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Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.

Why AI won't augment human capabilities much.

Friendly articles and tutorials for front-end web developers. ❤️

Explore the delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.

Why senior developers talk in terms of complexity while the rest of the business is worried about uncertainty — and what to do about it now that AI is in the...

I vibe-coded a GPU-aware Kubernetes TUI for 7 months, archived it, and started over. Here's what AI gets wrong when projects grow complex.

In reply to an email asking about learning software design skills as a researcher physicist:

Optimizing developer experience often has a bigger long-term impact than optimizing rendering benchmarks or bundle size. Faster engineers build better software.

A note from a developer who keeps watching good design die in boardrooms.

A bootcamp can teach you the syntax of a language in six weeks. The part that takes a decade is everything else: where the seams go, where the data flows, which...

Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy.

Guidelines for programming when code is cheap.

The other month I finally ran an experiment we had been postponing for over a year at .txt.

['Programmer', 'Computer nerd', 'Unix enthusiast'];

Un espace pour les développeurs qui veulent parler de leur métier, de leurs doutes, de leurs joies - sans filtre et sans pression.

In my last blog post about OpenClaw I wrote about my growing setup of some basic day-to-day automation tasks.

Criticism can prevent mistakes. It can never create value. Only ideas can do that. The two are not equal contributions, and most meetings get this backwards.