Reached my very first milestone with Talk To Locals The next screenshot will be from the Polar dashboard. I hope 😄

I manually submitted Talk To Locals to 31 directories, and here are the stats 2 months later 👇 We have a clear winner, so far: There's An AI For That But 2 launches are still pending: BetaList and Product Hunt 😸 Let's see who will win🙃 I'll post new stats in a month, so stay

So, I've finally tried HTMX. Funnily enough, here is what excited me the most: If you leave your browser tab open for 42 years, it will stay the same. No refreshes, no crashes. The page is just stoically waiting for you to be back. Long-forgotten joy after a decade of SPAs!

When Claude convinces you to use a particular product despite the initial idea to go with the competitor, it's a good sign of nice docs and credibility. DaisyUI it is, then. Great job, Pouya 🌼 and daisyUI contributors!

Xmas presents in September! 🎅

Achievement unlocked ✅

I ran out of monthly credits in Cursor and decided to give the "grok-code-fast-1" model a try, as it is free for now. As you can see, it didn't go well. Not sure about developers, but it can already replace the Lorem Ipsum thingy for sure 🙂

Made my very first online money with Talk To Locals last night 🤘 September 7th just became my personal milestone... To celebrate, I'm dropping the biggest ever 20% discount for the next 24 hours on all pricing tiers. Exclusively for BiP members. Coupon details in the 🧵

Claude strikes back 🤖

Finally, an LTS version! Time to build something cool ☕️

Many programming languages and ecosystems died because they failed to notice the progress around them and adapt to it. Conservatism, if you will, led to their downfall. While reviewing Java 25 release notes, this feature caught my eye: "Compact Source Files and Instance Main

If your workflow contains builds for ARM architecture, prepare your patience 🧘

Software engineering is full of trade-offs. Take SQLite for example: only 1 writer can modify the DB at the same time. Coming from the Postgres world, this sounded like a no-go. But, hey, it was a walk in the park to implement the FIFO ordering in forq due to that nature

My longest reply on X ever, where I share my view on the context-driven system design principle. I have to admit that I like longreads, both as a reader and as a creator.

Campfire by DHH and co. proved SQLite can handle real concurrency. SearchCode by boyter showed that a few TBs of data is well within the SQLite limits. Inspired me to build forq - a FOSS transactional message queue on SQLite. No Redis, no external dependencies. Just a

Bought a used Lenovo laptop and installed Fedora on it to test forq, as it’s a Linux-first tool. It’s been a while since I touched non-server Linux. Surprised how fresh Fedora looks! Great to see that Linux is becoming more user-friendly for non-tech folks.

It's a bummer that the session limit can be reached in the middle of the answer. Understandable from the cost perspective, but a bad UX nevertheless. A great example of a hard engineering task to solve

I've started working on a new product and decided to pick up a good old Java & Spring stack instead of fancy things. And you know what? It feels great to be back! ☕

The Return of the King