I feel mostly ambivalent about the string directives topic being discussed by the javascript community at the moment, but that might be because at work we have a huge codebase that uses a custom 'use es6' directive 🫠

This one has been sitting in the vault for a while now - feels so good to get it out to our listeners!

🚲 New Bikeshed Episode: Deploy Fast and Break Things?! Should you chase that 5-minute deploy dream? @scottykaye.com, @matthamlin.me, and Dillon debate whether hyper-optimized pipelines are the holy grail or just masking bigger problems. 🎧

It's been a while since we released an episode - feels good to get back in the groove! We have a few others in the backlog that we're working to get out as well!

🚲 New episode: Managing Dependencies—It Depends! One version to rule them all? Auto-update everything? Let it rot? We dive into dependency management, from Wayfair’s one-version rule to HubSpot's evergreen system. Spoiler: There's no silver bullet, just trade-offs 😅 🎧

i think one of the main reasons i don’t like using linters is that often they’re there to prevent you from doing valid things (albeit weird) in your code

ChatGPT, you good?!

I've never read a book that has given me such a visceral reaction as 'I, Robot' has by Isaac Asimov Here's some luke warm AI related takes: matthamlin.me/2025/septemb...

Is it just me or are all textareas on @github.com impossible to keyboard navigate past (either by tabbing past them to subsequent interactive elements, or by shift+tabbing to previous interactive element)? I get trapped within them and tab / shift+tab only update the content

Wrote up a short blog post on this issue: matthamlin.me/2025/septemb... I really hope @github.com starts to prevent these spam issue emails soon!

i still find it crazy that both Connecticut and Massachusetts said you know what, yea, we don’t want to take those additional 1500 square miles

The spammers on GitHub are getting smarter, using a bot to open issues tagging folks on a repo with no content. Seems like you can't: - report an issue when opened by a bot - report a repo when there's no content (only issues/PRs) Only way to report is to report the bot itself

I somehow have the only iphone that literally overheats after 2 mins of usage - i have no clue why it does this but it literally becomes un-holdable after 2 mins of usage

I quickly wrote about my very rough experience with the Nuphy Air75 V3 keyboard, and have since moved back to the V2 version! matthamlin.me/2025/septemb...

Kinda wild that still no Node package manager (npm/yarn/pnpm/bun/whatnot) has the "correct" default for version to install and specify (some have flags to opt-in however) - tl;dr: You should always pin dependencies

Quick little post for the day: matthamlin.me/2025/septemb...

ios 26 animations when using battery saver are so bad that it honestly makes me want to just let my phone battery drain instead

Pro tip: use an international wall adapter in the outlets on planes to avoid your charger from falling out of the loose holes

Code formatters that rename variables that are "unused" automatically are the absolute worst! Looking at you Biome!

I wish airlines offered an optional upgrade to prevent the person in front of you from reclining - used to hack it by sitting behind exit row seats but that seems hit or miss

I honestly don't know how folks stay on top of dependabot PRs if you maintain anything more than 5 repos (currently trying to go through a backlog of 400+ dependabot related PRs)

it’s kind of wild that bing became the de facto standard web search tool for ai services

For folks that use Obsidian and create notes that use titles of other content and that content contains invalid characters (e.g. `:` or `.`), how do you handle that in your vault?

Can anyone sell me on org-mode (assume i have never touched emacs)? Is it even possible/recommended to use it outside of emacs?

For a static website (behind a simple web server), is there any realistic performance gain by moving/copying `<link rel=preload>` elements into a `Link` HTTP header on the initial response?

Contemplating switching from Arc to Safari, what features would I really regret missing?

uber drivers are single-handedly propping up the mobile telephony industry - i’ve never gotten in an uber where the driver isn’t on the phone, often for 2+ hours already

Luke warm take - if you have a CLI that supports a configuration file, your CLI should have some kind of "scaffold" command that creats a config file for you and prompts for some of the core config options

how is there no way to disable this obnoxious screen for discord audio calls on iOS?!

Just watched the first episode of the new Alien: Earth show, first impressions are .... not great

People that get macropads secretly want to become djs and no one can convince me otherwise

Looking for some good (relatively long form) podcast recs, i’ve gone through the backlog of: - Acquired - Oxide and Friends - Dialectic - Future of Coding - The Important Thing - Runtime Rundown - localfirst podcast What am i missing that is good in these areas?

Tried out Dia for a few days solid - still so many features of Arc that I can't easily live without (primarily syncing with my phone, and the floating windows)

Anyone have recommendations for good walking/running shoes?\

folks i’ve discovered the best website: butt.holdings

Kinda wild that someone thought to themselves that they wanted this to exist in the world

Just talked with someone who’s personally paying for 10 $200/mo claude max plans to avoid hitting rate limits locally - absolutely wild

It really feels like OpenAI has a great offering - but they fall behind on a lot of the newer product integrations

Finally gave in and upgraded to the pro plan on Claude - using Claude Code at work and also wanting to experiment with MCP servers more was just too much of an incentive

Found out one of my friends uses Amazon Music, haven't been able to look at them the same since

Finding myself falling down the Lesswrong and Gwern rabbit holes right now

This looks pretty neat!

New micropost, trying my best to start sharing some of the links I stumble upon and read (hopefully with some additional insight too): matthamlin.me/2025/july/li...

i currently pay for Cursor and ChatGPT pro, contemplating the switch to Claude (primarily for MCP support, and Claude Code) Any recommendations from folks? Should i stick with ChatGPT?

Kind of ironic that after I posted this I get an email about Swarm relaunching!

Flying back to Boston this morning, wrapping up our 2 week west coast trip. It was a blast!

Darn - the only one I missed on the quiz and it was because I forgot that the answers were based on another timezone 🤦‍♂️ Check out the quiz at jsdate.wtf

Saddest 4 word story just dropped: “For sale: American Dream”

so far the primary complaint i have with the iOS26 betas is that everything is visually so large, scrolling through messages and it’s hard to see a thread because the ui is so dominant

What’s the classic foursquare for an #atproto world?