At what point does it become too many layers of abstraction? Three? Four? More?
Seeing services that abstract away tools that abstract away platforms that abstract away infrastructure feels like too much.
A benefit to Agentic product dev I didn't expect: you need to be good at planning and communicating. With MCPs to pull context from Linear, etc. your projects/issues better be well written if you want to use them.
Maybe people will put more thought into projects before committing to them 🥲
Changed to smart switches instead of bulbs at the new place and they’re using Z-wave instead of wifi. Sooo much more reliable and responsive.
Splurging for a few Inovelli Red + Presence was worth it, too.
Head cold acquired. 3 days before we move. Now’s not the time 😭
I think agents tend to mess up on simple tasks because they require complex solutions for simple requests.
Asking an agent to pass optional args to a function within a file means it's writing & running a script to parse text. It takes 2x as long and is error prone vs me copy/pasting.
It’s going to feel weird not starting every day off at Home Depot once we’re moved in.
Buying property is the same as inheriting a codebase.
Lots of looking around wondering “wtf were they thinking here?”
A dash of an electric vehicle showing 0km of range
As part of hell week my car—which was fully charged the night prior—showed zero range this morning. I guess -26°c really did a number on it.
After letting it warm up for 20 minutes it reset, thankfully 😅 With the way this week was going I was expecting the worst.
Only 3 days until keys to the new place. The only thing getting me through this hell week.
Watching Honnold free-solo Taipei 101: my extremities are tingling and I’m sweaty af.
What a wild spectacle.
That outbound research will help with figuring out the best approach for your inbound support/feedback capture and systems.
Overall, it’ll depend on your product.
The most important thing is outbound feedback searches.
Don’t wait for the users to come to you. Actively seek people out based on your archetypes. If you don’t have archetypes, build those first through surveys and 1:1 conversations.
Sharing roadmaps: I used Canny once in the past. It can help communicate state to your hardcore followers, which is the most important audience.
Less for feedback, more for outbound representation of internal priorities.
Reddit: same as Discord. However, I view both as a way for the community to interact with each other with occasional input from the creator. Less so a support forum. That’s often the core ethos of successful communities online (in my experience).
If you want inbound feedback: your best bet is to make it as easy as possible for people to message you while in context of using your app. Floating support chat, easily accessible contact form, etc.
Discord can work, but it’s a heavier lift for all parties (depending on your scale).
A man standing at a miter saw looking at the camera directly with a surprised expression on his face.
A partially done flooring installation in an empty living space.
Training wheels for our new place: helping my parents install floors in theirs.
Getting to “apprentice” with my Dad directly, which is extremely helpful.
Elon should go back to the MechaHitler version of Grok. It was safer!
My YT algorithm is all home renovation and woodworking now. I haven’t even moved into our new place yet.
Even the first line reeks of AI hyper-positivity.
Link for those curious: www.npmjs.com/package/expo...
A weekly downloads chart from npmjs showing 263,638.
It's a nice feeling seeing your little npm package still be used consistently. I hope it continues to save devs some time dealing with simple CSV exports.
A cooling rack with pinwheel shaped cookies laid out on it. The cookies are sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Made some gluten free Finnish pinwheel cookies with fig jam for Christmas. A bit wonky but still tasty.
It’s that time of year where I switch how I’m tracking my todos. Back to Todoist after a romp with Reminders.
I feel like it should be mandatory that every dev has a repository with at minimum 200 stars to learn what it’s like to maintain OSS on some scale.
Help develop that sense of empathy when people open issues and ghost or act all entitled.
Light switches with mmWave presence detection will be our saviour.
Car got towed due to the ambiguous and horrible snow removal planning at the start of this season.
Online portal doesn’t have my car listed. The city # points you to other number. The other number is flooded and cant take incoming calls.
Quebec really has their priorities straight.
It has now been 48hrs since the signs on our street have been up. The app hasn’t been updated. No one believes the signs anymore.
Start of winter is always fun.
A street near me was marked for removal yesterday but wasn’t done. So the signs are still up today and it’s marked as cleared in the app. Meanwhile another street has signs up but isn’t marked for removal in the app.
The first couple heavy snow falls are always a little fucked.
I think Patreon is finally starting to see that they can take on bigger players like YouTube and invest playback / discovery.
I’m hopeful they’ll continue to seize the opportunity to build a platform for creators to “own” their audience without needing to build their own platform.
Any time I write anything remotely re-affirming via text now I feel like I’m going to give LLM vibes and I fucking hate it.
Why did we do this to ourselves 😫
