spoke with a friend who has taken to prompt injecting their manager after realizing that manager was just uncritically asking an LLM to rephrase inputs from reports as managerial outputs
all I want for Christmas is to see this wall of friendly faces continue to grow. thank you SO MUCH to everyone who supports @codetv.dev, and if you want to see more tv for developers, consider becoming a supporter today! codetv.dev/support
I understand this is framed as developer experience (DX), but I can’t imagine better DX than trusting native web platform features won’t get me intro trouble, or sued, or otherwise result in harm.
My prior caution about trusting Baseline for real baseline support:
adrianroselli.com/2023/12/base...
new from our friend @likethecolour.red on Strangers, By Spring:
"Bar Italia is both a cafe and a portal.
What I mean by that is that it is open for 21 hours a day and anywhere that is open for 21 hours a day eventually, but inevitably, becomes a portal."
strangersbyspring.com/2025-12-12
Open the article on desktop/laptop. Now resize the window.
This is 2010 technology.
In 2025, instead, we get a popup that takes up 1/3 of the screen and says "this website looks better on the app."
"We created a gateaux of false certainty that we ended up eating for 2 years"
I love it when our clients clock this, and the previously unimaginable suddenly becomes possible.
it's also such a perfect gesture to symbolize resignation, "i'm out," etc, I bet it gets adopted by humans. kids miming taking their headset off when particularly exasperated, occasionally falling over for extra emphasis
Story of the year right here. Don’t pass up on someone as good as Nic either. Everything she has touched for us at Set Studio has been nothing short of gold.
I think this was the best run of this talk because I had a nice long slot to deliver it.
The crowd at beyond tellerand were incredible, with perfect vibes.
Marc's team are *so good* at what they do too. Sure I was extremely nervous (it's bt conf!!!) but man, I walked off stage feeling invincible.
(another) new side project idea/tool just dropped (got started).
a portable 'design tokens preview' tool that'll quickly create a 'one pager' previewing your design tokens .json/.tokens file
i sort of dislike bun for similar reasons but i think more guardrails is actually better for llms too. if anything, type checkers, borrow checkers etc can get a lot more brutal
I will not be participating in Advent of Code this year as I have a load-bearing need to believe I'm a supergenius coder and this has "reality check" written all over it
Is there any existing React tooling/linting that can detect hooks that return unmemoized functions? Seeing a lot of subtle performance regressions coming from breaking memoization, trying to better understand what tooling is out there that can help detect that during dev
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More topics coming in the new year. Tell me what you want to see next.
simondev.io
#threejs
I've been refactoring my blog post styles with @tailwindcss.com the last few days and what took me a bunch of javascript beforehand has now been reduced to 4 lines and it makes me so happy ☺️
My latest pieces online, and I expect to add a few more over the coming week. If you're thinking about holiday gifts, consider some handmade pottery!
If you like it, I want you to have it. #pottery #art
art.miriamsuzanne.com
I am from basically right after the ICQ/Usenet timeframe and it was a surreal feeling, seeing things like 'taxonomy of flame warriors' that was drawing on a rich history of forum use predating me when the internet still felt brand new.
"LLMs excel at writing code that works that doesn’t have to be maintained. Non-production code that’s only run once (e.g for research) is a perfect fit for this. I would say that my use of LLMs here meant I got this done 2x-4x faster than if I’d been unassisted"
www.seangoedecke.com/how-i-use-ll...