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 🇵🇸🕊
indie software dev 💜 learning 日本語 (on hold) 🎌 22y/o muslim from morocco 🇲🇦 building thingies at skaldebane.dev 💙 free palestine 🇵🇸🕊
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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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![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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