London based software development consultant
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codeinaboxOPMto
AI Codingâ¢AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports, offices, and ice rinksEnglish
11·7 days agoThis behaviour sounds a lot like addiction. It has been argued that AI coding tools may be triggering the same dopamine loops as slot machines.
Depending on your level of programming experience, you might find the exercises at Exercism quite useful.
codeinaboxOPto
Programmer Humorâ¢You can save at least 40% by externalizing the CSSEnglish
172·10 days agoIn case anyone is curious, this is the original post on X.
Some developers are now spending $500 a day (!!) on Claude Code. Practically speaking, this means that employee costs have doubled.
Where is this magic money tree for tokens? Reading through this article, it seems that some companies are happy to spend money on tokens. However, I doubt there is the same enthusiasm for training or conferences.
I am against scrolljacking too. Though having read through the article, and seen the animation in action at https://whimsy.joshwcomeau.com/, this is not scrolljacking, itâs just something that animates as you scroll. Itâs so unobtrusive that I didnât notice it the first time.
That is a good question. The beauty of the web is that readers can control their experience, be it with ad blockers, increasing the font-size, reader mode, or even changing the whole experience with user style sheets or Greasemonkey. This doesnât mean itâs a waste of time to bother with pretty designs. People should build websites that theyâre proud of, and accept that people might override their design with one better suited to their needs or taste.
Do we know the average user hits the back button when they encounter CSS animations? I was just a conference, and people were talking about browsing the web in reader mode, which Iâd argue is more likely.
Given this is achieved with CSS, there is no reason that users canât disable animations with a user style sheet. In fact this is what some users do, according to a CSS Working Group discussion about disabling view transitions.
Some users do set
transition-duration: 0in user style sheets in order to prevent transitions, same withanimation: noneor so.
Could you give more context about what Vercel features you need - is the site statically generated, or do you also need Vercel Functions?
Great question. Are you framing this in terms of employment opportunities, the end user experience, or both?
Agreed though the article has this disclaimer:
Before we dive into the code, I think itâs worth pointing out that the goal is largely to be immersive and expose some lore. I think this design and effect fit because of the theme and because itâs not for critical content. My point is that itâs just an aesthetic component for a game that makes this acceptable â I donât think this is necessarily a good user experience for your every day website where there are stakes.
There are several European based alternatives to Vercel. Itâs also worth having a read through or posting to [email protected]
codeinaboxOPto
Linuxâ¢Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 YearsEnglish
16·2 months agoThough that quote is followed by this, which indicates at least five of those vulnerabilities were real:
I searched the Linux kernel and found a total of five Linux vulnerabilities so far that Nicholas either fixed directly or reported to the Linux kernel maintainers, some as recently as last week:
codeinaboxOPto
Programmingâ¢Your Engineers Aren't Lazy, Your Codebase Is Punishing ThemEnglish
2·2 months agoYour comment reminded me of this article, The Software Quality and Productivity Crisis Executives Wonât Address, which discusses the lack of technical leadership when it comes to tackling technical debt, and that the solution is usually a rewrite.
Instead, most organisations donât tackle technical debt until it causes an operational meltdown. At that point, they end up allocating 30â40% of their budget to massive emergency transformation programmesâdouble the recommended preventive investment (Oliver Wyman, 2024).
I have noticed the repository lacks
CONTRIBUTING.md. If you want to set some rules about contributing, I would have added them there, instead of creating a Markdown file specific for agents. Iâm very much of the philosophy that you should write documentation for humans, which has the added bonus that it will also be consumed by agents.
Itâs definitely got the worst defaults compared to the alternatives.
pnpm, Bun, and Deno have all made better choices about their defaults. pnpm blocks postinstall scripts, Bun requires explicit opt-in for them, Denoâs permission model is restrictive by design.
I agree but it depends on how teams create and refine their tickets. For example, you could have high level tickets, and someone picks one up and creates an implementation thatâs not an appropriate fit for your architecture.
Thank you for not assuming my motivations. Could you please elaborate on what you mean by âoneshottedâ? I share a lot of articles, so Iâm not surprised you recognise my username.
I donât specifically seek them out. I follow quite a few different programming blogs, and I am just sharing what people are posting about, and it just so happens a lot of people are posting about this topic.


























An acronym for domain-driven design.