Xander ✺ Spectral Codex

Web engineer, frontend to fullstack ⚙️

Still exploring the shadow realms 🥷🏿

Resident of Taiwan 🧋

[小河知惠子（台湾料理研究家/ライター） @chiecoogawa]

急に寒くなって、芯まで冷え切った日の最終兵器。

たっっっぷりの生姜と鶏をごま油で炒めて、酒と水で煮込んだスープ【麻油雞】。
ひと口飲むだけで身体がぽかぽか……！
（生姜は茶色くなるまでしっかり炒めるのがコツ。味付けは塩だけ）

[Xander ✺ Spectral Codex @spectralcodex]

Little Marco 2028 🦅

[Xander ✺ Spectral Codex @spectralcodex]

Noticed this campaign banner while riding around Nantun yesterday. It's kinda funny to see former president Tsai Ing-wen appear under her cutesy nickname, 小英, on official material like this. How common is this in political campaigning around the democratic world?

[Xander ✺ Spectral Codex @spectralcodex]

@shuma1115 Taipei, Hsinchu, and Taichung all in one day? You were busy! 🚴

For anyone interested in finding more sites to visit in Taiwan:
https://t.co/WqywJ7LC8f

[Xander ✺ Spectral Codex @spectralcodex]

@GergelyOrosz If anyone has the secret for transitioning from frontend roles to fullstack I'd love to know. Embracing agentic coding means I can do so much more but I find employers are still looking for X years experience in back-end anyhow 🤨

[Panat @ptaranat]

writing code in an interview is now larping in the literal sense. like you are straight up live action roleplaying a historical reenactment of what it was like to be a software engineer.

[Xander ✺ Spectral Codex @spectralcodex]

Decision fatigue with agents is real. I've had good results from ADRs baked into repos but it gets so tiring reading through so much verbiage week after week. Surely someone has made a Tinder-inspired dashboard where we can just swipe to approve/deny proposals?

[Xander ✺ Spectral Codex @spectralcodex]

@fengchucheng Incredible levels of foolishness on display here.

[Xander ✺ Spectral Codex @spectralcodex]

@0953363325Leo His story is really interesting (and he's a super nice guy). You can see him in some YouTube videos now and then: https://t.co/ZvECHCZvze

[Xander ✺ Spectral Codex @spectralcodex]

WordPress isn't dead, it just smells funny.

[Aaron Marquez @TheAaronAM]

WordPress is dead.

[Xander ✺ Spectral Codex @spectralcodex]

@heguisen Oh wow, I had no idea! I loved that place, and he was always so friendly and welcoming whenever I bumped into him 🥃

[Xander ✺ Spectral Codex @spectralcodex]

"nobody can explain how most of it works"

Something has gone wrong if agents are shipping 3x code and understanding of your codebase has not actually gone up. All manner of analytical tools that would have been prohibitive years ago are now readily invoked. Just ask your agents!

[[archer] @archer_uwu]

this is whats going to happen to epic games in about a year

[East Asia Econ @eastasiaecon]

Taiwan's trade data for September looked too good to be true, but today's data show growth in October was even stronger. Shipments have now risen 30% just since July, and 134% in the last 2 years.

1/2

[Xander ✺ Spectral Codex @spectralcodex]

@ee_koto No, I didn't even know the cat had a specific name or story until today! I've only seen it around Tamsui. Reading posts in Japanese helps me learn more about Taiwan 😼

[Xander ✺ Spectral Codex @spectralcodex]

I had no idea this cartoon cat (咪咪喵) is a Tamsui original!

[個人開発よいことソフト @ee_koto]

台湾の交通安全落書き猫、「咪咪喵」っていうらしい。可愛い！！自然発生的現場猫だ……！

淡水って地域にあるんだね。次台湾行くときに要チェックだ！

https://t.co/bEStWrcTk9

[阿明 @KURAMOTOTOMOAKI]

台南の府城八吉境五帝廟の屋根に作られた八田與一 、トーマス・バークレー 、黄金河、湯徳章（坂井徳章）を模った装飾。それぞれ台南と深い関係がある歴史人物たち。

[Xander ✺ Spectral Codex @spectralcodex]

@lnachman32

[Xander ✺ Spectral Codex @spectralcodex]

@JoshuaMWilkes For anyone curious about the locations of the POW camps in Taiwan. I've got them all mapped here (still need to visit the sites of quite a few though).

https://t.co/2JC2pQFICG

[Josh Hoang-Wilkes @JoshuaMWilkes]

We will remember them

[きなこもち @testament05]

先日台湾に行った感想

・片道3時間だけど機内食出るのね。うまい
・なんでどのコンビニもゆで卵(茶葉蛋)売ってるんだ…？
・街も宿も予想より全然綺麗
・くっさ…！！臭豆腐屋か…
・飯が美味いし安い
・トイレットペーパー流しちゃ駄目なの…！？
・タピオカミルクティーめっちゃ安い。毎日タピろ
・バスも電車もタクシーもやっす！
・日本の20倍くらい原付走ってるな
・くっさ…！！！臭豆腐屋か……
・漢字だから雰囲気で意味わかるけど読めないから結局指差しで注文するしかねぇ
・メロブも虎の穴もアニメイトもグッスマもコトブキヤもあるんか…
・タピオカミルクティー600mlか2000mlの2択！？
・サイゼ(薩莉亞)とかバーキン(漢堡王)とかスシロー(壽司郎)とか知ってる店が大分あるな。
・なんで寺も教会も学校もピカピカ光ってるんだ…？
・くっさ…！！！！臭豆腐屋か………