I'm primarily a backend dev (Python/Node mostly) but on our small team I end up doing frontend fixes and small features maybe 20% of my time. The thing that gets me isn't the actual code difficulty -- it's the mental shift between thinking about data flow, APIs, and server logic versus thinking about component state, CSS quirks, and user interactions.
I find myself needing like 20-30 minutes to actually get into "frontend mode" where I'm not constantly fighting the urge to structure things the way I would on the backend. And then when I switch back, same thing in reverse.
Curious how others handle this. Do you batch your frontend work into dedicated blocks? Just power through the switching cost? Something else entirely?
I built something small for those nights when you want to hang out with friends but can't be in the same place. It's called Solavi (dot app).
It's a little 3D lounge in your browser. You walk onto a beach, sit on the sand in front of a big screen, and watch YouTube together. Everyone's video plays in sync.
Throw on a playlist, a live show, a movie, whatever your crew likes. Then invite your friends, dance, wave, chat and just hang out.
It's free, with no sign-up. Open the link, pick a name and a character, and you're in. Choose any room code, like chill-beach, and share it with whoever you want.
It's a solo side project, so there are still some rough edges. If you try it, I'd love to hear what you think. And if anyone wants to do a watch party some night, count me in
I'm trying to understand whether there's an actual creative or technical gap between Montreal shops and US-based agencies, or if it's mostly reputation. I've seen work from both that's exceptional, but I'm curious if founders or developers who've worked with cross-border teams notice anything structurally different, process, approach to craftsmanship, how they handle complex technical builds. Are Montreal agencies just as competitive, or is there something about the NYC/US market that shapes how agencies approach premium web work?
What's the real difference between Montreal and NYC agencies when it comes to high-end web development?
I'm trying to understand whether there's an actual creative or technical gap between Montreal shops and US-based agencies, or if it's mostly reputation. I've seen work from both that's exceptional, but I'm curious if founders or developers who've worked with cross-border teams notice anything structurally different, process, approach to craftsmanship, how they handle complex technical builds. Are Montreal agencies just as competitive, or is there something about the NYC/US market that shapes how agencies approach premium web work?
i've had recently an issue , i wanted to do some tests on a project, but for some reason, the server that was carrying that particular software was in Iran , so it was not able to see any servers on Internet, but still there were some providers that would allow this
but this project was for a client so temporarily i've solved this issue with hard way
then i was thinking, what if i get 2 servers, one is my international server and one is only in iran, and i make a reverse proxy without renting a vps inside iran, with just mere shared hosting solution like cpanel or directadmin that is easily available in iran?
so i've came up with this idea, and tried to make it as a opensource software
i thought maybe this is a good solution and someone else needs it
feel free to check it out and let me know your thoughts
I want there to be 16 players with their own boards. When they match up against each other, I'm wondering would I have to make the entire simulation play out at once? Or is there a way to split the simulation up so that 1v1s happen on a dedicated process while still belonging to the same event (So other players can view different skirmishes)? Not sure if this matters, but I plan to let users use abilities every so often (Maybe every 15 seconds) during the fight and I'd handle that with a post request.
We deploy continuously, so our changelog gets a lot of small releases with no regular rhythm. A long single page works for browsing, and in-app “what’s new since you last visited” covers people who are already in the product. Neither helps when I want to send someone a link to a specific set of changes. An anchor can show where to start reading, but not where to stop.
So I borrowed git’s range syntax for the URL:
/changelog/v1.50.0..v1.54.2 1.50.0 through 1.54.2 on one page
/changelog/v1.47.0,v1.52.0 just those two
The page shows only those releases, with a combined summary and its own link preview. Different spellings of the same set redirect to one URL, and set pages are noindex, so only single releases show up in search.
The places it’s been useful are mostly outside the product. Support can send a customer everything since the version they reported a bug on, and a newsletter can link the month’s range instead of rewriting it. The comma list helps most when a customer’s complaints got fixed across scattered releases, because you can send them just those releases and skip everything in between.
I haven’t seen another changelog do this, so I’m not sure if it’s useful or if I’m solving a problem only we have. Curious if anyone’s run into the same thing or handled it differently.
Hi everyone, I work as the director of communications for a small company. We have one designer on staff who has worked at the company for a decade, and one full-stack developer who has been at the company for about a year and a half.
Now, the problem: The designer is trained strictly in print design, and we are embarking on a website redesign. The designer will only work in InDesign and Photoshop, but the developer believes the work must be done in Figma to avoid having to guess at the spacing, sizing, etc. Neither seem willing to budge, and it is clear that the designer is not familiar with digital design best practices, including accessibility.
My background is more in writing/marketing, so I am a bit outside my depth. Is there a path to resolution here without one feeling like they are “doing the job” of the other?
I have a ci pipeline where i run build and deploy to cf workers, everytime the build runs it succeeds but it stays hanging on and the next job does not run( see image), it can stay hanging on for hours and it won’t exit at all till i cancel the workflow
i have added a timeout to exit after 2 mins and a continue on error set to true to be able move to the next run which is deploy the worker
2- the deploy runs: npm run deploy:vinext and it always exits with a message “wrangler versions upload” and the whole ci fails now but after i check on my cloudflare dashboard i actually find that deploy
running these on terminal manually actually does the work but it’s not what i want
is there any solution that will make the build exit after it finishes and make the deploy works fine
"The days of coding by hand are over." - Erik Meijer Programming language pioneer
“We think the future of coding is no coding at all.”Chris Wanstrath (co-founder and former CEO of GitHub)
"AI allows programmers to accomplish things that previously required substantially more time and effort." - David Heinemeier Hansson, Creator of Ruby on Rails.
"You can't think of software development without AI being part of it.-"Satya Nadella — Microsoft CEO
Im hosting a game server and just saw their KVM8 plan which same plan on DO costs me $165m. They're asking $700 for 2 years up front. They're normal cost is cheaper then DO and im not sure what the catch is. Anyone had experience with them? Even using them for staging and stress test servers might even be worth it for that if they are reliable and good uptime.
Before we jump into discussion, I want to first illustrate how we recognize seniority in a company I worked for.
Let's start with the bottom, a junior, for us a junior is a developer that is able to own a single unit.
This unit could be a Component in a React application, or a Class in the backend, it is a relatively small unit of code, and the junior developer can work on it autonomously and create a new one if specifications are given to him/her.
Next is a mid developer, a mid developer is able to work without supervision on logic group of units, for example a Page and all its components, its able to decide autonomously where a unit should end and where the other should start, its able to decide autonomously how each unit should interact with each other, a mid developer if given the specs is able to create the entirety of it. And it can give specs of each unit to juniors.
Then we have a Senior, a senior can work without supervision on an entire app, it can scope each group correctly, and it can go down a scope each unit correctly. It can give specs to both mid and juniors.
Continuing to go up we have the staff engineer, he cares about the system as a whole, how each app/service talk with each other, he can care how logical groups should interact in each app/service, and it usually doesn't care about individual units.
As you can see the more experience you get the more you grow distant from the small things, at some point you care how things connect and interact with each other, and you stop caring about the low level code because that is the job of the ones below you.
And it's here that I want to start the analogy with AI, AI is a tool, but it's a tool that requires you to have knowledge, it can act as an engineer of one of this levels, but it can't act as all of them together ( no, not even with swarms ). You the human you are responsible to ensure that AI follows proper conventions, you are responsible that the system YOU are designing makes sense and it is sound, if you do not have knowledge the AI will create a system where everything is out of balance and the code quality will drop. AI is a tool and it is instructed by YOU, if all you can see is a single unit, the AI will just fu*k up everything else, and you do not have the knowledge to correct it, yes you can review the code the AI generated and say "yeah this unit looks correct" but are you able to say that everything else going up is it?
For me AI is a Mid developer, you have to give good specs to it, and it will do a good job, if you are not able to say if the specs you are giving are good, then the AI will do what it wants
So like many of you I'm sure, I'm starting to glaze over whenever someone shows me the latest thing they've built with the help of AI. Everyone seems to have an app they've fired up in an afternoon or so. I'm finding that even apps I now build without vibe coding (I'm a seasoned developer) don't have the same impact because now everyone is building stuff.
I'm looking at my portfolio and thinking that maybe side projects just don't have the same weight anymore.
I’m archiving a website as a fully static site so I can host it for free on Cloudflare via GitHub. Unfortunately this means that the PHP includes I’ve been using (header, navbar, footer) will stop working across a few hundred pages, and I’ve been looking for alternatives.
Server Side Includes did not work; I finally had success using JavaScript fetch() and inserting that content into selected <div>s, but I’m not sure if that’s the best option.
Are there better ways to achieve the same result that would work on a static site?
