https://www.codingwithjesse.com/blog/rockstar-developers/ We've all worked with a rockstar developer. They joined the team years ago, full of energy. They had great ideas about new tech, new paradigms, new architectures. Their cutting-edge ideas left everyone else feeling a bit behind and outdated.

Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers - Jesse Skinner

We've all worked with a rockstar developer. They joined the team years ago, full of energy. They had great ideas about new tech, new paradigms, new architectures. Their cutting-edge ideas left everyone else feeling a bit behind and outdated.

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* this was the talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWxk... * next for my PoC: props drilling. Back in the Svelte 3 era, I figured out how to pass functions as props during mount, and how to expose component methods from the Svelte app to the mounting environment.

Jesse Skinner - Adding Svelte to your legacy projects

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Years ago I learned I a neat trick in a Svelte Summit talk from @jesseskinner.bsky.social: how to compile a Svelte 3 app to a standalone module so that you can mount it in any legacy environment that supports HTML & vanilla JS. Only ~2 years into the Svelte 5 era, I finally have a PoC with mount().

Ilja@fubits.dev · 10mo ago

In Svelte 3/4 you could compile a component as a standalone module with exported top level methods and also pass functions from outside into the module as props. I’m talking vanilla JS mounting SvelteComponent.js It needed prop drilling to find the context of the methods but it worked.

The great thing about the web is that web pages from thirty years ago still work fine. So you can imagine how surprised I was when a new version of Chrome broke my client's web app in production. www.codingwithjesse.com/blog/chrome-...

Chrome broke my client's web app - Jesse Skinner

The great thing about the web is that web pages from thirty years ago still work fine. So you can imagine how surprised I was when a new version of Chrome broke my client's web app in production.

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Just updated my homepage. I added cover photos to my featured blog posts, and I've been working to replace all the Midjourney-AI-generated ones with real photography from Unsplash. AI-generated photos were cool and novel a couple of years ago but haven't aged well. Really happy with the result.

Have to say I'm not terribly surprised. Modern conveniences meant housewives didn't have to work quite so hard any more. Did they work less? No, they joined the workforce. Emails and computing made paperwork much faster. Could administrators work less? No! But now everything was happening faster!

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6mo ago

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

"I'm in full control of choosing which parts I want to work on, and which I don't. I'm staying fully engaged, and I know what's happening at any given moment. It's like wearing a jetpack that I'm steering, rather than a team of minions that I have to manage." www.codingwithjesse.com/blog/coding-...

Coding with LLMs can still be fun - Coding with Jesse

Do you love reviewing code other people wrote? Do you get a tickle of pure joy to find and criticize the mistakes and problems in sloppy code? Me neither.

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Going through some ancient burned CDs. Found one with one file, "1st_read.bin". I couldn't run it, so I ran "strings 1st_read.bin" to extract any text from the binary. I pasted that into Claude and it told me it's a Sega Dreamcast mp3 player I burned for my Dreamcast! #llm #claude #dreamcast

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