Historically, I’ve struggled to find a concise, simple way to explain what it means to practice type-driven design. Too often, when someone asks me “How did you come up with this approach?” I find I can’t give them a satisfying answer. I know it didn’t just come to me in a vision—I have an iterative…
What makes a cool URI? A cool URI is one which does not change. What sorts of URI change? URIs don't change: people change them. There are no reasons at all in theory for people to change URIs (or stop maintaining documents), but millions of reasons in practice. In theory, the domain name space owner…
One of the first XKCD comics to go viral was this one, #303: Today, the web developer version would be "my site's building" and they would be playing swords in VR. Sites take time to build these days. A large Next.js 11 site will take several minutes to build. This is wasted time in the…
Our story begins. “Hey, ChatGPT is cool” Like everyone else when ChatGPT launched a few months ago we dove in and played with. It is impressive. In January, as the new AI queston and answer service became more and more popular, we noticed something interesting. Some new OpenCage users were starting to answer “ChatGPT” when…
Read time in minutes: 2Image generated by Waifu Diffusion v1.3 -- zen, peaceful, onsen, shibuya, anime, coffee shop, colorful, manga, sunset, space needle, thick outlines, hyrule This is a lesson that was very hard for me to learn and I feel I should share this here for everyone to take a moment and consider. You…
I was in two minds about writing this but in the end the thought of preventing someone going through what I went through is enough to tip the scales.As per title, sometimes in life you don't realise how toxic something can be until you leave it behind, no matter that be a bad habit, a…
