I think Casey Muratori saying, "Functions, beautiful at any size," has to be one of my favorite new quotes.

Tailwind is killing my productivity :( I'm using Tailwind v4 for a newer project. I like it, but it's hurting my workflow in a way I didn't expect. I always work with the dev console open, and I like to adjust the window width manually to inspect responsiveness. The jank when

Here are five videos that changed my life for the better: This video made programming click for me. Before I watched this, I used to spend all my time thinking in abstractions and getting frustrated. youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItV…

Learning Sokol. Thanks Dan Korostelev and Andre Weissflog youtube.com/watch?v=dQRDh2…

I read this article about software development, which I knew about because I saw Prime reacting to it: notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of… For the most part I think it is fine: a relatively young programmer is doing the healthy work of introspecting on what he should really be doing. But

Reading Jonathan Blow's comment today about how younger programmers have become accustomed to continual software decay, I was reminded of this thread I wrote a few years ago:

"The way you make code last a long time is you minimize dependencies that are likely to change and, to the extent you must take such dependencies, you minimize the contact surface between your program and those dependencies." 💯🎯

The cost of using third party dependencies - it’s an endless fight to avoid tying in external libraries to avoid writing trivial code. I hate it so much. I suffered from avoidable problems that broke customer value multiple times, and it was literally always just trying to please

I run a large saas app. I'm considering using one sqlite db per client with another to manage auth. Currently using MySQL. I love how fast sqlite is, and separating client data in this way is very appealing. I've done this before, and the trickiest part is keeping migrations

.Aaron Francis -- I've been binge watching your SQLite content lately. Great stuff! The interviews have been great. Do you cover using libSQL in your course? I've got an app where I'd really like to use separate DBs for clients, and perhaps even spin up read-replicas closer to

Realize that many dependencies are complex and bloated because they're trying to provide a solution for many different use cases. Rolling your own solution that tackles your specific problem is likely much easier than you think.

.Anthropic -- Claude has been giving me internal server errors all day! what gives?

Toasts are bad. As I've focused more and more on good UX, I've been steadily removing toasts from my applications. Maybe one day I'll discover that there's a "right way" to use them, but I'm not there, yet. youtube.com/watch?v=LeCKu0…

Claude 4 is noticeably worse at coding tasks.

This is very disingenuous. The dichotomy is not „wasted nanoseconds vs. unreadably hyperoptimized code“. Modern software often takes many seconds to do trivial tasks. The problem is that developers nowadays make their programs 10,000 times slower while also making everything

I don't know if this was ever the case with "clean code," but it sure isn't the case now. I want the act of programming to be easier, more pleasant, and more productive for the vast majority of programmers; and I am willing to sacrifice performance in order to achieve that.

Must every YouTube interviewer begin their video with these cliff-hanger clips from the interview? It's so annoying.

2 Laravel Apps - one OLD, one NEW, living side-by-side? Yeah, I'm doing it. And thanks to Chris Fidao 🙌 it's now going great. Nginx config to redirect some old routes to the upgraded pages. Everything works seamlessly. Check it out: serversforhackers.com/c/nginx-php-in…

I know YOU know the story. But a lot of your friends and family do not. Have you shared this with them? This is the episode I want you to send to people to get them interested in what you do. It's always a HUGE help when you tell someone else to listen to episodes. 🙏

Code so clean, I can't understand it. "I can get about four functions in before I forget what just like where was I? How did I get here?" - ThePrimeTime on navigating small functions youtube.com/clip/UgkxTqbtq…