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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 10/08/2026

lol I knew as soon as I saw that color that I was destined for it

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 31/07/2026

Thank you! It was a fun thing to build during my last @frontendmasters.com class!

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 19/05/2026

Just shipped: Complete Intro to Databases v2 on @frontendmasters.com 6 hours, fully hands-on. Postgres v18, MongoDB, Redis, Neo4j, DuckDB — plus a deep dive into pgvector and RAG for the AI folks. This is the database course I wish I'd had. $10 off month one: holt.fyi/db

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CodeTV @codetv.dev · 04/10/2025

NEW Web Dev Challenge is live for supporters! @angiejones.tech and the goose team challenged 3 teams of devs to build apps using unconventional inputs. featuring @leonnoel.bsky.social, @ericaxtech.bsky.social, @kentcdodds.com, @joelhooks.com, Billy, & @zig.computer watch now: codetv.link/wdc/s2e10

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No Keyboards Allowed | Web Dev Challenge Season 2

How can you control an app without a mouse or keyboard?

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 12/08/2025

I'm going to start adding llms.txt files to each of my @frontendmasters.com courses so you can load my whole course into your Claude/ChatGPT/etc. to get more help or so you can have it reference it later. Complete Intro to MCP is on August 19! Get ready! frontendmasters.com/workshops/co...

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Complete Intro to MCP — Exclusive Workshop

Take a first-principles approach as you explore Model Context Protocol (MCP) while building complex agent workflows on top of LLMs.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 17/06/2025

Hell yeah! When we come see you I’d love to go on a ride

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 30/04/2025

Intermediate React v6 on @frontendmasters.com is out!! Master React 19 and create high-performance apps! Build projects using React Server Components, static site generation, and server-side rendering. Save $10 on your first month with this link! holt.fyi/intermediate...

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React Server Components and Performance | Intermediate React, v6 from Frontend Masters

Master React 19 and create high-performance apps! Build projects using React Server Components, static site generation, and server-side rendering. Explore performance bottlenecks in the framework and ...

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 12/03/2025

Intermediate React v6 is happening tomorrow on @frontendmasters.com! Stream it for free on the home page! Really excited to do this one, we're covering all sorts of React server shenanigans including RSCs as well as how to make React be and act performant. Starts tomorrow at 9:30-ish Central!

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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 09/03/2025

still can't believe we had the chance to make a whole season of a game show. extremely grateful to @neon.tech, @clerk.com, and @codepen.io for sponsoring categories on the wheel and if you haven't seen Leet Heat yet, the most recent episode is available to everyone now! codetv.link/lh/s1e3

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 20/01/2025

He’s definitely one of my top 3 leadership Jems.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 15/01/2025

and more shenanigans with me

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 23/12/2024

💻 JS CSS HTML FORMS IMAGES BROWSER FRONTEND DEVELOPER WEB

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 22/12/2024

If I was untethered, I'd choose the new adventure. LA is a unique city with incredible things to see, eat, and experience. You can always move back. Pro-tip: live in the area you want to frequent and don't assume you can get somewhere just because it's also in LA. LA is huge and traffic sucks.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 14/12/2024

Well that’s incredible. What an experience.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 13/12/2024

I had a Flic button that I kept on my nightstand that ran a "go to bed" macro that shut off all lights in the house, closed all the blinds, closed the garage doors, and locked the front doors. That's as much as I've ever done.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 12/12/2024

I give the Turso team a bit of slack here – this is a technical post and rewriting SQLite in Rust is indeed an interesting thing to look at. Now if turso.tech had the headline "SQLite in Blazing Fast Rust" on the home page I'd mercilessly message @glaubercosta.bsky.social until he changed it.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 10/12/2024

I’ll re set everything up in our new house next month and have her take a look. I’ll reach out if we have useful feedback :)

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 10/12/2024

well thank god I tweeted this, I had no idea. I'll stick to HA

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 10/12/2024

oh what the fuck. do they not understand how this all works? I remember getting tickets via Salt City United for like $8 for the CONCACAF Champions League.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 10/12/2024

Anyone using Homey for home automation stuff? I'm getting ready to set up my new house and I'm just curious if I should try Homey or just stick to Home Assistant. More than anything I need good UX to convince my wife to use it. She doesn't like how confusing Home Assistant can be.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 10/12/2024

Do they not give Outlaws big blocks of seats in the Ultras sections? That's a huge miss if not.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 10/12/2024

Incredibly frustrating. Then you end with Miami Heat types of crowds: rich people who show up late, chill out, and then leave early. (no disrespect to Heat fans but their crowds are boring) You need cheap seats to get passionate fans, full stop.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 09/12/2024

My new course, Complete Intro to React, v9, is now available on @frontendmasters.com! Subscribe with this link and get $10 off your first month! frontendmasters.com/join/?code=H...

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Jerome Hardaway @jeromehardaway.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Wrapping up the day with something special: last month, I won an award at City Hall for my work with veterans. It means a lot because I was told people here (ATL) care more about winning than how they win. This award proves you can succeed ethically, with integrity, and without cutting corners.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 06/12/2024

"It's written in Rust" is not a feature of your app. "It's blazing fast" is a hollow claim that makes me doubt it. Please stop putting these things on your homepage. Please show me why your tool/app/whatever makes my work easier/cheaper/faster-to-iterate.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 05/12/2024

Rhyming nicknames used to be huge and a bunch of those stuck around like Richard to Rick to Dick and Robert to Rob to Bob.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 03/12/2024

I spoke in ... 2017 I think?

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Brian Morrison II @brianmm.dev · 02/12/2024

I built an open-source, lightweight calendar scheduler using: @vercel.com @nextjs.org @clerk.com Resend @neondatabase.bsky.social Here's the video, links to the app and source are in the next one. Let me know what you think! youtu.be/GAHHvPOfsow

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I built a lightweight calendar scheduler, check the desc for the source

YouTube video by Brian Morrison

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 03/12/2024

8. KROY - MILITIA 9. Charlie XCX - brat 10. Chelsea Wofle - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She 11. The Smile - Cutouts 12. Jack White - No Name 13. Phantomgram - Memory of a Day 14. RUFUS DU SOL - Inhale/Exhale 15. Khruangbin - A LA SALA

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 03/12/2024

Here are the annual Brian Holt "who the fuck asked you" Top 15 albums of 2024! 1. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disc 2. Jamie xx - In Waves 3. IDLES - TANGK 4. Ghostly Kisses - Darkroom 5. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming 6. Justice - Hyperdrama 7. Kendrick Lamar - GNX

Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk album cover

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 29/11/2024

Ended up doing a Dream Machine SE. so expensive

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 28/11/2024

I survived this long without it, I may just say fuck it and keep going that way. The ASUS I had did a great job. The new Cloud Gateway Max from Ubiquiti looks promising though.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 28/11/2024

Yeah I'm just struggling with what's the alternative. In my Seattle place I just had an ASUS router and a few Ubiquiti APs in standalone mode. The WiFi worked great but it made it hard to manage, particularly what devices were on the network since they all showed up as coming through the APs.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 28/11/2024

Is the Ubiquiti Dream Machine still best set up for a home network? - Good UI/UX is important - 2Gbps Internet - Cat 6 in the walls - Need PoE for cameras - I'm too dumb to run EdgeRouter. I did for years and hated it - I do have WiFi 7 devices and two spots to ceiling mount APs - Lots of devices

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 28/11/2024

I just finished The Bear S3, Arcane S2 is next.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 28/11/2024

So pretty I’d almost not want to eat it. But then I’d crush it

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 27/11/2024

Ah man I want it. All the pies and all the whiskey

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I texted @brianholt.me about this the other day, saying I should do it (I don’t really have time) and he said “This is the Drasner version of ‘I should buy a boat’”

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 25/11/2024

This was so fun. It was such a fun day being silly with @jason.energy @zeu.dev and @badcop.live. And I got to make a tiny pomerian that shits all over your code. youtu.be/pn5Jju4FNG4?...

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What can you build in 4 hours with Google Gemini? — Web Dev Challenge S1E8

YouTube video by Learn With Jason

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Bryan Clark @clarkbw.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

loved the replit demo on lenny's podcast i've been playing with their agent quite a bit lately and it's amazing ✨ check out how fast the Postgres database was created... ⚡

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Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

Amjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of Replit, a browser-based coding environment that allows anyone to write and deploy code. Replit has 34 million users ...

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Bryan Clark @clarkbw.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

NeonAPI is the new Python SDK for Neon buff.ly/4eIiLRS

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 21/11/2024

I’ll drop this in the exreddit Slack and see if someone can help.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 19/11/2024

If you’re at Microsoft Ignite, come find me at the neon.tech booth starting in 15 mins! (10:30AM Central). I have Neon key caps and chargers!

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Neon Serverless Postgres — Ship faster

The database you love, on a serverless platform designed to help you build reliable and scalable applications faster.

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Brian Holt @brianholt.me · 13/11/2024

SQL from the frontend? I mean, you kinda can now, and Neon Authorize makes it pretty easy to get going with. Give Gomes' post a read and give me your spiciest take on it. neon.tech/blog/sql-fro...

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Is "SQL from the frontend” viable? - Neon

"SQL from the client" architectures are great for development velocity, but they come with challenges around security. So, what's the deal?

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