🔨 Building @PriceWell - Stripe subscriptions for Bubble apps Señor Developer | Cyclist | Dad
Norwich (prev. Berlin)
Joined July 2009
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I was eating a bento box 🍱
At my favourite Japanese restaurant 🇯🇵
Then I got these notifications. 🔔
Thank you SaaS.
Car drivers hate being in their car (despite how much they say they love it).
I've just spent a week commuting 1 hour each way to my children's holiday club. I have never wanted to squeeze onto a roundabout, skip a light or flout the speed limit during my casual outings until...
this bl**dy 1hr trip I don't want to do has forced me to become a car brain. For context, we live right near school and cycle everywhere else with our cargo bike.
Now I understand, car drivers want to get out of their car as quickly as possible. I always thought they loved it.
Human code reviews for new features are becoming less and less important with AI tooling.
Code reviews for bug fixes or work on existing features are still vital. YMMV
Yes, autocorrect I do want to say "5 Monroes". I always mean Monroe's instead of minutes, why thank you
Eating ugly frogs with Codex is insanely fast 🚀.
6 months ago, I had a designer redesign the @pricewell app shell.
I've had a go at implementing the design within my existing framework but never found enough time or motivation to have a proper go at it.
Here's my workflow👇🏻
Cut to today, codex is working as I type this skeet 🔥
Workflow:
- @steipete agents md file as a base
- Scope minimal refactors for codex (move navigation, add exit button etc)
- Leave it to do it's thing, check and commit manually
Eating the ugliest frog was never so easy 🐸
Ref for eating frogs:
worksmartandberemarkable.com…
Just codex cli and I implementing a redesign while waiting for the @bubble event in London today
ALT MacBook on a table at a cafe. The MacBook has codex cli open
Being a developer on a large codebase is a constant battle of explaining why a "little change" is actually a lot more complex than expected.
Some musings on tech debt that have been swimming in my mind...
Anyone who tells you they don't have that problem is likely piling more tech debt on top to make a quick change (delaying the pain until later).
Q: Are your customers struggling to change their address?
A: Give them more "Continue" buttons!
Fantastic UX here from B&Q. </sarcasm>
ALT A billing address change form with two buttons underneath each other saying "continue"
But that's clearly not the case anymore. The customer service staff must be told not to offer refunds if at all possible which is disappointing to say the least. Imagine if my experience was different and they just refunded the £700. You can bet I'd be spending that with them
over the next 12 months furnishing the rest of my house. As with software businesses, if you treat the customer well, they will come back. What a missed opportunity. Do better @JohnLewisRetail
Startup idea 💡
Collab with DHL and other lockers to offer their unused space as storage.
Trying to store a bag in a European city is a nightmare even with a startups that offer space in a corner shop (often closed on a Sunday for example).
