Jake Carpenter 💙🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️

I'm going to have to try this out. I use Rectangle Pro which has layout support, but I've never seen a way to get it to respect desktop spaces too.

I meant to try this out over the weekend. I'm interested in how CLI development tools are working for folks after cert installation. The common experience with a MITM proxy is in corporate networks where it breaks *everything* that validates certs and there are so many things to fix.

The road to hell is paved with developers using SQL and databases as a shortcut for their poor CI/CD infrastructure.

Slack cofounder says workers and CEOs can get stuck doing 'fake' work like pre-meetings and slide shows | Fortune Slack and Flickr cofounder Stewart Butterfield says even CEOs and directors are guilty of doing ‘fake’ work—and it's on managers to ensure workforces are being productive.

He’s 100% right and it’s sad when middle management fails to support their teams because they’re too busy being an icon in a pointless Teams meeting fortune.com/article/slac...

Stolen ambulance crashes into Meridian medical building. What is Portico North? The six-story structure has a connection to ICE.

Rare “Fuck yeah, Idaho” moment www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/c...

It's been another stretch of several weeks mostly in C#-land with at least several more to go and I'm just...tired of it. C# is not a language I enjoy anymore after becoming fluent in TypeScript.

It's not just the language, either. The ecosystem seems to thrive on forcing "strict."

Absolutely my experience too. I'm full-stack over here with C# and SQL Server comprising most of our backend infrastructure. Both GitHub Copilot and Cursor have been noticeably worse at suggesting C# and SQL than JS/TS for React Native.

It's not surprising, I guess. So much JS training.

FWIW, it does seem accurate responsive as a mouse. The tilting wheel is bad, though. It gets stuck and I can't turn off 'infinite' wheel mode unless it's in the right spot. I'm definitely missing the auto-switch wheel that Logitech had.

I already had a low opinion of Keychron and didn't understand why their mechanical keyboards get so much praise - but I chalked that up to my own problem of being a bit of a keyboard snob.

My MX Master 3S crapped out, so I decided that I'm done with Logitech I bought a Keychron M6 and I'm blown away at how cheap it feels. IDK who thought it was a good idea to do slick plastic with no grip. It squirts out of my hand if I'm not careful.

Wtf is up with Jira. I've been burned by the draft edit of a ticket description not saving correctly twice today.

I'm finding opus 4.6 to both extremely slow and awful at following instructions compared to 4.5

Opus: There was a bug in your code, but this new approach solves it.

Me: The new approach is exactly what I wanted, but uhhh...no. There was not a bug.

I don't get paid enough to fix a merge conflict on transformIgnorePatterns

Dumb question: When is React going to support prop-drilling matching props without `a={a}` like other frameworks that have JSX-like syntax do?

```
function Foo({a, b c}) {
useDoSomethingWithC(c)

return <Bar a b />
}
```

I think I figured it out as I thought through it in the context of subagents.

It's really no different, it's just that without subagents the context is getting too large with global rules/instructions.

Maybe you should quit before we treat you like the SS.

I need someone to explain to me how agent "skills" are any different than we've been using in AGENTS.md or defining "Rules"/"Instructions" (as Cursor/Copilot call them)

Just had a pleasant chatbot experience for my Oura ring. It's freezing and not collecting data until it's placed on the charger again. The bot in the app was able to access diagnostics (I authorized), see there was an issue, and order me a replacement.

My ring is out of warranty. Pretty slick.

My org's "pilot program" for Cursor just ended in the middle of the day and I already stopped by GH Copilot subscription.

I feel naked.

I hate how everyone insisting that the C# Dev Kit is closed source and that MS has no obligation to allow Cursor to use it conveniently forgets that they killed Omnisharp to create that thing. Like, FFS, I'm not even asking to use it for free.

The .NET community is always gross that way.

Or pushes her ball under the couch and stares daggers through me until I get it for her.

Every time I watch a TikTok that claims Dachshunds are intelligent because they have to be independent problem-solvers while burrowing, I think about how mine won’t go outside to pee in the cold unless I go with her.

Photo of Stephen Miller giving a TV interview

By "his own folks," do you mean this guy? 🤣

What’s the advantage people are seeing with Claude Code over the same models in Cursor? I tried it, but the UI features of Cursor are so good that I really don’t understand.

The new Animal Crossing feature to maintain facing a cardinal direction for building is nice, but I wish they had included buttons to rotate 90 degrees

The useful version of this: pass the phone around and each person dictates "I'm pretty hungry and would eat anything" or "I really want one or two slices of pepperoni or cheese", and the app constraint-solves for how to optimize your pizza order (which you check first, ofc)

This... is not that.

What kind of lunatic returns a JSON response to an HTTP request that contains a field that's a string of JSON?

I really don't think I can listen to another podcast talk about "Are we going to get React Native 1.0 soon?"

I don't get it. It's been 10 years. The version number is meaningless.

Something I really want to improve on as a developer in 2026: Time to formalize myself with large new projects. My ADHD brain has a way of hand-waving over details when there is a lot to digest and it's not immediately clear to me what a noun (like a feature or section) is describing.