AI coding tools are fast but I deliberately let myself struggle on some problems. I’m not ready to let my brain atrophy.

I keep hearing from designer friends that their companies want them prompting in Cursor instead of designing in Figma. AI must be used. Some feel they still do better work the traditional way. How many designers are choosing this shift vs. having it chosen for them?

Spent five months working with another team on a design that would clean up a messy process. Their reorg killed it. Went to my customer with the fallback plan, more manual work, more assumptions, more spaghetti on top of existing spaghetti. The lost time feels personal even when it isn't really.

My first week as a software engineer I realized the whole job is moving data and operating on data. The core logic always reduces to this.

When I use AI coding tools I still walk through every function, every edge case, every file it touches. I need to understand what's in my codebase before I move on. Genuinely curious how many people using Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc. are still doing this vs. trusting the output and shipping?

Rebuilt my personal site and moved it to jg.dev. Sometimes the domain dictates the redesign 💥

SQL isn’t a tool. PostgreSQL is. You can’t install SQL, configure it, or replace it with something else. The distinction matters more than people think.

LOVE THIS! ctan.math.illinois.edu/graphics/pgf... "This package provides an essential feature to LATEX that has been missing for too long.
It adds a coffee stain to your documents. A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding them manually."

Start the build. Walk to the kitchen. Make coffee. Come back. Green checkmarks. Simple pleasures.

LLMs have ruined the em dash

The most mass-produced developer delusion is “I should buy the domain now and build it later.”

While cataloging software tools I keep finding products that died quietly. Domain expired, website gone, no trace. Then there's #Voodle. Shut down in 2022. Domain still live in 2026 with the founder's reflection. Photos, lessons, gratitude. Some companies fail and still tell something worth hearing.

The gap between “I set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC correctly” and “my email actually reaches an inbox” is where optimism goes to die 😩 #dns

The number of hours I’ve spent configuring tools I use to avoid doing the work I opened them to do is not a number I want to calculate.