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There was a time where i shipped code to production with no review, no PRs, no GitHub (SVN)
The only thing proving my work was another human doing QA.
And you bet your ass we had a balanced fear function. You never wanted a bug on your name. A stupid bug meant you’re an idiot. A complex bug was an opportunity to learn.
So I made sure to build tooling to help me QA my shit, checked things end to end. Called fellow engineers just to verify the behavior I’m seeing. I owned my shit. There was no safety net.
Working with agents “without reading the code” and no ability to review, and rubber stamp reviews are calling it: we’re back to that era. There no safety net but extreme ownership of your work. No one is going to review your shit. And you will ship your code as is.
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There are no moats anymore. There will be no moats as long as open models aren’t challenging the frontier.
There used to be a time where the big ones owned software. IBM, Microsoft, Sun. Dial back to the early 90’s.
You had no chance in hell building a startup to compete with them.
You had no moat. They owned the hardware, the standards, the information, the distribution, the data. Everything was black box by default.
The change was open computing. IBM compatible, open BIOS, open source, Linux.
That time is now back. We are just at the start of the monopoly.
No one has a moat because they can’t have a moat.
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jondot retweeted
Today I’m releasing a starter kit for Rust + inertia.js
React pages, rust server with loco, no api needed.
This fully follows the Rails kit and conventions, baked in with auth, multi-tenant accounts, live updates, generators all in one binary with SQLite.
inertia-rust.dev
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jondot retweeted
/rant on
Only going to say this once and then go back to heads down making cool shit. Not enough of you are reposting!! I see plenty of likes, but Y U SO STINGY WITH REPOSTS??
cmon, it's how you show love fo'real
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You don't have to commit your entire life to optimism, just try it on for a week. Start thinking "what if it all worked out?" and "what a time to be alive!". Then compare your state of mind to the week before filled with pessimism and doomer nonsense.
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I burned out as Individual Contributor after accepting 20 meetings in Caltris. Productivity: 60%. Score 202.
by @jondot caltris.vercel.app
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This is beyond insane: a preview of the upcoming website for ACiDTRiP build by Claude + ACiDTRiP.
All of the art was created by Claude driving ACiDTRiP MCP headless mode, using ACiDTRiP's tools, brushes, and other features; then using the ACiDTRiP harness for automation, screenshots, and other material.
Fully autonomous, fantastically delicious.
Jaw dropped. Everything on the website does something, cunningly smart, heart warming. The website itself is a piece of art.
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I'm no @carllerche but I owe him for both Rails and Tokio.
Back when everything was hand coded, I just saw first commits for Toasty thinking, oh boy, I needed that years ago.
So, for Loco.rs I still chose SeaORM.
Watching Rails do the right thing, and so many Rails clones go frigging wrong, I know this: ORMs are hard.
But maybe AI can fast track this?
@carllerche WDYT? Is Toasty ready to pull and swap into Loco.rs ?
Carl Lerche (creator of Tokio, former Ruby on Rails core team) just posted a Topcoat 0.9 update. Worth reading for the author background alone. 🦀
The pitch: make building web apps with Rust as productive as Rails. From someone who's actually done both.
What's new in 0.9:
Shards : server components that re-render when browser-side signals change. Type a character in a search box, the browser sends the signal value, the server re-runs the component against the database and sends back updated HTML. No API layer, no client state management.
Server-push via WebSocket : a live! macro and emit! for streaming UI updates over long-lived connections. Progress bars, chat messages, real-time dashboards, all from the server, in Rust.
Signal-based reactivity without roundtrips : simple state like counters and toggles runs as transpiled JavaScript in the browser. Server roundtrips only happen when you actually need the database.
Toasty (the ORM) also got substantial updates:
update! macro : toasty::update!(user { name: "Alicia", login_count.increment() }) compiles to a single SQL UPDATE with SET login_count = login_count + 1. No load, no save.
Document fields : #[document] on a struct field maps it to JSONB in PostgreSQL, with typed filter support: User::fields().settings().theme().eq("dark").
Polymorphic relations via enums owner: Owner where Owner is User or Team, handled with #[shared] and #[belongs_to] annotations instead of awkward workarounds.
The closing paragraph is the most honest thing in the post: "I don't know where we are going. The world of software engineering is completely different every three months."
🔗 tokio.rs/blog/2026-09-24-top…
#RustLang #WebDev #Tokio #FullStack #OpenSource
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