Turns out building a calendar is very difficult.
We didn't go out to build it because it was easy. We did it because we thought it would be easy.
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I swear ChatGPT can offer a master class in gaslighting.
I'm reading Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, and it's so good so far. You know, I shit talk comic books stories a lot, but man DC it just elevating the medium and making me eat my words.
I finished Final Space Season 2...and... It's better then Season 1, but I still find it hard to invest in the story when they are so many deus ex machina that it makes it hard to care when anything can happen to bring people back to life or turn them evil...or whatever...
I am so happy with my e2e test suite. I have 51 tests currently (will have more soon), but it's very consistent and reliable. Much to my surprise as my experience with e2e testing before used to be frustrating. Also, it gives me so much confidence in refactoring my code.
Finished FinalSpace season 1 and the production values are amazing but the writing is very cliche and the ending feels like a student art film. I thought that I was getting tired of things subverting tropes and deconstructing genres but after seeing it played straight, i think i want deconstruction.
I keep thinking to myself. Man, I sure wish I was rich. And then the next thought it, I sure hate money. And by hating money, i mean what money does to people. Root of evil and all that.
I mentioned TDD in an earlier post, and it became clear from the responses that there's some confusion about what TDD is. TDD stands for test-driven _development_ (or design). The "test-driven" is an adjective modifying the word "development" (or "design").
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The duality of man;
"Huh, that AI agent figure that out. It's pretty smart."
A moment later,
"This moron! Stop adding in this trash code, you're introducing bugs and unnecessary complexity for no reason!"
Alright, I made a skill and gave my agent a complicated refactor to implement. They implemented permissioning, it was so huge that it took me days to review the changes. And having to go through line by line and optimize its slop code creates a lot of semantic satiation, where words lose all meaning
if you had to learn how to program you’re a scrub compared to me. i was born a coder. i just had to wait for my eyes and muscles to develop so i could work the keyboard. claude aint shit to me
The worst part about recovering from an accident is I’m going to lose my sweet sweet gains. Will I ever be able to dead lift two plates again?
A tail as old as time. Man versus car car wins.
You can tell that I use dictation for this because it’s spelled tail wrong
Ok, after a week of having agents write the majority of my code, I do have to admit, I am technically working faster, however there are a lot of UX, accessibility, and coding patterns that I need to constantly watch for. Which I could have caught the first time if I'd written the code myself.
So they say, as you use AI more you become more comfortable with letting the AI do more. So far my experience is that I'll let it do more, because I'm tired of doing code review and my mind starts to turn off. I don't think this is as effective as the model owners say.
Me: Oh I forgot to add `resolves #[issue]` to my commit that is now second from the head. I'm sure AI can add that for me.
AI: Proceeds to get stuck in git rebase hell.
Me: Yep...just like a normal developer...
i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)
you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS
lyra.horse/x86css/
That is currently the solution. Temporal would make it a lot easier!
Alright, next week, I'm going to try and go all in on agentic coding. I'm still highly skeptical and I'm not going to be going all in on the vibes as I'll be expecting to give instructions to the LLM to refactor and not create pure slop. But let's see how much more *productive* I can be.
I'm working on a employee scheduling app called ScheduleLord. Having to deal with time and timezones is a special kind of hell. Why isn't Temporal done yet?
What I hate about AI is that it is always behind. I'm working on zod v4 and they keep recommending v3 methods. It's so god damn frustrating that they can't just go and look at the docs and find the information rather than rely on their outdated training.
When I say I don't know how to do something. I'm not saying, all hope is lost, let's give up (though, I might say that later). What I'm saying is that I don't have a frame of reference to make an educated guess about the problem, but I'm sure I can figure it out. And oftentimes I am able to.
I'm trying to think of a better way to write tests. A kind of next evolution of BDD. www.test2doc.com/blog/2026/02...
"...may the hashes be unique and the tests always green."
Sometimes LLMs toss funny weird shit in to my conversations when we're done talking. This is probably the funniest. I think it does this because I'm always making jokes in my prompts.
I just vibe coded up a feature for test2doc. I didn't just blindly accept it. I forced the agent to TDD and then we refactored the implementation to make the code better. It was quick, but I'm not sure if I enjoy coding like this...
I'm experimenting with vibe coding a bit on OMA3 and the LLM has gotten stuck in vim. Classic rookie mistake AI.
Here’s part 1 of this week’s 4-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis Special. I walk you through stage 4 of enshittification, when companies decide to enshittify shareholders, and the concept of stock itself.
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Got a new tutorial around RedwoodSDK and TDD, and also going a bit into SOLID principles and refactoring. www.test2doc.com/docs/tutoria...
It's funny that I literally thought this was going to be one of the more simple tutorial sections and ended up being maybe the most complicated one.