Jono Yeong

@jonathanyeong.com

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Staff Dev building with Go, TS, Ruby, Rails Obsessed about developer experience Learning how to make apps pretty 🇦🇺 🏠 Toronto, Canada 🌐 https://jonathanyeong.com/ 📨 https://buttondown.com/jonoyeong

Trying to unlike a package and the like count goes back to what it was before. It starts at 3, then I click and it goes to 2. Then automatically back up to 3.
Video shows my dog Albie and Aussie cattle dog sprinting around the dog park in ankle deep snow. He looks like he’s having the best of times.
Running env | grep 'TERM' in VSCode shows that the TERM_PROGRAM env var exists and is set to VSCode
Screenshot of playing pangrum. Where you can build a set of words that have to included the highlighted letter “T” in the screenshot. The other letters are H, F, L, Y I, G. Finding the pangram (which uses all 7 letters) give you a star. I found the pangram and I’m happy
VSCode setting to disable AI features. The box is checked with the hopes that it will stop the chat window from appearing on vscode launch.
My pup Albie an Aussie cattle dog mix. He’s a red heeler, with brown and white spots.
Three coffee bags with very cute art. The left bag is green with an image of a young girl dressed all in red sipping coffee amongst trees. There's a red fox peeking out from behind one of those trees. The second bag is a a pic of two white cats holding a blue plate with a red background behind them. And the third bag is a yellow vase with eyes, one of them winking. It has two handles that look like ears and inside the vase are some branches with what looks like blueberries, raspberry, strawberry and cranberry.
My Australian cattle dog Albie making himself comfortable by laying down on some laundry
Message settings to select who can send you messages. Default is everybody. But you can’t change setting unless you have premium.
Two loafs of Shokupan, Japanese milk bread, one cut in half to show the crumb. IT WAS SO FLUFFY
Work in progress pic changing over my switches from silent switches to something more tocky. With GenG and AL league of legends match in the background
Loaf of poolish white bread. Baked today by me! Followed the recipe from Flour, Water, Salt,Yeast. Crumb looks good. But it didn’t open up in the oven.
I made this green striped mug. It's about the size of my fist so it doesn't hold too much liquid. But the base is flat so it doesn't wobble, and it's drinkable.
Drawing a party hat, some eyebrows, and a moustache on my white ragdoll cat Indie. It's a canvas drawing playground on mobile with touch events.
Drawing a party hat, eyebrows, and a moustache on my white ragdoll cat, Indie. It's a canvas drawing playground on desktop.
Holding up the book Universal Principles of Typography by Elliot Jay Stocks. With my cat Nami, who’s brown with black stripes in the background looking on.
Watching virtual coffee conference on my laptop. And my dog Albie, an Aussie cattle dog, is sleeping on his back with his legs up. Looking very comfortable.
My cat nami sleeping on my legs. She’s a grey brown striped cat. There’s also a laptop to prove that she’s on my legs. No feet pics though; buy me dinner first.
My cat Nami, I have no idea what breed sorry! She's grey with brown stripes. And shes covering her face while sleeping on my legs.
Glowy photo of my cat Indie in the foreground, a white ragdoll. And a picture of my pup, Albie, in the background - a red heeler. They're both loving the sun.
Sleeping Australian cattle dog on the couch that looks incredibly comfy. Like comfier than I could ever be.
Gif of my personal website homepage redesign process. Each frame is a new iteration of my design. Going for something minimalist but not boring.
Github Repository star dropdown. It shows a popover with the title "Lists". There are three checkboxes to select "Future ideas", "My stack", "Inspiration", and a "create list" button.
Demo of markdown link implementation in my bluesky client. I type "testing a [test url](https://jonathanyeong.com/)" and then press post. I then switch to Bluesky web app, and confirm that I see "testing a test url". However, "test url" is now a hyperlink to my website. When clicking the link, bluesky confirms that I'm leaving the website.
Indie my white ragdoll cat on the hunt. Peeking out behind some pillows
Cute snowman in a little snow cave
Title screenshot of a game, the text says "Sid Meier's: Civilization VII".
Video of Biskay a bluesky skeet composer. I start typing "Hello @j" and a dropdown appears of bluesky handles beginning with j. As I type more letters, it refreshes the list with new handles. Until I get to my own handle. When I click on the handle, the text input populates with the full handle name. The end result is "hello @jonathanyeong.com". I then click "Post" and switch tabs to the Bluesky tab. Refreshing the page shows that I have posted a new Bluesky skeet on my timeline that says "Hello @jonathanyeong.com".
WIP screenshot of my Bluesky skeet composer interface called 'Biskay'. The screen shows a post composition area at the top with 181 characters remaining, date/time selectors set to February 9, 2025, 09:20 PM, and 'Save Draft' and 'Post' buttons. Below is a 'Drafts' section containing a draft post that reads 'Hey this is a draft post!' with a 'Share now' button. The current post being composed mentions an update about the 'bsky app' with client-side validation working and plans to add facets next.
Me holding my small mug. It’s in a light green glaze. That’s a little translucent so you can see the raw clay colour underneath. The handle fits two of my fingers quite comfortably.
Three chairs around a table facing a work laptop. My two cats are on the far and near chair. The middle chair is where I would sit. It’s not totally clear but the cats kept stealing my seat so I had to continually add more chairs to be able to work.
Proposal Doc template All of the above points I put into a proposal doc. Here was the template I used, I hope it helps! - What problem are we trying to solve? - Keep it succinct. Metrics help. Have examples ready. - Proposal - Highlight that this team is an experiment. - Success Criteria - What does success of this team / experiment look like? - Logistics - How will this team operate? - FAQ - Answer common questions or concerns you've heard when talking to other people. This section is where I listed the alternatives, or what happens if the experiment fails.
Two pots (which hopefully will be mugs) that have handles attached to them. There’s a bigger mug with a square handle. And a smaller mug with a more rounded handle.
OMGWOW text is shown over and over again, overlaid with eachother. Growing larger then smaller. The size and rate is based on how I scroll.
Design poster with the word "DESIGN" at the top and bottom. The inside of the poster has a set of repeating abstract lilypad shapes in pastel colours. It's a 4 x 7 grid of lilypads.
Bowls I made from a beginners pottery course. They’re almost the same shape and size!
Sharing an excerpt from my physical journal. The focus is on two charts. They show how I think about my energy, my current state vs ideal state. The current state is that my energy peaks and drops to zero. Before peaking again. The ideal state is more of a sine curve. Where my energy wanes but it never reaches that zero point.
Day 5: Three principles to beat shiny object syndrome 2025 is the year I face my shiny object syndrome. There's so much fun technology out there, and it's hard not to explore every one of them. I've jumped around my fair share, and while going broad is part of being a T shape developer. I never gave myself a chance to go deep. It feels important now more than ever to go deep. Especially with AI making it so easy to get started with new frameworks. The real power is solving the weird edge cases that AI hasn't been trained on yet. To beat my shiny object syndrome, I'm going to follow these three principles. 1. Embrace simplicity for side projects As much as I love mixing and matching different tech stacks. I want to a full stack framework that gives me everything out of the box. Ruby and Rails is my preferred choice. (Phoenix/Elixir I'll always ❤️ you) 2. Doubling down on building The siren call of new technology grows stronger when I'm not building. I'm giving myself some lofty side project goals this year. And to hit these goals, I won't have time to keep relearning new stacks. 3. Lean on community I get so much energy from being in a community. I'm going to spend more time connecting in communities, both online and in person. I found the Ruby Toronto meetup last year, and I can't wait to attend more sessions.
My cat, Indie, being the chillest desk buddy
3 Questions To Validate Impactful Work It's easy to fall into the trap of build first and ask questions later. I know I've done it plenty of times. Sometimes at a company it's even encouraged. One way to show that you're making an "impact" is to churn out features or projects without a second thought. But there's a difference between building *something* and building *the right thing*. I like to ask myself these three questions before starting a new project. 1. Will this impact the user? Work on the project that will have a tangible benefit to the user. It could be refactoring this code path will reduce the number of bugs that affect a user. 2. Can I achieve the same result but simpler? There are those pie in the sky projects where the impact to the user is unknown. We *expect* change but not sure what. For these projects, we want to reduce the scope and get the idea into the real world as fast as possible. 3. What are my success metrics? Everything comes back down to metrics. We need to know whether the project is successful or not. If these metrics aren't available, then getting access to them is the first step.
Day 2: The biggest mistake to avoid when starting a new side project A few years back, I started building a social media clone side project. I didn't make it past the setup. Same thing happened with a todo list project, a CLI project management tool, a timeblock planner. I have an endless list of projects that I've set up and never completed. Each of them started strong, but my motivation quickly fizzled out before getting to the meat of the project. Looking back on these projects, I kept repeating the same mistake. I hyper-focused on the end goal, and lost sight of what I was trying to learn. When focusing on the end goal like "build a todo list app". I was met with so many decisions and questions along the way. And by the time I worked through these decisions, I was completely drained. Here's what I should've done instead: 1. Find the one lesson I wanted to get out of that project. 2. Get to that lesson as fast as possible. Ignoring all other distractions along the way. 3. Once learning that lesson, reflect on whether I should continue with the side project. If there's more to learn, I repeat steps 1-3. If not, I mark my side project as finished.
Writing is the foundation to basically everything that I do. Even so, it takes me ages to write anything substantial. My process is plagued with indecisiveness, over-editing, and thesaurus hunting. AI speeds up the process a little, mainly because I ask it "what is the word for..." or "does this sound right?". It's a struggle, but I still want to write, and here are three reasons why. 1. It allows me to refine ideas My brain is really good at ignoring holes in an idea. Writing it down helps me discover those gaps. 2. It allows me to scale and connect with people When someone's writing resonates with me, it feels like they're talking to me through their words. That human connection is the main driver of why I write. 3. It allows me to time travel Looking back on my writing is always a fun time. Sometimes cringey, but also insightful. I write so I can time travel to what I cared about most years ago. I'm taking a course, Ship 30 for 30, where I'm going to write Atomic Essays for the next 30 days. I hope you'll join me on this journey!
Demo of my PWA, I show a user registration flow, creating a bathroom session, and exporting csv of data.
Screenshot of YouTube video that I'm releasing tomorrow. Titled "Dev Containers: Coding with Zero* Dependencies" (except Docker)
My dog Albie sitting for a treat all bundled up for the cold
Personal website homepage mobile design scrolling capture.
telescope fuzzy finding has been added to my neovim setup!
Working on Neovim setup. I've setup nvim-tree and catpuccin theme so far. Using lazy.nvim plugin manager
Some pots I made! 2 bowls and 1 mug. Lots of blue green and cream colours with speckles.
WIP new homepage design for my personal website. It has multiple sections for Articles, Notes, and projects. As well as a call to action for a newsletter signup.
Sharing pocket cast end of year review. Changelog was my most listened to podcast
Albie the dog looking proud after barking at an early morning fire alarm test
An Inactive Feed section in my RSS Reader, inoreader. It shows my own blog as being inactive.
Indie being cute!
Albie my dog does not want to be touched by nami my cat
Nami cat sitting on a chair
Matcha keycaps from Osume - close up of the novelty key caps. So many cute frogs!
My Yawning dog Albie laying down by a crosswalk