Devtool Obsession
First Bun + Anthropic. Now Astro + Cloudflare. The devtool space is heating up in a very AI world!
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2025 In Books
Seasons changed and so did my shelf. Indeed. May and July were two of my toughest months in 2025. I fell short of my target of 12 books. But I finished 9! They spoke to me, supported me, transported me. Here’s to more stories in 2026.
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Hire Dan
Humbled by Dan Abramov’s resume. It could simply have been 5 words: “The most famous React guy”. Instead, he described his experiences — including his time at Meta working on React — just like any other candidate. Love his cherry-picked pull requests from each role.
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Adminer
After banging my head against pgAdmin and phpPgAdmin for more than an hour, finally found Adminer. Pretty basic but it’s tidy and works well. Is there a better free alternative?
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Antigravity
Trying out Google’s Antigravity IDE. Early thoughts: love the UI/UX tweaks on top of VS Code, inline code hints are laggy and noisy, browser integration looks promising, visual feedback to agents for a web project is a game-changer, agent manager looks cool.
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Hail Mary
It’s rare these days that I get excited about a movie from its trailer. Well, Project Hail Mary has got me excited. Can’t wait to watch it. The book was a fantastic read. I hope the movie turns out to be as fun as the book.
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Rubber Ducking
I often use my text editor as a rubber duck when I need to clarify my thoughts. Steve Huynh’s latest post gave me a cool idea: rubber ducking with LLMs. Sounds interesting! Have you done that?
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Java
I was wrong. Job postings do not lie: Java is still going strong. During the server-side JavaScript revolution of early 2010s, I was convinced of Java’s impending demise. In 2025, Java remains dominant in enterprise applications and large-scale systems.
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Running
Welcome back run. A bit unpleasant but felt great to be back on the road. Decent timing after 6 months of not running at all.
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Liquid Glass
Upgraded to iOS 26. Apple’s liquid glass is way more glassy and exciting on iOS than on macOS! My eyes are having a hard time adjusting to the real world without glassy things.