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Jeff Sagal
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👨‍💻 Cofounder @springloaded.co
📍 North Vancouver

Full-stack human helping folks ship great software to the web.

Probably out in the bush on a bike, or tinkering on something way, way, way off the critical path.
I wonder if applicants understand just how easy it is to see when you use AI to answer a question? We got over 1k applicants to our last job posting, with one open ended question - a couple sentences would be great. I'd estimate about 500 people gave me this answer, almost word for word.
September 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I found this screenshot in my pictures folder titled "bootstrap is the best". Sent to @owenconti.bsky.social circa 2011.

Not even https on that link. And twitter had a github subdomain!? What a time to be alive.
February 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Walks in nature, with no purpose other than just being, are wildly underrated.
January 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
We rolled our own solution that we probably need to open source. Each domain gets it's own service provider and is tucked away in `app/WhateverDomain/Providers`. We go all in on the domain structure, `app/` is just a list of domains.

And we extend the `artisan make` commands. It's gooooood.
November 28, 2024 at 11:51 PM
I think about this constantly! When I was 19, my mom had a little acreage on the outskirts of Calgary. We had a big Quonset that I surrounded with dirt jumps, which transformed from bike park to snowboard park in the winter. Heated mini-ramp inside.

The dream came early. Still chasing that one.
November 28, 2024 at 11:09 PM
I would walk around provincial parks and rig tarps for folks.
November 26, 2024 at 6:40 PM
This is a huge quality of life upgrade in Tailwind v4. Not having to use arbitrary values for data attributes really simplifies the syntax. Stoked to try this out!

tailwindcss.com/docs/v4-beta...
November 22, 2024 at 6:41 PM
$this->command will give you the current command context. Add progress bars, output, the works.
November 20, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Vancouver isn’t always the easiest place to live, but man, it sure can deliver.
November 18, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Bikes!
November 17, 2024 at 11:56 PM