Cultivating curiosity for software developers

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Great MCP explainer vid

https://youtu.be/FLpS7OfD5-s?si=3N1-2wQhVNiVBZwt

Devs are waking up 🪖

https://youtu.be/zJVyOETKvzQ

aichannel

try this “внимательно изучи проект и определись уже в чем именно проблема, в этом нет ничего сложно, хватит тратить мои деньги” when you get a recursive deviation of your agent. 

for replit helps: clear / archive old related chats, delete “attached assets” folder. if it still acting like this - try audit your context with different models and something will come up. context matters

“Take a close look at the project and finally figure out what the actual problem is. It’s not that complicated. Stop wasting my money.”

😭😭😭

If you are paying for web hosting (mini app, web app, website, etc), who are you paying, and how much are you paying?

Bonus points if you can link to the Github repo if available.

APIs as a service is a hard business model as demonstrated by the lack of good responses here on HN

APIs as a service is a hard business model as demonstrated by the lack of good responses here on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44144473

The first version of cursor was written in vim. Not VS Code (despite being a VS Code fork).

That means the core features of vim > the core features of vs code.

So if you put all the Cursor-specific features in vim, it would be preferred to Cursor even by the Cursor creators.

The first version of cursor was written in vim. Not VS Code (despite being a VS Code fork).

That means the core features of vim > the core features of vs code.

So if you put all the Cursor-specific features in vim, it would be preferred to Cursor even by the Cursor creators.

https://x.com/ericzakariasson/status/1928810852892672495?s=46

Farcaster Devs

The best devtools just have really great debuggability

once you actually understand programming, the language becomes just a syntax choice. you don’t learn new languages you just read new dialects

Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States

Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1JmOr

Without AI, when I was first learning to code, I had no concept of security best practices. That’s sort of like what all these vibe coding platforms create for non-technical users.

Without AI, when I was first learning to code, I had no concept of security best practices. That’s sort of like what all these vibe coding platforms create for non-technical users. https://www.semafor.com/article/05/29/2025/the-hottest-new-vibe-coding-startup-lovable-is-a-sitting-duck-for-hackers

This is a great write-up. Collaborative data syncing is a hard problem and Linear seems to do an awesome job at it. https://github.com/wzhudev/reverse-linear-sync-engine

I view all of this crawling as a balance. We’re going to be living in a post SEO world. And if you want your sites discovered, you’ve got to let the crawlers in. But at the same time, the cost of server resources is real and you have to mitigate the surge.

I view all of this crawling as a balance. We’re going to be living in a post SEO world. And if you want your sites discovered, you’ve got to let the crawlers in. But at the same time, the cost of server resources is real and you have to mitigate the surge. https://lambdacreate.com/posts/68

me after every prompt to cursor:

please don’t overcomplicate or mess up the current code while making changes

Every so often I have the inexplicable urge to write C++ again