At the Foxglove holiday party I ate my own face for the first time

It's called react because of how quickly you need to when the next exploit arrives.

tidyfirst.substack.com/p/the-bet-on-j… by Kent Beck 🌻

Omg it's happening!!!

for me, it's claude code

It's funny, I'm hearing from friends at different companies that there are two kinds of product teams right now: a) Those that are getting friction trying to move from docs / slides / endless meetings to a more all-hands on deck prototyping approach with AI and thus still

Microservices are what happens when your organization has communication problems and you decide the architecture should have them too.

Changing behaviors requires persistence. I talk to people someone and they’re like “I really need this other group to act differently” And I’ll be like cool how are you trying to do that. And they’ll be like “I wrote a memo 9 months ago and nobody followed it.” If it’s

opus is def nerfed

Viv Beck on the radio for the 100th time promoting problems & telling everyone how no one goes to the city centre. I once challenged her on this & asked if she understood every time she does it she scares people away. Lots of people, when they go check it out, enjoy it. Thurs:

people forget u can build a whole website with just html. motherfuckingwebsite.com

I’m crafting a new talk on streams and I think `file_get_contents` might just be PHP’s pièce de résistance. I’m yet to see something in another language come close. Simple for beginners. Advanced handles to pull when needed. An all-in-one API that is surprisingly ergonomic.

Should AI replace human code review? Absolutely not. Should AI review your code before you bother humans to take a look? Probably.

Voice AI is going to explode in 2026. Here’s what I’m seeing: 1. Dictation has completely changed how I work I go on walks where I dictate to Otter for 40min. I built an app this weekend while lifting weights. The productivity gain is real. 2. Phone booths everywhere I

men will do anything but use the git cli