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1 month later: "Re-writing DuckDB in Rust with Claude Ultra". There is a curios phenomenon, big tech uses great open source projects as a guinea pig for experimenting agent-based development approaches, see Bun, AstroJS.

CodePen is like an HTML/CSS/JS temple. Greate place to explore the limits of what native web offers.

I have never seen people this hyped and excited about a security incident.

I wish someone could write a "The Good Parts" book for Emacs. Even after reading the manual twice, I'm still overwhelmed with the API and forget even the most basic configuration options after a month of inactivity.

Thanks to tools like aider and claude code, these scaffold projects are getting more and more helpful. Just clone it and prompt it for your use case.

I'd like to take this question one step further: When do you think is an appropriate point to take a sabbatical? After working for a year, two years, three etc. The reason I'm asking is that junior developers might feel the need for a break earlier in their careers compared to experienced devs.

“…a human reasoning lab”

closes the tab

Please don’t do it, this will surely limit out potential!

imho waste of engineering time…

Sounds like GladOs from Portal 2

Amazing timing, I was just getting into open source these days and I have the same feelings you described in the beginning when I make a contribution. The essay kindly tells us how you feel right now, proud but tired and contemplating. IMHO That’s always going to be the case for hard working people like you, but still it is interesting that you kept pushing even though you didn’t feel comfortable and confident doing all those things you were unprepared for. And even though you were able to overcome all those challenges, you still doesn’t sound satisfied with you current situation. Maybe that’s because you have even bigger dreams? I think you’ve done an amazing work and deserve a long rest. I’m sure it’ll be bit harder for people depending on you, but they’ll get used to it eventually and you’ll feel more relaxed and maybe more fulfilled by giving yourself some space and time.