Friday Links: FP twisting the Web, LLMs, and nostalgia
10 Oct 2025 #mondaylinksHey!
Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week:
#1. A couple of years ago, I challenged myself to learn React. And being a backend developer, I missed the simplicity of the old days: Just some logic inside the script tag to bind forms. It turns out adopting functional principles shaped and twisted the frontend ecosystem (20min). It has made us reinvent the wheel. Again.
#2. LLMs replacing human devs? Well, here are two tasks LLMs are still bad at (2min). Maybe they’re more like “weird, overconfident interns.”
#3. It’s never 5 minutes… when you snooze your alarm, when your manager asks you a quick favor, or when you think you can stretch hours of work right before clocking out. Here’s a productivity tip (4min) to avoid that “5 minutes” turning into working extra hours.
#4. For nostalgia or history, here’s how the Internet looked in 2000 (8min).
And in case you missed it, I wrote on my blog about how to keep creating when it feels pointless (1min).
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See you next time,
Cesar
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