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Seeing a lot of hype/controversy around TOON. I’ve noticed a strong correlation between those dismissing TOON and having #opentowork on their LinkedIn. Hot take: It’s too early to evaluate the long-term utility of TOON. Those not giving it a chance now are just cosplaying as pragmatic engineers.

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Cursor's Composer model really flies in agent mode and the results are pretty accurate. This feels like a critical shift in my dev workflow. I'm now reaching for agents at least twice as often, and it's always Composer. #ai #vibecoding @cursor.com.web.brid.gy

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I don't think there's a single release from GitHub Universe that doesn't involve AI 🤖 Shoving AI into every feature seems like a waste of compute for the value gained.

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Hot take: Modals suck. What's the point of partially obscuring content? Just make a choice: either expand the modal content inline OR display it in a standalone view. #ux #design

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I often wonder about the bias of tech entrepreneurs towards only solving problems in tech. There’s such an over-saturation of companies building CMSs, productivity apps, DB-as-service, auth-as-service, etc. meanwhile it’s rare to find great software products for customers outside of tech.

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These problems are everywhere, but as tech professionals, we’re often too isolated from other professions that it’s tough to identify them.

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Example: my mother worked in healthcare doing home visits as recently as 5 years ago (since retired). She shared a desktop computer with 3 other coworkers, used paper charts and fax machines, and was given a flip phone for comms while out on visits. Many people still work like this in 2025!

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I often wonder about the bias of tech entrepreneurs towards only solving problems in tech. There’s such an over-saturation of companies building CMSs, productivity apps, DB-as-service, auth-as-service, etc. meanwhile it’s rare to find great software products for customers outside of tech.

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There’s also another problem though trying to emulate these successes. For a long time, venture capital has been focused on finding the next unicorn, which has led to a lot of money being pumped into moonshot ideas to make $10B+ and dismissing ideas that might top out at a few million.

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For about two decades, if your idea didn’t involve “disrupting” an entire market, it wasn’t worth investment. This has created a huge gap in the market where we still have a lot of unsolved problems simply because there’s a limited (but still profitable) market.

dave.js
@davejs.dev

I often wonder about the bias of tech entrepreneurs towards only solving problems in tech. There’s such an over-saturation of companies building CMSs, productivity apps, DB-as-service, auth-as-service, etc. meanwhile it’s rare to find great software products for customers outside of tech.

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This is such a great opportunity though, and the unicorns we all know are typically startups who have taken a confident step outside of the tech echo chamber and solved problems outside of tech: Uber, AirBnB, DoorDash, Spotify, Zillow, to name a few.

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Gleam sponsorship has dropped in the last 2 months. We are free of any corporate control, but this means sponsorship is vital to pay the core team! Please consider sponsoring Gleam, or any of the maintainers. Just a few dollars a month makes a difference.

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As a tailwind hater, the biggest thing pushing me towards using @tailwindcss.com is how well AI agents are trained on it. It’s allowed me to do so many refactors on a massive spaghetti code frontend that wouldn’t have been worth my time otherwise. #css

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How regularly do you contemplate leaving the tech industry and living in the woods like a hermit? For me it's about once a year. I feel like that's a healthy amount. 🙂

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I love using data attributes as modifiers in #CSS. Been using this pattern for 5+ years and haven't seen it emerge anywhere else.

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With that in mind though, #tailwind does do a great job with managing themes. Also, some of the utility classes are nice like `truncate` and `line-clamp`.

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A year into using #tailwind and I'm still not convinced it's better than CSS-in-JS solutions that transpile to #CSS. 1. CSS Grid is confusing in Tailwind. 2. I still hate the cluttered DOM. So much horizontal scrolling! 3. Yes, naming is hard, but the added context has value!

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A year into using #tailwind and I'm still not convinced it's better than CSS-in-JS solutions that transpile to #CSS. 1. CSS Grid is confusing in Tailwind. 2. I still hate the cluttered DOM. So much horizontal scrolling! 3. Yes, naming is hard, but the added context has value!

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Trying to set up my bluesky feed to be free of political drama. Is that too much to ask? 🥲 Been clicking "show less like this" for days and it's still getting through. Muting certain words helps a bit, but still not enough..

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