Alex Suzuki
@alexsuzuki.com
🇨🇭 Software builder, husband and father of two
👽 Sci-fi & fantasy book nerd
💻 Building https://strich.io and sharing some learnings on the way
👽 Sci-fi & fantasy book nerd
💻 Building https://strich.io and sharing some learnings on the way
GitLab marketing mail: "AI is not actually making developers more productive. Here's you can AI anyway".
... you know, or just *NOT* use it.
... you know, or just *NOT* use it.
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
GitLab marketing mail: "AI is not actually making developers more productive. Here's you can AI anyway".
... you know, or just *NOT* use it.
... you know, or just *NOT* use it.
It's that time of the year again. My daylight lamp is super bulky but I found it helps with the blues.
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
It's that time of the year again. My daylight lamp is super bulky but I found it helps with the blues.
Having fun working on some slides for my next talk.
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Having fun working on some slides for my next talk.
A bit sad to see GitLab also jump fully on the hype train.
November 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A bit sad to see GitLab also jump fully on the hype train.
Really enjoyed @rich-harris.dev talk „Fine-grained everything“ at #perfnow in Amsterdam. Wish they‘d choose a less attractive venue though, I missed a lot of other talks due to this beautiful city. 😂
November 1, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Really enjoyed @rich-harris.dev talk „Fine-grained everything“ at #perfnow in Amsterdam. Wish they‘d choose a less attractive venue though, I missed a lot of other talks due to this beautiful city. 😂
Bro on the right waiting to finally take over.
October 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Bro on the right waiting to finally take over.
Decided to cross-post my latest blog post on Why I don’t use AI code generation to Medium, as I still have a profile and a decent-sized following there. Turns out on mobile you can‘t even reply without installing their app. 🤦♂️ That‘s a hard goodbye now.
October 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Decided to cross-post my latest blog post on Why I don’t use AI code generation to Medium, as I still have a profile and a decent-sized following there. Turns out on mobile you can‘t even reply without installing their app. 🤦♂️ That‘s a hard goodbye now.
For the next iteration of strich.io, my JavaScript barcode scanning library, I‘m using animated SVG icons for switching cameras, zooming and flashlight toggling. It was fun to learn how to build these by hand, with the amazing Whimsical Animations course by @joshwcomeau.com. Highly recommended!
October 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
For the next iteration of strich.io, my JavaScript barcode scanning library, I‘m using animated SVG icons for switching cameras, zooming and flashlight toggling. It was fun to learn how to build these by hand, with the amazing Whimsical Animations course by @joshwcomeau.com. Highly recommended!
Fall is probably my favorite time of the year. 🍂
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Fall is probably my favorite time of the year. 🍂
I hoped this would be a quiet day. But it seems a major AWS outage is currently ongoing (us-east-1).
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4564...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4564...
October 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I hoped this would be a quiet day. But it seems a major AWS outage is currently ongoing (us-east-1).
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4564...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4564...
Charmingly quaint. I wonder if they used ChatGPT to generate the email...
October 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Charmingly quaint. I wonder if they used ChatGPT to generate the email...
Having a lot of fun with @joshwcomeau.com new course "Whimsical Animations". Revamping some icons in my camera HUD. Hand-written SVG and CSS transitions, so much fun!
October 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Having a lot of fun with @joshwcomeau.com new course "Whimsical Animations". Revamping some icons in my camera HUD. Hand-written SVG and CSS transitions, so much fun!
My mind will never comprehend.
September 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
My mind will never comprehend.
Huh, mine popped up too…
September 23, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Huh, mine popped up too…
Something that infuriates me on a regular basis is macOS reverting default file associations to 'Xcode'. I have yet to encounter a single person who would want to open Xcode to edit a .json file.
September 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Something that infuriates me on a regular basis is macOS reverting default file associations to 'Xcode'. I have yet to encounter a single person who would want to open Xcode to edit a .json file.
Hard, I assume, judging from the person who's asking the question. 🙂
Unrelated comment from my side: on your pricing page, you mention frequency, but don't mention the unit. E.g. checks per minute, per hour, per day, etc.
Unrelated comment from my side: on your pricing page, you mention frequency, but don't mention the unit. E.g. checks per minute, per hour, per day, etc.
September 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Hard, I assume, judging from the person who's asking the question. 🙂
Unrelated comment from my side: on your pricing page, you mention frequency, but don't mention the unit. E.g. checks per minute, per hour, per day, etc.
Unrelated comment from my side: on your pricing page, you mention frequency, but don't mention the unit. E.g. checks per minute, per hour, per day, etc.
Yes. Pydantic even has a nice 'exclude' parameter to dump a model but omitting certain fields.
September 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Yes. Pydantic even has a nice 'exclude' parameter to dump a model but omitting certain fields.
I recently got tired of SQLAlchemy ORM and decided to just raw dog it: plain SQL, direct DB driver access and model class validation (Pydantic). I am now questioning the wisdom of that decision.
September 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I recently got tired of SQLAlchemy ORM and decided to just raw dog it: plain SQL, direct DB driver access and model class validation (Pydantic). I am now questioning the wisdom of that decision.
Bought an Elgato light to create some video content. Firmware update dialog pops up. That feeling of being torn between being the cranky old guy who dislikes FW updates because rarely do they improve anything, and the simple appeal of "new". Anyway, update is stuck and device is unresponsive now. 🤦♂️
August 28, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Bought an Elgato light to create some video content. Firmware update dialog pops up. That feeling of being torn between being the cranky old guy who dislikes FW updates because rarely do they improve anything, and the simple appeal of "new". Anyway, update is stuck and device is unresponsive now. 🤦♂️
This was Google I/O in 2011. Android Honeycomb (/w tablet support) was out, everybody got a free Galaxy Tab to start hacking. Simpler times. Today's announcement is truly sad, and IMHO the end of an era. Yes, I know I'm a sentimental bastard... so be it.
August 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
This was Google I/O in 2011. Android Honeycomb (/w tablet support) was out, everybody got a free Galaxy Tab to start hacking. Simpler times. Today's announcement is truly sad, and IMHO the end of an era. Yes, I know I'm a sentimental bastard... so be it.
This is getting a bit tiresome. Can we have one tool that does NOT include an LLM?
August 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
This is getting a bit tiresome. Can we have one tool that does NOT include an LLM?
More Safari iOS weirdness. The favorites suddenly disappeared, they're no longer displayed when opening a new tab or starting to type a URL. I checked Settings, they're enabled. Anyone know how to fix this?
August 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
More Safari iOS weirdness. The favorites suddenly disappeared, they're no longer displayed when opening a new tab or starting to type a URL. I checked Settings, they're enabled. Anyone know how to fix this?
I swear to god Safari, I'm going to kill you if you ask me one more time for camera permission on a site where I've granted it a hundred times before. Of course how long the setting actually persists is anyone's guess as there is NO DOCUMENTATION.
August 20, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I swear to god Safari, I'm going to kill you if you ask me one more time for camera permission on a site where I've granted it a hundred times before. Of course how long the setting actually persists is anyone's guess as there is NO DOCUMENTATION.
Refreshing. I submitted a bug in Samsung Internet a couple of weeks ago. The interface to do that is horrible, but still better than Safari. Had to follow up, but got an answer today that the bug is fixed in the next release. Yay! 🏆
August 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Refreshing. I submitted a bug in Samsung Internet a couple of weeks ago. The interface to do that is horrible, but still better than Safari. Had to follow up, but got an answer today that the bug is fixed in the next release. Yay! 🏆