Journal
A running log of articles, videos, posts, tools, and real-life notes worth reflecting on.
charlota (@0xCharlota) on AEO (AI Engine Optimization) — making websites show up when people ask ChatGPT/LLMs about you. Practical advice from working with 3 clients this year.
— charlota (@0xCharlota) May 23, 2026
Beyond Coding podcast (Patrick Akil) interviews Bassem Dghaidi on how Senior Engineers at GitHub approach system design and scaling in practice — beyond theoretical interview-style complexity. ~46 min.
X Article on why not to use useEffect
— Alvin Sng (@alvinsng) March 17, 2026
sunil pai (@threepointone) recommends two talks from AI Engineer Europe ("Vienna school of agentic coding"): @badlogicgames "Building pi in a World of Slop" and @mitsuhiko / @cristinaponcela "The Friction is Your Judgment".
You should watch these 2 talks from AI Engineer Europe, from the "Vienna school of agentic coding":@badlogicgames "Building pi in a World of Slop" https://t.co/MlXOb7kfGT@mitsuhiko / @cristinaponcela "The Friction is Your Judgment" https://t.co/CY2htvix9w
— sunil pai (@threepointone) April 18, 2026
They're very good.
Chintan Turakhia (@chintanturakhia) shares a useful prompt to run periodically: ask Claude to scrape all your local sessions and break down patterns into things worth turning into skills, plugins, agents, or claude.md entries. Great for self-reviewing your AI workflows.
Run this prompt frequently.
— Chintan Turakhia (@chintanturakhia) March 7, 2026
You're welcome. pic.twitter.com/8WafOU4a5S
Shao (@shaoruu) demos building with prodected — asks "is prodected worth it?" and 3 hours later has an 80-line server to show for it. A practical endorsement of the tool for fast scaffolding.
1. go to chrome dev tools
— ian (@shaoruu) February 20, 2026
2. in memory tab, take a snapshot & download
3. drop it into @cursor_ai @cursor_ai will write python scripts to analyze the snapshot and point out what's making your website feel sluggish pic.twitter.com/ih31y2lplm
Simon Willison (@simonw) recommends Datasette — a tool for exploring and publishing data. "If you're not already obsessed with Datasette, you should check it out."
Vibe coding is irresponsibly building software through dice rolls, not caring what code is produced
— Simon Willison (@simonw) October 7, 2025
What about when engineers at the top of their game use AI tools responsibly to accelerate their work?
I propose "vibe engineering"!
Katelyn Lesse (@katelyn_lesse) on focus: "achieve great outcomes by focusing on the urgent + important quadrant of the eisenhower matrix. learn to recognize what meets that criteria and treat everything else as secondary." Includes an Eisenhower matrix image with the "do now" quadrant shaded.
achieve great outcomes by focusing on the urgent + important quadrant of the eisenhower matrix. learn to recognize what meets that criteria and treat everything else as secondary. pic.twitter.com/A4R4w87sax
— Katelyn Lesse (@katelyn_lesse) August 25, 2025