Joshua Carter

Who is doing your s corp taxes? Any recommendations?

What would a Deno deploy Nuxt site look like that uses Supabase edge functions?

Generating a zod schema from an OpenAPI spec - it looks like there are a few options. Anybody got a recommendation? Preferably compatible with zod 4 because the number 4 is bigger than 3? Yes, this my first time doing this.

Helm. Helmet. Ohhhhhhhhh.

Temporal!

Nice job!

End of a season. Customer #1 and I agreed today that acroroster.com is feature complete—my employee scheduling app shaped entirely by their feedback. Ready for everyone now. My first swim season: 80 km total. Proud of both. Onward.

"Utility is seven-eights Proximity."

Iain M. Banks, Surface Detail

Love your eslint config BTW. I use it for all my projects now.

There's a contrary consequence too - I'm experienced in Vue, and if a tool only generates React, I don't use it. Multi framework is a discriminator.

"But what ultimately makes this ok for me is the prospect of creating new memories and the faith that the crucial lessons from past experiences are embedded in me. And if not it's always an opportunity to relearn everything with more attention."

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4419...

Wait, is this supposed to make me feel inspired or inadequate?

[FR] Messaging: Support for iOS 18.4 Declarative push messages · Issue #2892 · firebase/firebase-admin-node Declarative push messages are a new feature in iOS 18.4 that allow push messages to web apps without service worker handling. This greatly improves the deliverability of background notifications fo...

I've made a pull request, but need a little help getting some eyes on it.

github.com/firebase/fir...

@jensimmons.bsky.social Great @shoptalkshow.com today! I have a favor to ask - I'm super excited about Declarative web push, but I use @firebase.com cloud messaging and it's incompatible with the new JSON format. Do you know anyone on the Firebase team to ask if they can implement the new field?

I feel much more inclined to open my wallet for personal software now that I build products myself. That "little utility" that organizes your folders or whatever took a thousand hours to get right.

Is this a positive review or a negative review? $56.48 of LLM credits for a V1 of an app in a well tread space *is* insane.

Cool example. I'm also less impressed by Github Copilot's tab autocomplete right now. In 6 months though, who knows?

A third party author put together an extension that revokes the billing credentials for a project after a certain Pub/Sub notification because Google cannot be bothered to support an official extension.

Its baffling. It hurts the Firebase brand, and undoubtedly costs them adoption.

Motion - A modern animation library for JavaScript, React and Vue Motion is built on native browser APIs for a tiny filesize and superfast performance. It uses hardware acceleration for smooth and eco-friendly animations. Previously Framer Motion.

I had just listened to @syntax.fm interview @citizenofnowhe.re and used motion.dev for many of the animations.

Fraction Visualizer Visually compare fractions and learn equivalence

My son was having trouble visualizing equivalent fractions, so we made an app.

Then we moved on to decimals, and we added to the app.

Then long division.

Fun activity with him, and a good use case for vibe coding. We even made it a PWA for his iPad home screen.

fractions-compare.pages.dev

Wow, this is going to be so useful. Appreciate taking a second to go over the attr custom-ident line, too. Intuitively, this should have a lot of synergy with :has I think? I can't wait to see what creative stuff people come up with.

Sometimes I see a really cool coffee shop sign and think, "I want to make a web site like that," but it's not the asthetic, it's the feeling the style itself invokes. I get the same feeling watching Star Wars or Alien. I want to build a site that feels old but new. Chunky and simple and glorious.

Just the worstiest long division example I could imagine.

My new agent litmus test is "Implement a long division calculator, with highlighted explanations for each step." Claude 3.7, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Bolt.new, they all choke on it.

Custom software... is there a business model for building multiple 1 customer SaaS products?

If there is an emoji at the end of a #buildinpublic or #indiehacker post, there's a 90% chance the post is vapid slop.

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

"Nietzsche warned of gazing too long into the abyss. But he didn not warn what happens when the abyss is a Makefile or a 30k line of code Typescript project"

notashelf.dev/posts/curse-...

The truth you are very well aware of is that you can’t fix it all. You know this, you always knew it regardless of your level of skill. But try telling that to the part of your brain that sees every inefficiency as a moral failing.

"Burnout does not just come from overwork. It comes from overresponsibility.

And programming, once internalized deeply enough, makes everything feel like your responsibility. The bloated website. The inefficient script. The clunky onboarding process at your job. You could fix it. So why aren’t you?