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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 9h

@firebase.com has a new built in spending limit. That makes it actually possible to recommend building on firebase in 2026.

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing you have to understand is that code is not good. Code is bad. Code is a maintenance obligation, and you want as little of it as possible to accomplish your goals. Your agents should not be writing code, they should be removing it.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Teaching my son to use the shift key instead of toggling Caps Lock in monkeytype.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Bummer, InstantDB is being shut down. It was so cool - you could get a real-time database up in minutes. You could stream LLM responses to the DB and just watch that row from a web client. I built a realtime Facebook groups clone in like half a day. Really too bad they couldn't monetize.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"Spitecoding" - vibecoding and publishing an open source migration utility for an enterprise service after being screwed over by the weaponized incompetence of their customer support systems

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

@thdxr.com my son's super old laptop's wifi card keeps dropping out, and he looks at me yesterday, and goes, "Maybe we should have opencode look at it?" This kid doesn't know what Microsoft Word is.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Anthropic gives $100 in credit to use Fable, so I try it out with a short session. It immediately burns $10 in tokens. If they think I'm going to pay for Fable (or Claude) using API prices they're insane.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In the not too distant past, only the aristocracy could read and write. Will AI over-reliance make reading and writing niche skills taught only to the children of well resourced families?

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Interesting that there is a lot of popular AI written software but no popular AI written books.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Automorphic software is a system whose operational structure, deployment topology, and evolutionary path are generated from and continuously reconciled against an internal, self-maintained model.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Correlation / causation aside, it's interesting that I have 2 hand coded projects that people find useful enough to pay money for and about 10 vibe coded projects that people pay me $0 for.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Tinkering with web apps that have the capability to modify and extend themselves. Bundle an AI harness with a fullstack framework like Nuxt on a cloud VM. I can prompt the app and it will write custom scripts, create new data visualizations on new pages, and rebuild and redeploy itself.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

First session of the season at the local surf wave park today. Related LLM query: "should I be discouraged that i am still bad at my hobby after 10 years?"

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Coding on the road this week in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, and Guangzhou. Almost all maintenance. What's it called when you vibe code with the only goal of increasing robustness and maintainability?

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I got an early invite to ui.sh by the team that built @tailwindcss.com Really neat tool already, but it burns tokens in Claude code. If you have a Github copilot subscription, you can install the same MCP server, and an entire design pass in Opus can be done in a single request - really efficient!

ui.sh

ui.sh — Turn your terminal into a design engineer

A toolkit for coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex to help you build UIs that don't suck.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Heard a passing reference to @antfu.me on @syntax.fm @vite.dev (+) episode by @w3cj.com - basically saying that he is blocked from migrating to this awesome new toolchain because oxfmt cannot replicate the stylistic rules that antfu's eslint flat config provides. me too! youtu.be/A673RO0xnjs?...

youtu.be

Vite Is Taking Over (Vite+)

YouTube video by Syntax

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I didn't want to have to spend my weekend rewriting my personal blog using @voidzero.dev , but here we are.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

You ever think maybe you should just use Firebase?

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

@npmx.dev feels like Vue. I mean, it is Vue (Nuxt) but it also FEELS like Vue. If you know what I mean.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Do I subscribe to @github.com Copilot for another year, or switch to @anthropic.com Claude code? I am really productive with Opus using Copilot, but understand that I may be missing out on... something.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

It's 2023, and I'm writing my new cyberpunk novel. "Github copilot CLI is now available on Opencode. I wonder if I could use it with sprites.dev if I plug in the built in claude skills. Gonna vibe code a new character in my agent orchestror. Token burn rate up to 1 million per hour."

sprites.dev

Sprites - Stateful sandboxes

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 10/01/2026

Sprites.dev by @fly.io is a very cool new thing: it solves two of my pet problems at once, developer sandbox environments for coding agents and a JSON API for executing untrusted code I wrote more here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/9/s...

simonwillison.net

Fly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time

New from Fly.io today: Sprites.dev. Here’s their blog post and YouTube demo. It’s an interesting new product that’s quite difficult to explain—Fly call it “Stateful sandbox environments with checkpoin...

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

400 comments on HN about using tailscale, tmux, and codex/claude code to code on your phone. @warp.dev be like 👀 VC backed terminal looking for an exit? Next acquisition target for Anthropic after @bun.sh? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4651...

news.ycombinator.com

Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone | Hacker News

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

What exactly are people building with all these agent orchestrators? More agent orchestrators? Are there really so many features you are building simultaneously that you need 3/5/10 agents working at the same time?

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

My first post on my new personal website explains how this rambling tool was born. iamjoshcarter.com/articles/may...

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I spent dead week learning about self hosting using @coolify.io . It gives me a lot of respect for the engineering required at @cloudflare.social and @vercel.com and @netlify.com . It's really impressive that they created these secure, easy to use systems that abstract away all this complexity.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

New landing page! (Built in #Nuxt). Pivoting to custom software services for small to medium sized businesses. It better reflects the type of work I'm doing. www.acroroster.com

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I just disabled all of my self hosted AI powered automations. The convenience is not worth the potential security implications.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Are typos in an email now a sign of respect? Like virtue signaling your human effort by demanstrating you arent using an LLM?

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I do all my own customer support, but I need a little help these days. Using @coolify.io, I took 5000 customer support emails, put them in a vector database, and setup #AI to generate draft emails. They still need a human touch, but it's a few less times I need to write "Please restart the app."

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Looking for a virtual assistant recommendation or referral. Need 2-4 hrs/week for expense tracking, personal admin, and emails. Asia timezone, fluent English (Korean a plus). Flexible arrangement. DM me if you know someone. #VirtualAssistant #Hiring #remotework #korea #southkorea

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

"It follows, I think, that the luckier you’ve been, the more humility and generous spiritedness you need, and the unluckier you’ve been, the more compassion for yourself you need, and unfair as it may seem, the more you need irrepressible resolve." Edward Packard (edwardpackard.com/wp-content/u...)

edwardpackard.com

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

"All you ever were was a little bit of universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 bit, 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, right 𝘯𝘰𝘸. All the rest was fantasy."

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

What is javascript development going to feel like when typescript is in Go and we have rolldown and oxlint? Right now my MacBook heats up just linting and type checking my Vue project.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Coding with AI is like connecting little black boxes together. If you make little composable boxes, you can be really productive. In big black boxes, danger lies.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Started messing around with Basic in middle school, got a degree in Electrical Engineering from a California school, spent 10 years as a fighter pilot, then found a niche and built a startup. A tale as old as time.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Yes, vibe coded apps may have security and maintainability issues. The bigger issue, if you're trying to sell that software, is that if you can vibe code it, you’ve demonstrated that it has no value. If making it is easy, why would anyone pay for it?

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Who is doing your s corp taxes? Any recommendations?

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Generating a zod schema from an OpenAPI spec - it looks like there are a few options. Anybody got a recommendation? Preferably compatible with zod 4 because the number 4 is bigger than 3? Yes, this my first time doing this.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

End of a season. Customer #1 and I agreed today that acroroster.com is feature complete—my employee scheduling app shaped entirely by their feedback. Ready for everyone now. My first swim season: 80 km total. Proud of both. Onward.

acroroster.com

Acroroster | Effortless Team Scheduling Software

Streamline shift management for healthcare, first responders, and enterprises. Powerful scheduling software that makes complex staff rotations simple.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

"Utility is seven-eights Proximity." Iain M. Banks, Surface Detail

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"But what ultimately makes this ok for me is the prospect of creating new memories and the faith that the crucial lessons from past experiences are embedded in me. And if not it's always an opportunity to relearn everything with more attention." news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4419...

news.ycombinator.com

I can create images with ease in my mind. It's very useful overall but I don't t... | Hacker News

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

@jensimmons.bsky.social Great @shoptalkshow.com today! I have a favor to ask - I'm super excited about Declarative web push, but I use @firebase.com cloud messaging and it's incompatible with the new JSON format. Do you know anyone on the Firebase team to ask if they can implement the new field?

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I feel much more inclined to open my wallet for personal software now that I build products myself. That "little utility" that organizes your folders or whatever took a thousand hours to get right.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

My son was having trouble visualizing equivalent fractions, so we made an app. Then we moved on to decimals, and we added to the app. Then long division. Fun activity with him, and a good use case for vibe coding. We even made it a PWA for his iPad home screen. fractions-compare.pages.dev

fractions-compare.pages.dev

Fraction Visualizer

Visually compare fractions and learn equivalence

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Sometimes I see a really cool coffee shop sign and think, "I want to make a web site like that," but it's not the asthetic, it's the feeling the style itself invokes. I get the same feeling watching Star Wars or Alien. I want to build a site that feels old but new. Chunky and simple and glorious.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

My new agent litmus test is "Implement a long division calculator, with highlighted explanations for each step." Claude 3.7, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Bolt.new, they all choke on it.

Just the worstiest long division example I could imagine.

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