Jake Dahn

There's a lot of excitement around vibecoding because it lowers the bar for shipping software. I'm all about that. But the cracks are showing in traditional software development lifecycle processes/systems. Who is building the future of professional software engineering?

Would you attend a cohort course taught by o3/o4 ai chat models? With peers who are interested in the same topics as you?

somewhere between "ok boomer" and "based" www.shruggingface.com/microblog/20...

why is og modest mouse so good? objectively, they're kind of bad, but subjectively, they're so good

Do I know anyone in need of part-time product design help? I have a very legit product designer friend looking for contract work, DMs open if you're interested!

wow, this post is incredible blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/post-p...

what is the actual relationship between building a great product, and success? feels like there are many success stories for not-great products

does this thing work?

MVB: minimum viable buddhism

what's tiktok?

is teenage engineering premium mediocre?

schelling points are the easy defaults that emerge from our unexpected ‘aha’ moments of bisociation

the worst thing about using cool new programming languages and frameworks is waiting for the LLM cutoff date to catch up with the present reality. there's significant selection pressure to pick old tools because they're easy to use with llm code generation

Kubernetes is a charismatic trap.

how do i ban politics from my bluesky discover feed? I've filtered out a bunch of keywords, but people just get past it by putting text in images...

cute interaction when creating a new @astro.build project 🥰

Why haven’t there been many new UX / interaction advancements for LLMs? Feels like we’re stuck in the chat paradigm when there could be so much more. In 2025, embrace non deterministic outputs, and leverage them to go where you never thought you could.

lollll my t2x tool somehow found its way onto HN a month after sharing news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4255... www.shruggingface.com/microblog/20...

remember coffeescript?

What would an AI-first bug/issue tracker look like? Feels like a sweet spot of minutia and bureaucracy that could be melted away

|> is life

When you're building at the bleeding edge, "correct" isn't something you chase– it's something you create.

OH MY GOD!! WE HAVE THE COMBINED WEBB AND CHANDRA VIEW OF NGC 602!! IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL 🤩🌌

for whatever reason, I do my best thinking/work during evening hours and weekends I don't fully understand why, I think it's like a stress/pressure thing. It's my free time, so there's more play and meandering. kind of annoying to not be able to be "ON" during the normal 9-5 when others are 🤷‍♂️

The interaction design on the Apple playground image generation app is actually pretty neat! Sort of similar to kid mode on color.lol Image quality is not super great tho, they need to use flux

thinking about the next iteration of shruggingface.com it'll be organized as ✨ Sparks -- "spark of imagination" 🧭 Field Notes -- "hands-on exploration" 🤷‍♂️ Projects -- "show and tell"

lab notes are for sharing experimental intuition and findings from "the lab" field notes are for sharing intuition and findings from experience in "the field" researcher vs. practitioner

browsing design inspiration feels an awful lot like browsing music samples

WizardChess 1.0 is (technically) live on Steam! Flipping the Early Access switch tomorrow but... I triple-dog-dare you to try it out early #gamedev

@ukiyoau.bsky.social idk if you'll see this, but I was just informed I was a top 0.001% listener on spotify 🤣 thx for the vibes

the bsky discover feed surfaces more hate/anger posts than I get on twitter people on bsky stopped using text and are now just embedding text in images that make it through my text content filters :|

my motivation is intrinsically linked to inbound inspiration (content, conversations, reading, ideas, etc) I struggle when I don't have a full grasp or can't see a future vision/potential but when I start learning/expanding my understanding in a direction, it's like jet fuel for motivation

www.lightnote.co

over a decade later, redis is still inspiring how I think about building stateful software

soo the Perplexity API is good and cheap-ish?! ($.20 per 1M tokens)

readwise reader on daylight computer is the best