Andrew Lee

Something that’s been on my mind lately:
While population growth slows, the base of the age “pyramid” gets thinner.
Young peoples’ power to make change through voting is diluted, in a sense.
Young people need to understand that shifting dynamic and vote in higher percentages to compensate.

I get the feeling the life of a dev might look more and more like that for a while lol

Wow, vibe coded in the truest sense

Visual Effect - Interactive Effect Playground Interactive examples of TypeScript's beautiful Effect library

Big fan of this for Effect TS

effect.kitlangton.com

It's Not "Just A Button" What do software engineers really do? - Written by Andrew Lee

I wrote this article about that:

candrewlee.com/blog/2025-06...

Hyprland

Lovely to see what properly configured game theory incentives do to politics. Ranked choice voting ftw!

Mincraft-like Voxel terrain

This is very timely, I’m trying out sokol + zig on a voxel project!

Blog - Any Distance Goes Open Source Apple Design Award winner Any Distance goes open source.

If you like beautiful apps and animations, you’ll like this. I love software as an art medium

www.spottedinprod.com/blog/any-dis...

Anime.js | JavaScript Animation Engine A fast and versatile JavaScript animation library

I need an explanation for how animejs.com was made, this is magical

Scala Implicits. Pull something of a given type from ANYWHERE in scope! Mix that with lots of inheritance + polymorphism, and good luck reviewing that code 😅

Telling the graduating class: AI will be better than you. What will you do?

YouTube video by University of Toronto Ilya Sutskever, U of T honorary degree recipient, June 6, 2025

So interesting listening to Ilya Sutskever here.

Paraphrasing: AI poses the greatest challenge that humanity has ever faced, but with potentially the greatest reward.

It’s like something out of a movie, a wary time traveler warning the past that history teeters on a pinhead.

youtu.be/zuZ2zaotrJs

Tkt Smart GIF ALT: Tkt Smart GIF

They’re just compression-ratio-maxing

The replies on here may not be as racist as Twitter, but they damn sure are hateful.
Talk AI: FU, AI sucks go away
Talk Business: Go away
Talk Healthcare: Crickets.

Engagement went from great convos on many topics, to agree with me or you are a nazi fascist

We are forcing posts to X

I like harlequin a lot for viewing DBs in the terminal

harlequin.sh

The branding is lovely.

It's Not "Just A Button" What do software engineers really do? - Written by Andrew Lee

I redesigned my personal website AND wrote a new blog post! It’s been more than a year since my last one.

This one’s on the software development lifecycle. ✨

candrewlee.com/blog/2025-06...

Dang, this looks fantastic. Congrats on the big release

Woah, looks like Notion

My jaw dropped at that clip of generating the chat page. Crazy fast

I’m all for innovation and progress, but our economic system doesn’t give a safety net for those in now obsoleted careers.
If it did, I think it’d be easier to root for tech everywhere. I don’t like having to be nuanced about new tech that also will make it harder to put food on the table for many 😅

I don’t know the best way to prepare for that world. Learning different programming languages and syntax may become the new assembly, something you rarely have to peer down into beneath your high-level abstraction. The new programming language would just English.

The better genAI video models get, the more I think about misinformation, propaganda, and the information diet of society.

LLMs unleashed misinformation at scale, but writing untruths was always possible yourself.

Video models are so much more visceral, and enable impossibly realistic fake clips.

Veo 3 and Gemini Diffusion are so impressive… google is absolutely smashing it.

It scares me and excites me, but I’m sure that software development will look completely different in a few years. There will likely be times where a human in the loop will actually be the bottleneck.

So much negativity here. For example, the comments on @nytimes.com posts are mostly garbage, and basically never related to the post content

Putting on my tinfoil hat, I think there’s a lot of bots injecting political negativity here. Not sure if the goal is propaganda or just to make this site bad

Yes and/or no

Valid ordering.
My two cents is that entire virtual DOM diffing against the real one is not “closest to plain javascript” - but it’s fine if that’s not the goal. I have React ranked lower personally for that reason