🧑💻 Todays talk comes from Marc Backes @marc.ba, senior software developer at Directus. 📺️ Check out VueJS On-demand to stay tuned for more talks from 2026!: vuejs.amsterdam/on-demand 🔗 Visit vuejs.amsterdam to see whats in store for the future!
Marc Backes
@marc.ba
Senior Software Developer at Directus 🐰 • Full-Stack 🥞 • Vue, Nuxt 💚 • Private Pilot 👨✈️ • MC, Public speaker 🎤 • 🇱🇺🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇸🇫🇷
In aviation we have a tool called FORDEC for decision-making, e.g. in an emergency. 📄 Facts: Lay out the facts of what is happening 🤷♂️ Options: What options do I have? 💥Risks: What risk does either options entail? 🤔 Decision: Decide which option you are going to go with Continue in replies 👇
I hate being family tech support. Yesterday I had to drive 2 hours to install a printer. Today, the wifi apparently has an issue 😭
Oxlint has now reached a beta version! It's faster than ever, has over 500 rules built-in and we are working on adding lots more features. We are also working towards supporting custom plugins as well 🙏
Announcing Oxlint Beta: oxc.rs/blog/2025-03...
As always it was a pleasure hanging out with the vue community in amsterdam, and that has absolutely nothing to do with them bribing me with coffee...
The issue with the concept of replacing all developers with AI is that we won't have anyone to develop the tooling and programming languages. So what, we are just gonna sit on JavaScript and Python forever and never improve upon it?
That's him. That's the guy who said that people shouldn't become developers because AI will take over all the jobs
🎄 On the twelfth day of coding, my project gave to me... Twelve deadlines looming, Eleven logs a-spamming, Ten servers crashing, Nine devs debugging, Eight dependencies breaking, Seven PRs pending, Six tests a-failing,
AI is improving but hasn't yet replaced developers. I don't buy into fear-mongering. If businesses take months to decide on a feature, replacing developers with AI will take much longer. That time might come, but it's far off.
Topics range from getting started in open source to feeling the Impostor Syndrome and tabs vs. spaces, as well as covering all of our favorite Vue features! Mentions include @sentry.io @github.com @jetbrains.com @vuejs.org @nuxt.com @rolldown.rs @vite.dev, @patak.dev @marc.ba, OXC, Elk, and more
I am about to give a 50-minute talk that mainly consists of live coding. Wish me luck 🤞
First time I had the option to reserve an antire row in a flight. My seat + 2 other seats next to it. That’s the dream 🤩
I can’t believe this is probably an hot take 🌶️ , but: When did everyone become so sensible and short-fused? We can and should have DIFFERENT OPINIONS and be chill about it 👇
People of Bluesky. Let’s get to know each other better. What is one of your favourite movies? Quote share your answer in a gif!
a poster for top gun maverick showing two pilots
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People of Bluesky. Let’s get to know each other better. What is one of your favourite movies? Quote share your answer in a gif!
Starting in January, I would be open for some consultancy / freelance work. If anyone needs an extra set of eyes 👀 or hands 🙌 on their project, let me know.
Developers who add the trailing slash to the base URL for API calls are evil. I can't be the only one who thinks that this is the only way. ❌ `${baseUrl}users ✅ `${baseUrl}/users`