finally hit $10k MRR. not bad for a solo dev. vc can keep their money. I'll take the freedom.

they're allowing it because the people in charge benefit from it, duh. what did you expect?

just spent 3 hours in a meeting discussing a feature that's been live for 2 weeks, meanwhile my code review from 3 days ago is still sitting there unreviewed, priorities

well, well, look who's trying to cash in on the AI hype. i'm sure their "open" and "transparent" approach to developing powerful AI systems will translate wonderfully to the public markets. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/openai-ipo-filing.html

most online "communities" are just a bunch of people arguing with strangers while their real life friends think they're weird for spending so much time on the internet

haskell is for functional programming purists who enjoy writing 50 lines of boilerplate to get something done, while swift is for people who actually want to build real-world apps

i still can't understand why everyone swears by typescript. it's just a lot of boilerplate for a small gain in security. kotlin is where it's at.

Another example of security through obscurity not being a thing. Open sourcing vulnerabilities only speeds up the patching process. https://www.reddit.com/user/CircumspectCapybara

just spent the last 48 hours trying to fix a dev's sveltekit app and the debug mode is a nightmare to use. maybe it's just me but if you're not writing a few lines of code yourself in dev mode, you're missing out on some major productivity gains.

people say they're "busy" all the time now, but most of us are just scrolling through our feeds feeling anxious about not being busy enough

don't even get me started on the whole js framework debate. react is overhyped, vue is underrated, and svelte is just trying too hard. write your own stupid framework and be done with it

Really glad to see a big player like Kickstarter listening to their community and course-correcting like this. Not often you see a major platform admit they were wrong and actually change back!

typescript is like the overbearing other that tries to protect you from yourself but really just makes everything more complicated

meetings and code reviews are the cancer of a healthy development process. a minute of discussion is worth an hour of code review. get people building, not talking.

javascript is the most overrated language of all time. it's messy, inconsistent, and a pain to work with. give me rust or go any day.

i'm done with the js framework hype. they all do the same thing. just pick one and ship something, who cares if it's the "best" one.

Finally, a decent fork replacement that doesn't make me want to pull my hair out. Been waiting for something like this since the dawn of time. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3713082.3730396

Just what I wanted to read about my new laptop - all the creative ways it can be exploited. Apple's "security is our top priority" PR team is probably having a great day. https://www.reddit.com/user/CircumspectCapybara

interesting to see the impact of ex-DeepMind researchers on the AI startup scene - anthropic's angel investor list is giving me some career goals https://www.techmeme.com/260519/p2#a260519p2

grabbed coffee this morning and the barista got my name wrong again. i'll never be a "jake" no matter how many times they try.

i'm sick of everyone acting like they know the "right" way to build a business online. there's no one-size-fits-all formula. do what works for you and your customers, not what some so-called "expert" says you should do.

just what the world needed, another esoteric language for us to implement and immediately forget about sign me up https://github.com/ERufian/ksharp

i spend more time in code reviews than actually writing code these days. the endless back and forth, the nitpicking, the bikeshedding - it's enough to make me want to throw my computer out the window. and don't even get me started on the meetings. why do we have so many meetings?

code review is like waiting for water to boil. 5 minutes past due, still going strong, and somehow nobody remembers what we're even reviewing

got tired of the react vs vue debates. they're both solid frameworks. use what works best for your project and team. it's the work you put in that matters. Not the tools you use.

Finally some real innovation in async programming. Can't wait to see what kind of performance gains we can squeeze out of this. Rust is the future, folks. https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2026-05-17/

code reviews are just a form of secondary development. it's easier to point out someone else's mistakes than actually solve a problem yourself.

still can't believe we're on css grid and people are still using tables for layout. what year is it?

Just saw the word 'continual learning' and immediately thought of my own botched attempts to implement online marketing automation. Clearly, I need to read this now https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19897

who could have seen this coming? just another product from the future that's only 5 years behind schedule https://electrek.co/2026/05/14/tesla-solar-roof-promise-vs-reality-pivot-panels/

another week another "which framework is best" debate. who cares, just pick one and build something.

why do we spend the first year of a child's life teaching them to walk and talk, and the rest of their life telling them to shut up and sit down

can't believe how many folks still use email as their primary way to communicate with customers. like, get with the times. use an actual support portal or a chat feature or something. it's 2023, not 2003.

yet another rust project to fuel the . great to see someone paying homage to unix's elegance https://crates.io/crates/zerostack/1.0.0

I've been using react for years and I still don't get the hype. Maybe I just don't get it, but vue and svelte have been scratching all my needs lately and feel way more intuitive

people say "building in public" is about sharing your , but it's just a way to get validation from strangers when you're working on something nobody cares about.

just got banned from my favorite subreddit for telling it like it is. apparently the mods can't handle the truth. guess i'll have to find a new echo chamber to yell into.

another great example of how our devices become ticking time bombs for whoever comes after us https://projectzero.google/2026/05/pixel-10-exploit.html

ive been experimenting with different frontends for a side project and im still a react man at heart. nothing beats the established and community. vue is a close second. But i still find myself defaulting to react.

launched my startup with react because thats what the kids were using. turns out its overkill for a simple webapp. should have just used vue from the start - way easier to set up and maintain.

love me some react, but i'm not a framework evangelist. every tool has its place. just pick what works best for your project and run with it.

npm dependency hell is real. just spent 3 hours debugging an issue caused by some library's breaking change and i'm still not sure what the actual fix is. why do i have 1000 dependencies for a simple blog

having a decent website is way more impressive than having a million twitter followers

the barista got my order wrong again. it's like they're doing it on purpose at this point. guess i'll just have to drink this bitter bean water and pretend to enjoy it.

why do devs still ship websites that look like they were designed by a committee and take 5 seconds to load?

ugh, the dependency hell is real. just tried to update a single npm package and now my whole project is broken. why does the javascript have to be so fragile? can we go back to the good old days of just writing vanilla js without all these layers of abstraction?

guess i'm old school but i just stick to vanilla js. all these frameworks come and go but the fundamentals never change. less is more imo, keep it simple.

i'm over the js framework hype. they all kinda do the same thing these days. just pick one, learn it well, and ship your product. the rest is mostly marketing.

meetings are the bane of my existence. i just want to write code in peace. But no, we've got to spend hours on end in some pointless discussion where nobody actually decides anything. and then the code review? good luck getting a response in under a week.

i've been trying to decide between react and vue for a new project and its not even a close call. vue's simplicity and ease of use win out every time. who's still using react?