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A clover, a bee, and a break

The title of this post is somewhat misleading. Local-first software rarely needs to be scaled at all.

What AI-optimized schools misunderstand about learning

Learn how AI transforms test-driven development (TDD) from a time-consuming chore into your secret weapon for building robust and bug-free applications.

A study into the workflows of experienced developers found that devs who use Cursor for bugfixes are around 19% slower than devs who use no AI tools at all. One possible takeaway is that AI tools can be harder work than we’re led to believe.

Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans

Why I believe live coding is NOT fair

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.

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Recently, I wrote an article about my journey in learning about robots.txt and its implications on the data rights in regards to what I write in my blog. I was confident that I wanted to ban all the crawlers from my website. Turned out there was an unintended consequence that I did not account for. My LinkedIn posts became broken Ever since I changed my robots.txt file, I started seeing that my LinkedIn posts no longer had the preview of the article available. I was not sure what the issue was initially, since before then it used to work just fine. In addition to that, I have noticed that LinkedIn’s algorithm has started serving my posts to fewer and fewer connections. I was a bit confused by the issue, thinking that it might have been a temporary problem. But over the next two weeks the missing post previews did not appear.

Know how good your code needs to be for the task at hand. Start with a rough draft. Try to soften requirements if you can. Don't get distracted. Make small changes. Practice specific skills.

Context Engineering is the new skill in AI. It is about providing the right information and tools, in the right format, at the right time.

A home for Jihad Esmail.

Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

Many teams start with the MVP. But what if the key to shipping great products wasn’t starting small — but starting big? Could great products start at the finish line?