Weekly Pull Request: March 7th, 2025

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Table of Contents

• Riffs

• The Sky, The Earth, & All Between

• Code

• Once UI

• Heading 2

• Coffee

Riffs

The Sky, The Earth, & All Between

I’ll keep this short and sweet — Listen to this album. It’s punchy, heavy, and full of that sweet, sweet Architects goodness. For me personally, this is a huge bounce back from their previous two releases, while still somehow evolving on their genre-defining sound. Remember when “Architects-core” became a thing? Seriously, give this one a spin.

Code

Once UI

I came across this really cool UI library for React/Next apps that I wanted to share with you. As a web developer, the most tedious task for me is writing CSS. I hate it. Personally, the sooner I can get to the programming and making an app do cool sht, the better! And it appears that this library sets out to achieve that for people like me.

Once UI is full of beautiful, modern components that are basically plug-and-play. Although I prefer a little more control from libraries like DaisyUI, the ability to build quickly for a static website or simple web app is enticing.

Coffee

Thoughts on AI & Critical Thinking

I’m seeing a lot of tech content creators posting about AI hurting critical thinking ability in the tech industry. I’ve got three words:

AI will never replace skill. I don’t care how good you think you are at “proompting”, you still need to be able to evaluate the response before implementing it into your project.

This goes for all industries, not just tech. LLM’s are just a tool in the toolbox. The trick is not how to use it, but when to use it. Devs, documentation is and always will be king. For everyone else, think about what other resources you have at your disposal in your profession, what knowledge gaps still exist with those tools, and how AI can fill those gaps.

Choose your tools wisely, friend, and don’t forget to use that big ball of guts in your skull from time to time before mindlessly messaging Claude.

That’s all for this week’s pull request. Let’s go ahead and merge this to main. I hope you have an amazing weekend!

Build Fast. Break Stuff. Have Fun.

Paps

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