I don’t need a framework desktop. I don’t need a framework desktop. *hits mediation bell*

Amos is a force of nature, and this article just made me smile throughout. Hoarding private syntax grammars made me imagine him as a connoisseur, browsing through shelves of printed grammars in LP-like sleeves.

Brilliant.

Don’t know what happened. But I don’t game anymore, not even on my phone to pass the time. I don’t take the time, don’t play with anyone. Not sure why that is. But I don’t like it.

I dream of making my own electronics lab at home. I feel like this is a hobby that would go well with graying hairs and isn’t another white dude picking up wood working. Incidentally, I could finally justify all the purchases I want to make for gear.

Even with good git usage, you still end up on occasion having to wrangle your way out of a lot of mess. Small, contained PRs for the win. Atomic commits for the epic win. To the engineers out there who don’t care about your commit messages, I don’t understand how you do it?

Oh yes. Back at it today - feeling really good. Healthy, rested and motivated.

Games, home computer, dial-up, building your own PC and LAN-parties were staples of my childhood. But I was never one of those kids that knew that this was going to be my field of study and a career. That came much later. Unfortunately.

Shared in a private discord channel by an old colleague. I personally abhor the look of Liquid Glass, but this post is insane.

This brightened up my day. Love a good bug hunt.

Tonsillitis. Again, 40+ degrees Celsius fever. Again. Feeling sorry for myself. Again.

To whomever is working at @cloudflare.social and is scrambling right now – remember to breathe.

I know I’m a massive fan boy and can’t shut up about @oxide.computer buuuut, you should really, really watch this talk by Bryan. It’s tremendous. ”Abstractions allow us to build software systems that do sophisticated things; they are the shoulders we stand upon - and provide to others”

To all the single parents out there - I don’t understand how you do it. You’re legends. That is all.

When your wife knows exactly what you need for Father’s Day, and how nerdy you are. Happy Father’s Day to my fellow fathers!

Wow. I knew saving this for Friday evening was worth it. What a bug, what a debugging journey - what an episode! Even as a Rust amateur - at best, I found this riveting. Bravo @oxide.computer (and friends!)

Gosh darn this is clever: Reminds me a bit about the complexity score or whatever it is SonarCloud calls it - except more easily digestible from just a glance. 0github.com

An open letter to junior devs, medior,- hell let’s just say all devs: By the grace of the Silicone gods - please don’t make hacks and just leave them lying around for other people to find. I get it, sometimes you’ve gotta crunch - but man am I tired of taking landmines to the face.

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to @manishearth.bsky.social on unflagging TC39 Stage 3 Temporal in V8 today. Heading for Chrome 144 🎉 By many metrics this new date-time API is the single biggest change to JS ever 🔥 V8 uses Boa's temporal_rs by @jason-williams.co.uk Kevin Ness & Manish 👍

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"Developers" posting "tips and tricks" on LinkedIn nowadays is so, so atrociously bad. Please make it stop. Please make it stop slop. Please stop the slop stop shop.

Confession: I’m too scared to watch Father. I saw the trailer with the great sir Anthony Hopkins (a favorite actor of mine) and I immediately knew I had to see it but simultaneously that it would have to be after a lot of mental preparation. Dementia is a strong fear of mine.

When you can do this, I feel like you get an automatic pass for every kind of programming interview - ever.

Peanut M&Ms are eerily good. I need to physically move the bag into another room or I’ll finish every single one.

The white lines of scar tissue that’s healed, but feel differently when you run your fingers thoughtlessly over it. Almost foreign. Flesh so young it hasn’t caught up with the experiences and wisdom, the strife and hardship the other hide has weathered.

So many goodies in here! Schema matching looks very, very useful.m Also: ”Calling vi.spyOn on a mock now returns the same mock” 🎉

We are all born strangers to ourselves; every human infant faces the extraordinary puzzle of organizing the blooming, buzzing confusion of cognitive experience into a working theory of “mind” and “self.”

Watching Evan remove the eslint-related packages and config here actually makes me excited. This looks promising!

”Life evolves because in a universe capable of computation, if you figure out, somehow, how to copy yourself, then you will exist - in the future.” This statement is profoundly beautiful. @blaiseaguera.bsky.social

People giving life advice or sharing inspirational quotes on LinkedIn is the most depressing thing I know.

This is a master class not just Clay specifically, but just how most layouting in UIs work in general. It also helps that @nicbarker.com is incredibly good at explaining, in both text, orally, and visually. If you’re working in UI, look at this. Ingest it. Understand it. Absolute gold!

Reality check: Just because you think something is clear, or even obvious - does not automatically make it so. Ask for reviews early. Review yourself. The best thing you can get is an honest: ”this doesn’t make sense to me, and here’s why…”

Undocumented APIs are just IKEA furniture without instructions - except at least IKEA leaves you with yet another Allen key to add to your involuntary collection.

Ah. Banner ads now too @pocketcasts.com? Et tu Brute? It was a good run. Time to look for alternatives.

If I could time travel back to my younger self, around 13-14: Future med *appears out of nowhere, in my room* Younger me: ”What the fu-?!” Future me: ”Yeah, it’s you. Or me. Let’s not get into this, it’s just going to become messy.”

Browsing crates.io is my new crack.

I’m not really ready for Tompa in At The Gates to be gone yet, way waaaaaay too soon. Rest in piece you legend.

Is the OpenAPI spec the most common alternative now? Feels like there should be other viable options.

Remember when everyone wasn’t so damn serious on the internet all the time? You know, just ”for the lulz”? I miss a more innocent time, or perhaps it was just I that was more naïve?

I deeply, deeply wish more companies would do this. Spending more time writing, and therefore thinking, ends up saving do much time and effort later on.

What is the best pagination you have ever used? Both style-wise but intuitively? Infinite scrolling lists are not allowed, it needs to be actual pagination and in an interface.

@pocketcasts.com episode links shared from the iOS app takes people that hasn’t installed the app to the discover page when they click on it. Examples: pca.st/episode/5142... pca.st/episode/6fe9...

I’m beginning to really think that Jira, is actively slowing me down. This is diametrically opposite to what my experience has been before as tech/team/whatever lead. Where having clearly defined, understood and scoped tasks and stories meant anyone in the team could grab it - regardless of level.

Why, oh why - is the only application for ”AI agents” at a wider audience travel and appointment booking? It is so mind-numbingly dumb. News reporters worryingly reporting that the agents ”lie” or ”doesn’t understand”.

[mountain of work staring at me] My brain: ”Oh this post on why mathematical notation in PLT needs improved accessibility seems cool.” Save me from myself.

@polymatt.bsky.social videos are always a treat, but this one goes above and beyond. I was rooting so hard at the end, and now I want to understand how that visualization is made. Found the support forum post where this is explained and my lord - I am so here for this.

Semi luke-warm take: I don’t get the point of screenshots of code. Put it in a gist, codepen, on your website or whatever. I don’t care how pretty the screenshot tool makes it look. Sorry not sorry. 🤷‍♂️

The biggest take away from all this nonsense around GPT5 will surely be an insane demand for blueberries. First strawberries now this. Altman just wants you all to eat more healthy through subliminal messaging.

I urge anyone getting into web dev: Please, pretty please - learn and truly understand the fundamentals first. Truly. You can do so much with just HTML and CSS and a sprinkle of JS. You don’t need Next.js. You don’t need React. You don’t need Tailwind.

Apparently I played around with BigCommerce at some point and to this day I receive promotional emails and other updates from them. They have an unsubscribe link in their email which doesn’t actually unsubscribe you. It just tells you to log in and change your email preferences.