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Are you paying? I see an endless stream of AI or bot-like posts in the replies of basically every tweet I see with any traction, but i'm not a paying user so I may have the bad ver…

> conflicting styles don't make sense Sometimes true, but one issue here is that because Tailwind utility classes vary from being a 1:1 mapping to a single underlying style rule, t…

For anyone who didn't know, caniuse lets you upload your actual usage data. Then for any capability, next to global support you also see the stats for your user-base. https://caniu…

Whilst I don't _really_ consider 37k LoC a day to be a particularly extreme number, my issue with all the high profile high output usage of AI, is that it doesn't really prove much…

> Note that Rails was built as a framework for making blogs This doesn't seem right. Yes, the "build a blog in 15 minutes" demo was pretty memorable, but I don't think it's ever re…

I think it depends on the project, but I've found that using installable libraries becomes a bottleneck over time as you find yourself running into their limits, or trying to custo…

I call it "being shot in the face with bullet points". I was trying to use an LLM to write up some guidelines on how to use a piece of tech, and I kept getting frustrated that it f…

One thing i've struggled with with Prosemirror (via TipTap) is that I very often need to interact with JSON representation of the document programmatically to extract data from it,…

At work we've tried switching to vitest, and it's 1.5-2x slower than Jest (I think it's related to our very large and circular module graph), so performance is very much a your-mil…

If you look at the origins, the primary motivation was finding a way to get a good data loading developer experience without having to adopt Relay and GraphQL.

As they say (they being me), no design survives implementation.

I remember regularly scrambling to redesign our marketing site, because the CEO was going to start speaking to investors in less than a week. So we'd always end up with a homepage …

I'd hazard a guess that there's a large gulf between proportion of users who know as much as you, and the total number using these tools. The fact that a message can perform wildly…

This points to a fairly fundamental mismatch between the realities of running an LLM and the expectations of users. As a user, I _expect_ the cost of resuming X hours/days later to…

There's a _big_ continuum between disagreeing over something and an ethical hard line, it feels like a slippery slope to interpete a suggested approach for one end of that line as …

I used something similar for my Super Mario Maker 2 level viewer (eg https://www.smm2-viewer.com/courses/1HH-CJ8-KYF ) In the level data, the start/goal tiles (approx 10x10 blocks …

I have a few parallel AI-authored side projects on the go that have quite different shapes, and I feel quite different things about each 1. A survival horde game (like Vampire Surv…

I did a slightly less ambitious prototype a few weeks ago where I created added lazy loading of GCS files into the just-bash file-systems, as well as lots of other on-demand files.…

just-bash comes with Python installed, so in a way that's what this has done. I've used this for some prototypes with AI tools (via bash-tool), can't really productionise it in our…

Yeah, whilst git was more popular than mercurial, I still think mercurial would have won if bitbucket had a better UI. It's interesting to me that the only thing that made me vastl…

Ambiguity increasingly feels like the crux of estimation. By that I mean the extent to which you have a clear idea of what needs to be done before you start the work. I do a lot of…

I mean, the use of GraphQL for third party APIs has always been questionable wisdom. I’m about a big a GraphQL fan as it gets, but I’ve always come down on the side of being very s…

It’s no secret that RSC was at least partially an attempt to get close to what Relay offers but without requiring you adopt GraphQL.

It is still a major problem, yes. Interestingly, if you go back to the talks that introduced GraphQL, much of the motivation wasn’t about solving overfetching (they kinda assumed y…

For me it’s really about the component-level experience. * Relatively fine-grained re-rendering out of the box because you don’t pass the entire query response down the tree. useFr…