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Senior UI Engineer at @NetflixUIE. Lover of #JavaScript, #ReactJS, and #RWD. Talking head on @frontendhh, road/trail runner, and sci-fi reader.

San Jose, CA
Joined March 2009
Be careful taking agentic development advice from someone with unlimited tokens.
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If you think of @cursor_ai as an IDE with agents built in I think you’re missing the point. It’s actually an AME, agent management environment, with coding tools built in.
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If you don’t use soap when you wash your hands you aren’t doing anything but giving the parasites a drink.
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Using a default AI voice is like using the default editor theme. Personalizing your LLM’s tone should be one of the first things you do when opening cursor, claude or whatever agentic coding tool you prefer.
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I just turned 48. I eat burgers and wings and love a cold beer. I only had adjustable weights, a bench, and a pull up bar. I skip workouts when I’m busy or tired, but I am consistent. I rarely miss two workouts in a row. You don’t need a fancy diet or full gym to stay in shape.
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I keep trying to move to one of these cool new terminal emulators like warp or ghostty but keep coming back to iTerm. It's the only one that does everything I want with no weird behaviors.
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Traded in my Tesla MS for a Sierra Denali EV. I love this thing!
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The heart speaks softer than the ego.
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Broke out the bomb pop for tonight’s #USMNT match!
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I'll just change this simple type for this one variable in this one file..four hours later...
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I still haven’t learned my lesson…every time I’ve ordered an @Uber premiere car I’ve been very disappointed.
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🌶️ opinion. Fireworks are extremely overrated.
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Decided to try @PlayApex again while in quarantine and it took about 20 mins to realize why I stopped.
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Broke out the bomb pop jersey for the Nations League final.
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Yay, a new season of @PlayApex dropped today, I can't wait play against all those "new accounts" who have somehow instantly mastered complicated movements and became expert marksmen with every gun. Will be a fun few weeks of getting killed in the first fight.
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I didn't realize that this was a popular thing to do today but I hacked, and i do mean hacked, together a simple app to help my kiddo learn the digits of PI. bittersweetryan.github.io/le…
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This happen to anyone else?
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Raise your hand if you’ve ever responded “maybe” for a meeting and actually attended. I think I’m 0/1000 at this point.