Myko Nordy

The Return of the King
blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/j...

I've started working on a new product and decided to pick up a good old Java & Spring stack instead of fancy things.

And you know what? It feels great to be back! ☕

It's a bummer that the session limit can be reached in the middle of the answer.

Understandable from the cost perspective, but a bad UX nevertheless.

A great example of a hard engineering task to solve

Bought a used Lenovo laptop and installed Fedora on it to test forq.sh, as it’s a Linux-first tool.

It’s been a while since I touched non-server Linux.

Surprised how fresh Fedora looks!

Great to see that Linux is becoming more user-friendly for non-tech folks.

Forq - SQLite Queue Service Forq - SQLite Queue Service. The missing middle between embedded libraries and enterprise solutions.

Software engineering is full of trade-offs.

Take SQLite for example: only 1 writer can modify the DB at the same time.

Coming from the Postgres world, this sounded like a no-go.

But, hey, it was a walk in the park to implement the FIFO ordering in forq.sh due to that nature.

If your workflow contains builds for ARM architecture, prepare your patience 🧘

I was today years old when I learned about this sport. Thanks for sharing, Simon!

Claude strikes back 🤖

At first, I was like: “wow, that’s quite a difference in styles after Claude models” 😁

But I guess it’s just a boringbug, nothing spectacular…

I ran out of monthly credits in Cursor and decided to give the "grok-code-fast-1" model a try, as it is free for now.

As you can see, it didn't go well.

Not sure about developers, but it can already replace the Lorem Ipsum thingy for sure 🙂

DHH has just announced that Campfire is open-source from now on.

Pretty cool!

See here: github.com/basecamp/onc...

When Claude convinces you to use a particular product despite the initial idea to go with the competitor, it's a good sign of nice docs and credibility.

DaisyUI it is, then.

Great job, @saadeghi.bsky.social and @daisyui.bsky.social contributors!

So, I've finally tried HTMX.

Funnily enough, here is what excited me the most:

If you leave your browser tab open for 42 years, it will stay the same.

No refreshes, no crashes. The page is just stoically waiting for you to be back.

Long-forgotten joy after a decade of SPAs!

I manually submitted talktolocals.ai to 31 directories, and here are the stats 2 months later 👇

We have a clear winner, so far: TAAFT.

But 2 launches are still pending: BetaList and ProductHunt.

Let's see who will win 🙃

I'll post new stats in a month, so stay tuned and don't miss out.

Reached my very first milestone with talktolocals.ai

The next screenshot will be from the Polar dashboard.

I hope 😄

The number of bots parsing GitHub is insane.

Here is a screenshot from my newly created repo with 0 stars and followers.

Do you see the similar stats for your repos?

Just noticed that my most used LLM instruction in the agent mode is

"Let's only discuss this, do not modify the code"

Helps with LLMs' eagerness.

Came across this post on Hacker News today.

It's quite ironic to see how professional devs in Microsoft are forced to use the tool that is not good enough yet.

But somebody up the ladder can report that AI creates 80% of PRs now.

Check for yourself: www.reddit.com/r/Experience...

Digging through a box of forgotten relics, I stumbled upon a pre-Spotify era gem.

Punk rock is today's soundtrack 🤘

When you vibecoded your tariffs

Have you ever heard of Brooks's law?

"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."

From 1975, but hasn't aged a day.
From 1975, but hasn't been understood yet.

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!) Modern extension to classic 2003 article by Joel Spolsky

Try it out here: tonsky.me/blog/unicode/

Check out the coolest dark theme on the web! 🔥

What are your top picks?

Google explains recursion with a hidden Easter egg

How Levels.fyi scaled to millions of users with Google Sheets as a backend Our philosophy to scaling is simple, avoid premature optimization

"Keep it simple" in a nutshell: instead of worrying about the complexity of scaling, they "outsourced" this challenge to Google for free.

Ingenious!

www.levels.fyi/blog/scalin...

I started my journey in tech with a role that was a hybrid of PM and QA:

- figure out what needs to be done for the product
- compile a list of requirements
- send it to devs
- test the feature they built

With LLMs and Cursor, it feels like being back to where it started 🙂

In 2025, choosing a programming language for the project has a new dimension: AI awareness of it.

And since LLM quality relies on the amount of data it was trained on, it leads to surprising results:

Java > Kotlin
JS/TS > Swift
C > Zig
Python > Rust

Interesting, isn’t it?

No, you don’t have to run like Google Just because Google, Amazon, or Facebook does it doesn’t mean you should. Here are four ‘best practices’ of the hyperscalers you have permission to ignore.

Link to the article: www.infoworld.com/article/226...

Coming from (relatively) big tech, I always think about scalability when building something. Would it be able to handle a million users?

The truth is that most indie apps end up having 0 users. And tech is not the reason for that.

A reminder to myself: think, but not overthink.

After numerous tech discussions, I came up with a simple trick to quickly spot experts.

Explain them a problem and observe: experts will ask questions to clarify things before offering solutions.

The trick expands well outside tech: try it with a doctor, plumber or bank advisor