Bonnie Schulkin

I think it was a big mistake to make generative AI chatbots talk in the first person. AI is not an “I”. AI is not a being.

One of the worst parts of the Trump era is that we’re repeatedly told to hate our neighbors.   Just look at all the positive videos – of people from around the world coming together to celebrate sports right now – and know we can choose a different path.

Hey folks! I'm starting grad school next month to become a therapist. So excited. The universe clearly approves: just found out my contract creating engineering onboarding curriculum ends this month. Fact is, I enjoy having an income. Would love any leads on contract work in tech education!

👀 It’s the very final day in my annual Spring sale! If you’ve been eyeing one of my courses, there's just a few hours left before the prices jump back up. Quick thread going through the deals. 🧵

heh, suboptimal

✨ I just made a few lessons from my courses public for a few days! This is part of my annual Spring sale. It’s become tradition for me to offer a bit of a free sample, to help folks decide if my courses are a good fit for them or not. I call it the “Open House”, and it runs until Wednesday.

🌸✨ I just launched my annual Spring Sale! You can save up to 50% on my online courses. (I realize that it's basically summer in most of the northern hemisphere right now 😂. But up here in Canada, the flowers just started blooming! Look at the trees near my office.) Details in thread. 🧵

"I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings. I don’t want to be the person arguing with a robot, or wasting my time reading something that a real person couldn’t be bothered to write."

If you have a developer education budget at work, I would really encourage you to use it on your favourite developer educators. A lot of us are deciding whether or not to keep doing this stuff, and that support would help send a signal that we should keep going. ❤️

✨ It’s the final day of the launch sale for my new course, Whimsical Animations! The price will nearly double in a few hours. whimsy.joshwcomeau.com You can see the exact amount of time remaining here:

ICYMI, a few lessons from my new course are public right now! The Open House runs until Tuesday.

🎉 Registration is now open for my latest course, Whimsical Animations! This course will teach you everything you need to know to design and build stunning, creative animations and interactions. It’s time to make the web less generic and boring! 😄

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using with no explanation.

Another day, another wild and wacky animation you’ll learn how to create in Whimsical Animations. 🐛

I recommend against using AI when teaching new topics. It doesn't make sense. You learn nothing from writing a prompt.

My new supabase project id contains the string 'moonray' 🌙⚡️

If you aren’t watching the Callback, you aren’t enjoying life as much as you should

Friendly reminder: the Black Friday sale I’m running ends tomorrow! 🎈 The best deal is on the bundle, which is an eye-watering US$500 off right now. 👀 www.joyforjs.com

Here’s a question I get a lot: > “Now that AI can generate front-end UIs for us, what’s the point of learning CSS ourselves?” I think there are lots of reasons, including that you can use AI much more effectively if you understand CSS yourself. But is that actually true? Let’s discuss. 🧵

🎈 The Black Friday sale of my two flagship courses has officially begun! The best deal is on the “Joy for JavaScript Developers” bundle, which is a whopping $500 off during this sale. 😄 I’m also running sales on each course individually, they’re both ~40% off. ✨ More info in-thread. 🧵

My courses will be going on sale for Black Friday! Details: • The sale begins Monday, November 24th and runs through December 3rd • CSS for JavaScript Developers will be 40% off (US$399 → US$239) • The Joy of React will be 42% off (US$599 → US$349) • Get ‘em both for 50% off (US$998 → US$499) ✨

PSA: if you’re in Georgia (the US state, not the country), there’s an important election happening now that you probably don’t know about! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgvE...

I think this is a really great point. I’ve had *moments* with Cursor where it’s been 10x faster than what I’d have done by hand, and those moments are super memorable. But most of the time, my experience is a lot more mixed.

⏰ It’s the last day to sign up for my new course in Early Access! At 5PM ET (UTC -04:00), registration closes and it won’t reopen until the full release, sometime in 2026 (and at a dramatically higher price!). You can learn more here: whimsy.joshwcomeau.com

We’re live!! My brand-new course, “Whimsical Animations”, is now available. 🥳🎉 whimsy.joshwcomeau.com I’m so excited to share all of my animation tools and techniques with y’all. 😄

Today, we’re deprecating Create React App for new apps, and encouraging existing apps to migrate to a framework. We’re also providing docs for when a framework isn’t a good fit for your project, or you prefer to start by building a framework. react.dev/blog/2025/02...

It’s the 2nd annual Valentine’s Day event on my course platform! If you’ve registered for either of my courses, I’ve generated a unique, one-time-use coupon code for you that’ll cut the price of either of my courses by ✨ 50% ✨. Find your coupon here: courses.joshwcomeau.com/valentines-day

Guess whatttttt I'm hiring engineers for my team (accessibility engineering) and one of my immediate peers is also hiring for Primer, our design system! We are looking for earlier-in-career folks as Software Engineer IIs, to best complement and round out our teams. githubinc.jibeapply.com/jobs/3987

🌍 Do you speak a language other than English? I need your help! I’m working on a landing page, and a little easter egg is that the tagline can be translated into a bunch of different languages. If you’re a native speaker, I’d love if you could review my machine translations. ❤️ Thread 🧵

been reading a lot of comments today about how people find man pages hard to read and it made me mad (why do they have to be so hard!) so I'm giving away 300 copies of Bite Size Command Line to folks for whom $12 is a lot of money! (with code BUYONEGIVEONE) wizardzines.com/zines/bite-s...

Excited to be a part of Egghead!

Excited to welcome @bonnie.dev with this handy @eslint.org lesson. Sorting imports with the ESLint Plugin simple-import-sort -lesson egghead.io/sorting-impo...

extremely relatable

Truth.

Shout out to @joshwcomeau.com's principles. He closed his 135K Twitter account, despite it being a major marketing tool for his content and courses. He spent his final days informing his followers about the election before closing it and moving here. Protest isn't always convenient.

I posted this in 2016 and I'll share it again.