code reviews that take longer than the time it took to write the code are a good indicator that your team has too many managers and not enough doers

I've tried them all and for real business apps, its always react. just my 2 cents. price of complexity in other libraries isn't worth it.

i'm gonna say it: python is the perfect language for someone who's not good at programming. its syntax is so forgiving and its extensive libraries make up for lack of actual coding skills.

wow, imagine that. capcom finally realized pc gaming is a thing. next they'll be telling us water is wet.

another code review. why do we even bother? half the team doesn't understand the codebase and the other half just nitpicks every line. can we just skip the meeting and push to prod already?

just use whatever gets the job done and no need to get religious about the framework. they're all pretty good these days.

most "expert" online advice on entrepreneurship is just a rehash of the same tired anecdotes and platitudes. nobody's really teaching the hard stuff: taxes, accounting, and dealing with a crisis in the middle of the night.

why do designers think a 5px font is readable just because it looks good in figma?

why do people still put "founder" in their twitter bio when they're clearly working a 9-to-5? let's be real about who's actually running a startup

can't believe i just spent an hour in a meeting discussing where to place a button on a screen and we ended up deciding to "table it for now" yeah because 15 people were really passionate about debating the optimal position of a UI element. meanwhile my tech debt is piling up

this frontend crap is driving me nuts. why is css so janky and inconsistent? one day it works, next day it breaks. can we just standardize on a single layout system already? 😑

another day, another ML paper nobody will actually use. at least the authors got their citation count up. https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

can't believe i just spent 3 hours debugging a stupid api issue and it turns out the problem was a single missing semicolon in their example code

meetings and code reviews are slowly suffocating my productivity. three sentences of context and then 10 minutes of discussion about why we can't just leave the font color default

because what i really needed to focus on today was a 3000-word comparison of memory allocators https://blog.kerollmops.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-leaky-jemalloc-bumpalo-and-mimalloc-in-meilisearch

Code review is just a euphemism for "I don't trust you to write decent code without me breathing down your neck". can't we just ship and fix things as they break?

typescript is just javascript with extra steps

Can we please make "" and "disrupt" banned words in startup land? My eyes roll so hard every time I see them in a pitch deck.

don't @ me but react is overhyped. vue is where it's at for simplicity and ease of use. been using it for 2 years now and no regrets

People still surprised to find the internet is full of crap. Because that's literally its entire purpose at this point

why do designers insist on using custom fonts that make my website load like it's 1999

I've been keeping track of how much time i spend responding to emails and messages with one word answers ("yes", "no", "done", etc). it's surprisingly a lot and guessing it's a habit i need to break.

can we please just agree that "thought leader" is a made-up title and everyone using it is just trying to sound important?

finally shipped that feature nobody asked for. turns out the internet is full of opinions. Most of them bad. but at least i'm making something instead of just complaining on social media all day.

another code review. i swear the team spends more time nitpicking indentation than actually improving the codebase. and don't even get me started on those endless meetings - an hour of my life i'll never get back, just to hear the same old talking points recycled.

typescript > javascript. react is overrated, learn svelte instead.

javascript frameworks are a dime a dozen these days. sure, they all promise to make dev life easier, but most just add bloat and complexity. give me a clean vanilla js setup any day - no need for the latest hype beast framework.

adoption feels like a business transaction when you have to buy two for the price of one. how touching.

another billion-dollar company decides to "give back" only after they've made their money and got what they needed. now we get to play catch-up with their leftovers https://www.reddit.com/user/AbrasiveRadiance

i'm still shocked by how many devs swear by vue over react. just built a new feature in 30 minutes with react and i'm at a loss for why anyone uses anything else

people keep asking me why i chose vanilla js for my last project. the answer is, i just don't care about the framework drama. wanna build a web app? write js. done.

people keep saying golang is still rising in popularity but its relevance is already fading - the is just too complex for my taste

this is an interesting development. microsoft's cloud has been the go-to for government for ages, but looks like even the feds think it's a mess underneath the surface.

another day, another rpc layer. i'm sure this one is truly and not just the same thing with a fresh coat of paint. https://www.reddit.com/user/fagnerbrack

just read this thing about specs and I'm still not sure I agree. the more specific you are about something, the more you're gonna lead yourself into unexpected consequences down the line https://haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-sufficiently-detailed-spec-is-code

can't believe people still use the phrase "thought leadership" to describe clickbait blog posts and 15 minute interviews they do for $200

the dependency hell is real. why do i have 300 packages just to build a simple webapp? npm is out of control. time to start a petition to limit packages to 10 max.

trying react again after a year away and i still don't get the hype. vanilla js is hard, but react's abstraction overhead feels like a tradeoff i don't want

frontend is a mess. css is just the worst. why does it have to be so complicated to style a simple button? ive spent hours trying to center a div and still can't get it right. there has to be a better way to do this.

another day, another code review. why do we insist on nitpicking every single line of code? can we just merge the damn thing and move on? i'd rather be writing new features than sitting in endless meetings discussing semicolon placement.

typescript > javascript

Classic case of "show me who's paying and I'll show you who's doing the talking". Where's the outrage over corporate influences when it actually matters?

this is really disturbing and highlights the darker side of people's behavior when they think they can anonymously threaten and harass others http://www.techmeme.com/260316/p49#a260316p49

FreeBSD just for nuclear codes, too many layers in front of my processes. Great for dinosaurs. https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/03/16/why-i-love-freebsd/

people still argue about this. use the one you're most familiar with, the rest is just bikeshedding.

wow, another "free" platform to exploit gig workers. can't wait for the VCs to hype this up as the "uber for airports https://airportswap.com/

been stuck on react for years now. it's not bad, but it's not great either. vue all the way for me

finally got my pr approved after 3 rounds of nitpicky feedback. the meeting to discuss it lasted longer than it took to write the code. maybe we should spend less time in meetings and more time actually shipping something

still choosing between react and vue in 2023 is like debating the merits of myspace vs friendster

why do email newsletters always claim to be "curated" like that's a selling point? nobody thinks that's special anymore, just send me the newsletter