If Ruby were the first language taught in a programming curriculum, I wonder if those students would ever put up with the “line noise” (heard the term from DHH in the Lex Fridman podcast) that other languages’ syntax force you to just accept as in-escapable reality. Thank

I’ve seen these kinds of spam emails land in our support inbox and always wondered what the scam was. Now I know. Thanks Tony!

That said, I’m grateful for how dead simple deploying PHP web apps was when I first started with web dev. Seeing my first dynamic web page up and running behind a domain name with very little server admin involved was magical.

Signed up for a service and reached out to their support for something. Issue resolved, all good. At the end of our convo they say: Oh btw, we’re using Typesense for search. Love running into unexpected use cases in everyday life!

BREAKING: My CI pipeline broke

BREAKING: My CI pipeline is now fixed

"Call us for pricing" restaurant edition

In Google Workspace if I click on “Report Phishing” it just forwards that email back to me, as one of the admins of the workspace So I basically spam myself twice if I click that 😂

Purely for old times' sake, I decided to google for a programming related question, instead of using ChatGPT & clicked on the first Stack Exchange link. I was greeted with a Google login popup covering some content on the top, and a cookie banner covering more content at the

If anyone wants some stock recommendations, I know a few people. LMK. CC: Nikita Bier

Swag shopping ✅ If you’re headed to Laracon US next week, come get them from me in person!

PSA: If you hear a tsunami warning for a 3ft wave and think “that’s cute, I’m going to stay put”, think again. The *speed* of the wave and its *debris* composition is also dangerous, in addition to the height.

Trying to stop an LLM agent from ruining a code base

The sad state of the tech sales dance.

jQuery still rocks! And I’m not saying that just because jQuery dot com uses typesense | for search. I personally still happily use jQuery

Running a 120b model locally feels electric It's surprisingly fast, and doesn't crank up my M4's fan like older models used to. Uses 62GB of RAM.

Lol, love this style of error messages! We need more of this. Not sarcastic at all. Kudos Gmail Side note: Saw this when I was trying to set up forwarding.

After more than a decade of trying to explain tech debt to non-devs I’m finally relieved that everyone can now experience the short-lived joy and long-term pain of tech debt first-hand vibe coding for a few days

Fun fact: I vibe coded this chart (using svg) and it took me 5 iterations of going back and forth and it still didn’t draw exactly what I was going for. Should have just used MS Paint

Hold your horses They added AI to good ol’ MS Paint?!