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Fronteers @fronteers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

+++ The Venue +++ Everything happens in one place. Talks, coffee, dinner and conversations - no rushing between locations, just an evening focused on learning and meeting fellow frontend developers. See you at Fronteers Dark Mode? Fronteers Dark Mode Oct 2nd in Dordrecht 🇳🇱 🎟️ fronteersconf.org

A curved, multi-story glass facade of a café/gallery space, warmly lit inside with illuminated lettering above the entrance, and empty tables and chairs on the paved patio outside.

A bright bistro interior with a row of red benches, set wooden tables and chairs, large arched windows that cast light onto simple wall panels, warm wall sconces, and a large potted plant, all in a serene atmosphere.

An elegant interior featuring a curved wooden bar and stools, a red-and-white checkered marble floor, dark curtains, and warm, curved ceiling lights that cast an atmospheric glow over the tables, window arches, and seating area.

An empty movie theater with symmetrically arranged red velvet seats, warm wall sconces, wood paneling on the sides, and a dark ceiling with recessed spotlights; a view toward the front, showing the screen/projector opening and an illuminated emergency exit.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 22h

If you work in a team that has a rough time finding an agentic workflow that produces something other than stress and technical debt, watch this video. @mattpocock.com is probably the only one you can trust on AI YouTube. Every example he showed gave me a déjà vu. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llgi...

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Fixing the PR Bottleneck — Matt Pocock, AIHero

YouTube video by AI Engineer

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 27/09/2026

I tried Railway cloud agents and not bad for trying out what it feels like when you don't run your agents locally. But running agents on your own hardware in your local network is probably what you want when you are a heavy user. 👉 maier.tech/posts/pitfal...

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Pitfalls of using Railway cloud agents

A hands-on look at Railway cloud agents, covering setup, SSH access, configuration limits, billing, and trade-offs compared with local hardware.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 27/09/2026

I have been testing Railway's cloud agents with OpenCode. They work fine, but the promise of a throw-away agents does not materialize. The moment you require a custom setup, e.g. accessing a private registry, the config is a hassle. I would rather have a local box where I configure things once.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 16/09/2026

Why can't every website with logins have such a button? Some websites and services turn an account deletion request into a huge drama. Others let me self-delete my account in 2 seconds, which saves the mutual hassle.

Screenshot from a website that has a "delete my account" button.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 09/09/2026

Glad to read that someone rescues Tailwind Labs. AI was about to suffocate them. As much as I disliked Tailwind in the beginning, I came to terms with it and now use it on a daily basis. But it’s still a mystery to me how a layer nobody needed became the default. tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwin...

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Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify

We're joining Shopify to give Tailwind a stable long-term home where it will be actively maintained for the millions of people who depend on it.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 07/09/2026

The reality of switching to an ethical stack of hardware and cloud services is quite sobering. medienbaecker.com/articles/mig...

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Migrating · Medienbäcker Thomas Günther

Slowly migrating from macOS to Linux. Some went great, others, not so much.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 05/09/2026

Today I solved real-world problem with AI. During triage, I learned a lot about hydraulic disc brakes and why my Shimano MT-200 has a long dead zone. Went to my bike dealer and had the brake levers swapped with a model that builds up pressure a little faster. And now my brakes are 💪 🚲

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 30/08/2026

Google playing along with the Lake Bullshit renaming is just a reminder that Big Tech does not have an ethical or moral compass. They will make a deal with the 👹 if it suits them. The EU needs to bring the 🔨 down on Big Tech. 🇨🇦 🇪🇺

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 24/08/2026

It feels like 99% of YouTube thumbnails are now AI-pimped clickbait. This does not mean that such videos are of low content quality. But it's frustrating that even for the best educational videos my first reaction is often "WTF?!" because the thumbnail completely misrepresents the content.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 22/08/2026

This post explains really well what a harness is and how an open source customizable harness helps you reclaim control over your agentic workflow. earendil.com/posts/what-i...

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What is a Harness? | EARENDIL

An agent harness is a piece of software that provides an environment for an AI model to operate within.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 12/08/2026

Making agentic coding work for teams is a challenge. It's great to see Zed tackle this space. But I think that this way of working requires a major cultural shift for most teams: every ticket is a conversation way beyond "I implemented this, can you review?". This will be a hard sell.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 12/08/2026

If using AI in your team at work does yield the results you thought it would, read this thread 👇

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 11/08/2026

Info email from a Dutch online retailer that lost personal and order data a few days ago: We are in no hurry to find out what information was stolen. We take no responsibility and blame our logistics partner. We do not offer our apologies and would like to point out that we are open for business.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 10/08/2026

This statement summarizes the impact of AI well. But it’s far from my reality. It’s so much easier to shun AI than engaging into a discussion how to move forward responsibly with something that won’t go away.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 06/08/2026

This is a fantastic talk.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 01/08/2026

When your hosting company buys ads on an NYC subway station and boasts about a viral video on a platform they should not be on, I am starting to get nervous that another great service might be off track and derail in the not so distant future. blog.railway.com/p/how-to-mak...

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How we made a viral commercial for developers

We made a commercial for Railway featuring the actor behind Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley. This is how we made it so that a developer like you would watch it.

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 27/07/2026

The ”State of Devs 2026” survey is currently open! It's run by the same folks who do the other “State of…” surveys, but this one is about us rather than the technology. Lots of interesting questions around AI, career trajectory, our goals, etc. Check it out:

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State of Devs 2026

Take the State of Devs survey

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Skeleton Labs @skeleton.dev · 17/07/2026

Skeleton v5 is now available! 🎉 🎨 Theme format overhaul 🔲 Corner Shape 🏷️ Brand Color 📏 Element Sizing ✂️ Masks 🧩 New form utilities 🪟 New Tailwind components 🆕 New Framework components 🛠️ Theme Generator updates Full details here: github.com/skeletonlabs...

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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 14/07/2026

Some late weekend thoughts: What can the bible tell us about vibecoding? lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/13/th...

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The Tower Keeps Rising

Vibecoding and the possible collapse of a shared language.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 07/07/2026

It's frustrating to to see political leaders in the EU undermine a recent no by the European Parliament to pursue a fever dream of mass surveillance. Opportunistic behaviour is incredibly toxic no matter if it's at local government, national government or EU level. And I see so much of it lately.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 05/07/2026

"The Chat Bots, with their sycophantic tone of voice, are deliberately engineered to erase our own personalities, hard work and craft entirely from the equation." This is brutal to read. And very relatable.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Great talk on the AI bubble, why it will probably pop, and what we can do about it. youtu.be/uWnUnMphmPM

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Keynote: After the AI Hype – What’s Real, and What’s Next - Richard Campbell - 2026

YouTube video by NDC Conferences

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Anthony Fu @antfu.me · 26/06/2026

My experience with agents is that it doesn't make my work "faster". In the end it costs roughly the same amount of time, if not longer But my role has shifted from "builder" to "sculptor", which is a completely different job. I hated it at the very beginning tbh, but I'm getting better at it slowly

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 24/06/2026

I look at the temperatures all over Europe and realize that when your high is 34 C you live in a relatively cool area 😳 #ClimateCrisis

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Chris Simmons @endigo9740.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Hi everyone! Alongside my contributions to Skeleton, I operate as a freelancer. I've just learned my current contract will end suddenly this week, so I'm actively seeking new opportunities. If you or your team are hiring, you can find my details here: - endigodesign.com - Email: chris@skeleton.dev

endigodesign.com

Endigo Design | The Portfolio of Chris Simmons

The portfolio of Chris Simmons. Developer, designer, UX, and more.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 22/06/2026

Recently, @pnpm.io v11.5.3 broke some of my deployments. In my post I explain the breaking change, why it was a good call by the PNPM team to mitigate yet another form of supply chain attack, and how I fixed my deployments. maier.tech/posts/why-pn...

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Why PNPM broke my website to prevent credential leakage

PNPM v11.5.3 stopped expanding env vars in repository .npmrc files to block credential theft. Here's how to authenticate with private registries now.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 20/06/2026

Nobody has been getting more flak recently than @github.com for their continued outages. That's why I appreciate when they roll out small quality of life improvement like this little repository switcher.

Screenshot shows a red arrow that points at the new repository selector.

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Wouter de Bres @wdeb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Good humans, I wrote a book. Took me 10 yrs. Share it with anyone who wants to understand the minds they're designing for and the mind they're designing with. 40 chapters free to read. 📘 productdesignpsychology.com ❤️

Book cover of ‘Product Design Psychology’

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 18/06/2026

If you are a Java backend developer, come work with me at ANP, the Dutch press agency, in The Hague. (fluency in Dutch required) www.anp.nl/vacatures/se...

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Vacature (Senior) Backend Developer bij het ANP

Wil jij dat jouw software de drijvende kracht is achter het nieuws dat heel Nederland bereikt? Dan zoekt het ANP jou!

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 20/06/2026

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Niels Leenheer @html5test.com · 19/06/2026

First up: Fronteers Dark Mode in Dordrecht 🇳🇱 on October 2nd. With @cydstumpel.nl, @heydonworks.com, @csswizardry.com, @tunetheweb.com and @anjana.dev. And @jakearchibald.com as our MC. An amazing location and tickets only cost €99, and include dinner. Don't miss this! 🎟️ fronteersconf.org

fronteersconf.org

Fronteers Dark Mode, Friday, October 2nd, Dordrecht

Join us at Cinema de Witt in Dordrecht for our after work conference.

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HackerNoon @hackernoon.com · 17/06/2026

We measured the LLM token cost of 5 frontend frameworks on identical components. Svelte wins, Angular costs 38% more — and your AI bill feels it. #webdevelopment

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We Measured the LLM Token Cost of 5 Frontend Frameworks: Angular Costs 38% More Than Svelte

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 18/06/2026

If you are a Java backend developer, come work with me at ANP, the Dutch press agency, in The Hague. (fluency in Dutch required) www.anp.nl/vacatures/se...

anp.nl

Vacature (Senior) Backend Developer bij het ANP

Wil jij dat jouw software de drijvende kracht is achter het nieuws dat heel Nederland bereikt? Dan zoekt het ANP jou!

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 18/06/2026

Double customer service anti-pattern: Step 1: Send me an unwanted customer satisfaction survey. Step 2: Tell me that my screen size is too small to see the unsubscribe page. It's wild what you can see in the wild.

Screenshot of an unsubscribe page on a mobile phone that says in Dutch that the screen size is too small to render the page.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 17/06/2026

It looks like the latest @pnpm.io authentication settings changes have broken all my deploy pipelines both on GitHub and on Railway. I am all for hardening the dependency supply chain but I am also all for adding deprecation warnings while things are not broken yet. pnpm.io/npmrc

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Josh Nussbaum @joshnuss.com · 14/01/2026

My go-to reply for combatting spam 😆😁

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Ilja @fubits.dev · 15/06/2026

Drafted a collection of my current Svelte / SvelteKit essentials (skills, Oxlint, Knip, svelte-inspect-value, svelte-render-scan, dex etc) and links to my onboarding guide and the release / milestone chart. Mostly for myself / for work, but maybe helpful to to others. And I'm sure I forgot some.

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My Svelte 5 & SvelteKit Essentials

Collection of some useful resources on learning & working with Svelte

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 14/06/2026

I don't know how long this lasts, but OpenCode Go has temporarily increased MiniMax M3 usage limits. Great opportunity to test a non-mainstream LLM.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 11/06/2026

GitHub (or version control in general) may be the next legacy dev domino piece that will fall. @zed.dev is not the only company working on a replacement. Pierre (pierre.computer) is rethinking primitives and also working on a code storage solution.

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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 10/06/2026

There are two ways to resolve the cognitive dissonance of being on Twitter while also caring about all the awful shit happening because of Twitter 1. Leave Twitter 2. Stop caring Profoundly disappointing how many people I like seem to have chosen the latter

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 07/06/2026

So, I'm trying OpenCode Zen with API pricing for my side project. I fire off a few short prompts with Zen/GPT-5.5 and it cost me 1.11$. For maybe 5 mins of coding. Which means a small feature that takes me 1 hour to build might cost me 10-15 $.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 02/06/2026

@zed.dev By default, the review diff can be sent to the last agent. But it starts a new conversation. Usually, I first want the agent to read the ticket into the context and then look at the diff. Is there a way to copy paste the branch diff into whatever agent session is currently open?

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 31/05/2026

I asked my agent to give me a Svelte example for something it suggested. And it whipped up a Svelte playground and gave me the link to it. 😮

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Bjorn Lu @bluwy.me · 25/05/2026

We’ve been working on a new site for Changesets with a lot of new docs! If changesets has been confusing before, hopefully some of these will help, or let us know what else could be improved. Check it out 👉 changesets.dev

changesets.dev

Changesets

A tool to manage versioning and changelogs with a focus on monorepos

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Mike @mikenikles.com · 05/05/2026

"too much agentic coding led to code that smelled correct, but fell apart as soon as you started to build on it" An excellent article! Also a good reminder that the best time to start using Zed to develop software was yesterday. LLMs do a lot of typing for me, but very little of the "thinking".

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