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This thing is horrible.

If you have it installed, it will silently inject a warning into claude that you should use tailwind, even if your app is not! Then every single request will silently question the decision as to why yr app is using one thing, rather than another, leading to revisions as it starts writing incorrect code.

I couldn't believe it when I discovered it. For so many reasons I am vehemently anti Vercel. Just discovered this two days ago, after installing their frontend skill.


This was my secret weapon for years. My coworkers could never understand my focus and productivity and were always surprised when I said that it was due to working from a tiny laptop screen, and no more.

How do you view HTML/Code/JSONs in other applications?

I have an instance of Postman open on my work laptop, and the useful area of the output constitutes maybe 20% of the screen.

Do you just scroll around endlessly every 2 seconds? Or do you have amazing eyesight and use tiny fonts?


> How do you view HTML/Code/JSONs in other applications?

Not GP, but I'll be forever thankful to have been able to make my career focused on embedded software.

In my line of work there's nothing to view because there's no visual component at all. If my user(s) "see" the results of my work, then it means I've catastrophically fucked up.

I spend 90% of my time working in vim within XTerm.

The closest I get to UI/UX is a UART debugging interface.


Use more information dense editors. I work in tmux and nano.

Cmd+Tab skills! But mainly, its a matter of only ever doing one thing at a time and optimizing for that in lots of little ways.

This "rule" is especially useful now that I'm coding primarily through agents. Secret weapon number 2, while everybody else is getting burned out running ten agents at once and producing slop, while I'm now writing more (and better) code than ever.


Its funny to read these comments where people think that focus is something that they can attain.

Your secret weapon isnt the laptop. Your secret weapon is a combination of a) actually giving a fuck about what you are doing, and b) the vibe of the workspace that makes you enjoy doing what you are doing.

Focus comes from a reinforcement loop of happy hormones that come from doing what you are doing. You can't focus on things that you don't enjoy doing.


His statements about this were purely politics, and nothing more. He himself does not believe this. It's political revisionism.

I agree he could be doing political revisionism. But I fail to grasp, why?

To appear as a strongman in the eyes of those in power, those who are clearly incapable of introspection. And by such moves he himself gains power.

Yes, precisely. That's also why his argument includes Freud - as a Judeo-bolshivism dogwhistle.

Why must everyone preprocess their blog posts with ChatGPT? It is such a disservice to ones ideas.


Because writing is really hard.


This ^ Exactly it. This will be the change.


I'm extremely cautious about complexity, yet have adopted a claude-based dev flow. It comes down to watching and guiding it, and not letting it run autonomously. At a certain point your codebase will tip over into the patterns you've defined and claude will recognize and follow them. Just treat Claude as a vim editor mode and you will see a big difference, and your relationship to the tool will change.


Happy to see a new CSS-in-JS lib. All of this madness about runtime performance costs does not apply to 99.9% of the population. But good abstractions do. And then there's latency, and machines are getting faster, and browsers getting better, etc etc. This whole argument and the related FUD was all a non-issue to begin with, at the great cost to DX.


I encourage you to read the short paragraph at https://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/#priority-of-co...


This utterly boring AI writing. Go, please go away...


Biome missed the bus by not getting mixed language formatting in soon enough. Oxfmt got it, and then won.


> Oxfmt got it, and then won.

This doesn't align with the data.

  - 650k npm downloads for oxfmt this week [0]
  - 4.3m npm downloads for biome this week [1]

  - 19.1k gh stars for oxfmt [2]
  - 23.7k gh stars for biome [3]
  - gap widening in favor of biome [4]

  [0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/oxfmt
  [1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@biomejs/biome
  [2] https://github.com/oxc-project/oxc
  [3] https://github.com/biomejs/biome
  [4] https://www.star-history.com/#oxc-project/oxc&biomejs/biome&type=date&legend=top-left


Appreciate this take. It makes a lot of sense and can see this happening all over right now.


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