I'm really enjoying Helix so far. I ported my theme, and it feels quite nice.

Opencode is fantastic. I no longer use editor completions like Copilot, I find them distracting. I create the bulk of the work, and then align everything in a distraction-free editor.

It's quite annoying how tied LiveView is to Phoenix. Even if you select `--no-live`, you still have the dependency, macros, and configuration for it. Laravel has a more sensible approach, embracing any FE solution. The lengths you have to go to use a pipe operator.

I miss writing effect-ts

You use Notion I use 23 unsaved buffers in Sublime Text we're not the same

100% this.

It’s wild how little sticks around when someone hits a server with the #React RCE payload. All the interesting parts of the POST request live for a moment in memory, get decoded, executed (or rejected), and vanish. Nothing hits a log, nothing lands on disk. You can scan process

I've been reading Mechner's journal on making Prince of Persia. It takes me to a happy place, and reminds why got in this job in the first place.

Writing code fast was never the blocker for software. Thanks to Claude we're adding inertia and thought delegation to the list.

Spot on. The maintainability suffers when you stop being paranoid and you don't pilot it properly. At that point you wonder, why am I working backwards? Correcting instead of writing?

The Vercel incident might feel "funny" to outsiders, but it's just another nail in the coffin of full stack JavaScript. With Remix pivoting every year and nextjs making the oddest decisions, in 2026 the most sensible option for a new project is Tanstack Start. A framework in RC.