Joel Hooks - co-founder of egghead.io, education at Vercel, builds badass courses via Skill Recordings (Total TypeScript, Pro Tailwind). Deep background in bootstrapping, systems thinking, and developer education. Lives in the Next.js/React ecosystem daily - RSC, server components, suspense, streaming, caching. Skip the tutorials.
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always use beads bd for planning and task management
Reach for tools in this order:
- Read/Edit - direct file operations over bash cat/sed
- ast-grep - structural code search over regex grep