Cory House
@housecor
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Developer accelerator Courses: https://t.co/D5emROQa4J & https://t.co/6L1fD898mh YouTube: https://t.co/pWIz4BMXsc Consulting: https://t.co/Qfp4Tfp3jf ⚛️
Kansas City
Joined January 2009
I’m grateful for my wonderful kids, a happy marriage of nearly 20 years, and a dev career I still enjoy after 25 years! Happy Thanksgiving all!
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I don't need stand-ups, sprints, retrospectives, or a scrum master. I need good communication, frequent delivery, iteration based on feedback, and a leader that assures this stuff happens. I don’t need Scrum’s mandatory ceremony to do these things.
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The future is going to be wild. We’ll increasingly be interacting with human/robotics hybrids. For example, Neuralink may soon enable paralyzed patients to run via robotic legs.
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One of my favorite things about being independent is I can say what I want. I don't worry what my clients think, and I don't accept payments for posts. I talk honestly about tech I like and dislike. I'm just me. And with that said, Tanstack rocks. (good news, it's free)
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What I hate about coding with AI: Thinking about tokens like money. "How close am I to my token limit?" "How many tokens will this burn?" "Should I upgrade my plan?" "Is my context bloated and thus wasting money?" "Should I do this by hand to save tokens?" "Should I use a
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Problem: You want to enable a few specific VS Code settings for everybody. Solution: Put the settings in .vscode/settings.json and they'll automatically apply to the project. Here's a few I enjoy.
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Just posted: "The Immutable Laws of Software and Life: Code Accordingly" Presented at NDC Copenhagen https://t.co/YOBJS1kBFY
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"Shotgun validation". Love this term to describe what's wrong with frequent use of optional chaining. Shotgun validation creates ambiguity about the data's structure on a given line and leads to repeated validation logic. Solution? Validate at the boundaries.
I'm reviewing a codebase with over 750 uses of optional chaining. Example: user?.email I continue to believe adding this feature to JS was a mistake. It encourages lazy, sloppy, brittle, ambiguous code.
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And this is true even if it might have been faster for me to do myself. Since I can turn Claude loose on an async task, it doesn't really matter how long it takes. I can stay focused on my primary task while Claude knocks out secondary missions.
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The strange thing about coding in 2025: I reference docs less, and prompt more. Example: I need to configure ESLint to disallow using console.log. In the past I would have Googled, referenced docs, copy/pasted the relevant config, then tested. Now, I just tell Claude to do it.
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Why is optional chaining a bad idea? Because it encourages laziness. "We shape our tools and, thereafter, our tools shape us" - McLuhan's Law
I'm reviewing a codebase with over 750 uses of optional chaining. Example: user?.email I continue to believe adding this feature to JS was a mistake. It encourages lazy, sloppy, brittle, ambiguous code.
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Solution: Ban it. Use ESLint to forbid usage, and suggest validating data via tools like Zod to narrow the type before usage instead. Here's how:
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I'm reviewing a codebase with over 750 uses of optional chaining. Example: user?.email I continue to believe adding this feature to JS was a mistake. It encourages lazy, sloppy, brittle, ambiguous code.
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Tons of novel communication tips and helpful reminders in here. Really useful episode.
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Podcast Episode · Huberman Lab · 11/17/2025 · 2h 26m
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Huuuuge 🔥
This query: useLiveQuery(q => q.from({ todos }) .where(eq(status, 'active')) ) Automatically becomes: GET /api/todos?status=active No backend changes needed. Your queries become the API.
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Software development is simpler than it sounds. You only need to understand a few key concepts to code: variables, conditionals, loops, assignments, and functions. Software development is also more complicated than it sounds. There’s a seemingly infinite number of languages,
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"LLMs are trained on other people's code". Yep. And before LLM's, I used other people's code too. I copied patterns from docs, StackOverflow, forums, open source repos, books, tweets, and blogs. LLMs just streamline this process by guessing what I need to copy and paste next.
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I talk money with my developer friends. Here’s why. Years ago I was managing a dev team full-time and contracting on the side. My friend named Lee walked into my office and asked “What’s your hourly contracting rate?” His question caught me off-guard. I was raised to not
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New talk: "The Immutable Laws of Software and Life" The first Law of Ecology states that you can never merely do one thing. Actions have side-effects. This talk explores how changes in software design have unexpected, profound impacts. It references "laws" of computing and
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