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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 09/09/2026

Feels more important than ever to test actual code-writing when interviewing a candidate these days.

adam fratino @fratino.dev · 25/08/2026

Feel like demand for design engineers is super high right now. Seems a lot of startups are trying to stabilize the UI their junior fullstacks furiously vibe coded the past year.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 24/08/2026

Can you still do your job without AI? Companies are starting to tighten up on the monthly token limits they're giving their employees. Might be a good time to start practicing some "old school" coding.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 23/07/2026

I just saw my coworker mix Grapefruit and Blueberry Pomegranate Bevi flavors into a single glass of water 🤨

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 24/06/2026

Why does everyone on stage at Figma's Config keep using the word "cook"?

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 17/06/2026

2020: VSCode 2021: VSCode 2022: VSCode 2023: VSCode 2024: VSCode 2025: Cursor 2026: VSCode

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 08/06/2026

My back's been going from doing the bad cracks to the good cracks lately, hoping PT can finally help put all the back issues to rest.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 18/05/2026

I cannot stress enough how little I care about Spotify's icon.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 15/05/2026

I love what AI has done to help my productivity, but I love that young people are passionately rejecting AI more. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/s...

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Graduates Boo Commencement Speech About A.I.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 15/05/2026

When history looks back on the real heroes they'll remember The Onion. If you've ever loved them, now is a good time to give them all your money (or $100/yr for 12 IRL issues).

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 14/05/2026

Arrival's always been one of my favorite films. Takes on a totally different context in this post-LLM world we live in. How long until humans are able to start thinking in vectors instead of timelines?

Four circular ink blots from the movie Arrival.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 10/05/2026

Had a fantastic chat with @bradlander.bsky.social on the F train today, covered community, Knicks and tuna melts. Give him all your support!

Me and Brad Lander posing for a photo on the subway

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 05/05/2026

We got a cold brew tap in the office now which means our next round of funding is going well.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 30/04/2026

Feels like Linear wants to be the next GitHub.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 30/04/2026

If you asked your LLM to write less I wouldn't have to ask my LLM to summarize it, and together we could make the world a better place™

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 06/04/2026

Brave mobile browser is my new best friend aka the only mobile browser that supports "reader mode" these days.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 04/04/2026

Seeing lots of non-tech friends build very cool things with AI, but none of them can manage to hook up auth.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 30/03/2026

lucide has a v1! - no more brand icons (use simple-icons) - icons now set `aria-hidden="true"` by default - supports shadow DOM lucide.dev/guide/versio...

lucide.dev

Lucide Icons

Beautiful & consistent icon toolkit made by the community.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 27/03/2026

Me building an army of agents so I don't have to work anymore.

A still from the comic Calvin & Hobbes. A clone of Calvin is walking out of a cardboard box, Calvin is greeting him while Hobbes looks on confused.

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

THE APP - dashare.zone ADMIN

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The Jetsons lied to us

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

As the Adult Substack Babies rot on Twitter, please subscribe to a real newspaper. It is very on sale this week. $75 for a year delivered to your home. I will continue to dunk on them until they die.

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Join The Onion

Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 24/03/2026

Felt like ruining my mood today so I opened the comment section on a LinkedIn post. Is responding to your own comment and tagging yourself a strategy to boost engagement/visibility? Or is it just an agentic pattern. Instead of rewarding patterns like this, shouldn't LinkedIn be punishing it?

Two linked in comments where the commenter responds to their original comment by tagging themselves. What they're saying is irrelevant bullshit because they're just commenting to boost their engagement metrics.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 09/03/2026

`memo: "Bob Loblaw's law blog",` Claude is now injecting Arrested Development jokes into my mock data.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 03/03/2026

very cool read shared by a colleague today. wish more teams would build fun, informational guides like this. background-agents.com

background-agents.com

The Self-Driving Codebase

Background agents and the next era of enterprise software delivery.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 01/03/2026

I never played SMW growing up, but I've been running Kaizo livestreams in the background lately and they've been great. Decided to give one a shot, and last night I beat my first Kaizo level! Maybe next I'll beat a level from a game without "newbie" in the title.

the home screen for snes rom hack newbie kaizo world, there are mario mountains and sky, title reads "newbie kaizo world" in mario font, colophon reads" 2021 - azula16."

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 28/02/2026

Add "5 minute hackathon presentation" to the list of things that terrify me.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 20/02/2026

Been doing some large-scale code cleanup recently and I've started leveraging the CODEOWNERS file to keep the phases organized by team whenever possible. Hopefully makes the review/QA process easier for each team, which makes it easier for me to keep things moving.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 19/02/2026

I wake up groggy, alarm clock screaming. I wipe my eyes and put on my glasses. I open my laptop. >brew upgrade claude-code >/claude >gm claude! wat 2 do 2day? >Good morning! Today you have 32 points to complete, 6 meetings, and you need to return Dr. Mason's phone call, she's concerned. >ty cluade!

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 18/02/2026

My LLM just told me it's keeping track of something "mentally", and I'm not sure why but that sounds so unsettling.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 18/02/2026

Slack has sucked for years, but don't fret! This week they released a new set of Slackbot emoji.

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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 14/02/2025

happy valentine's day

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Twentieth-century futurism was largely a project of “don’t worry about the problems of the present. Corporations will build you such a lovely future.” 21st-century futurism has mostly been billionaires and their courtiers whining about the mean environmental movement blocking their cool ideas.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 11/02/2026

AI may not take over the world, but it 100% has already taken over our industry. Thinking you can continue to thrive in tech without it feels naïve, unfortunately. Even if you truly don't need it, you will still need to understand it.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 08/02/2026

Add "shoveling snow" to the list of activities that remind me of my age.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 24/01/2026

Fun & simple way to fade in elements on render (i.e. error states).

LANGUAGE: CSS

.fade-in-example {
opacity: 1;
transition: opacity 150ms ease;

@starting-style {
opacity: 0;
}
}

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 17/01/2026

"The user is right" my LLM mumbles again. "All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain" it mutters even fainter, as it consolidates my tsconfig, vite, eslint configs into a single package to be shared across the mono...

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 13/01/2026

All these cute ASCII emoji (or whatever) just sit in my keyboard and I never use them, what a shame! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 06/01/2026

Shout out Dyson for inventing a high-powered hand dryer that blows all the water off my hands and onto my pants, love looking like I peed myself when I walk into meetings.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 31/12/2025

Noticed a neat interaction in Linear today: When hovering over icons in a grid, a tooltip will show with the name of an icon after a delay (standard), but hovering any subsequent icons will show the tooltip immediately (cool!). If your cursor leaves the grid area, the delay will reset (smart).

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Una Kravets @una.im · 08/12/2025

🎉 And we're live! 🎉 We just launched CSS Wrapped 2025: our annual recap of all things CSS & web UI that landed in Chrome over the course of the year. 🚀 This is a big one! We highlighted 22 new features to help you build better on the web. Check out: chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2025

chrome.dev

CSS Wrapped 2025

Sculpt dynamic interfaces, stretch your imagination, and play with these 22 powerful new CSS features that landed in Chrome this year.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 02/12/2025

Seeing a trend in engineering discourse lately (mostly reddit): "I use AI properly and it makes me more productive, but my colleagues use it terribly and their code contributions are all slop." 🤔

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 01/12/2025

Does the responsive community have an opinion on Chrome introducing native split view? support.google.com/chrome/threa...

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Split View Tabs - Google Chrome Community

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 26/11/2025

I'm not the biggest fan of shadcn/ui, but little CSS patterns and attentions to detail like this are very clever.

a tailwind class to increase the hit area of the button on mobile, which reads: "after:absolute after:-inset-2 md:after:hidden"

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 20/11/2025

I need someone to explain to me what's so exciting about having a Bevi installed in your office.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 06/11/2025

My LLM complimented my "architectural thinking" today so I added "architect" to my job title on LinkedIn. Hoping it calls me a "thought leader" next.

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adam fratino @fratino.dev · 03/11/2025

Learning the hard way how complex a list component can get.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 16/09/2025

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

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