Shawn Flahave

stick to the hiatus ;)

Has anyone ever seen a demo on CodeSandbox that actually works? I haven't.

I’m suddenly a big fan of Bob Costas

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

The only way it makes sense, in my opinion, is to remember that humans are overwhelmingly emotional. We are not rational. Facts don't matter as much as feelings. We use logic to justify/rationalize decisions that were already made based on emotion. It takes a LOT of effort to behave otherwise.

Working on converting a huge Groovy codebase to Kotlin. This would be damn near impossible without AI. It'd take forever. It takes a long time, and is very tedious, even with the help of AI. This is a perfect job for a LLM.

Document Library — Builder Blueprints

If you don't know about these you should know about these www.builder-blueprints.com/library

Dude, you gotta fix the content layout shift on your site. It's unbearable.

Great video by Cliff Cash
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YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History

THE CORRUPTION OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT EXPOSED.

We can fix this ONLY BY IMPEACHING THE ORANGE TURD PRESIDENT FELON.

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YouTube video by Professor Tim Wilson Jeffrey Sachs and why he is WRONG

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYNm...

That’s not much different from offering you “equity”. Just today I had someone offering me 25% equity in their company, which is currently just an idea, as comp. But they “know business and sales” and it’ll be worth millions! They’re good at sales, dammit!! Why can’t I see that?!?!

Really digging the Lucide icon library. I just ran into a problem where I wanted a filled flag icon, but it seemed that all their icons are outline-only. But for some icons, including Flag, you can just give it a fill and stroke. If you need a filled icon, just give it fill. You have control. Nice!

suddenly craving an orange dreamsicle

Not to brag too much but I just got back from a meeting with a customer who talked about how much they like my SaaS, fielderapp.com, how it saves them so much time/effort, etc. That’s awesome, but it’s hard to accept when all I ever think about is what is WRONG with my product.

The core React Native library is amazing, but you need a lot more than that to build a great app. So you reach for community libraries, and that's where it all falls apart. It'll work at first. But 6+ months from now, when you're in dependency mgmt hell, you may wish you hadn't gone that route.

Never Underestimate the Ignorance of the Powerful When you’re a star, people let you think you're smart

Do you not know with how little wisdom the world is governed? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/never-unde...

Definitely. Then again - whenever I finish a large immersive game like Assassin’s Creed and watch the credits roll for 30 minutes…

a cartoon character is sitting at a table with a surprised look on his face . ALT: a cartoon character is sitting at a table with a surprised look on his face .

After struggling for over an hour trying to get Pino working in an app built with Vite 6, with all suggestions from both Claude and ChatGPT failing, I had to resort to actually reading documentation and doing it myself.

AI stuff. LangChain/LangGraoh. Currently digging into ShadCN, hoping it can be a great alternative to bloated component libraries. LinguiJS for i18n. React Router 7. Vite. MDN’s “Design for Developers” module & related resources.

The premise trap The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or at work, is avoiding the premise trap. That's where the fundamental assumptions baked into the first...

I think this brilliantly articulates my own thoughts/experience with using LLMs to help with programming.
I always figured that for AI to really take over the job it should just write programs directly in binary. Programming languages et al are for humans. world.hey.com/dhh/the-prem...

Good question - it’s a Google powered autocomplete field in a form for capturing job site information, not for the user’s personal address.
We encourage users to select an auto suggestion so we can get GPS coordinates from Google (ie, the “places” library) which is important later on

BTW - my form is for capturing information about a job/project for field-service businesses, whereas Stripe's use case is typically e-commerce checkout (capture shipping/billing info). But still seems like it could be helpful for users who are slightly confused by seeing a single text field. idk

I currently have a form with an address autocomplete field, to capture an address in a single text field. I noticed that Stripe's Address Element will auto-expand to show extra detail fields once you select an address. Thinking of copying that. Thoughts? #designsky
docs.stripe.com/elements/add...

yeah, o3 looks like it could do it, although it is *really* expensive if I understand correctly. 2025 will be interesting.

Yes, but I think the sentiment from those quotes doesn't give human developers enough credit. We solve problems in creative ways. AI should help us focus more on that, and less on monotonous programming tasks. So far AI doesn't seem to help much with creating new solutions to new problems.

Recently switched from i18next to Lingui. I love being able to write the text directly in my JSX instead of having a bunch of t(“msgkey”) calls. Also love the PO format, so I can write comments in the translation file. Makes it easier for LLMs to do the translations for me.

Getting that flu shot today. Better late than never