Niki Tonsky

“Flexbox solved vertical centering problem”

Did it?

This is not a drill! I repeat, this is not a drill!

(exactly what a drill would say)

This was a fantastic read! https://iev.ee/blog/resharp-how-we-built-the-fastest-regex-in-fsharp/

I was meaning to write a reply to “Why is Claude an Electron App?” for a few days. Today is that day:

https://tonsky.me/blog/fall-of-native/

Gotta give it to Claude Code developers: they are exceptionally brave. I would’ve been straight up embarrassed to show stats like this.

Reminder: Claude Code is a thin CLI client that reads input from your terminal, sends it to Antrhopic servers and prints back the response.

We are now in a strange situation where selecting text on images works better than selecting text in PDFs

“After watching this video I'm only about 40% sure this is a real product, but other than that, best advert ever.”

“I just watched a nearly 12 minute commercial and I'm not upset”

“I'm having a hard time believing that I'm not watching an episode of the IT Crowd where we finally get to see what Reynholm Industries produces.”

“I will pay extra for a voice pack that has Jemaine Clement says "You've selected X" everytime I change something.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbO1z13WP8o

I am not the only one who is excited about Craighill videos, right? They are pretty cool, like fun everyday invisible engineering not-super-deep dives, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txoZacPFLZg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avey2WP8zDY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFDt3lUzVPc

So https://hyper.is/ is a terminal emulator written in JS and React. You can run Claude Code in it which uses React for its TUI rendering. That way you can finally achieve your dream of running React inside React. Now ask Claude to write a React app...

Claude Code run out of disk space in vibe VM, went ahead and deleted OpenAI Codex. War of the Machines

My friend Kevin made a super-straightforward way to run agents in VMs (so you can --yolo and live more than once)

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_02_01_vibe/#llm-agent-virtual-machine-sandbox

What's your average output in lines of code added per day?

I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning