs ignored standards for years Since MCP is a “standard” what is the react to the MCP standard? If MCP is a “browser replacement” what will we polyfill for MCPs

I want someone to please explain to me why I should be invested in MCP I get some things. But isn’t it just a glorified api? And given the rate at which ai is industrializing won’t today’s novelty just be tomorrows normal?

Idk what I’m missing about MCP but things are changing so fast I can’t imagine MCP being a long play bet. If you have the liberty and free time to crank out and grab the AI monies around MCP that’s great But I cannot fathom it being where AI lands for more than 6months to maybe a year

Still a long way to go but in the spirit of my stacking the bricks friends @amyhoy.bsky.social and @alexhillman.com Here is a landing page for Fullstack Nextjs - fullstack-nextjs.com Again much to be desired but we gotta start somewhere

For all of you Nextjs users, I am working on a fullstack nextjs course I am trying to gather personal frustrations around Nextjs to gear content. Feel free to share this. Hoping to get a decent amount of feedback!

A killer business idea that solves real pain A business whose sole purpose is to heal wounded code bases after AI has created an utter mess The work would be relatively straight forward: - keep it working - refactor to be well architected - instruct on proper use of AI - no new features

I've shipped over a dozen plugins and written thousands of words of tutorials on how to customize Sanity Studio. @sanity.io App SDK is the toolkit I have always wanted. www.sanity.io/blog/build-y...

For Fullstack Nextjs we will build APIs with Domain Driven Design and Ports and Adapters Your aim in today’s world is flexibility Software will become increasingly malleable thus the way we build needs to take that into account

Leaning into Aaron Francis "You can just do things" and "play the game". So here are the things Im doing and will start talking on (more in thread): Local First Academy, Fullstack Nextjs, Functional JS, Hypermedia Academy, Web Standards, Realtime Course, Course Builders community

Why is it that there is no syncing with DynamoDB? Do nosql devs not have interest in syncing? Is DynamoDB fast enough for its users there is no use? Or is the general acceptance of those building 'sync' that relational has won?

Parenting is the extreme emotions of "Oh Lord please help them sleep." (child is quiet and sleeping) "Oh Lord please let them move just a little bit so I know they are okay but not enough to wake up"

A feature that should be a part of all learning platforms: If you go through a course and complete it, no matter if you keep paying, you should always have access to that course material OR if you don't complete it you should be able to view completed lessons. Not as profitable though so 🤷‍♂️

Say what you want about Ted Nelson, but anyone who has ever written a paper and had to do any level of footnotes, endnotes, bibliography can probably see what he is suggesting would make authoring and referencing infinitely more approachable. What good writing tools have do you use?

Convinced that AWS is akin to Thanos "Dread it. Run from it. Learning AWS arrives all the same" Feeling like the more I put it off the more I realize I should just get used to the terrible dashboard UI for viewing resources deployed from IaC

Building something with real potential to be used by people all of the sudden makes this question very potent: Am I actually prepared for that? A lot of side projects aim is to turn into income. But then it kinda feels like if I was a dog who caught the squirrel, what do you do then?

Where are the templates for anything but react or frontend framework? Where are the standards based templates? Where are the full fledged integration templates from companies whose technology works well in so many other places?

I want a list of fun designed websites. If I see a tailwindui site you might get blocked 👀😅 Just want to work on my css design skills

v0's ability to just ignore my prompts for not using nextjs or react is a bit stunning to me and yet I shouldn't have expected any more from it than that