It’s odd spending so many years getting good at something (frontend) only to be rejected a thousand times. It really messes with your head.

Ok I'm drinking the kool-*AI*d. I've been coding things with Cursor, Windsurf, and Aider recently and I love it. I'm doing IndieDevDan's course (highly recommended) and inspired me to start making my own YouTube videos on this. It's controversial but clearly worth learning as LLMs improve.

I've spent so much time learning how to pass interviews that I'm forgetting how to do the actual job.

This last year of struggling to find work and building side projects has been much like after attending music school and working on my own music: I really miss making things with other people.

Sometimes, when you can’t find a job, you go to the cinema by yourself on a Wednesday afternoon for your mental health

I love how the phrase “This is where the future is headed” so easily convinces people that we can see the future.

Who could I commission to model and 3d print this?

Hey BlueSky fam. I never really figured out Twitter. Maybe I’ll figure this out.