Matt Pocock — Total TypeScript
About #
TypeScript educator and author of Total TypeScript — the leading advanced TypeScript course and workshop series. Known for making complex type-level concepts approachable through tips, tutorials, and interactive exercises. Active on X/Twitter (@mattpocockuk).
How this journal works #
Checked every 7 days: each new post or episode in Matt Pocock’s own feeds (website, youtube) becomes one entry, dated by publication and summarised in a few bullets.
Entries
- The secret to building robust frontend apps with agents
- When should you NOT use /grill-me?
- Your agent is a tactical tornado
- Give your agent a goal, and let it be creative
- WHY ARE YOU TYPING
- Mutation testing is AWESOME
- /retro is a banger of a skill
- STOP running your checks in harness hooks
- Tell your agents to CARE about the codebase
- Your effort level is STILL TOO HIGH
- Your skills are WAY TOO LONG
- Don't underestimate the communication barrier
- New Skills! v1.3 brings /pr, /implement-spec, and /retro
- LIVE: Poteto (creator of pstack) on shipping 1,000's of PR's a month at SpaceX
- LIVE: Uncle Bob on Software Fundamentals in the Age of AI
- New Skills! v1.2 brings /wait-what, /writing-for-agents, and fixes /grill-me
- /wayfinder: Nothing is too big to plan anymore
- Don't waste time on specs: /prototype instead
- There is no such thing as greenfield
- Using /grill-me for interviews?!
- What is the dumb zone?
- Do you even need human review?
- This change makes /grill-me SO MUCH BETTER
- Framework Hell, Tutorial Hell... now Skill Hell
- Kill your MEMORY.md
- Do software fundamentals still matter?
- My /teach skill is still insane
- Claude Code's system tools are SO BLOATED
- mattpocock/skills: A complete AI Coding workflow, end-to-end
- I'm thinking about changing my most popular skill
- My #1 book recommendation for strategic programming
- Delete (most of) your docs
- AI Coding is exhausting
- Don't know which model to choose? *taps the graph*
- A dictionary of AI Coding
- My agent hallucinated - what do I do?
- Your effort level is TOO DAMN HIGH
- New Skills! v1.1 brings /wayfinder, /research, /implement, /to-spec, /to-tickets
- Learn anything with the /teach skill
- Can Cursor's HARDCORE Review Skill Stop The Slop?
- 9 Things People Get Wrong With My /grill-* Skills
- I stopped using /grill-me for coding. Here's what I use instead:
- Anthropic's "dedicated monthly credit" is actually a huge cut
- New Skills! /handoff, /prototype, /review and /writing-* | Skills Changelog
- Burn through the backlog from hell with /triage
- Sandcastle: Matt Pocock's Secret AI Engine [2026]
- I Open-Sourced My Own AFK Software Factory
- How To De-Slop A Codebase Ruined By AI (with one skill)
- LIVE: Watch me build a brand-new project from scratch
- Never Trust An LLM