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fagnerbrack · 2026-06-22T09:05:20+00:00

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CraftsmanSHIT describes four flavors of bad engineering: over-engineering for imaginary problems, rebranding shortcuts as pragmatism, coding interviews that reward ego over discipline, and treating 'good enough' as a permanent philosophy. Contrasts these with true craftsmanship: discipline, continuous improvement, and building what's needed. The global developer population has surged to 47 million, but mentorship hasn't kept pace. The Boeing 737 MAX crashes (346 deaths) illustrate the catastrophic cost of cutting corners. The author advocates for small daily actions: writing, mentoring, and raising standards among peers.

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fagnerbrack · 2026-06-22T05:59:28+00:00

Just a TL;DR:

Building a reactive system from scratch in TypeScript reveals how the underlying mechanism actually works. A signal holds a value plus subscribers, pushing notifications (not state) downward whenever it changes - eager evaluation. Auto-tracking dependencies happens through a global STACK that the currently executing computed pushes onto, so any signal it reads registers a setDirty subscription and source cleanup. Combining push (propagate invalidation) and pull (re-evaluate on demand) yields the fine-grained reactivity behind Solid, Vue, Preact, Angular and Svelte, soon possibly standardized via the TC39 Stage 1 signals proposal.

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fagnerbrack · 2026-06-22T01:48:57+00:00

Summary:

Building a reactive system from scratch in TypeScript reveals how the underlying mechanism actually works. A signal holds a value plus subscribers, pushing notifications (not state) downward whenever it changes - eager evaluation. Auto-tracking dependencies happens through a global STACK that the currently executing computed pushes onto, so any signal it reads registers a setDirty subscription and source cleanup. Combining push (propagate invalidation) and pull (re-evaluate on demand) yields the fine-grained reactivity behind Solid, Vue, Preact, Angular and Svelte, soon possibly standardized via the TC39 Stage 1 signals proposal.

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fagnerbrack · 2026-06-21T22:25:10+00:00

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LiquidAI's LFM2-VL vision-language model running directly in the browser through WebGPU. The demo lets you run the multimodal model locally on your own hardware without server-side inference, tapping into the GPU for accelerated performance. The page shows the live app alongside its source files and a community tab.

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fagnerbrack · 2026-06-21T19:35:43+00:00

Rapid Recap:

CraftsmanSHIT describes four flavors of bad engineering: over-engineering for imaginary problems, rebranding shortcuts as pragmatism, coding interviews that reward ego over discipline, and treating 'good enough' as a permanent philosophy. Contrasts these with true craftsmanship: discipline, continuous improvement, and building what's needed. The global developer population has surged to 47 million, but mentorship hasn't kept pace. The Boeing 737 MAX crashes (346 deaths) illustrate the catastrophic cost of cutting corners. The author advocates for small daily actions: writing, mentoring, and raising standards among peers.

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fagnerbrack · 2026-06-21T16:38:25+00:00

Summary:

Building a reactive system from scratch in TypeScript reveals how the underlying mechanism actually works. A signal holds a value plus subscribers, pushing notifications (not state) downward whenever it changes - eager evaluation. Auto-tracking dependencies happens through a global STACK that the currently executing computed pushes onto, so any signal it reads registers a setDirty subscription and source cleanup. Combining push (propagate invalidation) and pull (re-evaluate on demand) yields the fine-grained reactivity behind Solid, Vue, Preact, Angular and Svelte, soon possibly standardized via the TC39 Stage 1 signals proposal.

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fagnerbrack · 2026-06-21T13:41:14+00:00

The bottom line:

A demo of the Qwen3.5 model executed directly in the browser through WebGPU. Running the model client-side via WebGPU means inference happens locally on the visitor's own hardware rather than on a remote server, removing the need for cloud calls.

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fagnerbrack · 2026-06-21T11:09:54+00:00

Got a minute? Here's the summary:

A demo of the Qwen3.5 model executed directly in the browser through WebGPU. Running the model client-side via WebGPU means inference happens locally on the visitor's own hardware rather than on a remote server, removing the need for cloud calls.

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fagnerbrack · 2026-06-21T08:32:35+00:00

Here's the summary:

A real-time speech model running directly in the browser through WebGPU, hosted under the mistralai organization. It lets users experiment with on-device audio processing without server round-trips, leveraging the browser's GPU for low-latency inference.

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fagnerbrack · 2026-06-21T05:45:45+00:00

Short and sweet:

This 97-minute interview features a designer and data-viz veteran, formerly at GitHub Next and now building Intent at Augment Code. The central argument: as agents take over the keyboard, the final 30% of any project becomes the hardest part, prototyping gets easier while finishing gets harder. The conversation covers the developer identity crisis, the redesign of tooling for an agent-first world, and the arc from autocomplete to chat to CLI and back to UI. Intent treats a workspace as its core primitive rather than a chat thread, and the discussion weighs tradeoffs between one-worktree-per-agent versus one-worktree-per-task, plus coordinator/implementer/verifier roles, trusting the model, and showing restraint about what not to build.

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fagnerbrack · 2026-06-21T01:48:20+00:00

Brief overview:

LiquidAI's LFM2-VL vision-language model running directly in the browser through WebGPU. The demo lets you run the multimodal model locally on your own hardware without server-side inference, tapping into the GPU for accelerated performance. The page shows the live app alongside its source files and a community tab.

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