Rob Yurkowski
robyurkowski.bsky.social
Rob Yurkowski
@robyurkowski.bsky.social
Re: finish, I've finished red oak plywood with pre-mixed water-based polyurethane, and while it's okay, it did darken the color significantly. In retrospect, I would have mixed my own.

I found www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWLm... super helpful when I was considering what to use!
The only finish woodworkers need
YouTube video by Lincoln St. Woodworks
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Are you a lefty by chance? Because I've got a fountain pen and the whole 'pushing vs pulling' thing wound up making it a challenge to use, and this sure looks like you're holding it in your left hand :D
October 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Can you commit to doing one minute of it _right now_? Then come back :D
October 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
This is so relatable. For me, the big struggle is stopping what I'm doing at all; if I can get myself up once or twice (say, to do _just_ 3 minutes of dishes and then coming back for another 27m), that usually works.

Usually.

Good luck!!
October 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Solidarity. Every winter, I am so miserable and a pain in the ass right until the last week of February, when suddenly my patience and joie de vivre re-emerge from hibernation.
March 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Sharing this because I learned it the other week: naming the file docker-compose.yml has been superseded by calling it just compose.yml!
February 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Reposted by Rob Yurkowski
We’re seeing companies ship software nobody in the company understands, with edge cases nobody is aware of, and a host of bugs. LLMs lead to code bases that are harder to understand, buggier, and much less secure.

LLMs for coding isn’t a productivity boon but the birth of a major Y2K-style crisis
February 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I could reclaim a significant portion of my teens and twenties if someone just sent flexbox back in time, lol
December 11, 2024 at 1:01 PM
💯. Proper componentization—whether that's with WebComponents or React or Vue or even something server-side like ViewComponent—is wildly helpful too, once you have done it enough that you're no longer shooting your own feet.

Plus native CSS is nested now! Absolutely bananas.
December 11, 2024 at 12:49 PM