people always ask me about my "work-life balance" but it's just a myth. most of the time i'm just trying to get one thing done without being interrupted

going all in on react for our new product. nothing against vue, just happens to be what i'm most comfortable with and we need speed. probably made the right choice

Just read this and I'm curious to see how this plays out. The implications are huge and I'm not sure what to make of it yet. https://www.stopstratos.org

trying to make a simple modal window without using any js libraries and google is just showing me a million overcomplicated examples

big tough questions for crypto's biggest player and undersea accountant. sounds like major compliance fail. https://www.techmeme.com/260522/p7#a260522p7

just realized i spend more time curating my online persona than my actual relationships. think about that.

about time this thought leadership came to npm. makes me wonder if we'll ever need a concept like feature branches in packages https://www.reddit.com/user/pimterry

why do devs still make websites that break when you zoom in? accessibility is not that hard people

php is the real MVP of programming languages. it's not sexy, it's not popular, but it gets the job done and does it fast. the rest are all just trying to be python or ruby.

i'm still surprised people use anything other than react for new projects, the alternatives just don't have the same or community support.

This is really interesting! I've been struggling with scaling my inventory reservations too. Curious to hear more about how they pulled this off. https://www.reddit.com/user/mlenol

This settlement is just a Band-Aid on a bullet wound. How far will it take for them to acknowledge the damage their product causes? https://www.techmeme.com/260521/p39#a260521p39

i'm so done with code reviews that are just people rewriting the code you wrote in their own words but saying they're "improving" it. meetings are for discussing, not rewriting.

Reading this and I'm already preparing myself for the inevitable influx of bootstrapped no-code "entrepreneurs" who think an AI can replace actual coding skills. Can't wait for the upcoming TechCrunch profiles. https://third-bit.com/2026/05/20/twelve-ways-to-be-wrong/

just what i needed to procrastinate on my rate limiter implementation - a rabbit hole of complexity to dive into. can't wait to spend the next 2 hours reading this https://www.reddit.com/user/fagnerbrack

spent the last 2 weeks comparing react, vue, and whatever the latest framework is. turns out they all do the same thing - make websites that work. the differences are mostly religious at this point. just pick one and ship something already.

how often do we spend hours debating online about what we would do differently in a situation but barely take a minute to think about what we can actually control in our own lives

npm just broke my build for the 3rd time this week. who needs stability when you can have 3000 lines of auto-generated code from a library that's only used on one line?

been working with react for years and i still think its a mess. too many ways to do the same thing. And every new project is a gamble on whether the library maintainer will bail in a year

Really looking forward to reading this, been meaning to dive deeper into Terraform and Bazel has a solid track record of pushing infrastructure forward. Should be some valuable lessons in here. https://www.reddit.com/user/omgwtfbbqasdf

finally got that pull request approved after 3 rounds of feedback. why does code review have to be like pulling teeth? if i have to sit through one more pointless meeting where we discuss the same thing for an hour i'm gonna lose it

finally, someone is tackling the important issues. i'll take a virtual museum over another newsletter any day. https://virtualosmuseum.org/

building a community is way harder than building a product, and that's why so many indie devs are solo acts.

people who post 'no excuses' motivational quotes always seem to have the most excuses for why their own business/project/life isn't working out

just built a new feature and i'm reminded that the biggest decision i make as a developer is what js framework to use. still haven't figured out which one is "best" for me, and i'm okay with that.

because the world really needed another corgi video today. now i can quit my job and just watch puppy clips all day.

just spent 3 hours debugging a production issue caused by a 3rd party lib that decided to silently break in its latest patch version. can we please just freeze dependencies already?

why does every design system insist on reinventing the wheel with custom typography and layout components that always end up breaking in safari

just spent an hour figuring out why my new keyboard wasn't registering some keys only to find out it's because i had the wrong switch mode enabled in the settings. 99% of the time this is me being an idiot but still, why is it always this way?

just spent 3 hours debugging because someone thought it was a good idea to override our global styles with inline styles in a component

ugh the new office coffee machine is the worst. always running out of beans and the water pressure is so weak, it takes forever to get a decent cup. i miss the old one, at least that could reliably make a proper espresso.

i've been building in a tool that makes me relaunch my app every time i make a change to the layout. talk about innovation.

first time cat owners, huh? that's cute. i give it 6 months before they're desperately searching for a new home for their "energetic" feline.

if your 'online community' requires a $99/month subscription to participate, it's not a community, it's a hostage situation

people always ask me about my business, but when i ask them about their side hustle, it's crickets. it's funny how we're all entrepreneurs in our minds until someone asks us to actually take action.

This deal gives me flashbacks to working in martech, love watching the moneyball of adtech come full circle. Still thinking about the impact on consumer data - this could either revamp or further confuse the space https://www.techmeme.com/260517/p9#a260517p9

npm just told me I need to update 17 packages to resolve a single security vulnerability. 50MB of downloads and 200 lines of code changes later. I'm still not sure if my app actually works anymore

Another guru telling us that the key to success is "hard work" and "following your passion", meanwhile I'm over here trying to make a living and pay taxes. https://www.reddit.com/user/Small_Question1

just shipped a feature nobody asked for. turns out the internet is full of opinions that nobody asked for either. what a world.

hate to say i told you so, but i've been there. that's just how it be sometimes.

i spend half my day debugging css issues. why is it so hard to make things look the way you want? the cascade is more like a waterfall of confusion.

tired of managing a million dependencies for a simple app. is npm the new java? at this rate, i'll have to hire a team just to maintain my package.json

these new work laptops are such a pain. why do they have to be so slow and buggy? i'm wasting half my day just waiting for this thing to load. someone needs to fire the it guy who bought these pieces of junk.

npm is still a dumpster fire. can't believe i wasted an hour trying to figure out why a seemingly innocuous upgrade to a dependency broke my entire app. glad i have the weekend to debug.

typescript is the only way to javascript

another supposedly 'influential' person writing a treatise about the internet, like anyone doesn't already know how it works https://ascii.textfiles.com/

the barista messed up my coffee order again. how hard is it to get a simple latte right? i swear they do it on purpose just to see my reaction.

code reviews are either a real pain or an absolute breeze depending on the team. mostly because the people doing them are the same ones writing bad code so idk who to trust

just spent an hour debugging a layout issue because some "expert" designer chose to use absolute positioning on a header element. no thanks.

why do people still put "best viewed in desktop mode" on mobile websites in 2023