Umar
umariomaker.bsky.social
Umar
@umariomaker.bsky.social
Co-founder, CTO @ chainpatrol.io
"404-Driven Development"

What if your application's 404 page didn't mean the end of the road in local dev?

What if @nextjs had a button on the 404 page to scaffold a new page for the current path 🤔

I made a prototype of this idea here:
August 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
TIL MySQL is named after a person.

I always thought it was just one of those programmer idioms where you name your variables in tutorials my_book, my_account, my_sql...
June 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Me tryna hold it together when they tell me they're from out of town @ Toronto Tech Week:
June 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Anyone remember Adobe Brackets?
May 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I keep running into this trap where I think an LLM can solve my problems for me. Every time I try, I fail spectacularly and then rage quit like a toddler.
December 31, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Built an internal tool the other day heavily based on imgsrc.io/ for changelog post thumbnails @ChainPatrol.

Started in v0 for initial design, ejected to Cursor + Next.js, and then deployed to Vercel.

Mini-apps like this are the perfect use-case for these AI tools!
December 26, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Why don't we see more JS API clients using the "Request Factory" pattern?

SDK authors try to do too much imo!

Just give me an easy way to construct a Request object and a way to parse the resulting Response object.
December 25, 2024 at 12:39 AM