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Ahh so the difference between feeling rotten and amazing is simply going to the gym for 25 minutes hmmm not sure if I will internalise this information

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Might fuck around and declare I’ve achieved AGI

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drinking from this like I’ve found water after wandering the desert for months my need for some structure makes everything in here sound great

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

be still my beating heart

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I keep trying to express this to people. Granted, I had to learn it the hard way, but doing the work is the work The learning happens in retrieval, not encoding. Pulling it out of your brain and applying it is the hard part and it’s the part that sucks, but it’s also the only part you can’t skip!

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

it is impossible to generate code comments from source code because good comments are definitionally based on things not in the source code (intent, counterfactuals, experiments, etc.)

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Just seen two (2!) framework laptops at the airport - never seen any in the wild before

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Someone who is good at databases can you please recommended books on databases or just sql for someone mostly sheltered from databases ok thanks

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

what frontend stack for building a SaaS today gives folks the most confidence about maintainability, reasonable speed to market, and solid client experience?? (yes I am aware I just said I want fast-good-cheap)

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

anyone need some imposter syndrome lmk I've got a bunch lying around I should really get rid of

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

When I was a kid I remember my dad teaching me how to play chess and it was one of the most boring days of my life

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

finally caved and installed linux on the pc... and just 1. a browser and 2. a terminal, and 3. an app launcher and now I'm thinking what have I been doing with my life? its perfect. it does what I ask it to do and that's it

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

hmmm see what you needed was `call-with-output-process` when you went and used `with-output-to process` you absolute fool, you imbecile

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

that feeling when you one-shot some working code mmmmmm why would I give this up to LLMs all the time, I need some dopamine for myself

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

why didn't anyone tell me the soundtrack to hackers absolutely fucks

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Of course Vue has its own gotchas... but we're onboarding a new dev coming from React this week and he keeps saying "oh ok wow that's so much simpler..." when we go over reactivity and state management Vue is really nice

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Haha, what the fuck?

submitted 38 days ago • 8 comments

Unironically picture #3 in this is good office design and I would deck out a HQ like this. Endless bookshelves and little nook office spaces not open plan.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

just saw a webdev reddit post of someone asking how to implement something like the McMaster-Carr website into their Wordpress shop godspeed to that poor soul

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

yes

submitted 92 days ago • 161 comments

a 'second-brain' in note taking apps is alluring but really I just need my first brain to work read old notes in my obsidian and had no recollection of writing them or the grasp of the related knowledge switched to flashcards and everything sticks now, even content not on the cards

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

this thing was a joy... such janky software but I loved it

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If you've ever found yourself confused by JavaScript's `this` keyword, do I ever have a two-part article coming up for you on @piccalil.li. This first one is the essential groundwork: you can't understand the _what_ of `this` without first understanding the _when_. piccalil.li/blog/javascr...

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

time to bring back socratic method discourse as part of the graded curriculum I guess

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

This is how I see it too. At every company I’ve worked at, we had all these ideas for things we wanted to do, but only like 20% of it got done because we had an engineering bottleneck. If each dev is 2x as productive (let’s just say), I don’t think that means you’d want 50% fewer devs.

submitted 53 days ago • 6 comments

We're doing a blog. It's still draft/tentative. If anyone has time for feedback: samthor.au/2025/collabo...

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

nothing makes me question my intelligence more than when I have to really deeply explicitly think about `this` in JS rather than relying on some rule of thumb

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

imagine we are all writing lisp instead

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

if you interview for JS and do something like ask to implement built-in methods (eg. array map), what are you looking for: to open the ECMA spec and deliver code that meets the spec, or to write their version of what they _think_ that method does?

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