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Ed Spencer

@edspencer.me.uk

Proudly fullstack. Slinging code professionally since 2005 😬 It's not about the technology, it's about the delivery

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Feels like we've been in the "finding out good uses" for it stage for a while. Business customers paying out decent amounts of money will expect good (human) support

17.01.2026 12:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is quite a post

www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

17.01.2026 06:26 πŸ‘ 8092 πŸ” 2730 πŸ’¬ 255 πŸ“Œ 754
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21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.

"Bias towards action. Ship. You can edit a bad page, but you can’t edit a blank one". Some fantastic lessons here addyosmani.com/blog/21-less...

15.01.2026 09:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My LLM coding workflow going into 2026 Best practices for staying in control while coding with AI

"Commit often and use version control as a safety net. Never commit code you can’t explain"
Some excellent from the trenches tips here from Addy Osmani about coding with LLMs addyo.substack.com/p/my-llm-cod...

12.01.2026 12:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Last year I bought .site domain for literal pennies. Got an email this week from namecheap saying the renewal cost is $44, wtf?!

10.01.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

"I never want to hear any moral grandstanding from these boys ever again. The next time Tim Cook says β€œprivacy is a human right,” the only possible response is to laugh in his face" πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‘πŸ½
www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

10.01.2026 09:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The JavaScript Bundler Grand Prix The desire to shave milliseconds off JavaScript build times has been relentless, but progress has been slow. Recently, several companies have stepped up to address this challenge by supercharging thei...

"While Rust-powered tools have delivered impressive speed gainsβ€”shaving build times from three minutes to thirty secondsβ€”the real problem remains the sheer volume of JavaScript we’re shipping" redmonk.com/kholterhoff/...

05.01.2026 20:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Memos - Open Source, Self-Hosted Note Taking A lightweight, self-hosted memo hub for capturing and sharing your ideas. Open source and free forever.

Home server stuff: Played around with Note taking apps this weekend. Tried Joplin and didn't get on with it. Hosting it behind a reverse proxy was unnecessary difficult. Instead was up and running with Memos and the fantastic PWA it comes with in notime (usememos.com)

05.01.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This! I think some folks so this to make their content more wordy. Prefer concise over wordy.

05.01.2026 15:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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From the GithubCopilot community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the GithubCopilot community

Really noticed the slowdowns in copilot in vscode over the last month or so. He's a thread with with a response from one of the vscode team

www.reddit.com/r/GithubCopi...

08.06.2025 15:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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REPR Design Pattern | DevIQ The REPR Design Pattern defines web API endpoints as having three components: a Request, an Endpoint, and a Response. It simplifies the frequently-used MVC pattern and is more focused on API developme...

The REPR (Reaper) design pattern
deviq.com/design-patte...

03.04.2025 06:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Life Altering Postgresql Patterns

Life Altering Postgresql patterns. Some great tips here

mccue.dev/pages/3-11-2...

23.03.2025 20:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've seen more content over the last few days negatively covering AI, for example. I've also seen TV ads advocating for it's use in places where it'll be a negative. Using AI to generate your website's content will be a type of "smell"... We've heard of coding smells, now we've got content smells

19.01.2025 11:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The AI hype feels like it's on the downward trajectory into the trough of disillusionment.

It feels like people are going to start to be honest about it's applications. It can be a very useful productivity aid for some professions. But not everywhere

19.01.2025 11:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
ClearViolet

ClearViolet

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