Chris Thoburn

There are two types of developers. Those that think you need to debounce an autocomplete, and those that understand physics.

More that it’s the car centric nature, traffic (and esp road rage), the weather - hot, humid, never rains except for when it’ll be a huge flood - ants can’t sit on the grass ever - lots of annoying bugs due to being mostly swampland - and flat terrain. People sometimes don’t help though 🫣

TBH the only thing email still gets used for beyond the occasional external comms is SSO and it’s not even needed for that anymore..

Only because they don’t understand how bad Houston is yet. Grew up there, won’t ever go back. Had a close friend and roommate move there a few years ago - they bought a house - swore it was great - and 2 yrs later noped hard and headed to LA.

Well fuck now you’ve gone and wrecked my evening

Extremely hard. Cheap side would be 11M lives.

I’ve consistently watched “successful” get coding sessions take longer than without. There are exceptions - which are magical - but devs need to learn to try it and bail faster.

For every successful vibe coding story (that i don’t actually believe is real) there are several hundred like this.

Agentic coding only works with massive human intervention, and with the true cost of agents being 20-30k/yr/dev I’m inclined to think it’s a fad and not a revolution.

Depends.

Tell me, what’s the difference between a ResourceType, ResourceKey, ResourceData, ResourceSchema, ReactiveResource, ReactiveResourceArray, and a Resource?

Now: User vs ReactiveUser vs UserResource vs UserSchema vs UserData?

This is basically one of several reasons why we did it that way for WarpDrive/EmberData (there are a lot of other benefits too like being able to use discriminating unions / partials etc)

At least 44. There’s a few more I’ve probably dropped in on during road trips but been so many places it’s hard to recall.

Immaterial but I’m about to move 400m up a hill 🤣 (currently I’d need to bike up 400-600m for most of the trailheads, there’s only a few near the base I can run up from).

For sure there are some things scale probably solves or smoothes out. I’m tall - leads to being an edge case for a lot.

For instance, in Dublin I opted to just run an extra 6miles each way to go run on the Wicklow Way because it was going to be 20-40min faster each way than taking the bus, and there was no bike storage (and also bike rentals wouldn’t let me park near city outskirts).

Also I’m focusing a lot on bikes here but that’s due to flexibility. Public transit to something like a trailhead is rarely if ever going to be direct - you’ll be super lucky if it’s just 1-2 transfers.

I’ve often felt we should be lobbying for more secure bike storage at places beyond transit hubs.

The trouble with “low cost bikes” as a solution is it presumes low cost bikes (1) survive the hill test - they don’t - but Denmark has no hills - and (2) exist for folks like me (cheapish second hand bikes for someone my size are usually >$1k). Maybe that comes down at scale.. maybe it doesn’t.

But also I agree .. invest in the standard commutes and car dependence goes down and roads free up for everything else!

I’ve spent a decent block of time in Copenhagen, and a number of other European cities known both for their great transit and bike culture. It’s lovely. I also found it unworkable for anything that wasn’t “this is a very standard commute” or “I’m a tourist that cares less about time optimization”.

So move closer to trails? Great! Such privilege (which I have and am, but is not a scalable solution). In short - nothing will ever beat the flexibility or time savings of cars except motorcycles or flying cars. This does not mean invest in car culture .. but stop idiotically trying to cancel cars.

So ride a bike? Bike lanes are the least of your worries. Not going to leave a bike at a trailhead while off on a run - you’d be buying a new bike every few days. And I’m out 1-2hours of my life each time.

Take trail running (literally the primary thing I use my car for). I live within a 12-20min drive of at least 50 trailheads representing thousands of miles of trails. If I were to bike that would be roughly triple the time. Make all the improvements & Buses/trains would still never beat a bike.

I’d really love to see faster trains, more lines, more regular service, more bus routes, and better bike infra and culture.

But the folks that act like we’re a few trains and bike lanes away from killing off cars and car culture have zero concept of transit time costs.

And a new meme was born

Oh man I loved that game as a kid. Would love to give it a go again.

It didn’t keep me from voting for Kamala but it’s been one of several things that make me strongly agree it’s time to burn down the establishment dems in favor of the grassroots progressives even faster. Grow a spine and stand up for what’s right.

If I could pick one food and wipe it from existence… despite the deliciousness of French fries it would be potatoes.

Agree on the Mexican. It’s just so versatile.

Early feedback: I love it. Glass is maybe my favorite UX from Apple yet. Glass is like MCP for design.

Apps that don’t adopt it are going to stand out and not necessarily in a good way, because they won’t have that feel of seamless integration.

Downloading ios26 beta 4 - 26s remaining, 4 hours remaining, 3 min remaining, 5 weeks remaining, 56s remaining, 14min remaining

billionaire crying and blaming the state because their private school wasn’t indoctrinating their kid enough was truly next level performance art

couscous, nobody supports it - but its good for you.