Álvaro Montoro just built Whac-A-Mole using HTML + CSS. 🤯 State machines. :has(). Animations. Even randomness. Would I ship a game this way? No. Would I build one to really learn CSS? Absolutely. Constraints are great teachers. 🔥 #CYC26 #CSS

“Code is cheap now. But it was never about the code.” Great talk from Sebastian at #CYC2026. Build around real problems. Find people with a common goal. Get something into production. That’s where the value is.

AI agents don’t earn autonomy because they’re impressive. They earn it through evidence. Build for measurable problems. Throttle autonomy. Prove reliability. Earn trust. Iterate. Great talk from @mgyarmathy_ at #CYC26 🔥

“You can’t cap what you haven’t named.” Great lesson from Joseph Whittington at #CYC26 on controlling production AI costs. What’s the meter? How many billable units can this produce? What does hitting the ceiling cost? How fast is the feedback?

Danyal Mahmud’s formula for turning a side project into something real: Validate → Focus → Launch 🚀 Talk to people. Solve a pain point they’ll pay for. Fight scope creep. Set a deadline. Ship. “Great code doesn’t mean much if no one uses it.” #CYC26

Great leadership lesson from Alexander Crettenand at #CYC26: “There are no problem horses, only problem riders.” Forget about control. Make the right thing easy, keep people moving, and focus on the destination. Leadership starts with fixing yourself.

Really enjoyed Roxy Rodriguez-Becker’s talk at #CYC26. Great software like her’s can have an emotional impact. As someone transitioning back into software while building AI tools around my work in HVAC, that hit home. Build. Share. Connect. Keep going. 🔥

I’ve used AI to write code, build apps, automate workflows, and help with my job search. Tonight ChatGPT inspected my doc, found the invisible paragraph making Google Docs create a blank Page 2, and fixed it. “This is the best piece of software I’ve ever seen.” 🤯

Mental toughness is often framed as the perseverance that gets you across the finish line, But most days, mental toughness isn't about crossing the finish line. It's about getting to the starting line. Mental toughness is not skipping the days that are easy to skip.

Engineer and inventor Colin Chapman offers a guiding principle for high-performance: "Simplify, then add lightness."

“Today might be the best chance you have to take action.” -James Clear

"Your first task is to find what feels effortless to you. Your second task is to put maximum effort into it." -James Clear

An old Latin proverb, "Initium est dimidium facti", reminds us of the timeless importance of simply beginning the task at hand. It translates to: "Once you've started, you're halfway there." Source: Horace, the Roman poet, in his work Epistles

Which distractions in your life have become disguised as priorities? "The way to help someone is not to critique what makes them smaller, but to encourage what makes them larger." -James Clear

The Process: 1. Decide what you want to achieve. 2. Try different ways of achieving it until you find one that works for you. 3. Do more of what works. Do less of what doesn’t. 4. Don’t stop doing it until it stops working. 5. Repeat. It is both this simple and this hard.

"The quality of your thoughts is determined by the quality of your reading. Spend more time thinking about the inputs." -James Clear