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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@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 · 26/07/2026

PWAs are awesome once you can train your users to install them. I still get about an email every week telling me they can't find my app in the app store though.

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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 · 15/07/2026

Vue release notes are always so casually ridiculous. "Install size reduced by 77%" "2x faster parser" "44% improvement when compiling the script and template" "scheduling performance 450% better"

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

Congrats! +1 on looking forward to @vuejs.org support in 7.1.

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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 · 30/04/2026

I want this! But, how do I pay? When I see "managed" and it's free, it's hard to not anticipate a rugpull. Hard to commit to building atop a platform without a clear pricing structure.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I love warp - use it everyday. I have no idea what oz is, despite having read the Oz web page multiple times now.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Nicely done! This is one of those must have utilities.

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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

It's hard to be on the leading edge of these things. Like, do I spend a day integrating Oxlint stylistic and then Oxfmt comes along with support the next month? Regardless, really grateful for all the amazing work going into all of this.

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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?...

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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 · 13/03/2026

Wait, what'd I miss? What did they break?

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I was so sure this was going to be about AI somehow. #bamboozled

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Very cool! What's the bundle size?

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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 · 07/02/2026

I think you can trim some items off your list and still struggle to find stable sync offerings. Tons of promise, but... progress has stalled?

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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 · 01/02/2026

I just installed Pop OS on my laptop, and it was a really painless install. Kind of shocking how easy it was. Even the Nvidia driver just worked!

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Nice, I was just trying to figure this out yesterday.

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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 · 25/01/2026

I like the "click on a component to open it in vscode" magic tool. I need to fix this bug riiiiiight here.

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Didn't they like build Postman into their devtools?

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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Another easy Vue upgrade, thank you! Building on Vue has let me focus on my app rather than chasing breaking changes every 6 months.

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

This was why I passed on pragmaticDnD. I think it's great that they're using the platform, but no way to "trigger" the drag event on mobile without a long hold makes it less usable it certain drag and drop contexts. I ended up using PointerEvent events (maybe didn't exist when portable was built.)

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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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Joshua Carter @joshcarter.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

For files in Google Cloud Storage, the limit looks like it's 2GB. How does the model deal with this? Is it executing code to extract portions into context? Surely it's not dumping the whole thing into the context window?

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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 · 09/01/2026

Plus it's fast! Both it and Haiku are great for quick fixes.

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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 · 07/01/2026

The alternative is... loading spinner? Optimistic permissions? Blank screen while you wait for the db? Is this a solved problem and I've just never heard the answer?

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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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