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There appears to be a “launching” phase before walking, where a baby constantly springs their legs and flings their head back into danger.

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Everything this baby wants to do is dangerous.

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Would it kill sock makers to make every sock in a pack identical?

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I can bear the baby waking up an hour early and entertaining himself on our bed while we doze But currently his toys aren’t as interesting as climbing on us, poking our faces, sitting up then falling backwards, and kicking.

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I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things

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“Still waters run deep” winds me up. If I make no effort to engage with people, I should work on it, not say “well actually that means I’m really clever”

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Curiosity overcame me so I booked a Vision Pro try-out

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I did petrol maths and it turns out 7 miles costs £1. I think I’m going to be sick.

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If I have to listen to a song 10 times before I like it, does that make it deep or bad (and only enjoyed out of Stockholm Syndrome)?

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Sometimes I wonder about all the songs I’d love if I heard them one more time and all the songs I do love because I happened to hear them the required number of times.

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I still haven't figured out a graceful way of populating a useForm with the results of a useQuery. Putting a reset in a useEffect gives me the ick.

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Whenever I see people release SaaS’ with templates I feel like a schmuck doing everything from scratch.

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Having a pocket notepad todo list has been a game changer for productivity

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Want your web/brand/product/etc design to stand out? Stop using Poppins. There I said it.

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The Bluesky source code looks very tidy and professional, but it also looks very boilerplatey. I can’t help but think there could be some more abstractions, but maybe they’ve seen some truth I’m yet to see and I’m in the middle of a midwit bell curve.

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I didn’t realise people actually liked TikTok. I thought everyone was wary of the brainrot (especially for kids) and potential spying and only went on because of dopamine addiction.

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My second parkrun of my health kick and my knees are dead. Is this because I’m over 15 stone now? Because I’m nearly 30? Because my running was actually jogging where each step I went more up than forward? Because it was on a hard path?

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To-do lists go well right up until I put something like “plan and book a holiday” and then it becomes the to-do-eventually list and I lose all urgency

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I’m very much not looking forward to an ADHD consultation with my GP. Like my autism (diagnosed 15 years ago), any symptom in isolation seems way too easy to hand wave away with “everyone gets like that sometimes”.

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It may be overkill, but I’m pretty much making a RN shadcn/ui but based on iOS components/styles so I can have their je ne sais quoi but easily add my app’s personality at the last step

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One little joke I’ve started is to refer to all more costly / not free alternatives as “going private”

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I forgot how perfect stir fry is. Vegetables and protein, non-processed, super fast, carbs optional, super affordable. Truly the goat.

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I put off learning AI tools because I thought all of my problems were business logic that the AI can’t infer from existing code. I was wrong. Special code is special code, but it still needs wiring up to APIs through connective tissue that is a lot more boilerplatey than I ever noticed.

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Cursor has really shed light on how much of React coding is adding a prop, destructuring the prop and implementing the prop

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My biggest communication flaw is overloading sentences with justifications and caveats as if each sentence is an elevator pitch, nobody can ask follow-up questions, and if I don’t cram it all in one breath, I’ll be misunderstood.

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Have I been my best self all weekend because I went on a run on Saturday morning OR were the desire to run and the productive weekend all caused by the same spontaneous magic mood shift?

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I know it will cause more problems than it solves, but I sometimes wish you could arbitrarily reorder files in the VSCode explorer

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The one day I’m hitting flow state and doing chores on double speed, my baby becomes unwell and there’s double work to do. It seems the amount of effort needed on any day is constant and the universe will always counteract wins and losses.

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I used to think I can’t have ADHD because I occasionally have these days where I’m a machine. I can focus and do boring tasks non-stop. The monkey on my back gets off. Then I discovered that this probably proves more than it disproves!

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A language’s DX is only as good as its VSCode extensions. Heaven is red squiggles and cmd+. actions that fix them.

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Did anyone else become stupid when they became a parent? For the last 8 months, my memory and ability to learn has taken a nose dive.

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There’s so much brainrot out there, I’m worried for my baby’s future. I get that I can put time limits on apps, but I don’t want him to be a social outcast when he’s the only one of his friends who doesn’t watch 6 hours of drivel a night

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Cursor has me instantly converted. I regret taking so long to get on board.

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