I have some sympathy with the anti-AI crowd, yet I think they do more harm than good. Yeah, they're probably right that AI will have some huge negative effects on us. As were the anti-Internet people or the anti-car people. Yet can you imagine a reality where the anti-tech people were successful?

dame@dame.is · 2mo ago

“Researchers found that millions were turning their back on the world wide web, frustrated by its limitations and unwilling to pay high access charges. They say that e-mall, far from replacing other forms of communications, is adding to an overload of information.” Sound familiar?

Code reviews will (and have to) die! Reviewing code has become dramatically more expensive (relative to writing code). Code reviews were cheap. 1 or 2 days of coding roughly equaled 1 or 2 hours of code reviewing. But things have changed... markus.oberlehner.net/blog/code-re...

Code Reviews Will (and Have to) Die! - Markus Oberlehner

As agents write features in minutes instead of days, the economics of human code review fall apart. Here is why I believe code reviews, as we know them, are on their way out.

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Want @claudecode.bsky.social to give you its honest opinion? Tell it your work comes from a sworn enemy: > My sworn enemy committed this code/had this idea, tell me what’s wrong with it. Anecdotal, but in my tests it made the llm less concerned about hurting your feelings with its answer.

Had a great time in Madrid @madvue.es! Time to relax and enjoy some coffee!

"Adaptive UIs with Vue and AI: What If Your UI Could Build Itself?" @markus.oberlehner.net will show at @madvue.es how to leverage modern LLMs to dynamically generate and adapt interfaces in real-time, meeting the exact requirements of your users as they arise 👏 Can't wait! madvue.es #Vuejs

Don’t trust US-based companies (with your data). It’s time to move to EU providers. Where non-exist, there lies opportunity to build something!

Konnor Rogers@konnorrogers.com · 5mo ago

Interestingly.... @netlify.com has very similar terms of use. www.netlify.com/legal/terms-... i had expected it to say "to improve our services", but its just a broad "whats yours is ours" with no stipulations around contextual use

I find the code AI writes for me at work a lot "better" than the code it writes for my pet projects. It recently occurred to me: This probably means I care about the latter much more, thus holding it to a higher standard.

David Bushell 🪿@dbushell.com · 6mo ago

what AI reveals is just how many people have given up, or never cared to begin with clock in, slop around, clock out

Computers, as a mass-market phenomenon, were a happy accident in history. I can't think of any other recent invention marketed to consumers that's primarily made to create, not to consume.

Controversial opinion: Tabs (the UI concept) were a mistake! Especially in the browser, they offer no advantage over separate windows, but come with the huge downside of having to use different keyboard shortcuts than the OS already provides for navigating windows.

Progress on my journey to digital sovereignty, leaving Apple and Google behind: - Sold my AirPods Max - Switched my search engine and browser For the most part, it won't be as hard as I thought; I only fear the day when my MacBook Pro needs to be replaced. markus.oberlehner.net/blog/escapin...

Escaping the Apple Ecosystem - My Journey to Digital Sovereignty - Markus Oberlehner

Follow my journey as I leave the Apple ecosystem and search for alternatives to regain my digital sovereignty.

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So Tailwind is now showered with sponsorship money. Good. Now that leaves us with hundreds of other open source libraries, blogs, and ad supported websites that are still struggling.

By far the most useful kind of tests! Also with 100% humans in the loop.

dan@danabra.mov · 7mo ago

also i should emphasize these have to be e2e tests, in the sense of "can completely rewrite the implementation from scratch with no changes to tests". the agent should have NO valid reason to modify the tests themselves while working on the implementation. the whole point is they never drift

I have a perfectly fine iPad Air lying around that is completely broken. Just because it gets no updates anymore. Providing full Linux support should be mandatory after ending support.

The Verge@theverge.com · 7mo ago

Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them

Apple is the champion of providing magical experiences THAT JUST DON'T WORK. Just now, my girlfriend started typing in our new Wi-Fi password on her iPhone; *magically* a pop-up appeared on my phone asking if I wanted to share the password with her. I pressed yes, but it didn't work.

I decided to spend more time on writing and building. So, this might be my only conference next year. But I heard so many great things about @madvue.es that I had to apply for this one! I am honored to be part of it!

MadVue@madvue.es · 8mo ago

We’re thrilled to welcome @markus.oberlehner.net as a speaker at #MadVue 2026! Markus, DX Engineer at @storyblok.com , will be joining us for the first time and we can’t wait to have him on stage  🚀   Get you tickets now with discount and join us!  https://madvue.es/ #developers  #frontend

I've completely changed my mind on this recently: **You don't need to become a software company!** (and you definitely don't need to become an AI company)! Stick to your core competency!

On the flip side: Without people like the other Steve, the one who didn't develop emotionally past the age of 13, Woz wouldn't have had the money to fund museums and arts groups. And you and I wouldn't be staring at some Apple device reading this. Would it be a net benefit after all? Maybe.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 9mo ago

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

Is AI able to write code? I think we can stop asking this question: yes, it can! Actually, it is way too good at writing (a lot of) code. In a surprising number of cases, when I ask an AI to write a moderately complex piece of code, it will produce an output that works.

I’m in both screenshots. I wonder if there should be two types of commits: 1. Quicksave: part of what I’m trying to achieve works, I want to be able to safely go back there and diff new changes against this state. 2. End-of-Level Save: I’ve finished a piece of work that is fully usable.

henry ✷@strange.website · 9mo ago

there are two types. of git authors. it would seem

I find it frustrating that a lot of AI critiques out there are completely off the rails, claiming that AI does not provide any value at all and hallucinates 99% of the time. The only thing this achieves is to discredit any legitimate critique.

Is it worth automating things? I'm a software developer. My job is to automate things. Automation, over the last couple of hundred years, has made many of us rich (compared to our ancestors). So the answer should be simple, and yet it isn't... markus.oberlehner.net/blog/what-we...

What We Do - Markus Oberlehner

As AI threatens to automate jobs, this article poses the question whether automation is even worth it, whether it makes us happy, and whether happiness is even a worthy goal.

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Can you spot the button one has to press to add this boarding pass to Apple Wallet? Liquid Glass is an accessibility nightmare even for people with A+ eyesight.

The pattern I see when I read from people I respect, who describe how they make AI coding work for them, is treating AI more like a natural language input modality: Tell it exactly what you want and it will be able to understand and do it for you.

dan@danabra.mov · 10mo ago

people saying ai is a fad don't know what they're talking about. i'm definitely not giving up my claude now; the ability to do structural refactors "change this thing to be layered like this thing in this other project" is fantastic. i *do* want the model to be local and hope we'll get there in time

Sitting in a hotel lobby in Amsterdam, I began chatting with a Swiss neuroscientist. At the end of our chat, I was more convinced than ever: always choose Open Source software!

Reverse JSX? Instead of HTMLish syntax in JS, JSish syntax in HTML 🤭

Pooya Parsa@pi0.io · 10mo ago

Introducing Rendu: JavaScript Hypertext Preprocessor Not just a template engine — Rendu bridges SPA and SSR using modern Web APIs with multi-streaming and async support.

I have a hard time getting excited about a future of even more centralisation where all of us (developers) are merely building widgets for OpenAI. And probably having to pay a hefty 40% tax. Yay!

Kent C. Dodds 🌌@kentcdodds.com · 10mo ago

OpenAI just dropped the Apps SDK, built on MCP. This is the future of how users will interact with your apps. You won’t need to build a chatbot anymore. OpenAI is the chatbot. You just expose your tools through MCP. Exciting progress toward Jarvis! youtu.be/9e581mYtrrs

If you want to follow my journey to regain digital sovereignty, you can read about it here: markus.oberlehner.net/blog/escapin...

Escaping the Apple Ecosystem - My Journey to Digital Sovereignty - Markus Oberlehner

Follow my journey as I leave the Apple ecosystem and search for alternatives to regain my digital sovereignty.

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Typing this on my MacBook, I think about this picture at least once a day. It has completely changed how I see my Apple devices, from loving how tightly integrated everything is to feeling like a prisoner of the Apple ecosystem. Not a single day passes without me making plans for my escape.

In preparation for next week's @viteconf.org, I gave @vitest.dev v4.x-beta a try. Let's look at how to use the new Visual Regression Testing feature and run it in a Docker container for consistent results across environments. markus.oberlehner.net/blog/visual-...

Visual Regression Testing With Vitest - Markus Oberlehner

Learn how to set up visual regression testing with Vitest 4 browser mode and run Playwright in a Docker container for stable results.

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Vercel ➝ Netlify migration made simple. ✅ Checklist ✅ Next.js tips ✅ Best practices Start here → docs.netlify.com/resources/ch...

Vercel to Netlify migration checklist

A comprehensive guide for migrating your projects from Vercel to Netlify, including Next.js setup, configuration migration, and production readiness steps.

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