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.

I'm not sure I trust you enough, my fellow humans, to even begin to think offering "personal superintelligence" is a sound idea. Come to think of it, I don't I trust myself enough for it either.

Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?

Made a menu bar app in Swift, without having to open XCode. I’m really proud of the name. Co-authored by Claude, had fun - it works… on my machine 😅. github.com/axeberg/ackbar

Wow, Kubernetes is kicking my ass - all around the block.

Oh boy. Chat with AIs on Instagram? This will be fun won’t it?

Good night, sweet Prince of Darkness. 🖤

I can happily report the machine boots and all hardware is operational.

Is it just me or is Claude terrible at git? Or am I missing some magic CLAUDE.md prompting/context that makes it behave?

Unpacked this old gem.

”There’s so much unwritten software” A bit of a gem from the The Changelog episode ”Agents Unlock More”.

Anyone feel like their social skills are actually declining with age? I think I might just be missing humans? Feels weird to admit that.

I find myself bidding on a HPE Proliant ML350 Gen10 - what am I doing?

Programming after almost 4 weeks of not sitting for extended periods of time in front of a computer is wonderful and horrible at the same time.

Pet peeve of mine: People showing off their setups of anything really, and NOT listing what the things are in the damn image.

@threebodybot.bsky.social is my new favorite thing to just let my brain reset to.

Riveting reading, even for a Rustling in training like myself. This is the epitome of deep-diving into a rabbit hole!

Was listening to the latest sdr-podcast.com episode and @jamesmunns.com mentioned the NASA Graphics Standards Manual as an inspiration for digging into @typst.app - and I just can’t stop going through it. So good. I really want to buy this as a physical copy but they don’t ship to Sweden 🥲.

Oh no. Has Amazon started doing GenAI videos for books now?

So, Omnivore is dead and I can’t find an alternative that’s OSS and mar the same feature set, not even mentioning the same level of polish to the UX. Pocket is also shutting down. I feel ancient. Help?

Every time I feel like actually writing something about software development, I end up starting off in a flurry, but quickly as I do more research, I realize so many others before me have done significantly more, and better, work already.

This is pretty darn cool, especially if it doesn’t need to be permanently affixed to the original artwork.

@benleonard.bsky.social I love mitos so much. If I could I would spend all day on here. This beaut’ popped out after playing with some of the demos from play.ertdfgcvb.xyz :

Is it just me or did the iOS YouTube app break being able to view the bottom panel when tapping the context menu button?

Where did all the accessibility experts at Apple go? This new UI is barely legible as it is… and just imagine if they hadn’t decided to put that red image on the far left instead…

- 1x1 million pixel grid. - Multiplayer. - Grief-profected painting (too many pixels too fast = timed out). - Eraser only works one pixel at a time - The entire grid resets every hour. I call it. Void Canvas.

Chuck Norris is 85 years old. Let that sink in.