Jack Herrington

Folks keep asking for an IRL use case for @tan_stack Start RSCs. Ok, here you go; partial page caching. CDN cache bust or TTL your pages at a component level granularity. I kept talking about it, but not showing it, so here is a deep dive video with code.

@joelhooks Dude, it's not even May. How are you already at 75%?

vercel's billing emails are 🚮 wtf does this even mean? lol

Open up the f-stop. Your depth of field is too shallow. Your eyes are clear but just inches away the back of your head is already blurry. Which gives it that fake bokeh look where Zoom is trying to draw a bokeh around your head. Also the Lego village, while cute, is still actually distracting detail even at that level of blur. In fact I might find my eyes actually trying to parse out which buildings are which or whatever, as you are speaking. Lose them. Less is more.

roast me

@hey_amandam It didn't start off that way. A couple of years back it was more positive. But I guess being critical of folks was more effective, and suddenly they were all doing it. Editors, thumbnail creators, etc. They all went that way. Really weird.

@jherr What a wild pitch strategy to insult someone to sell your own services.

I get a lot of negative feedback on my video editing by potential editors. I understand that it's a negotiating thing, but it's annoying none the less. But I do want to say that my minimalist editing style is an intentional choice. In every video I'm trying to present new information and new ideas. And after being presented with new information most people brains (myself included) need a beat to properly process that. That's why I'm not doing pop zooms or chopping the hell out of stuff. That would distract your mind from trying to understand what it just saw. And that's why I occasionally leave in a beat where nothing or not much happens. My vibe is more nature documentary and less "24". And you know what? That's ok. lt's ok that my videos are paced differently than others on YouTube.

@joelhooks Big time! Will catch you in the DMs.

@jherr I handle Matt's inbox, at least the most publically obvious one, and have a harness that handles it agnatically if you ever want to see it maybe a coworking session at the boop factory or something? would love to catch up regardless

@joelhooks Bleak. Yeah. It's actually psychologically hard to just get constantly hounded with all these folks wanting stuff from you, or telling you your stuff sucks and you have to pay them to make it better. And it has only accelerated with AI slop.

@jherr the "influencer inbox" is so bleak filled with constant slop fuck their thirsty ass negs, not worth even acknowledging that they exist as entities imo

@lazarv1982 Thanks!

@jherr I always admired your slow paced and clean editing! But maybe time fly fast and RSC will be educated in TikTok format in the future. Surely AI generated!

@sarah_edo A little bit of self-promotion, I did a video on this when I first heard about where we add WebMCP to a simple cheesesteak shop e-Commerce app. youtube.com/watch?v=IAfrze…

@sarah_edo WebMCP is legit. It's honestly fun to do the minimal work required to wire a decently MVC-ish factored application into it. And then to see agents just immediately start engaging intelligently and quickly with the app. As opposed to fumbling around trying to figure out the UI.

I gave a talk last week and someone asked why we need an agent model for the web- The web needs an established interface layer. WebMCP, though not complete, is part of a strong foundation- it exposes structured endpoints agents can use directly, giving a clearer defined course. I, for one, don’t want agents YOLO’ing around like the wild west. We can build structured well lit paths for better security, rate-limiting, and give observability and control to users.

@tmamut @ritakozlov In my experience you are correct. When I was at Macromedia I was on a team that was 50/50 and it was an absolute joy. Fun but professional. It was a blast. And it's just gotten less and less over time. When my kid when to college there were 7 women in CS for 90 men. Not good.

@ritakozlov @jherr Look at the data. It's not getting better, it's getting worse. This is is because as the status of a profession increases, the discrimination against women increases disproportionately in order to squeeze them out. And tech has been rising in status. Look it up.

i've picked up the pen so many times to write about being a woman in tech and every time i chicken out because there's this catch-22: to talk about being a woman in tech, you need to have credibility. and once you start talking about it as a woman, you lose said credibility so i'm going to mortgage some of my credibility to get this off my chest, as someone who has both had a pretty successful career in tech, and leads a team with a lot of women on it: every woman you work with has had the most insane shit happen to her — on an almost daily basis. shit that makes you look at the camera and go "how did i end up here". from wild remarks about appearance to stalking and trauma dumping, and just constant dismissal from so many directions (employees, customers...). shit that you never tell anyone because they wouldn't believe you... i recently learned that like 97% of my followers on here are men. so my challenge to you is just to sit with that for a moment. you don't need to do anything about it (other than try not to be that person). but you should be aware that that's what every woman you work with deals with

Meet the new Netlify Database. Fully managed Postgres, built into the platform. Every agent run automatically gets its own database branch. Here's why that matters. 🧵 netlify.com/blog/netlify-d…

@threepointone it's not possible without a lot of hacks and work-arounds.

this is kinda hard to do with next js (or I'm too dumb to figure it out), it seems straightforward with tanstack

There is no legit crypto.

What is "content" in the agentic era? My current thinking is that it's; ideas. In a world where you can make anything and you want, and imagination is the only limit, fresh ideas are the only thing the LLMs can't give you. And the nice thing about having 40+ years of software experience to lean on is that I have a lot of ideas to share. This week's video is from an idea I got from some newspaper folks a couple of years back. Next week's video will be an idea I'm cribbing from an Apple operating system (A/UX) that died 38 years ago. Deep cuts, man, deep cuts are the future!

If you run a content site "at scale" you'll want to check this out. With RSCs you can cache bust or TTL parts of your page at different speeds. youtu.be/t9xB8xvySyo

Folks keep asking for an IRL use case for @tan_stack Start RSCs. Ok, here you go; partial page caching. CDN cache bust or TTL your pages at a component level granularity. I kept talking about it, but not showing it, so here is a deep dive video with code.

Of all the possible options for the death of the universe I think "heat death" is both intellectually and verbally the least interesting. I think I'll go with "Big Crunch" from now on.