Jon C. Phillips
@joncphillips
Product engineer and designer 🎨 · photography nerd 📷 · guitarist 🎸 · wearer of many hats 🧢
Time for a reintroduction. Or maybe an explanation of where the hell I've been. Hi, I'm Jon. You might follow me but have no idea who I am. Here's why. I started this account back in 2007. Twitter (as it was called back then) was kinda weird. We had fail whales, 140 chars max,…
That last line is all I really needed to know, keep at it guys!
A friend asked me to look at their code, and *Holy Mother of God!* He works for a medium-sized company. They are building some sort of internal CRM. They've been vibe-coding some of the new features. They are professional developers. Most, I assume, know what they are doing,…
Consistency isn’t sexy but it’s literally the only hack that works, for real
Canadian dev starter pack 🇨🇦 Apologizing for your code working correctly, saying ‘eh?’ after explaining technical concepts, and checking the USD to CAD exchange rate to feel better about your side project revenue.
Here’s one thing I love about vibe coding (still hate that name, but whatever): main wrapper .container div.content p.text span.important { color: blue !important; } Claude Code will make sense of that crap and rewrite it to work and make the CSS cleaner.
It feels so strange to just delete followers. I'm used to cleaning up email lists and deleting dead subscribers, all good there. But removing zombie followers from 10 years ago on Twitter still feels weird. And… another 1k gone. Making progress.
White space is free. Stop cramming everything above the fold like it's 2003.
Never thought I'd do this... but I reserved one 🙈
Introducing Lume, the robotic lamp. The first robot designed to fit naturally into your home and help with chores, starting with laundry folding. If you’re looking for help and want to avoid the privacy and safety concerns of humanoids in your home, pre-order now.
People out there complaining that they get replies that sound like AI on their posts... but their own posts sound like they're straight out of a bad gpt wrapper 🤦
When you're invited to another team's Slack and you discover all their custom emojis
The feature that takes 2 weeks to build will be used by 3 people. The hack you throw together in an hour? Everyone will absolutely love it. Crazy how it works eh?
I’m like this close to just biting the bullet and upgrading Claude from the 5x Max plan to the 20x plan.
This is why I’m bullish on security. Stuff like that should not happen, it was just carelessness on the part of whomever developed that app.
The Tea app has been hacked, and you can go download 59.3 gigabytes of user selfies right now. The hack is real. A picture from someone I know who signed up just to see what was on there was in it. This was an obviously vibe-coded app and was bound to be insecure.
Friendly reminder: That ugly PHP script from 2015 that's been processing transactions for nearly a decade? The one no one has touched since it got released? Leave it alone. Working code is beautiful code.
Ideas are worth exactly $0 until you hit publish or deploy. Remember that SaaS or website idea you almost built in 2023? Well someone else probably did it and has 10k users now. Do it.
Craft CMS has spoiled me. Now every other CMS feels like a punishment (looking at you WordPress).
It does smell
I can smell an AI generated frontend from 10 miles away.