I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster continues to be some of the most prescient science fiction ever written.
Originally published in 1909, my appreciation for it only grows with time. I have re-published it here as it can be difficult to find:
https://t.co/FSFZtEwfC3
QuickAdd for Obsidian just passed 1,000,000 downloads.
It started as a weekend project to make my own note-taking smoother—and somehow turned into one of the most widely used plugins in the Obsidian ecosystem.
At its core, QuickAdd is about speed and structure. It helps users quickly capture thoughts, apply consistent templates, and automate common workflows—so they can spend more time thinking and less time fiddling with their notes.
Over time, it’s grown to support powerful features like scripting and AI integration. Today, you can use QuickAdd to generate notes with GPT-style models, create intelligent templates, and build fully customized workflows—all inside your personal knowledge base.
I still get messages from people saying QuickAdd has completely changed the way they work, or that it unlocked something in their personal system they’d been struggling with.
It’s a little surreal every time—but those messages mean a lot. They’re a big part of what keeps me motivated to keep improving it.
A huge thank you to the Obsidian community. The feedback, ideas, and support over the years have made this what it is. I’m grateful—and excited to keep building.
Electronic Arts just released the source for a bunch of old Command and Conquer games!
https://t.co/bOo8mLFbvu
Who's gonna be the first to do a modern remake? Can AI do it?
Today, @advicypour and I released our video to the public at the Bleeding Hearts Art Space in Edmonton. We are presenting it to the public now:
"Eternal Presence: Journey into the Mind"
Content advisory: nudity, violence, and war
https://t.co/4f3P4jX8GQ
Past three years were great and I've met so many amazing people and had the opportunity to learn a lot from them. Working with a good and professional team and soft skills really elevates you!
Finally the day to start a new chapter in my career. Saying goodbye to being an employee and continuing my career as a freelancer and maybe soon a founder. I will have more free and personal time to spend for myself this year.
TypeScript problem: You need to support any string value, but you’d like autocomplete support for common values.
Solution: Create a union with "string & {}" on the end.
Now you get autocomplete support for all values listed in the union, but can still enter any value.
🏪 Excited to announce XState Store!
→ Extremely simple API
→ Extremely small (< 1kb min/gzip)
→ XState-compatible (if you need the power)
→ Extra strong typing (inferred!)
npm i @xstate/store
It's what "No Code" solutions should pivot to. A foundation and framework to help you focus on business logic. Not a buggy and complex UI that is harder to work with than writing code.
Building internal and B2B dashboards with @refine_dev really makes sense. They provide a semi-opinionated foundation so you can just develop APIs and focus on important parts.
We started using it at @RIWIdata and it helps us get stuff done, securely and maintainable.
So GitLab posts their internal Zoom call recordings on YouTube, and some have HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of views...
Because people use them to pretend like they're working.