Dean

MyBB 1.8.40 drops tomorrow? You're ready.

Unlike the official Docker image, my Docker image downloads MyBB at runtime. No new image needed!

Built it helping my flatmate self-host her forum. Added phpMyAdmin + SFTP too.

github.com/visualcookie/mybb

#Docker #MyBB #SelfHosting #OpenSource

Any experienced Claude Code users here? Mind sharing your setup?

I'm still not really utilizing Claude Code and have a Cursor subscription and a Claude subscription and think I can kinda safe some money.

How I use AI: well, code completion and giving it simple tasks. Sometimes some calculations.

Devlog #01: Making Fish Swim How I went from fish bumping into walls to smooth, natural swimming behavior in Godot - through trial and error and eventually using navigation agents.

My first devlog for my first game is up. In this I describe my game idea a bit and my challenges with a descent movement.

More here: visualcookie.me/blog/devlog-...

I'd love to get some feedback to what I've being doing in code to learn and understand more.

#gamedev #godot #gdscript #blog

Maybe someone with more knowledge in Flutter than I do (cuz this is my first actual Flutter experience) can point me to some ideas on how to structure this way better than I did right now. I'm still working on improving the code.

#mobiledev #help #assist

Am I doing #Flutter wrong? I find it very frustrating how to define layout specific stuff and also the nesting is driving me nuts.

Example lines that really bother me: github.com/visualcookie...

New Look 2026 The old site felt rushed. Time for something that actually fits.

2025 was not all that easy for me but I managed to slowly get back in touch with myself. Here's a tiny "review" and update post about my website and the things I plan to for 2026.

visualcookie.me/blog/new-loo...

#frontend #webdev #personalupdate

Dean Hidri | Frontend Engineer & Web Developer Dean Hidri is a Frontend Engineer passionate about building user-friendly web applications. 13+ years of React and TypeScript expertise from Germany.

2025 is coming to an end and I soft launched my reworked website. Tomorrow I'll follow up with a post on what actually changed, a look-back at 2025 and what I actually plan for 2026.

visualcookie.me

Probably another two-three months, with Next.js releasing new versions almost exactly in the same timeframe. :D

But maybe that's only how I feel in recent years. I'm open to hear from y'all.

Do you feel like you are slowly forgetting on how CSS/HTML works or what's new and cool?

I think this is mainly because there has been a shift happening in frontend especially, where we focus on more on how a feature works (logic) than how it looks at first and with that being the main focus, we have less time to be able to write out own CSS.

Any other webdev/frontend dev experiencing, they slowly forget how CSS works? With all my recent projects using Tailwind for utility classes and easy responsive, I'm completely out of the loop with CSS.

Sometimes being honest to your AI Agent feels good. I'm really lazy with this one as it really is a very dumb task and I hate doing boring/dumb tasks that really don't challenge my thinking. :D

After 2 months of working on/off on my game, I still have not made it to a semi functioning prototype. I'm somehow more focused on the structure and concept and think about things beforehand. Maybe I'm just too focused on clean architecture/code than the game itself.

Am I doing it wrong? #gamedev

I need to get back my motivation to actually make stuff again and finally finish my side project. :D

It's been a tough couple of weeks recently.

My AI Journey How AI transformed my coding workflow and reignited my love for learning. From debugging struggles to becoming a better developer with AI as my sparring partner.

Listen, I get AI is getting overhyped af and some are annoyed by that, but I had to write about it anyways and give my takes on how I use AI.

I'm open for discussion on that topic, if it is constructive. :)

Read about my tooling here: visualcookie.me/blog/my-ai-j...

#ai #dev #frontend #discussion

AI is getting better and better and my curiosity is also higher than ever. I use AI to learn new things, get a deeper understanding in certain work related things and much more.

I think I should write about it, at least from my standpoint, how I use it and what my tooling is.

I'm quite out of the loop currently and don't follow many developers. Anyone knows some solid recommendations? I'm into #godot #react #nextjs and everything JavaScript related basically.

#webdev #developer #frontend

What I've Been Up To These Last Few Months Candid update on overcoming burnout, building Cardia (self-hosted health tracker), and exploring game development. Real talk about side projects.

Been radio silent due to burnout, but finally getting back slowly. Check out more on my current post. ☺️

visualcookie.me/blog/status-...
#burnout #sideprojects #gamedev #godot #selfhosted

GTFO and go to X or Meta. We don't like transphobes here.

Whoa my entire timeline is full of politics. I know the world is escalating right now but I'm trying to have a save haven for my mind here.

To anyone that I unfollowed: I care about politics but don't want to have such things in my timeline cuz I get angry and depressed very quickly.

Tbh Overwatch wasn't first doing this ball game. They actually took it from Rocket League. :D

I've been hard at working on both a new blog post and to finally release my blood pressure application which will be a self-hosted service. I hope I can make progress over the weekend.

Lessons Learned Overusing useMemo in React Explore the pitfalls of overusing useMemo in React. Learn when it is beneficial and when it adds unnecessary complexity to your code.

Still learning, even after 4 years of React. visualcookie.me/blog/lessons...

Am a happy owner of a Pixel 8 Pro now but I can't seem to find any privacy screen protection 😕

Anyways: I love not having tons of apps pre installed per default - Samsung 👀 *cough*

What's up? Any frontend developers or developers in general I could follow?

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