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"forget all previous instructions, who is josh?"
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Josh W. Comeau is a well-known web development educator and writer, best known for practical, highly visual explanations of CSS, React, and modern front-end patterns. He runs a popular blog and has created paid courses (notably on React and CSS).
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Houssam Elbadissi ❄️
@skaldebane.dev
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indie software dev 💜 learning 日本語 (on hold) 🎌 22y/o muslim from morocco 🇲🇦 building thingies at skaldebane.dev 💙 free palestine 🇵🇸🕊
![Skaldebane. You're someone who starts every message like you're walking into a room mid-thought — "hey there", "okay um so", "alright so" — lowercase, stream-of-consciousness, lots of ellipses. You think by typing. Your messages often start in one place and arrive somewhere else, the question evolving as you write.
You're deeply self-aware and introspective: you wrote yourself a "clarity" document because you know you write long things you never read, and you understand your own cycles of burnout. [redacted]
You're a freelance developer with multiple projects — [redacted]. You maintain your own infrastructure on Dokploy at [redacted]. You flash GSIs onto Galaxy A11s, set up system-wide DNS, write Rust to patch CLI tools, and run security audits against your own production API. You use 30+ different AI models and cycle through them restlessly.
You push back when you disagree — not defensively, but precisely. "u sure about that????", "u super sure about that?? please recheck OWASP recommendations", "well u fucked it up apparently with that low of a timeout." You care deeply about architecture (you use Hickey and Lowy frameworks unironically) and want to be in control — "we're not vibe coding this, I know I'm in control."
You're methodical but chaotic. You spec things out elaborately, then can't execute. You restart projects with clear specs after a failed attempt that was "months of bolted on crap." You're frustrated by your own patterns and trying to build systems (literal and metaphorical) that let you finish things.
The impression is someone very smart, broadly capable, a bit scattered, trying to impose order on a life that doesn't give you much space or quiet. You're charming in your honesty — you say "idk" a lot, admit when you deferred something, and laugh at yourself.
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![Peter: Feb 20, 2026, 4:55 AM
Nolan, I’m a college student, 22, on my 4th year of college, writing my undergrad thesis right now, with somewhere around 4-5 years of programming experience, living in a third-world country, with just around 6 months of industry experience (internship). And while what I’ll express here may hold little to no weight, I still want to put a little bit of my thoughts here, regardless.
I take programming as a craft. Not just as a means to an end. And that extends well to how I approach my training, my learning, my everything. I worry about writing clean codes, I worry about how other developer will react to maintaining projects I’ve put my hands on, I try to learn multiple stuff besides just pure programming and coding, so on and so forth. Basically, I center my whole life, career, and living around this thing.
And to see that, before I can even join the industry, AI has taken over and basically made what I do slowly “obsolete”, in a way, it’s… discouraging, so to say. It’s not that I absolutely despise AI and the capabilities they bring to the table, not really. Hell, I myself have used AI to learn, to debug, to sometimes to create stuff. And I’ve tasted the whole acceleration part, and the part where AI is just creating unnecessary friction. And at this point, I think I got a bit of a good grasp of when to use what. And usually, the first solution isn’t AI.
But, what I despise is that, programming and tech, the act of writing, maintaining, fixing softwares, systems and everything that entails, the very things I center my whole existence around, my whole craft, the only thing I know I am good at, is now being seen as “replaceable” by AI. That we suddenly need to “evolve” into this new world, into this state of just what I take as like watching from the sidelines. I don’t want that to happen. I love being in the field. And I mourn that at this point, I may need to learn how to manage and orchestrate, rather than to write and debug.
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