Jaga Santagostino
jagasantagostino.com
Jaga Santagostino
@jagasantagostino.com
Back from a Sabbatical - Software, happiness and food.

Freelance Developer & Consultant

https://www.youtube.com/@JagaSantagostino
I found my old Duck Abramov, so many Rubber duck debugging in the Redux Saga era 🥲

@danabra.mov
November 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"Hey! How was your weekend?"

You know, usual stuff, I made my terminal change the under-desk treadmill speed.

Raycast next
September 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A Bubble inside a Bubble

I use different computers and profiles, so sometimes I start an AI query without realising I'm not logged in, which defaults to small, cheap models on the free plans.

The results are ATROCIOUS, plenty wrong, and sometimes dangerous responses.
September 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
When you write Effect.provide and Layer.provide correctly for the first time without looking at the docs, it's like writing the markdown link syntax for the first time.
August 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The raise on this tax is crazy

What for? I’m already there spending to local businesses

Rome
August 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
August 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Shower thoughts 💭 🚿

Many products enter enshittification in similar ways and they end up influence each other negatively

The reasons are various and a compound of many factors and time-specific circumstances.
August 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Standing desk on the terrace is not bad at all
August 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Weird how buying digital movies seems weird, and I try to avoid it, but buying Kindle books, I don't bother at all, even if they cost more usually
August 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Making risotto is so satisfying
August 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Yesterday Mattia Manzati was kind enough to give me an intro to the Effect language service codebase 🙏

I immediately started playing with the idea of showing routes when hovering over HttpApi stuff.

Yay or Nay?
August 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Google shaming my Effect era

#myeffectstatus
August 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
"Just poll the database once a second" is a perfectly valid solution for most technical problems.
August 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I adore the aesthetic of this video. Makes me want to do the same in my house, monochromatic furniture for each room
August 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I want to give Ghostty a try and use a multiplexer. I used tmux for years in my vim/emacs days, but I've lost the habit since.

Should I try Zellij or tmux is still the goat?
August 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Why does it feel like that every time?

But opencode has plugins now, so they can be plugins
August 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Spotify usage with only keyboard is pretty poor: 4/10
August 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Un piccolo resoconto dopo 2 anni che vivo al mare in Sardegna

Focacce, communities, sports..

Video 👇
August 5, 2025 at 6:30 AM
I have never ever heard someone talking about
OpenAI's Codex CLI, how is that possible?
August 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
No joke.
Comic fonts are very good for reading, even code.

Check out ComicMono
August 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
How does it feel to use OBS on macOS?

Like this
August 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
In the past few weeks, I started sharing a lot after a multi-year break
I'm having so much fun, and it keeps compounding.

I felt bad for a while about not doing, but for the wrong reasons, now I'm:

Sharing on my tech YT channel Jagascript English
August 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Life hack: (standing) desk with wheels
August 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
POV: want to relax and be productive at the same time

Better than laptop on the sofa
August 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I always forget how reinvigorating and fun coding things that have nothing to do with the web is.
August 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM