Dev Wells

@ryansolid.bsky.social thanks for the discussion on stream today! You asked on stream today to show you a trello or otherwise sufficiently complex app in datastar. Here is that as as well as a few others that opened my eyes a bit, as a former skeptic. kanban.jsonbateman.com

And before someone says these are toys or whatever, here is David Nolen discussing how he also shared the same viewpoints before, tried sync engines for what is effectively a Quickbooks app, and ultimately found Datastar to be the best solution for them.

@ryansolid.bsky.social thanks for the discussion on stream today! You asked on stream today to show you a trello or otherwise sufficiently complex app in datastar. Here is that as as well as a few others that opened my eyes a bit, as a former skeptic. kanban.jsonbateman.com

And before someone says these are toys or whatever, here is David Nolen discussing how he also shared the same viewpoints before, tried sync engines for what is effectively a Quickbooks app, and ultimately found Datastar to be the best solution for them.

@ryansolid.bsky.social thanks for the discussion on stream today! You asked on stream today to show you a trello or otherwise sufficiently complex app in datastar. Here is that as as well as a few others that opened my eyes a bit, as a former skeptic. kanban.jsonbateman.com

There's also an entire google sheets clone: hypersheets.yagni.club and a zero bugs tracker clone: dbugs.yagni.club and 1 billion checkboxes: checkboxes.andersmurphy.com These run on cheap VPS, but you could also run them serverless + DO. Infra is not the limiting factor here.

we shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us

i've recently started tinkering in game development and occasionally I will use AI to help rubber duck some game design idea I have noticed that LLMs are obsessed with "bells" in their game design. "Bell wisp" enemy design, "Bell Mage", "Bell Knight". I never mentioned any bells anywhere

Where can I find info about @tangled.org outages? Having trouble creating repos.

Where can I find info about @tangled.org outages? Having trouble creating repos.

The more I experiment with AI the more convinced I am the real moat in Software Dev will be folks who still practice primarily coding by hand.

The more I experiment with AI the more convinced I am the real moat in Software Dev will be folks who still practice primarily coding by hand.

then what is stopping from engineers who understand what is going on from just starting their own ventures? Knowing how software engineering works, surely, would give you an upper hand in utilizing these tools to generate value. ...this is already what happens with startups?

The more I experiment with AI the more convinced I am the real moat in Software Dev will be folks who still practice primarily coding by hand.

Alright, trying out @tangled.org I still don't really understand AT Proto, but looks like it's time to look seriously at getting off GH. An tips for a convert/newcomer?

Alright, trying out @tangled.org I still don't really understand AT Proto, but looks like it's time to look seriously at getting off GH. An tips for a convert/newcomer?

Each year, I try to single out a word to mark my upcoming year. Last year's word was "craft", meaning "to make by hand" and connoting skill or excellence. An ironic word, given the times. This year, my word is "simple", in the Rich Hickey vein, deriving from "sim-plex" meaning "one fold".

In these times, it feels as though simplicity is one of the last things we consider. I certainly have felt this way, as I move faster than ever with the onset of powerful tools and abstractions, but frequently am aghast at how complex things are. This year my goal is instead, simple.

I need to stay off of LinkedIn y'all. The amount of borderline web development hype-driven disinformation is getting ridiculous. I'm going to lose it if I see one more AI-generated comparison image of how the React `use` API CHANGES DATA FETCHING FOREVERRRR (no disrespect to the use API)

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I need to stay off of LinkedIn y'all. The amount of borderline web development hype-driven disinformation is getting ridiculous. I'm going to lose it if I see one more AI-generated comparison image of how the React `use` API CHANGES DATA FETCHING FOREVERRRR (no disrespect to the use API)

a few random examples: cool cool laravel! wait what am i looking at I love Node but... really? We're advertising Node, a javascript runtime, for "realtime" "high-concurency" workloads?