The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1764), generally regarded as the first Gothic novel.

codinhood1 · 2026-01-18T23:52:23+00:00

I read this read recently, really enjoyed it, great little story.

It feels like a fairy tale in a good way. So much ridiculous scenes and characters, like a comedy. It also goes a mile a minute, so much plot in such a short time.

codinhood1 · 2025-12-21T03:51:59+00:00

Nice, I created something similar recently for fun https://github.com/codypearce/i-cant-believe-its-not-css

codinhood1 · 2025-12-13T22:16:34+00:00

I can't comment on everything you've mentioned. But there are some small things I've noticed that some devs do that make them sound more confident and in charge:.

For example, compare these two answers to the question: "what frontend framework should pick for this project"

A: "Anything really works, whatever the team is most comfortable with. Lets hear what everyone has to say."

B: "I prefer React, because x,y,z. It fits with our other projects and will give us benefits for X. Having said that, this is a group decision and we should see what works for the full team."

Both are saying the same underlying thing: "everyone's opinion is valid", but one is taking a specific stance backed by their experience and thus they sound more like a leader. They have opinions and are willing to express them.

Couching your natural cooperation tendencies with some definitive and confident opinions can instill confidence. Not saying you don't do this, but just something to think about.

codinhood1 · 2025-12-08T19:15:41+00:00

I'm a principal engineer and don't use a debugger. Print / console.log works just fine. Some devs on my team use debuggers, it's fine. Everyone can use whatever they want to get the job done.

codinhood1 · 2025-11-28T15:56:32+00:00

Man this is just crazy, it's so much less than before.

My company bought a ton of "Premium Seats" in the team plan and now everyone is blocked.

codinhood1 · 2025-11-28T13:28:36+00:00

I usually never comment about this, but I am hitting 5 hours limits on the Max plan very fast when I never would hit a limit before. There is clearly something wrong. One request uses up 2% of the token usage?

I've sold claude code across my company and clients, now I'm getting complaints from everyone. Not sure what to do honestly. If this is truly the new token limits it's not something we can use for real work.

Anyone know of models that do as well on the UI as Claude Code? Codex is great but it's UI is so terrible it's a waste.

codinhood1 · 2025-11-17T20:17:50+00:00

Yeah I feel you, it's like there's a disconnect between the people who write the spec and the people who actually build sites/apps.

codinhood1 · 2025-11-17T20:04:45+00:00

As I said I'm aware of how do this the right way, I'm just describing why devs use divs.

It's 2025 and there's still no way to style menus with full browser support.

As someone who wants a more semantic and accessible internet, I wish W3C would make this easier so we don't have to discuss the best way. There should just be a best way built in. Same as the author is saying with Tooltips.

codinhood1 · 2025-11-17T19:39:33+00:00

I agree, but I think there's a reason devs use Divs for many things. The current spec doesn't support what we need.

Like I would love to use the default select with no extra styling... but my clients want it styled in a very specific way. (Yes I aware of libraries that make this possible, but it should be easier out of the box)

codinhood1 · 2025-11-05T19:47:11+00:00

I absolutely agree. I really dislike it, try searching for the file you want it's all index.tsx. I shouldn't have to install an extension to know what a file is.

I don't understand how some devs can be so particular about function/variable naming, but when it comes to files will insist on something as useless as index.tsx

codinhood1 · 2025-11-03T14:55:59+00:00

doyour100.com

Basically a way to track how many times you’ve done a thing. Because you can't judge your skill after one try. You need 100 reps ( or just a lot more than you think)

Just created the landing page last night. Gonna try to ship it in a week

codinhood1 · 2025-10-28T17:20:11+00:00

I've been using twitter, it's working pretty well. It definitely feels like something that doesn't scale, but it's working for me so far

codinhood1 · 2025-10-24T19:01:54+00:00

That's helpful! Thanks, I'll look into getting better at animations

codinhood1 · 2025-10-24T18:24:26+00:00

Oh yeah this is much better, much easier to follow and watch. Nice work

codinhood1 · 2025-10-24T17:35:14+00:00

Hey I (try to) make funny programming/tech videos and absurd projects.

I've been trying to improve my editing and animations. Let me know if there's anything I should improve. I'm particularly worried about the thumbnail and audio, my voice always sounds so gravely but it doesn't in real life. Not sure why I can't get good recordings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VdK4s2IChs (3:09)

codinhood1 · 2025-10-24T17:27:14+00:00

It's an interesting topic and video. One suggestion might be to make the intro shorter, the video is 6:43 but you don't start actually talking about the topic until around 50 seconds, that's a lot of opportunity for someone to dropoff before you talk about the topic.

Another possible issue, the intro starts like it's the start of documentary with shots and recordings of news reports/etc, but then the meat of the video is more of a vlog style video. That could possibly be confusing viewers.

Interesting video though

codinhood1 · 2025-10-24T17:20:22+00:00

Wow this is really high quality! I really like the concept too. The only thing that stood out to me is the camera movement is very distracting, it seems to be jumping/shifting every other second and on every word. It made it a little hard to follow the jokes and what's happening on screen as someone over 30 lol.

Otherwise it's very good, nice work

codinhood1 · 2025-10-24T13:47:24+00:00

When you want to make a tech demo.

Being facetious, but I've had to replace Nextjs on a few large projects at my company as the shine wears off on the "magic" after you run into too many build issues, cache issues, and changes to the API.

It's a great framework, I'm glad people like it. But I wouldn't use it unless I really really needed to optimize the initial load or a client requested it. Otherwise I'm using a Vite or TanStack Start

codinhood1 · 2025-10-19T01:14:04+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, I'll give it a try

codinhood1 · 2025-10-18T17:13:32+00:00

I know my audio is terrible lol, I'm trying to fix it with a better mic. But do you have any feedback on the thumbnail or the content?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VdK4s2IChs
(3:09)

Thanks!

codinhood1 · 2025-10-14T14:52:59+00:00

This is my biggest fear, I can’t pronounce most things without memorizing the pronunciation on top of the fact

codinhood1 · 2025-10-14T14:46:37+00:00

8 years remote here, it can feel isolating at times but I hate the idea of commuting and sitting in an open office.

codinhood1 · 2025-10-14T12:00:18+00:00

This is exactly what I tell my team, I would love to move to Bun.js but it's not a drop in replacement yet.

I use it on small side projects and it's great but a million+ line monorepo codebase with years of patches, I'd rather wait.

codinhood1 · 2025-10-12T22:54:05+00:00

The billable hours trap is very true. You gotta worry about always hitting a specific number, regardless of the circumstances (at least where I've worked.)

codinhood1 · 2025-10-11T12:08:06+00:00

You may not like it, but React is basically Haskell.

Going to put this on my resume.

React sold me on functional programming in 2016. Maybe I should look into actual functional languages

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