Legacy code is like aging: it's a privilege denied to many.
Legacy code means the business model worked for a long time, feeding employee families and keeping the business running.
There's an entire graveyard of modern stacks out there.
the replacements.fyi site now lets you drop a package.json into it to see which dependencies can be replaced with native functionality, or more performant choices 🎉
Delighted to be launching Fraude Design: the AI-free site builder for genius founders.
For too long, making bad decisions with horrendous amounts of technical debt was limited to founders with an AI license. No more! Now you can make slop without the token usage!
fraude.design
I started from an empty directory, and built a project with Tempest in an hour. It was super fun: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK3u...
This 💯%
I wanted a way to explore Unicode by visual similarity, not just by name or codepoint, so I built Charcutrie.
It lets you browse characters that look alike, search across scripts and symbols, and even sketch a shape to find matching glyphs. (pretty badly for now :D)
charcuterie.elastiq.ch#U+221E
The intrusive thoughts overwhelmed my last two brain cells
Just a reminder: AI doesn't replace workers.
AI just gives executives an excuse to lay off workers, while forcing everyone left to do more with less, for the same amount of pay.
Same game it's always been, just with a new uncritical framing.