Read the Tea Leaves

I was a voracious reader as a kid, and I noticed a funny phenomenon: whatever writer I had most recently read, my next paper for English class would sound like them.

A lot of the educators I admire in the frontend web space seem to be either bowing out or dialing back their efforts: Axel Rauschmayer, Salma Alam-Naylor, Josh W.

There’s a bizarre aspect of AI coding that I’ve been trying to put my finger on, and I think it’s this: you can basically just decide how many bugs you want your software to have now.

A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible.

Programming is an art.

You had a story you used to tell yourself about how you got here in life.

Oprah Winfrey and I have something in common, which is that our favorite album is Paul Simon’s Graceland.

I didn’t ask for this and neither did you.

My first blog post was published just under 15 years ago in March of 2011.

TL;DR: With one prompt, I built an implementation of IndexedDB using Claude Code and a Ralph loop, passing 95% of a targeted subset of the Web Platform Tests, and 77.4% of a more rigorous subset of tests.