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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 12/11/2025

I had a great time talking at the Callstack AI meetup!

Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 15/08/2025

this is cool, I made myself a webapp to help me manage and combine styles and characters to use with gpt-image-1. It's like my own personal midjourney

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 11/08/2025

Oh yeah I think we talked at some point right? 😅

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 11/08/2025

Subscribe. Someone who knows my pain. At work we use Storybook with React Native Web for our design system library. Gave a talk about it here: youtu.be/jkQOBlkAFfA?...

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Rafael Mendiola & Kyle Rosenberg (Chain React 2024)

YouTube video by Infinite Red

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 04/08/2025

Gave a talk at Boston Code & Coffee on How to Get Hired in Tech in 2025. Opinionated advice on leveling up, being discoverable, and adapting to AI. Slides + vibe-coded visuals by Claude Code + DALL·E: getting-hired.raf.dev

getting-hired.raf.dev

Getting Hired in Tech in 2025

Nurture your skills, become discoverable, and get prepared for the AI paradigm shift

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 12/07/2025

Tomorrow I'm giving a small talk about how to get hired as a software eng in 2025. I built my self a slide presentation webapp, and I can get Claude Code to automatically generate images for the slides for me using the OpenAI API. This is so much better than Keynote.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 04/07/2025

It was great seeing you there!!

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 03/07/2025

Software development in 2026

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 28/06/2025

Wow that's amazing! I love the video of how it was found

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 28/06/2025

Turns out you can animate the Ender's Game book cover

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Generic_Soda @genericsoda.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

i made a chart

a detailed chart breaking down what counts as a "blowjob brothers." The top row has a "purist" section labelled "the blowjob brothers must be a pair of males," a "neutral section labelled "the blowjob brothers may be any gender," and a "radical" section labelled "the blowjob may be any conceptual pair."

The left column also has "purist," "neutral," and "radical" sections, labelled "the blowjob brothers must be explicitly aligned in some way," "the blowjob brothers are unaligned but may cooperate on a shared objective," and "the blowjob brothers may be enemies or rivals who frequently clash" respectively.

Each intersection contains an example image and text, detailed as follows: Purist/Purist contains Bulk and Skull from Power Rangers, Neutral/Purist contains Shin and Noi from Dorohedoro, and Radical/Purish contains Spectacle Rock from The Legend of Zelda.

Neutral/Purist contains Ryo Saeba and Umibozu from City Hunter, Neutral/Neutral contains Q and Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek Voyager, and Neutral/Radical contains the Namco and Capcom, as detailed on the boxart of the crossover game Namco X Capcom.

Radical/Purist contains Kazuma Kiryu and Daisaku Kuze from Yakuza 0, Radical/Neutral contains Natsuo Ishidou and Yuzuko Mawatari from Teppu, and Radical/Radical contains the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 20/06/2025

I recently did something similar, open-meteo doesn't require an API key: open-meteo.com

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 20/06/2025

This article has a lot of best practices, which have helped me out. I think it's really important to dig into the full capabilities of the tools you use. www.anthropic.com/engineering/...

anthropic.com

Claude Code Best Practices

A blog post covering tips and tricks that have proven effective for using Claude Code across various codebases, languages, and environments.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 20/06/2025

Custom slash commands dramatically improve the developer experience. You could maintain a document with useful prompts, but accessing them via /commands makes you more invested in creating reusable workflows. It's like using a prompt as a function.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 20/06/2025

You can still use images in the context of your conversation with Claude Code. I thought I'd lose the ability to use images switching to a terminal tool. But you can copy and paste images into Claude Code just like with Cursor.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 20/06/2025

Sub-agents solve the biggest friction with AI coding tools. The main friction is running out of context. Sub-agents let you parallelize work and save context since each has its own context. Just tell Claude to use sub-agents in your prompt.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 20/06/2025

Claude Code's planning approach is much better than Cursor. The way it responds in chat gives me confidence that it's breaking down work into tasks properly. Instead of jumping straight to implementation, it reads files first, thinks through the problem, and makes a plan.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 20/06/2025

I recently switched from Cursor to Claude Code and I like it way more. I'm a terminal person who uses Vim, and I didn't want to go back to VSCode for AI coding. Let me tell you what I like about Claude Code. 🧵

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 19/06/2025

This is going to be our main coding workflow next year

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 19/06/2025

Oh yeah, making a plan is great. You can ask the agent to keep improving and improving the plan, and it will give it some really nice rails to execute well on. I'm glad it was helpful!

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 15/06/2025

lol, "should I cancel the DJ out of respect?"

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 15/06/2025

lool, I'm watching Mountainhead. "If you bust a b-nut into this app, it will give birth to a unicorn"

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 14/06/2025

Ehhh, I like grouping tests in describe blocks because it's easy to do manipulation like xdescribe or describe.only Also with AI writing the tests, the unit tests are going to become kind of a black box that is a lot more thorough than what we can write, and we won't pay that much attention to them

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 05/06/2025

I've been thinking a lot about the future of software developer jobs. I wonder what's going to happen. On one hand there's going to be a lot of pressure to produce more. But on the other hand, AI gives developers a lot of power and freedom to build whatever they want.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 03/06/2025

That's reasonable. Maybe the avant-garde will always exist. I think there will always be people who push the boundaries of what's available to them, but I'm worried we'll be so stratified that newer practices don't get democratized.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 01/06/2025

This is a really good idea

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 29/05/2025

nice shout-out at App.js conf for @coolsoftware.dev !

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 29/05/2025

I have a preposition for

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 26/05/2025

Guess who I just ran into the flight to Krakow

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 26/05/2025

Amazon developers saying that their work is starting to resemble warehouse work. I think that's going to be a sad outcome of AI tools, and I hope people recognize they can go towards more fun and creative programming careers now. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/b...

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At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 26/05/2025

Vibe coding over the Atlantic. Neat.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 25/05/2025

On my way to App.js Conf!! See you in Krakow 🇵🇱

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 22/05/2025

Digital physical therapy provider Hinge Health raised $437M in its US IPO, after the company and its backers sold 13.7M shares at $32 each, the top of its range (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 22/05/2025

These are the stickers I'm going to give out at App.js Conf. Say hi to me if you want one!

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 21/05/2025

That's where being an Android user really helps. It's the least pain in the butt developer experience

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 20/05/2025

Put it on the backlog and prioritize it I guess. It depends on the values of the team. I think products are hurt more by what's broken than they benefit from adding new features. Once you lose user trust it's hard to get it back

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 20/05/2025

Every software company should have a weekly "what sucks" meeting on Friday, where you look at the product and list out the things that suck. Then you fix them first thing on Monday

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 20/05/2025

I was hoping to practice my AppJS talk on Saturday at a local tech event, but I was just told they can't do it for some reason. Hmmm, what to do.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 19/05/2025

I use Cursor and I find it very useful. People also talk about Windsurf but I haven't tried it out.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 19/05/2025

Part of being a developer is staying up to date with language features, libraries, etc. It's the same for AI tools. Cursor and Windsurf are the most commonly talked about AI editors, and they give pretty good results.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 19/05/2025

I know there's a lot of uncertainty about whether software jobs are going to go away. But do developers understand how much more empowered they are?

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