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I write about Svelte, the web, and my thoughts as a self-taught software engineer with a low tolerance for BS.
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Move things and breakfast

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I think when there are so many prerequisites for making AI not shit (proper IDE, proper AI model, llms.txt file, detailed and carefully worded prompts, code reviews, etc.), maybe it's reasonable to challenge the assumption that it wouldn't be faster to simply write the code yourself.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Non-technical people: "AI, make me a button." *Button appears on screen* "Whoa! Developers are cooked!"

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

They blocked me.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I've never built a website that wasn't responsive, even as a complete beginner. I don't even do it because it's the right thing to do (which it is). I do it because it's satisfying. If I don't make sure the UI looks good on all screen sizes, I just can't call it done. It doesn't feel complete.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

*grabs Svelte flavoured popcorn* www.reddit.com/r/webdev/s/y...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I hate the fact that "design system" and "system design" are two completely different things that my brain keeps reading interchangeably.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

"Choose the right tool for the job" is such a platitude. It sounds good, we all agree with it in theory. But how many of us developers actually go out of our comfort zone to find "the right tool"? At best, we rationalize after the fact that the tool we were going to choose anyway was the right one.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

What are the practical benefits and use cases of Rust in web applications? I would love to learn the language, but I have no interest in moving away from web development, and I know it won't stick unless I get to use it often in my projects.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like building layouts comes down to the decision of whether to use grid or flex.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

This makes no sense to me. The value passed to the function could be anything, hence the 'unknown' type. But TypeScript isn't happy unless the value is already of type 'Color'. It's trying to get me to write an assertion that will always return true. What am I missing?

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments