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Web fanboy. A decade in the frontend dev trenches, now teaching new web developers how to navigate this crazy world we’ve built out of JS.

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The AI robots are trolling each other now.

I had Claude help me write a script to anonymize data in a staging db, and it chose to replace all video links with a... quite specific YouTube link.

Then I had GitHub Copilot review my subsequent pull request, and it spotted the Rickroll right away.
Screenshot of a pull request review performed by GitHub Copilot of a database anonymization script, wherein it correctly identifies a YouTube link as a Rickroll, and politely suggests avoiding "unintended humor" in anonymized data.
March 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Ha, Claude got so into speculating on the future direction of Remix that it enthusiastically offered to keep me updated.

And then realized it can’t. Bummer.
Snippet of chat with the Claude chatbot: “Would you like me to keep you updated if I hear any more concrete announcements about the new Remix direction?” “Yeah. How can you keep me updated?” “I want to be completely transparent here - I don't actually have the ability to actively send you updates about Remix's development, since I don't have the capability to reach out to you after our conversation ends. Since I've given you the impression that I could keep you updated, let me suggest some practical ways for you to stay informed about Remix's future:”
February 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Wanted to practice scales and chords on the guitar randomly around the neck. Literally less than a minute with Claude, and it built me a little web app just for that 🤘
Prompt for Claude 3.5 Haiku: “Generate a small app for practicing guitar. It should have these features: 1. A BMP slider 2. Large-text display of a single note name (e.g. “C” or “F#”) that changes once every bar (4/4) based on the BPM setting. Randomly chosen from all chromatic notes. 3. Large text display of a fret number (0-16) that also changes along with the note name.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“ Screenshot of the resulting web app built by Claude a few seconds later. Crass color scheme, but the functionality is spot on.
November 27, 2024 at 7:14 PM
bewildergeist.bsky.social
Fascinating! Especially Ryan’s original hand drawn version. Now I wonder if it was ever intended to have a rainy background, or if it was just sloppily colored in?

This is A Very Important Detail™ considering that the 2.0 logo dropped the rain.

We need the story straight from Ryan, Phil!
The original Deno logo as hand drawn by Ryan Dahl
November 5, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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I happened upon this on the React team page the other day — “mark-beige” is even better 😂

react.dev/community/te...
Screenshot of the React team webpage with a description of how to pronounce Sebastian Markbåge’s name.
October 31, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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It’s in the GitHub app on iOS. Not much use on desktop, but handy for on-the-go coding chats, I guess 🤷‍♂️
Screenshot of GitHub app on iOS with an icon for Copilot in the bottom right corner.
October 31, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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“This [cringey tweet] kills fascists”

i.redd.it/9o7apl3vujw5...
Woodie Guthrie holding his guitar upon which he has written “This machine kills fascists”
October 28, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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The wife and kids have let me go to our summerhouse on a writing retreat for the weekend, to work on a paper I need to write. On the condition that I brought the dog, so they were free to go on excursions.

Fair deal 🐶
A portrait of a dog — a Kooikerhondje gazing into the horizon.
October 26, 2024 at 6:24 PM