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Nothing will ever top this for typescript types. This is the pinnacle. An entire virtual machine and system memory with garbage collector in types. Turing Completeness is one level…

Security is important. Overusing report mechanisms for non-actionable noise is counterproductive.

One of 2023’s biggest trends for web tooling was rewriting existing tooling in Rust. Rust is a wonderful programming language that allows for shockingly fast binaries which still i…

Finding and eliminating thousands of calls to recreate a giant regular expression in a popular open source emoji plugin.

Parts 2 & 3 of a blog post series on touching up performance in the centered.app web app. These pushed the Lighthouse performance score from 36 to 51 by pruning a multi-MB unused a…

Part 1 of an ongoing blog series describing performance investigations & improvements on the popular centered.app web app. This one implemented over-eager loading on a page that wa…

I've applied to >100 conferences and spoken at about a third of them. Prospective or first-time speakers often ask me for advice - so, finally, here's a walkthrough for how I apply…

TypeScript 4.9 introduces a new operator, satisfies, that allows opting into a different kind of type inference from the type system's default. satisfies brings the best of type an…

I'm so excited about this . It's a testament to how well-built-up modern frontend tooling is, especially around React. The things that used to take hundreds or even thousands of li…

Personal notes from an open source maintainer of their first six months of full time maintenance.

An implementation of Oak's Lab from the original Pokemon games, but with Angular, React, Solid, Svelte, and Vue instead of starter Pokemon. It's written in TypeScript and hosted on…

These are wonderful, thank you!

This is great!

TypeScript's type system is Turing Complete: meaning it has conditional branching (conditional types) and works with an arbitrary huge amount of memory. As a result, you can use th…

Great writeup on `never`, love to see it!