John Hooks

[David K ���� @DavidKPiano]

Before AI coding agents, I'd constantly have 2 or 3 side-projects that I would struggle to finish

AI completely changed the game

Now I have 15-20 unfinished side-projects

[John Hooks @_johnhooks]

https://t.co/8SfMqVg6Wd

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

From time to time we get criticized for making "yet another to-do list" product. Or a chat product. Or a messaging product. Or something we've kinda sorta already made before, just in a different form, combination, or approach. "How about something else? How about something bigger? How about something completely different?"

@dhh even reflected on it personally in his recent @lexfridman interview:

QUOTING---
We think of Elon as finding great talent, and I’m sure he is also good at that, but I also think that this beacon of the mission. We’re going to fucking Mars, we’re going to transform transportation into using electricity, we’re going to cover the earth in internet is so grand that there are days where I wake up and go like, “What the fuck am I doing with these to-do lists?” Like, “Jesus, should I go sign up for something like that?”
---

So it's not just other people levying the charge — it's us too! I've given it similar time and similar thought.

But then I step outside tech for a moment, ground myself in other professions, and realize how odd it would be to ask the same kind of question to a knife maker. "Hey master bladesmith, you’ve made a dozen knives this year. Same as last year. Same as the last 20. If you love metal so much, why not help build a battleship? Think of all that metal!"

Or a cabinet maker. "Hey, ok I get it — you take raw wood and you turn it into beautiful furniture. Again and again and again. Don't you think a wood addict like you should consider getting into forestry? Imagine!"

That would be a ridiculous line of questioning. So why is it persuasive in tech?

I think part of it is that we're talking about software. An endlessly malleable medium that can truly be anything. With no conceptual limits, it’s easy to think you should keep expanding. But why?

There's nothing at all wrong with honing in, developing your craft, making variations of things you're good at, and getting better each time. Nothing small about it. Nothing unfulfilling about it.

So instead of looking sideways at what others are building — or upward toward the mythical “next level” — we focus ahead on what we're good at. We like to make useful, straightforward things we need. Specific tools and familiar ingredients combined in different ratios, different molds, for different purposes. Like a baker working from the same tight set of pantry ingredients to make a hundred distinct recipes. You wouldn't turn to them and say "enough with the butter, flour, sugar, baking powder, and eggs already!"

Getting the same few things right in different ways is a career's worth of work.

[Tobin South @TobinSouth]

While we all wait for GCP & AWS & Cloudflare, and the rest of the internet to fix itself, here's a nice picture of a sheep in the countryside I took to remember that the sheep don't care about downtime. Be a sheep today.

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

On January 18, 1995, Yahoo (dot) com domain was registered.

#InternetHistory

[Conrad Barski @lisperati]

whenever I open a programming-themed restaurant

there will definitely be a prefix menu

[Joost de Valk @jdevalk]

It's clear the #WordPress world needs a change. So I wrote a post about exactly that:

Breaking the Status Quo: A vision for a new WordPress era

https://t.co/c0MqwpolW7

[:Cromwell: @learnwithmattc]

My evolution as a leader who leads other leaders is that I find it more and more important to make my opinion matter less.

I've found that focusing on empowering my team to have strong, informed, salient opinions and asking them how to solve issues yields far better results than me being the originator and decider of all things.

We often get placed into leadership because of our strong opinions, so it's hard to shed the urge to speak into every situation. But every time I take a breath and ask questions instead of offer advice I see my team grow, I see more consensus and buy-in, I learn more personally.

[teej dv 🔭 @teej_dv]

The definition of locked in

[nunomaduro @enunomaduro]

finally, in php 8.4, you can create objects and call methods on it without wrapping in parentheses. ✨

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

Number Shortage https://t.co/oCOxdvonkm

[Joost de Valk @jdevalk]

Marieke and I wrote a thing:

https://t.co/HpgStcExk7

[jhey ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ @jh3yy]

worth takin' this one further?

with GSAP and SVG filters you can define some pretty cool transitions 🤙

[jhey ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ @jh3yy]

Use CSS custom properties and the sin() trigonometric function to give each character an eased animation-delay 🤙

.char {
animation-delay: calc(
sin((var(--index) / var(--total)) * 90deg) *
var(--duration)
);
}

[Jason Cohen @asmartbear]

Do you think that “creating features” is the primary job for Product Managers? That if it’s not happening, there’s no progress?

If so, maybe that’s why the product is bloated and people are still cancelling.

[Conrad Barski @lisperati]

I am very good at taking projects that have finite scope

and then broadening them, expanding them into epic projects that are utterly uncompletable

[nunomaduro @enunomaduro]

debugging useEffect in react is the worst thing on the planet

[Brian Coords 💻 @briancoords]

Did you know- you can spin up quick and easy local WordPress environments with Laravel Herd and wpcli.

https://t.co/IZVPNW17KR