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It’s certainly been my experience that page sizes should be bigger than you initially expect. Paginated endpoints are typically iterated all the way through meaning you’re going to…

I had a beloved F91W that I used for years. One day, when surfing in Morocco, it gave out and the screen became foggy before showing me an error code and never recovering. I guess …

Although I'm only on job three and have not had that much involvement with open source, I think my current employer (Attio) has one of the best codebases I've seen. Qualitatively, …

I've gotten a lot of use from a version of Zettelkasten in Roam recently. The general idea is this. 1. Take "Literature Notes" in your own words as you consume content. These are l…

As a non-systems engineer, I’ve found Julia’s blog immensely helpful. She does a great job of explaining a wide range of topics and also tackles soft skills very well

Going to test this out on Hinge voice prompts and see what happens

Damn, this looks great. I'm very happy with my ErgoDoxes but the domed keys on this would make me seriously consider it if I were buying today. IMO, the split keyboard is super imp…

Just wait until you hear about git blame

Next.js really isn't that bad. If you need SSR, it is definitely the best way to go.

Good to hear! If that's the case then I'm excited.

I think create-react-app is much more beginner friendly. Fewer concepts to learn. Rolling your own or using script tags to begin with is also an option (see this course for an exam…

Next.js has been very good for not introducing breaking changes in my experience (especially for the JavaScript ecosystem). The changes are more along the lines of lots of new and …

I get the sense the React team don't really care about SSR as it's not a massive use case for FB.

> That's what srcset & were invented for. Next.js is going to be using srcset under the hood, I'm sure. The whole point of Next.js is to make best practices like this defaults, not…

Do you have any good examples of how this has worked well for you in the past (ideally, off the job)?

Some of my favourite internet-specific books: - The Dream Machine. Fantastic tech history coverage with a particular focus on the lead up to the internet https://press.stripe.com/#…

I'm paying $35/year but I think it's still worth it. Solid integration with my Mac and iPhone.

I'm looking to do a project or two to level up my dev skills. What projects have you done in the past that were particularly successful?

Came here to comment on how good this one was, thinking this was what the post was about. 10/10 work on this project, never ceases to amaze me and my coworkers.

Learning haskell, getting some writing done, trying out some hacking/info security.

What I'd hoped to see here was why use Svelte for a large web project. I get the advantages, but devising and maintaining good architecture is hard enough in the more established R…