🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 20/09/2026Having relaxed my aversion to using AI, I did indeed get bit by giving Gemini a shot at helping me with an obscure car issue when regular research failed. Wipers were over-rotating, the obvious fix (arm position) was a bust, so I did end up asking the computer. 110
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 17/09/2026I like how this song gradually slides from early twilight to dusk musically. open.spotify.com/track/6lyubS...open.spotify.comL.A.Amen Dunes · Freedom · Song · 2018 000
Reposted by 🌫️ Grant ForrestAdam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 08/09/2026my current beliefs, roughly: - AI for coding can be good - AI for writing is bad - AI for video should be an international crime punished swiftly by angels of vengeance 9926
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 09/09/2026The way TanStack Query attaches the query data shape to the `.queryKey` property of reusable options so you can get magically typed mutations on the query is beautiful. 3250
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 08/09/2026Personally I suspect the animating factor behind AI is less to do with intelligence or consciousness and more related to some fascinating and somehow rational emergent properties of language itself. I also think this is cool and it changed my perspective on interacting with it. 111
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 07/09/2026Everyone should have to experience changing their stance on something discoursey and having to wade through the resulting timeline. Most of how people argue for their positions on this stuff is the same raw material on either side. 100
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 07/09/2026Even if AI takes over, if nothing else, I love knowing how to code just for the ability to take over and get all the details exactly how I want. My current process is to quickly scaffold broad strokes via model in the "make it work, make it fast" areas and save "make it right" for myself. 240
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 05/09/2026Microduck took me off guard. One of the only tech products I've seen recently and thought 'oh, I'd like one of those.' Admittedly it's because I want it to hobble around at night and pick up all the Duplo blocks. 120
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 05/09/2026The only reason I use Edge on my phone is because for some reason Google decided to replace "Search" in the selected text menu with "Ask Gemini" but "Search with Edge" is always present. 000
Reposted by 🌫️ Grant ForrestAdam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 03/09/202630 mins until wife and kid get home, you know what that means. it's time to have exactly one (1) beer, play the music louder than either of them would allow, and cook dinner 1311
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 04/09/2026This is captures what it feels like working in an engineer-dominant enterprise org 2121
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 03/09/2026www.rice-boy.com/vattu/ Reread my print copy of Vattu. It's so good.rice-boy.comVattu 010
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 29/08/2026This feature made me feel a strong sense of secondhand loneliness, is that good UX 020
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 26/08/2026I've never believed, and still don't, that it's metaphysically possible for a computer to have a soul or personhood. However, when I first started encountering depictions of people treating robots with contempt, like Data, I promised I'd never do that. It's actually been harder than I thought. 100
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 24/08/2026I love how you can screw up microfrontends so bad you create true distributed systems problems out of a piece of software running on a single thread. 140
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 17/08/2026Lanters premiere exceeded tempered expectations. It's possible I enjoyed it more by having 0 frame of reference for anything Green Lantern related. 000
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 15/08/2026In case you weren't aware, you can save hours of your life not sliding bits of potato off the side of your knife. May not be good for the tip, idk. 110
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 14/08/2026It is so unsettling that corporate has started calling their AI office "Central AI" and every bit of communication we get from them sounds like it was written by aliens with a tenuous grasp on human thought. 110
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 13/08/2026I can't buy any time for the design system team to build design system components and now they're saying the designers can do it for us with copilot why am I hereee 130
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 10/08/2026"Computers should be deterministic" is a weak argument. Computers are deterministic, so it's really "software behavior should be deterministic." And this determinism is a trade-off: must the software designer determine behavior for every goal? What's optimal? 110
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 09/08/2026Feeling very pessimistic today because I really want to build apps but I'm just way too stuck in the web platform. And PWAs just feel like they'll never really be anything. 200
Reposted by 🌫️ Grant ForrestDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026we're just normal men 306366951
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 07/08/2026Very fitting that attempting to summarize Borges' On Exactitude in Science to someone would take at least as many words as just reading it aloud verbatim. 010
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 06/08/2026At the work show and tell. One dev shows an agent they made and called a 'data scientist.' Says we can't get funding for data scientists so this could replace them. It can aggregate SQL queries in our Snowflake. I think that's about it? I had to ask what it is we think data scientists do. 130
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 31/07/2026As an Interstellar fan I suspect this is the canonical mode of enjoying Nolan's films 010
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 26/07/2026Serious Eats moved to Cloudflare and set up bot protection... now my cooking app can't scan them anymore 😿 010
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 22/07/2026Reject AI and embrace the craft of building the wrong thing: by following the unchecked whims of a Senior Architect who had exactly one conversation with a drunk sales guy at the work social event. 010
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 22/07/2026Free dog name from my wife and me: "Ham Dog" "Get over here Ham Dog!" "Oh, that's Ham Dog" "Down Ham Dog!" 010
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 17/07/2026May have reached a breaking point at work. I'm going to see how much of our core product's frontend I can rebuild from scratch. I know it's not a good response to dysfunction or a long term strategy, but I have this sense that if I do a good enough job I can shock the system in the right way. 200
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 14/07/2026I'm cool with banning smart glasses but can we grant a waiver to dcplateking 000
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 07/07/2026Cooked for 50. 24-hour carnitas. Everything went great except the out of control grease fire in the beach rental gas grill. 000
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 07/07/2026Someone who thinks they have some exclusive insight in one thing begins to act that way about increasingly mundane opinions in unrelated topics. Best to just practice believing in things with space for being wrong in all areas to avoid that cross-contamination. 000
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 27/06/2026My 3 year old, playing with the toy helicopter he got today: "When we're very, very, very old, we die 🤗" 010
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 27/06/2026Supergirl was pretty disappointing. Felt like a lack of trust in the audience to follow along led to gradually gutting or reversing the main points of the comic inspiration across the board. I know WoT is controversial but I did really like it personally. Not much of what I liked survived. 100
🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 23/06/2026At work we have 3 legacy design systems in use and the third was only half built before rollout due to resource constraints (team of 5). Some components languish for months in the backlog. At home I just finished my 6th rewrite of my design system and am rolling it out to 5 different apps. 110
Reposted by 🌫️ Grant ForrestΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 20/06/2026S.W.Randall (Canadian, b.1965). "Sometimes," 2025 Oil on panel | 36ins x 36ins Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt 137935