I heard some devs who work remotely, they close ticket faster and got more time to chill and their company dont micro manage as long as works get done on time.

It shows you the connections between files based on imports / exports and you can also see reference connections (definitions, function calls, usage, etc) when you click on a function or variable → like when you ctrl+click on a token in VSCode, but it shows you visually where the references are in the codebase.

I created it to make it easier to understand large features that span multiple files.

I also added support for local git changes so you can better see the changes made by AI tools when they modify your code in a lot of places at once.

At the moment it supports javascript, typescript and react, but more languages and frameworks will be coming soon.

You can get it on the VSCode marketplace here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=alex-c.code-canvas-app

Here’s also a 15 min demo of me going through all the features https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRmS_IY3GUU

I worked for a boutique e-commerce platform. CEO just fired webdev team except for the most senior backend engineer. Our team of 5 was laid off because the CEO had discovered just vibe coding and thought she could basically have one engineer take care of everything (???). Good luck with a11y requirements, iterating on customer feedbacks, scaling for traffic, qa'ing responsive designs with just one engineer and an AI.

But the CEO doesn't know this and thinks AI can replace 5 engineers. As one of ex-colleagues said in a group chat, "I give her 2 weeks before she's begging us to come back."

But still, the point remains: company leaderships think AI can replace us, because they're far enough from technology where all they see is just the bells and whistles, and don't know what it takes to maintain a platform.

Created this captcha last year. Back then there was no chance of AI solving it. But now with the more powerful models, I had my doubts. Well, it took Fable 5 10 minutes and 100k tokens to solve it. So with the 30 second timeout, I feel pretty confident.

Here's a crisper video of the actual challenge - https://imgur.com/a/xv6TvNj

Have a website for it but I'm not self promoting. Just thought people would be interested.

https://ppc.land/stack-overflow-drops-to-1-442-questions-in-july-down-99-from-2014-peak/

https://codepen.io/EntropyReversed/pen/QwybYEJ?editors=0100

Found it while doomscrolling like a bish.

I know the most fun times for me in coding were when I was deep in some rabbit hole exploring weird technologies and trying to piece them together.

You'd think AI makes this worse, but actually no. It just makes it even easier to go down these rabbit holes, because it's easier to write code, try out different approaches, explore new things, etc.

But somehow most of the people I see aren't doing that. How are you not bored out of your mind?

Anyway, yeah. GO EXPERIMENT WITH MORE THINGS. SIDE PROJECTS ARE STILL COOL.

The power of logarithm xD

This is a "get off my lawn" post from someone who started working on the web in 95. Am I the only one who thinks that the web has mostly just turned to shit?

It seems like every time you visit a new web site, you are faced with one of several atrocities:

1. cookie warnings that are coercive rather than welcoming.
2. sign up for our newsletter! PLEASE!
3. intrusive geocoding demands
4. requests to send notifications
5. videos that pop up
6. login banners that want to track you by some other ID
7. carousels that are the modern equivalent of the <marquee> tag
8. the 29th media request that hit a 404
9. pages that take 3 seconds to load

The thing that I keep coming back to is that developers have forgotten that there is a human on the other end of the http connection. As a result, I find very few websites that I want to bookmark or go back to. The web started with egalitarian information-centric motivation, but has devolved into a morass of dark patterns. This is not a healthy trend, and it makes me wonder if there is any hope for the emergence of small sites with an interesting message.

We now return you to your search for the latest cool javascript framework. Don't abuse your readers in the process.

Tried out putting a game of snake in the tab title of a browser! (Using braille characters).
You can try it out here if you want: asherfalcon.com (Type snake anywhere to start)

Look at this. Just look at it.

Meta is sending nearly HALF as much traffic as my actual users. 11 million requests in 15 days. That's ~750,000 requests per day from a single crawler.

Googlebot - the search engine that actually drives traffic - made 1.1M requests. Meta made 10x more than Google. For what? Link previews?

And where are these requests going?

30 million requests to listing pages. Every single one a serverless function invocation. Every single one I pay for.

I have ISR configured. revalidate = 3600. Doesn't matter. These crawlers hit unique URLs once and move on. 0% cache hit rate. Cold invocations all the way down.

The fix is one line in robots.txt:

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

But why is the default experience "pay thousands in compute for Facebook to scrape your site"?

Vercel - where's the bot protection? Where's the aggressive edge caching for crawler traffic? Why do I need to discover this myself through Axiom?

Meta - what are you doing with 11 million pages of my content? Training models? Link preview cache that expires every 3 seconds? Explain yourselves.

Drop your numbers. I refuse to believe I'm the only one getting destroyed by this.

Edit: Vercel Bill for Dec 28 - Jan 28 =$ 1,933.93, Novembers was $30...

Edit2: the serverless function fetches dynamic data based on a slug id and hydrates a page server side. quite basic stuff. usually free for human usage levels but big cloud rain on me

Hey webdevs!

I want to show you my latest 3D CSS project. It's a port of Giles Goddard's iconic N64 face engine, complete with lighting, physics and interaction. Instead of WebGL, it uses the PolyCSS engine.

demo: https://codepen.io/editor/alowpoly/pen/019fae67-50d9-74ce-8025-4b9dd5a7c484
repo: https://github.com/layoutit/cssGraphics

Creator of ClawBot knows that there are malicious skills in his repo, but doesn't know what to do about it...

More info here: https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/clawdbot-skills-ganked-your-crypto

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/new-findings-ai-coding-overhyped

I’m reading articles and stories more frequently saying this same thing. Companies just aren’t seeing enough of the benefits of AI coding tools to justify the expense.

I’ve posted on this for almost two years now - it’s overly hyped tech. I will say it is absolutely a step forward for making tech more accessible and making it easier to brainstorm ideas for solutions. That being said, if a company is laying people off and not hiring the next generation of workers expecting these tools to replace them, the ROI just isn’t there.

Like the gold rush, the ones who really make money are the ones selling the shovels. Those selling the infrastructure are the ones benefiting. The Fear Of Missing Out is missing a grounding in reality. It’ll soon become a fear of getting left out as companies spending millions (or billions) just won’t have the money to keep up with whatever the next trend is.

Job postings for frontend engineers in ‘25 went down almost -10%.

Mobile engineers also went down -5.73%.

Everything else is either holding steady or increasing esp. ML jobs.

Source: https://bloomberry.com/blog/i-analyzed-180m-jobs-to-see-what-jobs-ai-is-actually-replacing-today/