@solid_js rendering native C++ cross-platform Qt UI using the JavaScriptCore engine driven by Qt's internal Event Loop.
SolidJS' universal renderer is easy to plug into C++ and render anything anywhere.
(This is not a WebView, setInterval is running a QTimer)
[feeling like i have more in common with the dirt beneath my shoes than with the people around me] haha no big plans for me this weekend. what about you
High-agency people seem to have insane luck. They don't. They just tried 47 things while everyone else tried two and gave up. The conviction that reality is negotiable is generative, it makes you creative. Because if you believe there's always another angle, you start looking for angles other people don't see.
>Wake up.
>drink large 20oz coffee.
> take 10 nootropics.
> take nasal spray of more nootropics.
> inject some peptides.
>swallow 40 vitamins.
>take some lions mane.
>crack open energy drink.
> watch Opus 4.5 code for 8hr.
>talk to nobody.
>go to sleep.
Life is good.
Last month my intern asked for help with a Kubernetes error.
He was stuck on a YAML file.
He looked desperate.
I make $275,000 a year.
I haven't written a line of code since 2017.
I don't even know what a "pod" is.
But I didn't tell him that.
I leaned back in my Herman Miller chair.
I said, "Stop trying to code. Start prompting."
I told him to paste the error into ChatGPT.
He did.
The AI told him to delete the cluster.
He did.
Production went down instantly.
The CEO called me screaming.
I didn't panic.
I told the CEO we were "testing our disaster recovery protocols."
He was impressed by my foresight.
I got a bonus.
The intern got fired.
Innovation requires sacrifice.
Just not mine.
My last role was basically 2.5 years of writing graph sorting, traversal, and mutation algorithms for a query compiler. Graphs and trees became second nature for me by the time I left.
You need to actively reject crud slop in your career if you want to grow as an engineer.
You cannot force highly skilled people to work a set number of hours. They will just pretend to which is easy to do. They’ll read Reddit, make easy tasks stretch in time, have a longer lunch, longer meetings, etc. The only way I’ve seen or experienced seeing people work a lot of raw hours is because they believe what they are doing has mission, it challenges, users are scrambling for it, or it moves their soul somehow.
correlation i have observed:
the most talented people i know (who also happen to be high agency) have the shittiest workflow organization
- no notion organization hell, usually messy apple notes and google docs
- regular users of pen and paper
- no superhuman or fancy email