London based software development consultant

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  • codeinaboxOPMtoAI Coding•Token spend breaks budgets – what next?
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    18 days ago

    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.



  • codeinaboxOPtoCSS•Scroll-Driven Animations
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    20 days ago

    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 doesn’t mean it’s a waste of time to bother with pretty designs. People should build websites that they’re proud of, and accept that people might override their design with one better suited to their needs or taste.


  • codeinaboxOPtoCSS•Scroll-Driven Animations
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    20 days ago

    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 I’d argue is more likely.





  • codeinaboxOPtoCSS•An Interactive Cover Component
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    1 month ago

    Agreed though the article has this disclaimer:

    Before we dive into the code, I think it’s 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 it’s not for critical content. My point is that it’s just an aesthetic component for a game that makes this acceptable — I don’t think this is necessarily a good user experience for your every day website where there are stakes.





  • codeinaboxOPtoOpensource•Agentic slop PRs
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    2 months ago

    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. I’m 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.


  • codeinaboxOPtoJavaScript•npm's Defaults Are Bad
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    2 months ago

    It’s 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, Deno’s permission model is restrictive by design.