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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Every day using this product brings a new level of hell

Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I love Claude Code and Opus is incredible, but man they really should stop bragging about it being vibe coded - it's a damning indictment of vibe coding. By far the most glitchy AI software I have used.

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A bunch of my apps like Bluesky and WhatsApp have reverted to the old iOS keyboard. Am I imagining things?

Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Does this replace zod-openapi? 👀

4.5 Opus! The tone options are generally not effective in my experience.

Stopped using ChatGPT because the tone of voice was so off putting, it sounds like a millennial pretending to be Gen Alpha. “I’ll explain it to you. No bloat, no drama, just vibes” making sand think was a mistake

Is it more about making sure that people can start using the product immediately so that they convince themselves it's good rather than you trying to convince them via a landing page? Or some other reason?

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Sure I'll send it over, I can't DM you for some reason though

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Use OKLCH. If useful I can DM an early draft of a tool we are working on!

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The new Daybridge sync engine is over 300,000 lines of code across the two repositories we’re working on

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Has the EU looked at this? Seems analogous to AWS/GCP lock in that they have been legislating against

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

It writes code faster than I would, suggests solutions I might not have thought of, and catches my bugs. In my case I don’t use Claude Code very much but I do use Cursor autocomplete/copilot style tools to speed me up.

Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I think it’s perfectly possible to use generative AI *and* to fully read and understand its output. Sometimes it suggests solutions I wouldn’t have thought about myself. It also writes boilerplate much faster than I would doing it manually freeing up time to focus on more impactful things.

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Alternatively I might just migrate to use Next in static mode instead of Vite

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Ah I see! I’m considering adopting it now because by the time our next version ships this might be ready 😅

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Makes sense! Even if useExtracted just consumed the existing files in Vite rather than generating/watching - that would probably be enough for us!

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Thanks I didn’t read thoroughly enough, this is awesome! Niche question: we use Next for our web app but Vite for our desktop app and share code between them. Will useExtracted work nicely if we call it in common code shared between the two frameworks?

Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Amazing! I wonder if it’s possible to a) add string descriptions/context inline to enable better AI translation or b) even integrate directly with LLMs somehow to translate strings in real time as you create them.

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

This isn’t going to end well is it

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I would suggest swapping the backgrounds of the sidebar and content. The convention on Mac is usually for the sidebar to be grey and to keep the content bg white for a paper like feel. For fonts, if you want the app to feel native SF Pro is the way to go. There are more playful variants of it!

Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

This happens to mine all the time but turning it off and on again fixes it for me

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

About to find out what happens when your vacuum cleaner company also grows your food 👀

A photo of me holding a box of strawberries with ‘Dyson farming’ written on the side

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I'm trying to understand why the profiler says a component is re-rendering because 'the parent component rendered' when the parent definitely didn't render? It's wrapped in React.memo and none of the props are changing (or I presume it would say so?) Paging @ricky.fm @danabra.mov 🙏

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

We moved all of our stuff off of Vercel and when they emailed me to ask why, I told them straight. We won’t do business with red pilled CEOs.

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I love living in London, I’ve been here for nearly 10 years. It might be the best city in the world. The far right hate it because it’s living proof that multiculturalism works and that different cultures can coexist and thrive. Trump and DHH hate it because it disproves their narratives.

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

🫡 to all the furries running the internet’s infrastructure

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Some parts of iOS 26 are nice and some parts are driving me 🥜

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The Apple event was a great day for the brits. They wheel us out when they want to make the product announcements sound profound.

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I mean, our brains do the same thing only with a biological substrate instead of a silicon substrate. LLMs are “probability machines” but their output is based on a real, acquired understanding of the world from a training data set. Different to humans but still arguably thinking.

Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Cantab is the postnominal people from University of Cambridge (UK) can put after their name eg “MSc Hons (Cantab)”. Many universities have them. Oxford is Oxon, mine is Ebor (York). It’s the Latin name of the city.

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Got to be past tense read 🙂‍↕️

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

In the UK we should do anti-honours. And the first person to get an anti-Knighthood should be whoever removed all of the fucking padding from the seats on the trains and replaced them with ironing boards.

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Biggest red flag for AI generated text is excessive use of present participles 🚩 "highlighting the importance of", "underscoring the relevance of", "avoiding the risks of", "emphasising the need for" etc

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Really like this actually. Currently the selected tab in liquid glass looks atrocious - this would be a better approach.

Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Had anyone tried the Donkey Kong game on switch yet?

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I’ve never looked into it properly - some of our work pre dates the compiler. Does it work in dev mode with hot reloading etc? It’s probably not the best code but our dependency arrays are not always equal to everything used in the function so I assumed the compiler wouldn’t be able to handle that

Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I think if you’re building a simple app it’s overkill. If like us you’re building a calendar and need buttery smooth mouse interaction performance, a single missing useCallback can cause the whole app to rerender on every mouse move and make it feel atrocious. Just depends on the context really.

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

So cool to visit 10 Downing Street!

A picture of me standing outside 10 Downing Street

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gabby @fullmoon.id · 21/07/2025

Along the same lines:

Comic strip:

Coworker A (drinking coffee): "Some day we won't even need coders any more. We'll be able to just write the specification and the program will write itself"

Coworker B (coding at a laptop): Oh wow, you're right! We'll be able to write a comprehensive and precise spec and bam, we won't need programmers any more!

And do you know the industry term for a project specification that is comprehensive and precise enough to generate a program?

Coworker A: Uh… no…

Coworker B: Code. It's called code

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Oi mate do you have a loisence for those DMs

A screenshot showing I can’t access my DMs on Bluesky until I complete age verification

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Kieran McHugh @kmc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

They will have to do age verification as well, the deadline is in a few days though I think