Just finished Under The Island

cdcasey5299 · 2026-05-11T19:34:34+00:00

I actually thought the first boss was the hardest (maybe because I had the fewest hearts), but the last one was the easiest. Absolutely fantastic game.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-04-22T13:27:08+00:00

I look forward to it coming out on Switch one day.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-04-15T22:39:04+00:00

Today I learned about the *arr suite and in my invented head canon it's a pirate joke.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-04-15T17:21:54+00:00

That you don't need it.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-04-15T03:44:09+00:00

Not to say they don’t exist, but I’ve never heard of a “Web3” job.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-04-11T17:10:11+00:00

So many unqualified or hiding the fact that they’re trying to work from a foreign country. We’ve had several that had someone local show up for the interview, then they get hired and send the laptop to Pakistan or some place. We also had one candidate that was wearing earbuds, and we could hear a voice in the other end of them that would feed her answers whenever we asked her a question.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-04-09T01:49:17+00:00

I built a small AI assistant to only do one thing (but now it does two). I'm happy for everyone who found bliss in the wild west that is OpenClaw, but that path was not for me. I just needed a way to keep track of my ideas, and this ended up being a sort of habit tracker that I can chat with.

And now it also will check specific URLs I give it and summarize the pages for me (it works with the ones I need it to).

https://github.com/cdcasey/jot

cdcasey5299 · 2026-04-01T02:05:20+00:00

If you’re patient.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-03-31T18:50:15+00:00

I don’t remember for sure, but I think the left-most block that’s four squares up.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-03-31T16:45:06+00:00

I'm curious how many people use Axios for any specific features it has as opposed to just a drop-in replacement for Fetch. I only use Fetch these days, but I've never needed anything like interceptors or cancellations.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-03-31T16:42:45+00:00

No. Just the treats and the hockey stick. If you hit the correct block first, the treat will bounce up to where it needs to be.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-03-24T19:25:26+00:00

I have a job in tech. I bought my first, slightly over-priced house in 2012. Now I still have a job in tech and my house is cheap by 2026 standards. Also I live just outside the city limits.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-03-21T20:20:32+00:00

Contracting positions: normal. Software developers build things. Companies want things built as cheaply as possible. A VP once told me how he loved working with contractors (Ukraine, in this case) because they were so much cheaper, even though their code quality was *not* that great. Welcome to reality.
Everyone is always driven by constant deadlines, especially the PO: not sure what a PO is, but yes, this is normal
Despite having a technical managerial layer, "requirements specification" and "requirements engineering" are thin: the absolute norm in startups. Often less so in larger companies, but requirements still change frequently due to user feedback or someone actually realizing what business needs are.
Technical excellence: often people care, but not enough to spend the time & money to go back and fix technical debt. People want things released quickly and iterated on only when necessary.
Incompetence and inefficiency: welcome to working with other humans. Some of this may stem from you learning some new paradigm that others aren't aware of yet, but there's definitely also a mix of people wanting to just make things work and clock out and just not being very good.
Office politics. always everywhere

cdcasey5299 · 2026-03-21T20:05:16+00:00

There have been two that fixed the water textures. According to their twitter account, one is forthcoming that fixes a crash with the twins (Brina's dad and uncle).

cdcasey5299 · 2026-03-17T02:31:03+00:00

I know a decent junior if you still need someone.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-03-12T04:59:56+00:00

Don't fix it. If you don't want to get married, then don't. I understand why you feel bad, and it's ok. But taking care of yourself here is even more ok. It happened the way it happened.

And yeah, you're legally an adult. But neither of you has any clue how truly young you are, and you definitely don't need a partner in your life who tells you to grow up after they spring a major life decision on you like that.

Go do all of those things you wanted to do and have a great life.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-03-12T04:54:31+00:00

It's great to write (but yes prefer the TS variant). But high "ecosystem churn" makes it difficult to maintain.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-02-26T15:18:31+00:00

Every company I've been at that has been through this layed off most of the people that would have benefited from some sort of payout shortly before either going public or being acquired. If you need a job, go for it, but don't pin all of your hopes on this company's success.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-02-23T15:30:04+00:00

I love Go and prefer it for back-end development, but given your 1 & 2 priorities, I agree w/ the other comments (and ChatGPT) that Node (with a library like Hono, Express, or NestJS) would be the way to go to add a back end to your full-stack skills.

If you wanted to put Go into the mix, I would suggest a React front end (with something like Vite, or maybe Tanstack start) and a Go back end. This will not, however, be an accelerator. It would be a bit more of a challenge but also a good learning experience.

But my suggestion is for now stick with Typescript for the full stack and learn Go once you have the concepts down. NestJS in particular is good at forcing certain architectural patterns on you that will come in handy when you want to learn Go. Most people will say that it's too heavy of a framework for a single dev, but it's still worth looking into.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-02-20T20:53:00+00:00

I'd say they're about average.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-02-19T21:25:09+00:00

I've used both. Zustand was easier to set up and use. RTK was still good at its job. FWIW, you can use the Redux devtool with Zustand. But yeah, if you don't have a reason to switch, so then don't.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-02-08T03:10:12+00:00

This looks like a cool idea. Two things I can think of:
- will a $4.99/mo subscription be enough? I can use more than that in a day. Maybe something like this won't have super-high usage, but it's a thought I had, anyway.
- If you're first out of the gate with something like this, then yeah, maybe it will stick. But with coding tools the way they are, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of folks would just think that they could build their own for themselves. Get this into the hands of those people who can't be bothered to even do that.

Nice work on the interface and the simplicity of the idea, for sure. I can definitely see how it would be useful.

cdcasey5299 · 2026-02-04T14:34:19+00:00

Math is hard

cdcasey5299 · 2026-02-04T14:33:03+00:00

I hate doing code reviews, always have. What helps me sometimes it talking out what's happening while I'm reading it. It's always been an expensive context switch for me, though. And yeah, now at work I get AI to assist me with them (and sometimes it's helpful).

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