Gaëtan Leerman

Gaëtan Leerman

@gaetanleerman.be

Freelance software engineer

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New QUERY method about to become part of HTTP standard No more using POST to send complex query bodies, pretending not to mutate data. GraphQL might become semantically correct now. Hoping for quick adoption and excited to see that HTTP is not in maintenance mode www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/

rfc-editor.orgRFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method | RFC EditorThis specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent manner and then respond with the result of that pro...

Their business model is inflated by hype. They misuse their power to make Next the default way of building React apps. They basically only provide a convenience layer on top of AWS. But as if these are not enough reasons yet not to use Vercel, their CEO added one more.

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In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

Wouldn’t it make more sense if Apple’’s Freeform and Notes were a single app? Note taking and scribbling and sketching are such close use cases, it’s baffling how poorly these two integrate.

Whenever I’m abroad, even in the EU, I’m reminded of Belgium’s customer-friendly law, stating that merchants must accept at least one electronic payment method. No minimum spend, no additional fees.

Been a fan of reclaim.ai lately. It does the scheduling really well and I love how all calendars and tasks come together in one place. Found that easiest way to interact with it is via @raycast.com extension though. Lots of potential for native app (both for desktop and phone), including widgets.

Did they temporarily rollback GPT-5 for ChatGPT Plus subscribers? Was playing around with it earlier, then I got all sorts of errors (confirmed by the OpenAI status page that something was off) and now I'm back to GPT-4o.

Reddit has been adding way too many recommendations to the home feed imo. Constantly felt I was missing content from my joined subs due to being nudged into joining even more, which is a bit ironic. So I dove into the settings and found this little guy. Makes a massive difference in user experience.

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JavaScript is winning as the most popular programming language YET AGAIN cuz no other languages have as much publicly available code that AI can use for training. the new generation of vibe coders will use JS. AI sucks at Swift, sucks at Rust, sucks at C# etc. but can one-shot entire JS apps.

The speed at which CSS is modernising and the big adoption rate of these cool features thanks to continuous browser updates is simply awesome.

Ana Tudor@anatudor.bsky.social

Know the animated 🌈 border + glow effect that's all the rage? It's normally done by adding an opaque cover on top of two 🌈 layers. But what if we wanted a (semi)transparent background within the border? It's possible with pure #CSS! Heavily commented on @codepen.io: codepen.io/thebabydino/...

Been trying out #Cursor editor the last couple of weeks. I happened to be working on a lot of (partly legacy) Python code during that time, and didn't really get a lot out of it. But the last days I switched to React, and boy, it definitely is better trained for that.

Great to see Bluesky steadily growing out of mainly being anti-X content, like right after Musks salute at the inauguration (although still a very relevant topic to address). This place becoming a source of truly interesting content on its own will be the best way to achieve broad adoption over time

It’s the main reason why I am seeing myself posting a lot more here lately than I ever did on twitter. Content adds to the success of an X alternative. Call it cheap activism. And fun :)

Yes there’s Threads, but with Zuckerberg kissing Trump’s ass as well, what is left of the reasons for choosing it over X? And Mastodon is leaving out the audience who don’t care what server they are on, which is unsurprisingly a very broad majority. Bluesky is where the potential lies.