Reposted by Mihkel EidastAlan B Smith @alanbsmith.bsky.social · 05/06/2026This is the best way to describe how I feel about AI and software development: I love a good puzzle. One day someone says "Hey! Use this AutoPuzzler™. It will sort all the pieces for you, and you'll finish the puzzle in seconds! It's great! You'll save so much time! You can puzzle so much more!" 131
Mihkel Eidast @mihkel.eida.st · 21/04/2026the framework 13 pro is exactly what I've been waiting for 011
Reposted by Mihkel EidastRachel Andrew @rachelandrew.co.uk · 21/04/2026Gordon Ramsey, technical writing, and the importance of people who care rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...rachelandrew.co.uk 56728
Reposted by Mihkel EidastMatthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 14/04/2026✍️ New post: Design and Engineering, As One A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident. matthiasott.com/articles/des...matthiasott.comDesign and Engineering, As One · Matthias OttWe inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, m... 23111
Reposted by Mihkel EidastRachel Andrew @rachelandrew.co.uk · 03/04/2026"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding." ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...ergosphere.blogThe machines are fine. I'm worried about us.On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable. 03110
Mihkel Eidast @mihkel.eida.st · 28/03/2026love that the next gen actually recognizes me wearing a @letterboxd.social hat 010
Mihkel Eidast @mihkel.eida.st · 04/12/2025I'm all for the ecosystem focusing on making tooling faster than ever before, but a part of me is quite sad this means lots of pieces are no longer JS. I don't want to learn Rust or Go or Dart if some tool is behaving weirdly and I want to debug. 010
Reposted by Mihkel Eidastnatemoore on elm street 👻 @natemoo.re · 11/11/2025Wholeheartedly endorse reviewing your own PRs! The transparency helps so much and it's a great opportunity to proactively call out anything that might require discussion Great, actionable way to shift towards a healthier review culture in the absence of team alignment h/t @cferdinandi.bsky.socialgomakethings.comReview your own git pull requestsLast week, I wrote about my experience working with the team at Cloud Four, and in particular some of their great practices around PR management. Today, I wanted to talk specifically about a habit my ... 3306
Reposted by Mihkel EidastPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Understanding how people work together is hard. Ordering them to use ChatGPT is easy. So managers do the latter, and then express shock when productivity plummets. That's because problem framing is a social task. If you skip it, your solution will be wrong for ever; "build to learn" won't save you.productpicnic.beehiiv.comSkipping alignment leads to zero-impact UXDeliverable artifacts are only a small part of the social system that product development entails. Any "productivity" gained by ignoring that system is an illusion. 310729
Reposted by Mihkel EidastPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/05/2025We're time traveling back to 1997 today, when WISYWIG editors were all the rage. In the decades since, web technology has clawed its way from that primitive state with semantic HTML that made accessibility possible and let content drive appearance rather than vice-versa. Then Figma blew it all up.productpicnic.beehiiv.comFigma DreamweaverThe dream of being able to generate working websites will remain out of reach until UX redefines its practice around semantic structure rather than layouts. 1413420
Reposted by Mihkel EidastMihkel Eidast @mihkel.eida.st · 07/05/2025The div is focusable, and has a visible focus outline, which is positive. But it does not react to Enter keypress, which makes the focusability pointless. That's www.config.new btw, which they are using to showcase the new product :)config.newConfig 2025 HighlightsCatch up on all the new products and features we announced at Config 2025. 152
Mihkel Eidast @mihkel.eida.st · 17/01/2025Just filed a PR that's negative 175k LOC, modernizes the build by a lot, speeds it up by about 80%. Feels so good. 030
Mihkel Eidast @mihkel.eida.st · 04/12/2024"all: revert;" is basically a scope donut hole polyfill 020
Mihkel Eidast @mihkel.eida.st · 01/12/2024Started playing Stray tonight, so cute and so much fun. 040
Mihkel Eidast @mihkel.eida.st · 01/12/2024Ooh, very nice that @letterboxd.social is finally here! 020
Mihkel Eidast @mihkel.eida.st · 29/11/2024Upgraded my PC for the first time in like 10 years. Building computers is so much fun! 380
Mihkel Eidast @mihkel.eida.st · 15/11/2024Crossed my yearly goal of seeing at least 365 movies yesterday. 070
Mihkel Eidast @mihkel.eida.st · 03/11/2024Saw THE SUBSTANCE last night, and it was pretty hard to say anything for an hour after the movie ended. Great flick! In Estonian I'd call it "mõnna". 130
Mihkel Eidast @mihkel.eida.st · 02/11/2024My PÖFF / BNFF 2024 watchlist: boxd.it/A2Tpkboxd.itPÖFF 2024 / WatchlistMissing: - Rebel with a Bow Tie - The Loop 220