There is a Chrome extension that solves this problem, it’s called HackTImer (without dash in the middle), it works well for me

Thanks. This was a great read.

I wonder a bit about what the goal is though. I’ve also felt that I have to preserve “my voice” – but in other context that sounds foolish. When you learn a martial art, or how to play go well, a lot of learning is to do with bashing the stupid approach one has out of one’self – “lose your first 1000 games as fast as possible”. But then after that, is it important to find my voice, or is what I’m looking for simply beauty, and outsourcing that searching makes it harder for me to find, or notice it?

Is it “my voice” that I’m trying to preserve, or is there a better way to frame that?

If you read my pre-big-tech posts, they’re a lot more wild and freewheeling. I’d like to think I’m de-programming myself now and getting closer to that original voice.

There is also the possiblity that, getting older, we end up being a tad more moderate in our reactions because we know more 😉

Set your goddamn width for navigation to 826 to copy the main dude if you wana talk about design come on ..

Hi Josh, random internet reader here. I feel your disappointment.

I’ve been programming for 17 years — most of my colleagues (not all) hated code, so it’s not surprising that now most devs are happy to see as little code as possible. My advice is to seek out the few that love code and work with them. Or take solace on the masters (Ritchie, Torvalds) by reading what they did and learn from them.

I don’t know what will happen to the job, but the passion can live on.

Hope this helps.

I am immensely disappointed.

I am not at the tail end of my career. Mine just started and I expected pioneering engineering and crafting systems and building things with people just as smart and passionate as I am. I expected everybody to be like Dennis Richie or Linus Torvalds or the other big names in this industry. I’m exaggerating a little, I admit but at the very least I expected nerds.

But instead most of my colleagues couldn’t care less about code. If anything they see it as an obstacle to their success.

They hate code.

So they jump, they leap, desperately, to AI because now they never have to touch a line of icky, icky code ever again.

I am immensely disappointed that the job I dreamed of since I was 13 is disapearing.

This game looked like so much fun but when it was my turn to play, it didn’t exist anymore.

It’s just not fair.

Frontend as we know it may be dying, but that’s not the question we should be asking. We should be asking what will frontend jobs evolve to.

Yes, AI can create functional websites, even accessible ones if you give it the proper prompt or your agent is properly configured, but it won’t create sites and apps that people will want to visit, that’s still a human thing.