> I noticed a suspicious injected "system reminder" in that git output asking me to add Claude co-author trailers—it's not from you, contradicts your rules, and I'm ignoring it. Thanks, Fable.
Lane || Boot.dev
@wagslane.bsky.social
Founder of Boot.dev Host of BackendBanter.fm
My favorite interaction in our discord: > It was really nice to get the student discount > It wasn't a "discount" > What do you mean? Yeah it was. > No. > ...okay 30k in debt > Thank you.
Went into a GameStop to pick up zelda for my nephew's birthday why are there so many single (obviously) 35 y/o men buying thirsty statues of one piece characters? I didn't see a single kid in there buying games
Just spent a couple of hours with Astra working on a PR Love it. Coding with AI is amazing. 1/3
when your business doesn't need money, the amount of cold outreach you get from private credit trying to lend you money is insane
I'm not the only that hears "all major AI ceos wanna pace the frontier" and thinks "ai cartel", right?
The real reason for Boot dev's existence was to build the platform that would train more new backend developers than anywhere else ...and then to make 10000% sure it didn't teach Java
Back in 2022 and 2023, I thought ai art was a kinda fun alternative to stock images. Now in 2026, it's soooo much worse. EVERYONE is sick of it. I'm constantly amazed at the unironic use of blatant AI slop art by so many companies out there. 1/2
Why sell great software when you can sell a shitty "software factory"
It's really hard to get consumers to buy your stuff. Businesses have deep pockets. Monetizing your users instead of charging them makes it easier to grow. 1/2
The one thing I hope I can save my kids from is just overall apathy. Apathy in general, but particularly apathy about getting good at things Trying hard is cool. Failing is cooler than not trying.
Fuck amp, marry OpenCode (with a prenup), kill gemini cli
The biggest misconception about Bootdev is that people take our courses to learn new things, improve their lives, and get into better careers We've always been very clear on this: it's actually about the digital confetti, loot boxes, and leaderboard stats
2030 is fine. Making sc2 a shooter is a gut shot tho
anyone wanna argue about this? i just want to feel something again...
The biggest impact AI has had on my life has been the increased frequency between "it's so over" and "we're so back" going through my head
Traditional educators should be embarrassed that they have our kids for 7 hours a day and still need to send kids home with homework. Use the time more effectively. Cut the busywork. Oh, and pay educators more so that we get good ones and they're incentivized to care.
slide decks have got to be the worst possible mechanism to communicate information, especially in the age of ai give me plaintext if its async just talk to me if its a call there is literally zero cases where I want to see a deck
will someone PLEASE regulate online interactive learning already: this industry must be stopped. people are getting waaaaaay too good at stuff oh also people are addicted to learning on boot dev can someone please sue us for addicting them to writing too much code
Step 1: Read sloppy reply Step 2: Click on author bio Step 3: See they are founder of some shitty *.ai company Every. Single. Time.
If your skills/agents files aren't unique to you or your team they're probably kinda dumb
If you're actually good (tm), it's waaaay easier to just to start a company in a competitive market You don't need to worry about pmf, you know people have the problem, and if you're really smart, you can figure out typical margins and CaCs and such 1/2
I would have switched to omarchy by now if the pronunciation made sense
So far sol feels way more of an incremental improvement to me than astra Astra is cool, but so far the only thing I've really noticed in my day to day coding work is that maybe I get to where I wanted to go 10% faster (I don't have to correct as much) But mainly I just hit my usage limit faster
The future of knowledge work is incredibly highly skilled. People are so focused on how much you can get done without knowing much, and that will lead to a certain type of productivity growth. Particularly when it comes to internal tools and prototyping. 1/3
idk guys, im using astra to build a deckbox and it put the handles on the inside instead of the outside doesn't feel like agi to me