Alex Suzuki
@alexsuzuki.com
🇨🇭 Indie developer (https://strich.io), husband and father of two
🍜 Thinks mostly about what to eat next
👽 Sci-fi & fantasy book nerd
✍️ Writes occasionally at https://alexsuzuki.com
🍜 Thinks mostly about what to eat next
👽 Sci-fi & fantasy book nerd
✍️ Writes occasionally at https://alexsuzuki.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
New STRICH (strich.io) release undergoing QA. Important to test with real, physical devices, especially low-end ones. @infrequently.org has great guidelines for device selection here: infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...
December 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
New STRICH (strich.io) release undergoing QA. Important to test with real, physical devices, especially low-end ones. @infrequently.org has great guidelines for device selection here: infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...
Finally adding Micro QR Code support to STRICH (strich.io), my library for barcode scanning in the browser. Error correction is buggy, that's why it's scanning gibberish. Seems like I'll have to deep-dive into Reed-Solomon error correction – pretty fascinating stuff.
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Finally adding Micro QR Code support to STRICH (strich.io), my library for barcode scanning in the browser. Error correction is buggy, that's why it's scanning gibberish. Seems like I'll have to deep-dive into Reed-Solomon error correction – pretty fascinating stuff.
💾 Strong swag game by CashCtrl (cashctrl.com/en), Makes me want to switch my accounting software.
(not affiliated)
(not affiliated)
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM
💾 Strong swag game by CashCtrl (cashctrl.com/en), Makes me want to switch my accounting software.
(not affiliated)
(not affiliated)
I'm unreasonably excited about my new RPN calculator, a SwissMicros R47. In high school (1995) I got an HP 48G (still works) and was initially confused... RPN is a stack machine, to calculate 1 plus 1, you enter 1 <ENTER> 1 <ENTER> <PLUS>.
To the left is my dad's HP 32S II, which unfortunately died.
To the left is my dad's HP 32S II, which unfortunately died.
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I'm unreasonably excited about my new RPN calculator, a SwissMicros R47. In high school (1995) I got an HP 48G (still works) and was initially confused... RPN is a stack machine, to calculate 1 plus 1, you enter 1 <ENTER> 1 <ENTER> <PLUS>.
To the left is my dad's HP 32S II, which unfortunately died.
To the left is my dad's HP 32S II, which unfortunately died.
OpenAI: „Trust, security and privacy guide every product and decision we make.“
OK. 😂
OK. 😂
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
OpenAI: „Trust, security and privacy guide every product and decision we make.“
OK. 😂
OK. 😂
GitLab marketing mail: "AI is not actually making developers more productive. Here's you can AI anyway".
... you know, or just *NOT* use it.
... you know, or just *NOT* use it.
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
GitLab marketing mail: "AI is not actually making developers more productive. Here's you can AI anyway".
... you know, or just *NOT* use it.
... you know, or just *NOT* use it.
It's that time of the year again. My daylight lamp is super bulky but I found it helps with the blues.
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
It's that time of the year again. My daylight lamp is super bulky but I found it helps with the blues.
Having fun working on some slides for my next talk.
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Having fun working on some slides for my next talk.
A bit sad to see GitLab also jump fully on the hype train.
November 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A bit sad to see GitLab also jump fully on the hype train.
Really enjoyed @rich-harris.dev talk „Fine-grained everything“ at #perfnow in Amsterdam. Wish they‘d choose a less attractive venue though, I missed a lot of other talks due to this beautiful city. 😂
November 1, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Really enjoyed @rich-harris.dev talk „Fine-grained everything“ at #perfnow in Amsterdam. Wish they‘d choose a less attractive venue though, I missed a lot of other talks due to this beautiful city. 😂
Bro on the right waiting to finally take over.
October 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Bro on the right waiting to finally take over.
Decided to cross-post my latest blog post on Why I don’t use AI code generation to Medium, as I still have a profile and a decent-sized following there. Turns out on mobile you can‘t even reply without installing their app. 🤦♂️ That‘s a hard goodbye now.
October 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Decided to cross-post my latest blog post on Why I don’t use AI code generation to Medium, as I still have a profile and a decent-sized following there. Turns out on mobile you can‘t even reply without installing their app. 🤦♂️ That‘s a hard goodbye now.
For the next iteration of strich.io, my JavaScript barcode scanning library, I‘m using animated SVG icons for switching cameras, zooming and flashlight toggling. It was fun to learn how to build these by hand, with the amazing Whimsical Animations course by @joshwcomeau.com. Highly recommended!
October 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
For the next iteration of strich.io, my JavaScript barcode scanning library, I‘m using animated SVG icons for switching cameras, zooming and flashlight toggling. It was fun to learn how to build these by hand, with the amazing Whimsical Animations course by @joshwcomeau.com. Highly recommended!
Fall is probably my favorite time of the year. 🍂
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Fall is probably my favorite time of the year. 🍂
I hoped this would be a quiet day. But it seems a major AWS outage is currently ongoing (us-east-1).
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4564...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4564...
October 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I hoped this would be a quiet day. But it seems a major AWS outage is currently ongoing (us-east-1).
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4564...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4564...
Charmingly quaint. I wonder if they used ChatGPT to generate the email...
October 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Charmingly quaint. I wonder if they used ChatGPT to generate the email...
Having a lot of fun with @joshwcomeau.com new course "Whimsical Animations". Revamping some icons in my camera HUD. Hand-written SVG and CSS transitions, so much fun!
October 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Having a lot of fun with @joshwcomeau.com new course "Whimsical Animations". Revamping some icons in my camera HUD. Hand-written SVG and CSS transitions, so much fun!
My mind will never comprehend.
September 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
My mind will never comprehend.
Huh, mine popped up too…
September 23, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Huh, mine popped up too…
Something that infuriates me on a regular basis is macOS reverting default file associations to 'Xcode'. I have yet to encounter a single person who would want to open Xcode to edit a .json file.
September 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Something that infuriates me on a regular basis is macOS reverting default file associations to 'Xcode'. I have yet to encounter a single person who would want to open Xcode to edit a .json file.
Hard, I assume, judging from the person who's asking the question. 🙂
Unrelated comment from my side: on your pricing page, you mention frequency, but don't mention the unit. E.g. checks per minute, per hour, per day, etc.
Unrelated comment from my side: on your pricing page, you mention frequency, but don't mention the unit. E.g. checks per minute, per hour, per day, etc.
September 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Hard, I assume, judging from the person who's asking the question. 🙂
Unrelated comment from my side: on your pricing page, you mention frequency, but don't mention the unit. E.g. checks per minute, per hour, per day, etc.
Unrelated comment from my side: on your pricing page, you mention frequency, but don't mention the unit. E.g. checks per minute, per hour, per day, etc.
Yes. Pydantic even has a nice 'exclude' parameter to dump a model but omitting certain fields.
September 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Yes. Pydantic even has a nice 'exclude' parameter to dump a model but omitting certain fields.
I recently got tired of SQLAlchemy ORM and decided to just raw dog it: plain SQL, direct DB driver access and model class validation (Pydantic). I am now questioning the wisdom of that decision.
September 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I recently got tired of SQLAlchemy ORM and decided to just raw dog it: plain SQL, direct DB driver access and model class validation (Pydantic). I am now questioning the wisdom of that decision.