scottandrew
@scottandrew.com
Converting glucose into JavaScript since 1998. Former dev for Amazon, IMDb, and Alexa. Online forever at scottandrew.com
This video is AI (notice her hands, spatula, background details). Misinformation is the real purpose of these tools and everyone knows it.
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This video is AI (notice her hands, spatula, background details). Misinformation is the real purpose of these tools and everyone knows it.
I still maintain that React became dominant because it let non-front end devs build the front end.
I wanted to write about this for a long time, but @adactio.com did it first and definitely better. Web frameworks should be invisible to the user, they serve us developers. Users don't care, and shouldn't pay the price neither.
Why use React?
Or, more precisely, why use React *in the browser*?
adactio.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I still maintain that React became dominant because it let non-front end devs build the front end.
I was working a temp office job at a conveyor belt factory in Cleveland and my PC was chosen to have a modem installed so we could have a company email address. This allowed me to View Source the early web during lunch breaks.
I didn’t really choose my career so much as collided with it.
I didn’t really choose my career so much as collided with it.
November 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I was working a temp office job at a conveyor belt factory in Cleveland and my PC was chosen to have a modem installed so we could have a company email address. This allowed me to View Source the early web during lunch breaks.
I didn’t really choose my career so much as collided with it.
I didn’t really choose my career so much as collided with it.
“Quick meeting after standup?”
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
“Quick meeting after standup?”
They killed Google Reader and then gave us…this.
Does anyone still remember the social network Google+?
Google+ for iPhone in 2012
Google+ for iPhone in 2012
October 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM
They killed Google Reader and then gave us…this.
Learning about Suspense and React Query and lol we’re really doing cartwheels to get around React’s render-all-the-things design. wtaf.
September 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Learning about Suspense and React Query and lol we’re really doing cartwheels to get around React’s render-all-the-things design. wtaf.
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I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.
April 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.
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I think about this one often as well
September 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I think about this one often as well
1: layoffs are happening because companies want them, whether AI is involved or not.
2: 966 is a flex for the grindset-pilled. We slept under our desks in 2003 too! It didn't matter.
When you're done fixing AI's mistakes, maybe you can use AI to fix the mistakes you made when you're exhausted.
2: 966 is a flex for the grindset-pilled. We slept under our desks in 2003 too! It didn't matter.
When you're done fixing AI's mistakes, maybe you can use AI to fix the mistakes you made when you're exhausted.
Trend 1: AI is making tech workers so productive that tech companies are doing layoffs and slowed hiring.
Trend 2: There is so much work on tech worker’s plates that companies are trying to make working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week (996) happen.
🤔
Trend 2: There is so much work on tech worker’s plates that companies are trying to make working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week (996) happen.
🤔
September 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
1: layoffs are happening because companies want them, whether AI is involved or not.
2: 966 is a flex for the grindset-pilled. We slept under our desks in 2003 too! It didn't matter.
When you're done fixing AI's mistakes, maybe you can use AI to fix the mistakes you made when you're exhausted.
2: 966 is a flex for the grindset-pilled. We slept under our desks in 2003 too! It didn't matter.
When you're done fixing AI's mistakes, maybe you can use AI to fix the mistakes you made when you're exhausted.
Realizing that it’s been a long time since I’ve used anything other than “font-family: sans-serif” and let the browser take the wheel.
September 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Realizing that it’s been a long time since I’ve used anything other than “font-family: sans-serif” and let the browser take the wheel.
“Give up and use breakpoints” is the new “give up and use tables.”
August 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“Give up and use breakpoints” is the new “give up and use tables.”
Feed readers need starter packs. They’re a huge success on BlueSky.
Folks might try and stick with a feed reader if it were easily seeded with a bunch of feeds that fit their interests.
Probably as easy as publishing an OPML file!
Folks might try and stick with a feed reader if it were easily seeded with a bunch of feeds that fit their interests.
Probably as easy as publishing an OPML file!
August 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Feed readers need starter packs. They’re a huge success on BlueSky.
Folks might try and stick with a feed reader if it were easily seeded with a bunch of feeds that fit their interests.
Probably as easy as publishing an OPML file!
Folks might try and stick with a feed reader if it were easily seeded with a bunch of feeds that fit their interests.
Probably as easy as publishing an OPML file!
Chatbots should have warning labels, required by law.
And we should teach folks how to block and restrict chatbot sites with parental controls.
And we should teach folks how to block and restrict chatbot sites with parental controls.
Harsh truths to save you from ChatGPT psychosis
Please pass this on to that one family member who needs it
newsletter.goodtechthings.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Chatbots should have warning labels, required by law.
And we should teach folks how to block and restrict chatbot sites with parental controls.
And we should teach folks how to block and restrict chatbot sites with parental controls.
I need a name for the thing where you fantasize about joining a company just long enough to fix some suboptimal thing that’s been driving you nuts as a user and then immediately quitting.
August 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I need a name for the thing where you fantasize about joining a company just long enough to fix some suboptimal thing that’s been driving you nuts as a user and then immediately quitting.
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let’s watch as folks ask why the non-deterministic tools don’t return deterministic outputs over and over again — this is fun — we’re having fun and being productive
August 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
let’s watch as folks ask why the non-deterministic tools don’t return deterministic outputs over and over again — this is fun — we’re having fun and being productive
It’s difficult to believe that we’re just scant years away from artificial superintelligence when even dogs are better at sensing when humans are distressed.
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August 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It’s difficult to believe that we’re just scant years away from artificial superintelligence when even dogs are better at sensing when humans are distressed.
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🎵 I was walking
through your code
I said pleeeeease
please don’t commit 🎵
through your code
I said pleeeeease
please don’t commit 🎵
August 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🎵 I was walking
through your code
I said pleeeeease
please don’t commit 🎵
through your code
I said pleeeeease
please don’t commit 🎵
omg YES. A coworker and I went looking for an electric guitar to noodle on in the break room. We chose a $150 used Yamaha Pacifica which absolutely smoked everything else, including a $500 MIM Strat.
August 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
omg YES. A coworker and I went looking for an electric guitar to noodle on in the break room. We chose a $150 used Yamaha Pacifica which absolutely smoked everything else, including a $500 MIM Strat.
🎯🎯🎯
I suspect the major negative fallout of vibe coding isn’t going to be taking jobs from software developers but instead an epidemic of insecure apps that get hacked with ease
July 26, 2025 at 4:18 AM
🎯🎯🎯
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no it wasn’t and no it didn’t
July 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
no it wasn’t and no it didn’t
Starting to suspect one reason for Big Tech’s insistence that employees use AI on the job (and tied to performance reviews) is not about productivity but the hope one will stumble upon a novel application that can be productized.
July 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Starting to suspect one reason for Big Tech’s insistence that employees use AI on the job (and tied to performance reviews) is not about productivity but the hope one will stumble upon a novel application that can be productized.
Aside: it irks me to no end how these things explain themselves with their bullet-point retrospectives.
“I panicked and ignored the instruction to…” No. *Humans* ignore things. *Humans* panic. The indeterminate decision tree left important stuff out the context and returned bad result. That’s it.
“I panicked and ignored the instruction to…” No. *Humans* ignore things. *Humans* panic. The indeterminate decision tree left important stuff out the context and returned bad result. That’s it.
July 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Aside: it irks me to no end how these things explain themselves with their bullet-point retrospectives.
“I panicked and ignored the instruction to…” No. *Humans* ignore things. *Humans* panic. The indeterminate decision tree left important stuff out the context and returned bad result. That’s it.
“I panicked and ignored the instruction to…” No. *Humans* ignore things. *Humans* panic. The indeterminate decision tree left important stuff out the context and returned bad result. That’s it.