Rich Snapp

Can AI autonomously redesign my entire website? I used 100% agentic coding and my orchestrated AI workflow to see if reality matches the hype www.richsnapp.com/article/2026...

what tokenmaxers spend their tokens on

repeat after me: never fan out fable

i think @ksl.com might not be telling the truth here

if someone can tell you are using an llm you’re doing something wrong

this feed is the best thing i've ever seen, i love it. high-quality social media content is back!

There's an ideal set of sizing constraints for custom <select>, but the CSS is a bit tricky. Here's how to make it work, and a tour of new CSS features along the way. jakearchibald.com/2026/goldilo...

now i see the issue. actually wait. the issue is the opposite. now i understand the full picture! actually… let me reconsider. here’s the actual problem: there is no problem.

+266k part-time jobs, -79k full-time jobs.

running your agents both in tmux and inside a container makes it super convenient to clean up all the orphaned processes they tend to leave around. maybe someday they'll clean up after themselves.

i learned a life lesson today: don't try to move the cat to the bathtub while they're in the act of throwing up

TIL of inert: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... no more annoying focus trap code? nice

immediate sinking pit in your stomach first thing in the morning

i used windows powertools to map all my mac hotkeys to the windows key. e.g. window + a = ctrl + a window + c = ctrl + c window + v = ctrl + v window + q = alt f4 etc. i should have done this a long time ago.

I am confused by claims that the agentic era is going to mean the end of UIs. Chat really sucks for a lot of use cases! UI is often really great!

pretty proud of this gable peak mount i designed for our permanent christmas lights. includes a working print-in-place hinge! makerworld.com/en/models/26...

I've automated the way I do work with a more structured and formalized ralph loop. now I've written about it for those who are interested in doing something similar, as well as released the code if you want to try it for yourself: www.richsnapp.com/article/2026...

what happens when you send an ai spy into a social network for robots www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj27...

i have an alias i created: clauded='claude --dangerously-skip-permissions' i'll switch to it when i get sick of accepting permissions. it's also a nice verb so when my computer gets fubared people can be like "damn, you got clauded"

claude should track how long its tool commands take to run. maybe then it wouldn't decide to run the same 10 minute test suite 5 times over just to slightly tweak the output format each time.

Agentic engineering is driving the cost of code to zero but the cost of good taste and product sense is going to go sky-high.

i try really hard not to make spelling errors when talking to AI so that it only gives me answers from the "smart people" training set

TIL about .git/info/exclude which allows you to exclude files from git without committing to the repo like .gitignore

i just found out you can attach multiple clients to the same tmux session and my mind is now blown

I can't teach you how to be a 10x engineer, but I CAN teach you how to manage 10 AI coding agents at the same time. Check out my development workflow for working with concurrent AI agents! www.richsnapp.com/article/2025...

shoutout to the creator of github.com/vaaleyard/tm... the default tmux status bar is hideous... like why is it showing me the time, lol. but this plugin makes it minimalistic and actually look good while still doing all the things you need it to actually do.

so i'm going through the react docs for the latest react 19 features... it's awful. (not the docs, the docs are good) basically a laundry list of caveats, pitfalls, and IOUs. i honestly don't know how anyone could read these and think "i should be using this"

the RAM i bought earlier this year before Trump tariffs was $300. now it's $600+

i wrote about how to fix any bug

every line in my dotfiles repo has a painful lesson behind it

types still exist even if you write javascript instead of typescript, they're just in your head (hopefully) instead of on disk. this is more relevant now than ever because types are some of the most important context you can give AI when writing code.

please do not use llms to actually write your blogs. we can absolutely tell. and it means: 1. I don't trust what you're saying (or at least I don't trust any purported 'insight') 2. I don't feel like I'm listening to you (normally I _like_ listening to nuance) 👉 shorter, imperfect yet real👌

Context Management with Subagents in Claude Code www.richsnapp.com/article/2025...

i've always been a fan of and pushed for keyboard accessibility. but for the first time i have just downloaded autohotkey and started making some scripts... i am once again asking everyone to prioritize keyboard accessibility.

there needs to be some way to use bsky with discover feed and not be bombarded by impersonal uspol. absolutely don't mind people i follow posting about it but just random posts from popular characters here despite many "show less" are annoying and i don't think annoying me alone

BREAKING NEWS: Amazon.com, known for its basic and 90s era UI, is now using react.js in production... for a single button and dialog

i setup a private minecraft server so i could teach my 5 year old daughter to play... looking through the logs: [rich1g: Gave 1 [Bow] to ClairseyBear] [rich1g: Gave 64 [Arrow] to ClairseyBear] rich1g was shot by ClairseyBear ClairseyBear has made the advancement [Take Aim]

If you understand what software engineering as a career actually entails (lots of people and organizational problems, understanding legacy code and tradeoffs) you are at a career advantage over those who understand the job as just producing code. Those jobs could be replaced. But that ain’t the job

me: mom can i have a new ide? mom: no, we have an ide at home the ide at home:

Yo dawg, I heard you like server racks so I made you a 10-inch rack that mounts in a 19-inch rack www.richsnapp.com/blog/2025/06...

TIL doing too many state updates in React without yielding for React to flush pending updates will crash with `Uncaught RangeError: Invalid array length`

i did a training at work on javascript performance in the browser and figured i'd turn it into an article so everyone could enjoy! How Javascript affects browser performance www.richsnapp.com/article/2025...

unpopular opinion: interviews are not meant to be a place where you demonstrate that you know everything. they're to demonstrate that you can go into situations not knowing everything but still achieve successful outcomes through applying yourself.

"draw me a team that has adopted the typescript-eslint/member-ordering plugin"

protip for all those people who like to rerun ci/cd with temp commits: the commit message is part of the hash so just `git commit --amend` and change the message. no more 11ty temp commits in a row.

just finished this series on learning fusion 360 and it was amazing; highly recommended if you're interesting in learning: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...