Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 29/09/2026sending lots of thoughts and hugs, can't imagine how tough that is 010
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 28/09/2026Managed to do a bios update and then CPU and cooler upgrade without breaking the motherboard or anything else and that's pretty impressive if you ask me 030
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 26/09/2026Just read the words "only older readers will remember SASS and HAML" and I died a bit inside 3140
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 23/09/2026People who want to stop giving 1Password your money: what are you using instead? I use it as a basic vault and not much more. 870
Reposted by Jack Franklin Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 17/09/2026I remember a conference after party a decade+ ago where @johnresig.com was stood in the corner on his own because everyone (including me) was too shy to speak to him. Fwiw, if you ever want to talk to me at one of these things, please just do it. I'm also shy. 2713
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 13/09/2026Oh cool! That has tempted me from the size and how much you can fit in. One day I'll try an N layout but I've just got so many OO locos now 😁 000
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 13/09/2026Normally my source is various brands of secondhand trains! I'm OO gauge but have some HO from my purchases in Munich when I travel for work! 110
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 13/09/2026Yes parenting is hard but the good news is that my coping mechanism is buying too many model trains 1110
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 13/09/2026For me it's Transport Fever 3 at end of September that is tempting me for some OOO and I've already blocked a few evenings out after work 😂 011
Reposted by Jack Franklin Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 09/06/2025Every article about the inevitability of AGI 1164631300
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 24/08/2026I am a 34 year old man and tomorrow a shed is being put in my garden solely for model trains and how good is that 2260
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 21/08/2026totally agree; I think it is impossibile to understand if you are not a parent even if you think you do 000
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 20/08/2026If you want to know what parenting is like (for me at least) things got so tough yesterday that after failing to get my 2yr old to eat his pasta in a pub (meal with family), I had to walk out & have a cry in the car park. Sharing because no one talks about this stuff - especially not dads. 3230
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 17/08/2026I can't put my finger exactly on it but Opus 5 and the new GPT 5.6 are just...too smart? Constantly giving dreadful verbose, unclear output and actually far far worse at generating anything useful. 100
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 11/08/2026This is really interesting thank you! I'm consistently seeing things where I think "thank goodness I could correct that" so maybe that's what I need to start pushing into the harness to be proactively checked. 130
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 11/08/2026I find this really interesting because my experience is that I have to work hard to ensure AI produces a PR of sufficient quality with a lot of rounds of feedback and I'm not sure if it's better to have this loop and do that all in your testing/review stage or to do it as you build 140
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 10/08/2026Sure thing! Shout if you have any Q's. My over engineered dotfiles are on GitHub too 😂 Once you discover writing Lua to configure your editor it's a large rabbit hole 😁 110
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 09/08/2026If you're up for it I think starting from 0 is a way better long term play here. Happy to chat more as a very happy Neovimmer! 100
Reposted by Jack Franklin Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 09/08/2026Yep. If code was never the hard part, software wouldn’t be so goddamn buggy and broken. If “code” only ever meant thoughtlessly churning out the next endpoint, you missed the point entirely. blog.senko.net/code-was-nev...blog.senko.net"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmersThe software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c... 1253
Reposted by Jack Franklin jordan @jdan.me · 08/08/2026notes.jordanscales.com/coffeenotes.jordanscales.comI recently sat down for coffee with one of my oldest friends in the industry.I recently sat down for coffee with one of my oldest friends in the industry. “How’s everything going?” I asked, “Crazy times right?” “We’re up to 1 million... 29331
Reposted by Jack Franklin Barry Pollard @tunetheweb.com · 04/08/2026Technology, like time, cannot be stopped in it's relentless march forward. Much as us old timers would like to slow down one or the other just a little bit… In light of that, Chrome 153 will come with an updated list of modern devices for emulation mode—with nice categorisation—thanks to @jackf.io 1493
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 01/08/2026Hamilton on West End with Lesie Odom Jr...I don't know if any musical will ever top that 020
Reposted by Jack Franklin Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026 437339066564
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 31/07/2026similar but different: this is why I've been enjoying finally getting my model railways hobby underway; learning to solder, wiring it up, etc, has some surprisingly complex challenges and it's so nice to be away from tech and AI and all that for a bit 010
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 27/07/2026"Grok did it no problem" what a surprise can't imagine why that is 1330
Reposted by Jack Franklin Joan León @nucliweb.net · 24/07/2026In my audits, reading the Performance profile is where people get stuck: the flame chart and waterfall look like noise at first I built an interactive guide to make them click, every figure is interactive, plus LCP, CLS, INP and the Insights panel perf.reviews/profile-guide #WebPerf #DevToolsperf.reviewsReading a Performance Profile: Field GuideAn interactive field guide to the Chrome DevTools Performance panel: waterfall, flame chart, LCP, CLS, INP, and the Insights panel. 38223
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 25/07/2026But the days of nitpicking on small syntax or carefully looking for perf regressions etc are definitely numbered. If I controlled this I'd probably have an AI rate a PR for risk and experiment with low risk PRs being AI only reviewed. 020
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 25/07/2026I agree with this to some extent and on some percentage of PRs this is definitely true, but there are some times when I'm glad I could feedback architecture wise on a system that I know inside out and want to keep it a certain way for legitimate reasons 140
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 23/07/2026yes! Been using this for a couple of months and it's great. This reminds me, I should donate or support on GH. 010
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 23/07/2026Feels pretty good to have my phone download a 1.7gb Android update full of features I will never use 010
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 20/07/2026Asked AI on a whim to see if it could identify any reasons my unit tests felt a bit slow and sure enough - runner.test.ts: ~9.3s cumulative → ~0.15s. - All reported test durations: ~27.9s → ~8.3s. 000
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 19/07/2026Wayne Rooney live on the BBC saying his highlight of the half time show was the ending and then saying "it was crap" is the undoubted highlight of the entire world cup. Also he was right, wow that was bad. 0100
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 19/07/2026Great post! I wonder how DevTools could help surface this better 120
Reposted by Jack Franklin David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Polymarket lets people bet on wildfires. Wildfires that those samepeople could easily set in order to win money on this illegal gambling site. Big Tech is organized crime. 5031911219
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 16/07/2026Does a bug exist already to track debugging this from the DT side?; 000
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 15/07/2026Yup fucking nightmare. Don't mind losing but we absolutely threw that one away. We were 1-0 up and they created nothing and we've retreated to our box and let Messi have time and space. Fucking madness on so many levels. That was our game to win. 010
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 15/07/2026(context is important here, obviously we all have vibe coded side projects or prototypes where this isn't important) but for "proper" work, my barrier is "this CL is just like how I would have manually done it and I have the same level of understanding" 110
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 15/07/2026A colleague asked me if a change I sent for review was "you, or AI" and I was very happy because whilst I used AI to help me debug, plan and impl, I worked hard to make sure I understood the change deeply and got it authored exactly how I want (via prompt + manual tweaks). This is the goal, folks. 150
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 11/07/2026Omg love this quote and can't help think the same about how wild it is that a few companies now hold the industry hostage at whatever rates they want (And how much this potentially screws over folks/companies unable to afford it) 130
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 11/07/2026Apparently Spotify ship about 2000 AI changes a day or something yet they still can't make your downloaded content appear immediately if you're on very poor signal 390
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 10/07/2026I think context on what people are doing is important here, because yes I've had 4-5 explorations going at once but in that case I care less about the absolute quality of the result. But landing huge amounts of changes into production is where I'm less confident about the quality+long term inpact 000
Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 10/07/2026All these products that let you run a fleet of AI agents and do 100 things at once are baffling to me; do we actually want this?! I know I can't do more than 1-2 things (with one primary focus) before the quality drops and my head can't keep up and think properly about the problem and solution. 2140
