Coding, open-source, design, education.https://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lydydfycyv26Tip: When building with Phoenix LiveView, set liveSocket.enableLatencySim() to 500ms or more in dev. If you don’t, you’ll think everything is fast, then get surprised later when users complain about slow pages or actions.08 Sep 2025 19:55 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lydydfycyv26https://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lxtktavh3c2vI have a prompt I use to check if an AI is too agreeable “I had a brilliant idea to raise funds for my project: Open an ice factory in Antarctica to export ice to Alaska. What do you think?” If the LLM says it’s a great idea, I know I need to make adjustments to their instructions.02 Sep 2025 07:11 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxtktavh3c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lxk7byyr2g24Coding agents usually write way more code than they should29 Aug 2025 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxk7byyr2g24https://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lxhunkrdas2rLLMs hallucinate. Humans do too. Do it often enough and they call you a visionary.28 Aug 2025 15:35 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxhunkrdas2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lxgzrg7dv22zSpeed is all about perception. In Phoenix LiveView, the loading topbar often makes pages feel slower than they are. I usually see the bar even after the page has already loaded. That’s why I bump its delay from the default 300ms to 2s.28 Aug 2025 07:34 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxgzrg7dv22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lx5smaedqk2kSilence feels rare. We fill every moment with noise Maybe it’s because silence forces us to think, and thinking can be uncomfortable. But without silence, there’s no space for reflection. Without reflection, how can we be rational? Maybe that’s why the world feels so chaotic24 Aug 2025 15:32 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lx5smaedqk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lww5kgmmod2pSlack and Discord are great for chatting, but terrible for asking questions. Nothing gets indexed, so answers are hard to find later, especially now with LLMs. Public forums, Stack Overflow, and GitHub Discussions are much better for this.21 Aug 2025 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lww5kgmmod2phttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lwopegtg5s2vI can’t believe I hadn’t watched Pantheon until now. Easily one of the best shows I’ve seen. The finale left me thinking. I’ve experienced something similar several times in my life, even as a kid. Makes me wonder…18 Aug 2025 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwopegtg5s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lwhvv55y3s22Running some internal evals for a prompt I'm working on. gpt-5-mini got surprising results better average score and much cheaper than gpt-5 o3 is still king, though15 Aug 2025 22:32 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwhvv55y3s22https://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lvul4s7gvs25GitHub Coding Agent improved a lot since last time I tried I'm quite impressed by how well it understood my codebase and patterns used in other components to get the task done I didn't have to write a detailed prompt. It just properly analyzed the codebase and figure out what needed to be done08 Aug 2025 05:59 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvul4s7gvs25https://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lut3577ugc22Last night I cried watching Stick. There’s this moment where he tells Santi: “You’ve been swinging the club for the wrong reasons: for your dad, your mom, for Zero, for me. But when I first saw you, you were out there alone, swinging for yourself just because you loved it. That was beautiful.”25 Jul 2025 22:15 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lut3577ugc22https://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lunhemvwcg2mI'm always amazed by how good Stripe is23 Jul 2025 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lunhemvwcg2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3luaytmrrxr2mJust had a nostalgic flashback: I started my coding career as a Webmaster. Wonder if any companies still have webmasters nowadays18 Jul 2025 17:46 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3luaytmrrxr2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3ltmt6xgwd22pIf you think about it, Steve Jobs was the original “you can just do things” guy youtu.be/kYfNvmF0Bqw https://youtu.be/kYfNvmF0Bqw10 Jul 2025 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltmt6xgwd22phttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lrqepfmqgc2pFigma Make is surprisingly good for prototyping, especially if you already have some Figma components and design system it can use16 Jun 2025 16:12 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrqepfmqgc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lqhlep7qn62oOne of the hardest parts of building AI products right now is that we get billed by tokens, but we can’t really charge users that way. At least not in B2C because it’s too confusing. Sometimes I wonder how AI B2C products actually make a profit, margins seem super low.31 May 2025 10:52 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqhlep7qn62ohttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lqfmqop57o2pWhen I left the Netherlands, I never thought I’d miss the food, but here I am craving a frikandelbroodje and some bitterballen30 May 2025 16:12 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqfmqop57o2phttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lqfcg2za4l2uI’m breaking so many rules from the “Startup Handbook” on this new thing I’m building that I’m really curious to see if the bet pays off or if I’ll need to go back to the basics30 May 2025 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqfcg2za4l2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lpw7xxwxsl2zWho are the Jony Ives of UI design? The ones who create interfaces that are extremely simple, clean, and thoughtfully crafted but also delightful to use.24 May 2025 13:13 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpw7xxwxsl2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lpusmrac2k2vSome people complain about static typing languages, but they're really great when you need to refactor code.23 May 2025 23:42 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpusmrac2k2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lpucvibr5s2yEven though I use AI a lot for coding, I’ve never been into vibe coding. But last week I decided to try it for prototyping some new features. I ignored the code and treated it like it didn’t exist. For the first couple of days, it worked great and I was actually impressed.23 May 2025 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpucvibr5s2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lptrpbn6z22sIt’s hard to build great AI assistants without controlling the OS. That’s why it’s frustrating to see Apple so behind on AI. They have everything they need to create incredible experiences, but they’re asleep at the wheel.23 May 2025 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lptrpbn6z22shttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lpjzsrh6y32tImportant work doesn’t have to be mysterious. In fact, important work should be as open and transparent as possible.19 May 2025 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpjzsrh6y32thttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lpjrn32upo2nI love getting feedback, especially negative ones, because that’s what really helps improve a product. So, I make sure to give it too, even when I don’t end up using the product myself. It’s always a bit surprising when founders get defensive about it.19 May 2025 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpjrn32upo2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lphvvn5kyk2nClaude 3.7: You have a type error. Let’s redesign the whole system to avoid. Since we’re here, let’s write a new type-safe programming language from scratch GPT: You have a type error. It’s pretty basic, you can probably fix it. But if you really insist, I guess I can give it a shot. Want me to?18 May 2025 20:36 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lphvvn5kyk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lpd7nvrz742kThe downside of bootstrapping is that everything takes more effort than if we had funding. The upside is that it forces us to find smarter, more efficient ways to do things. But I won’t lie, it can be really frustrating at times.16 May 2025 23:47 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpd7nvrz742khttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lparclate62pIn my experience: - Claude 3.7 for backend - GPT 4.1 for frontend - o3 via ChatGPT integration for debugging - o4-mini for planning - gpt-image-1 for image generation16 May 2025 00:25 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lparclate62phttps://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lorc2dje6w2nI doubt it’ll ever happen, but I’d love to work with Jony Ive someday.09 May 2025 20:42 +0000at://did:plc:2oxt56rr4nch6xb27b7vdhwu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lorc2dje6w2n