Coding in Flow

When you accidentally click "Restore Checkpoint" on a Cursor chat message from 2 days ago

When you accidentally push your .env file to GitHub:

useState, useEffect, useCallback, useMemo, ... but yet you never useBrain

I can't help but have empathy with LLMs when they react disappointed, even though I know that they are not alive. I am fucked when the robots take over.

I think a big reason why I enjoy agentic coding so much is that I don't get stuck anymore. No more analysis paralysis when I encounter a difficult problem or design decision. I let the AI help me make a decision, and then I move on. And refactoring is easier now.

When you give Claude a taste of its own medicine

Self-host your Next.js app on a cheap VPS with a local PostgreSQL database ✨ Every command is provided for copy-pasting. We even secure the server, connect a custom domain, and make sure every Next.js feature still works. (Video link in the first reply)

Why you should NOT try to master HTML/CSS/JS before jumping into React:

All this intelligence and compute, and you still don't have a six-pack. Some things AI can't do for you.

Next.js ships agent docs in node_modules Why don't all libraries do it like this??? Why do I have to mess around with MCP servers and CLIs that break all the time?

Two years ago, every new AI coding "breakthrough" terrified me. I thought I was gonna lose my job the next day. But in reality, every leap in intelligence & tooling just made the work more fun.

Comet Browser has been a boon to my productivity

Motivation follows action. If you don't "feel like" doing something, don't wait for your mood to randomly change. Just start doing the thing. After 10 minutes, you'll have built momentum—and it might even become fun.

Back when I played online poker professionally, I realized that no invention ever makes life easier. It just makes the game more competitive. AI is the same. CEOs now have to pay thousands in AI tokens every month, not to get a head start, but to even have a chance in the market.

bro is locked in 🗿

One of my favorite Cursor commands. Together with Opus 4.6, this has saved me from a lot of bad design decisions.

What's the best way to track how users use features in my React app?

AI has totally changed the way I learn things. Now, when I find an interesting idea/framework in a book, I don't think "I need to learn and practice this". Instead, I think "How can I best summarize this into an .md file to give it to my agent.

The key prop in React is not only useful for lists. If you want to reset the state of a component, you should use it too. But attention, you want to put the key in a wrapper component so your callers don't have to remember it. Here is how 👇

Learn Context in React 19 with the - new syntax - new use() hook - industry best practices (YT link in 1st reply)

How to actually learn from coding tutorials and not just waste your time in tutorial hell copying code 👇

Claude, whenever I make the most basic suggestion

Unsaved changes warning in Next.js with the new onNavigate function (code in first reply)

How to center a div in 2 lines of CSS: display: grid; place-content: center;

How do YOU use AI agents for software testing? Show me your setups.

Is there a difference between returning a promise and returning "await promise"? Yes, there is. It's subtle but important:

2020: Companies hire you because of your skills 2026: Companies hire you because of your skills.md

Why AI doesn't make you happier

I like the positivity

In React server components, you can fetch data in parallel using Promise.all to avoid waterfalls:

AI is amazing

How closures can cause stale useState values and how to avoid this problem:

App idea: Automatically record every phone call with your loved ones and store it in the cloud When someone dies, feed the data to an LLM and clone their voice You can keep talking to them forever and ask them for advice & soothing I never want phone calls with my mum to stop

Do you ever change the UX to make the code simpler/easier?

What is Shiny Object Syndrome and how does it harm you as a programmer?

I made a video with my top 13 Tailwind v4 tips 😊 Check it out on YouTube

Front end devs, please use links and not buttons for menu items. It's annoying when I can't open the settings page in a new tab with Ctrl + right click.

How to handle caching in @nextjs.org when you have thousands of pages? Like a large e-commerce website? You can return only a subset of routes from generateStaticParams. The remaining pages will be rendered & cached the first time a user opens them.

The perfect React folder structure explained 👇

"AI browsers are so powerful bro, they literally change everything"

New video on my channel: 5 UseState Mistakes That Keep You A Junior Developer Forever (link below)

How to show a modal dialog from anywhere in your React app using Zustand:

You don't always need context to make a value available to your whole React app. Often a simple module export is enough.

Neat way to dark-mode-ify your logo

In 2025, every developer got promoted to prompt manager

Do we still need TanStack React Query in Next.js?

How I imagine every "-high-thinking" model: