Goodness, vibe coding can be frustrating. Two steps forward, five backwards.

direct manipulation

i always put an empty 8gb file in the server root. in case something happens you have quick relief to fix things

Are you almost agentic? I wrote something up on it... open.substack.com/pub/ponela…

# the nightmare bicycle imo, the most important idea in product design is to avoid the "nightmare bicycle". imagine a bicycle where the product manager said "people don't get math so we can't have numbered gears - we need to have labeled buttons for gravel mode, downhill mode, ..." this is a hypothetical "nightmare bicycle" that Andy diSessa imagines in his book Changing Minds. as he points out: it would be terrible! we'd lose the intuitive understanding of how to use the gears to solve any situation we encounter. which mode do you use for gravel downhill?? turns out, anyone can understand numbered gears totally fine after a bit of practice. people are capable! along the same lines - one of the worst misconceptions in product design is that a microwave needs to have a button for every thing you could possibly cook: "popcorn", "chicken", "potato", "frozen vegetable" bla bla bla. you really don't! you can just have a time (and power) button. people will figure out how to cook stuff. good designs expose systematic structure; they lean on their users' ability to understand this structure and apply it to new situations. we were born for this. bad designs paper over the structure with superficial labels that hide the underlying system, inhibiting their users' ability to actually build a clear model in their heads.

Bret Victors principle of Immediate Connection, drives much of my thinking today, had to write about it… blog.ponelat.com/p/why-arent… @Dynamicland1

now this is a side project

My first post on Substack! Just something to get going with... Marketing jargon on landing pages open.substack.com/pub/ponela…

Fun!

Philosophy is like understanding atoms. Useless, unless you can do something with it, and a dangerous rabbit hole. Stay safe people.

I did not expect that I would ever have to drop such a message, but here it is. My teammates and I from the AsyncAPI team at Postman need to find new jobs. docs.google.com/spreadsheets… 1/n

This is possibly the funniest SNL skit ever made, lol

First time I've had cli tool as me for my email...

Who's running a small independent studio for design/dev/copywriting, lets connect! 🔗

`ls -lotr` to list files by modification date. You don't need the `-o`, but at least I can remember the acronym with it... lord-of-the-rings 😅

Yay! There is an open source project like @Dynamicland1 , thanks @FolkComputer ! I look forward to seeing more of your experiments.

My big news for the month 👇👇. We've joined @Atlassian

Beware of this behavior #javascript #whatwgurl

For #Python programmers, try `import this` in a REPL. A little easter egg courtesy of the python glossary: docs.python.org/3/glossary.h…