Josh Larson

so great. Fun to see a breakdown from someone like @jasnell.me so deep in the weeds of JS implementations.

Nice!

On the age of personal software Building single-purpose things for yourself is great. It's also weird! Let's dive in.

I wrote about this new thing we call personal software: the ups, the downs, and the what-ifs! www.jplhomer.org/posts/on-the...

Tech parenthood is great, and weird, and exciting, and tiring, and... I'm a mom in tech and love it... and yet it's really hard to talk about! There's so much to say and yet it's so hard to sum literally any of it up. So here's a partial attempt at that. --- Website…

I was asked to speak about parenthood in tech, and it's... very hard to do. So here's a brief attempt at some words.

youtu.be/oOTuz3UUn1o

On the Existential Crisis of Software Engineers The software development world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air.

Quick thoughts on software engineering in the modern age, aka the last six weeks www.jplhomer.org/posts/ai-exi...

Building and racing a Pinewood Derby car. The most-talked-about race from this weekend! www.jplhomer.org/posts/pinewo...

ANNOUNCING MARCH MAD CSS 2026

16 devs battle it out in the ultimate CSS tournament

Here are the first 9 players. Who should be added next?

MadCSS.com

@kevinpowell.co @joshwcomeau.com @nerdy.dev @adamwathan.com @cassidoo.co @tolin.ski

I think remote, personal computers are having a moment now. Super excited to see where this product goes!

One time, I was driving home from the grocery store and remembered something I should add to my year-in-review post on my website. Used Siri via car audio to text my Zo computer to update the post: BOOM.

I'm trying to do 100 push-ups every day in 2026. I had it build me an accountability system complete with a public dashboard to track my progress. I did this by texting my computer.

While chasing my 1yo around, I vibe coded the starts of a collaborative, async podcast app. I didn't even need to sit in front of a computer. Instead, I used my voice to send an email

Zo-topia: My Computer In The Cloud Remote, agentic, personal computers are having a moment right now. I'm here to tell you why it's deserved.

I really, really like @zo.computer. I wrote about it here. www.jplhomer.org/posts/zo-top...

Moving and Vibe Coding YouTube video by Josh and Austin Figure It Out

@austcr.im and I are back in the podcasting biz. Vibe-moving and vibe-coding are indeed covered: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WcJ...

what i really need to do is come visit outside of work. and have people like you show me around.

😂 I want to believe!

My 2025 in Review What just happened?

2025 in review: www.jplhomer.org/posts/my-202...

Yep.

Awesome work!

Those benchmarks from @t3.gg revealed some interesting issues in Workers. Happy to say it's all fixed now, save for some lingering next.js-specific stuff we're continuing to work on. Thanks for the reproducible test cases, @t3.gg.

Excessive details in blog post: blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cl...

Warning: nightmare road trip story this week on the pod 👻 You gotta listen to this one because, believe it or not, it gets worse 😱

Here's a teaser from @austcr.im. Full ep: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrNt...

It's so good

I also love the Lonely Island / Seth Meyers podcast. It's become my fav. I could listen to those guys chat for hours about nonsense.

Congrats!!! So excited for you and the crew!

Happy birthday!!

Why File-based Routing Sucks and Why You Should Use It - Brooks Lybrand YouTube video by G2i

I gave a talk not to long ago about React Router 7's new way to configure routes (routes.ts)

I think it's a lot better than what we (and most JS frameworks) had before, without actually preventing you from using our old file-based routing convention(s)

The Inside Story of How I Accidentally Became Responsible for Shopify’s Internal AI Chat What started as a personal quest to find a better open source AI chat interface after losing all my data became an unexpected journey into an AI subject matter expert Shopify. From evaluating tons of ...

The Inside Story of How I Accidentally Became Responsible for Shopify’s Internal AI Chat

#shopify #ai #llm #aichat #chatgpt #anthropic #opensource #foss #engineering #genai #engineeringstories #techstory

mawburn.com/blog/2025-06...

Polaris Learn about Polaris, Shopify's next-gen ui toolkit.

Shopify Polaris is now built on web components. My team and I have been working on this for a while and it's been a lot of fun to "embrace the platform"!

shopify.dev/beta/next-ge...

Lots of things learned, lots of fun edge cases discovered (hello moving web components to iFrames in Firefox)

Great work you all!!!!

Hell yeah! Congrats!

Baby Prep and Vibe Coding YouTube video by Josh and Austin Figure It Out

Why are @austcr.im and I smiling? Because we recorded another podcast episode! After two months. A new record! Baby prep, React Miami, vibe coding, and more www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVwa...

imo many react developers would benefit from learning astro and htmx