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I once asked a question like this for an interview. "Tell me what happens when you press the Buy button on a web site". It really helped me gauge a sense for the person's interests…

I never understood the copy paste thing. Shadcn just reeks of a fad, and even after doing copy paste and trying it, I didn’t see what the big deal was. But enjoy it, y’all. One of …

Love love love mantine.

It's inevitable that someone will build a good robot to do these mundane chores. But is that a good thing? I vacuum every night and during that I get some great thinking done. If I…

Same. I got spooked after a car pulled out on the country highway I was doing 160 on. Then ran out of money and sold it. I just rode my Dads Harley, first ride in 20 years. Was nic…

All I ever hear are horror stories. Can someone tell me a good story about VC that isn't Facebook or something?

Svelte is cool although I didn't have some big epiphany. I'm not going to use Svelte because "it compiles" and "is faster" when my existing React app performs very well. Plus there…

I remember in 1999 being so psyched about changing a button image on mouseover. Went hard on jquery, little bit of angular and bootstrap. React was big for me because it’s one way …

You are mixing local and federal politics. This is a town issue and would likely have happened regardless of who occupied the Oval Office

Others have provided details about how it works. I suggest zooming way in on that image and you'll start 'breaking though' the surface and that'll help you get an idea of how it wo…

Maybe not at first. Regardless of when they get replaced by tech, you’ll see those jobs get saturated and wages go down. Which sucks because they are already low

This is a good take. I’d like to know how you think this is going to shake out over the next few decades

I'm the same way, which makes sense because for 20 years I've done things by hand, tediously managing every line. I hired a few fresh grads and they have no problem just going with…

I’m working on ways to evaluate and give feedback on surgical techniques. But you just helped me find a new pivot. Thanks! And yes I’m on the toilet.

I couldn’t quite understand exactly how it was exploited. It sounds like there is some cache that is shared across action runs and they took advantage of that. Is that at the core …

Be careful there. The whole "just wait 6 months" thing is problematic. It gives you an excuse to make a mess now, because "in 6 months" AI will magically fix it. It also belittles …

I also love to build. And I'm mourning the loss of coding as a craft that is sought after and well compensated. I like to get my hands dirty and it feels wrong that I can basically…

I wasn’t talking about unit tests. Was talking about tests that accelerate development, where you can setup everything and test a feature by just pressing enter vs clicking around …

Which to me is why it’s so important to build cooler and crazier shit. A web app to facilitate some business process was always boring, but at least you got to code. Now it’s just …

For me, if I can make a kickass testing system that people love so much that they actually build features with it and it’s not an afterthought, then maintenance becomes much easier…

Agree. I didn’t like being forced to use it. There was some edict based on some different past problems. My service was a devops thing and didn’t really have a data plane. A regula…

I was such a fan of it that I ended up working there for 4 years. Now I avoid it and encourage others to do the same. AWS used to have a nifty tool called "policy analyzer" or some…

Upper management wants to say they use AI and spend is an easy indicator. That trickles down and ultimately the engineers spending a lot is seen as good. It’s just a lazy measureme…

Well played

A link to a project that does the exact same thing, except it’s built with Rust