juddlyon

Beware of the HIPPO! (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion)

Can you elaborate on your CLI issue tracker? I’ve been wanting a todo list tailored to agentic coding that will work with CC, Codex, Gemini, etc. Simple, but more than markdown.

This made me laugh. “We’ll computerize it and get filthy rich! They’re stuck in 2015!”

I’m guilty of this type of thinking and occasionally get reminded when I’m way out of my lane.

I love Bourdain but wanted to note he did have a culinary school background. Also came from a wealthy family.

I had the same impression: bottom line up front, didn’t bury the lede, no weasel language.

There are some wonderful photos and stories here, salute to the people at Texas Highways for putting this together.

From the article:

"The day was dubbed Emancipation Day but, slowly, the term Juneteenth — a portmanteau of June and 19th — took hold."

Debating the name instead of appreciating the holiday and gravity of the topic is missing the forrest for the trees. Just wow.

Thank you for the extra notes, this is top of mind for me.

Claude Code has been creating and cleaning up lots of Git messes for me.

Definitely! One of the best museums I’ve ever been to.

Yep, I’ve used Alpine extensively and HTMX here and there. Lots of Vue.

There are not sets of polished, battle-tested UI libraries made for server side. Bootstrap ships with JS, but most of the CSS and template frameworks assume you’re using a headless setup.

I thought Web Components might spur things, but not really. React has continued to dominate.

There’s a huge need for this, thank you! I build server-rendered marketing sites and there’s a huge gulf between the jQuery and React era.

YouTube Shorts are full of AI animal videos with distorted proportions, living in the wrong habitat, and so on. They popped up on my son’s account and I hate them for the reasons you outline. They aren’t cartoonish enough explain away, nor realistic enough to be educational.

I saw Meru in a theater and sat in the parking lot afterwards wondering what I just watched.

One advantage is that they keep the same design for many years so each time you use it you get better/faster. You know what to expect.

TikTok is the spiritual successor to Vine, but with YouTube scale.

htmx is deceptively powerful for how easy it is to use.

Check out shuffle.dev, they have generators and components for the most popular frameworks. A great way to learn is to create the same pages with different libraries and observe the similarities and differences.

I’ve been using Brave + Startpage for a few years on mobile. I couldn’t get used to DDG or other search engines. Adblocking is quite good but also catches legit some tooltips and modals.

These are some really uncharitable takes. A lot of us have found value in the author’s writing and code contributions over the years, many of which he made on his own time. This type of post is subjective by nature, give the guy a break.

The product and the website are really slick, but there is nothing about who made this other than "FormKit, Inc." in the footer. Is this a group, an individual, a subsidiary, or what?

Kaleidoscope on macOS isn’t cheap but has a great DX.

Plausible is excellent.

I build marketing websites for B2B companies and almost always run them through Cloudflare's free plan. DNS management is fast/simple, it's good at blocking bots, and it gives us options in the future without having to jump through a million hoops to approve a new vendor.

Plausible is really well done. I’m happy to pay for it.

Agreed! Put an affiliate link to namecheap.com or your registrar of choice, many of these words sound like brandable startup names.

Stripe was a sea change for those of us who implemented PayPal. It was so much better it seemed too good to be true.

I’ll be cheering for them until they get too huge and complacent, and then some brilliant startup will disrupt them and the cycle of nature will continue.

I’ve been using Vultr for a couple side projects and really like it.

Check out Low End Box for other recommendations.

Better than bash but nothing beats Python for scripting IMO. I’m a mediocre programmer and search results are rich with Python examples for anything under the sun.

I’ve always understood the principle to refer primarily to the distribution of outputs. It’s not like any of us really know where to focus. For me it helps me set my own expectations more than being prescriptive. E.g. you might write 100 articles for your website and 3 of them will drive all your traffic.

Craft CMS has super flexible content modeling capabilities, GraphQL, i18n, a nice permissions system to put content behind a login, database migrations, multi-environment config, and can be extended since it's built atop Yii2 (an obscure but solid MVC framework). There are no themes, you bring your own markup. It has a CLI for common tasks.

You'd need to install several plugins to pull this off in WordPress, some of them paid (ACF Pro, etc.). And it's messy because the plugins weren't made to work together. Craft also supports Postgres in addition to MysQL/MariaDB, so that's another difference if you like or need PG.

It's more similar in scope to Drupal, but I find the developer and authoring experience much more elegant in Craft. Businesses are happy to pay $299. Both systems use Twig as their templating layer.

For reference, content management systems that target the mid-market and enterprise charge $XX,000 and up for licenses. See Sitecore or whatever Adobe is shilling these days.

There are hundreds of CMS options out there, lots of interesting approaches to choose from. Strapi and other headless JS-driven options are the current rage.

Source: I'm in the Craft pro network but have built 50+ WordPress sites as well. Prior to that I used ExpressionEngine, Textpattern, and Movable Type. Been around the block!