Andy Luhrs - Posts & Links

Lenny v3 is the major refactor I've been working on, and the real challenge is just... focus.

A Beginner’s Guide to Split Keyboards - A lot of cool options, but I love my Alice layout!

Two weeks ago I was enamored with OpenClaw, and after a week of using it I decided to write my own replacement.

Why I’m Not Worried About My AI Dependency - This is a solid take on relying on AI for design or product needs.

this post is partially joking and mostly thought-provoking about balancing agentic development workflows The concept of the "996" work week is all the rage, but I'm thinking that the exact opposite might be optimal for both developers and companies that a…

This is Lenny, he's my little AI personal assistant.

Coding with AI has changed drastically over the past six months.

One List To Rule Them All - Amazing reading list on learning modern CSS features.

Next.js Is Infuriating - WebPerf PSA: Abstraction layers aren’t always good.

You no longer need JavaScript - Another great list of examples to throw into the anti-JS pile.

Links, Resources, and Humans of Note - Catching up on a backlog of RSS posts.

Enough AI copilots!

Building a web search engine from scratch in two months with 3 billion neural embeddings - This is a REALLY impressive deep dive into making your own search engine.

How I accidentally became PureGym's unofficial Apple Wallet developer -

Making Sense of the Performance Extensibility API - If you have a JS library that might impact performance spend the time to read and implement this!

Building a Personal AI Factory (July 2025 snapshot) - Pretty elaborate workflow, but always interesting to see what’s working well for people with coding agents.

Make the Web a More a Colorful Place!

MSEdgeExplainers/CSSTooltipPseudo/explainer.md at main · MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers · GitHub - Our team is taking a look at a long-standing gap in CSS to style browser tooltips!

MSEdgeExplainers/AnimationSmoothness/explainer.md at main · MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers · GitHub - Another performance area we’re looking at is giving devs the ability to measure smoothness of animations.

Add Recent History Section to Popup by Copilot · Pull Request #2 · aluhrs13/JankExt · GitHub - Really impressed.

How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility - The most thorough view into how to convince people about a11y.

aluhrs13/JankExt - I've been doing a bit of animation benchmarking and perf work, so I pulled together a quick extension to inject main thread tasks onto a page to help simulate jank.

Don't Think of an Elephant - I’ve heard of the primary point here before, it a lot of good follow-up advice in the details.

The Height Enigma - More great in-depth CSS stuff.

Life A pretty chill week followed by a family weekend, so not a ton to write about: ⚡ With crazy wind storms last year taking out our power for over a week, we decided to get a real generator.

Plain Vanilla - Obviously I’m biased, but use 👏 the 👏 platform 👏

How to 3D Print Your Own Printing Press - Do I need a 3D printed printing press?

Related Ideas to How to Instantly Feel Better - Saw the title and laughed, but all these actually feel accurate and it’s a good reminder.

Design for 3D-Printing - Saving this for future me.

I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt.

Grid First, Flex Third - As someone who struggles with CSS, I’d love to see more prescriptive articles like this.

Life 📝 I actually blogged!

Stretching Google's prefetching - Huh.

Building TMT Mirror Visualization with LLM: A Step-by-Step Journey - Love seeing how other people approach prompting.

I like some social media interactions on the topics that I care about, so I wanted to figure out a way to seamlessly post stuff to Bluesky and Mastodon (it seems like the people I'm interested in following are pretty split).

GitHub - leafeye/lunchmoney-mcp-server - I’ve been using LunchMoney for budgeting and it’s a great tool.

A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment - Probably won’t blindly trust some of this, but seems like a reasonable counter to one of the more common anti-LLM arguments.

Understanding the recent criticism of the Chatbot Arena - Another day another LLM drama.

I love reading other people's weeknotes, so I'm going to take a shot at writing some.

A fluid CSS methodology - Still working on my re-learning of more modern CSS and this is seems like a great approach to typography.

From Beta to Bedrock: Build Products that Stick. - There’s been a lot of talk about enshittification recently, and I like the concepts of this post as a baseline for fighting against it…

Writing the onboarding experience - First run experiences can be frustrating and lose users instantly.

The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen | The Verge - It’ll be interesting to see if this pans out.

GitHub - microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. - Saving this become I’m sure I’ll want it at some point for LLM stuff.

Working Through the Fear of Being Seen - This resonates with me a lot right now.

The /llms.txt file -

You're using GPT-4o image generation wrong -

React Reconciliation: The Hidden Engine Behind Your Components -

How to write error messages that actually help users rather than frustrate them -

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - A good, fun reality check for writing guides and tutorials.