Tom MacWright (archive)
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These are all my old tweets!
come for the easy tool to track metrics about codebases over time, stay for the tedious discussion about how our node_modules directory is big partially because some NPM packages include three copies of all their code http://blog.val.town/blog/devstats/
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
come for the easy tool to track metrics about codebases over time, stay for the tedious discussion about how our node_modules directory is big partially because some NPM packages include three copies of all their code http://blog.val.town/blog/devstats/
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
thoughts on the news from @browsercompany, which announced that they're building a new product and parking the arc browser https://macwright.com/2024/10/25/arc-browser
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
thoughts on the news from @browsercompany, which announced that they're building a new product and parking the arc browser https://macwright.com/2024/10/25/arc-browser
i used the knip module to find & delete a bunch of unused code from the val town codebase today, and it was very good: https://macwright.com/2024/10/25/good-software-knip
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
i used the knip module to find & delete a bunch of unused code from the val town codebase today, and it was very good: https://macwright.com/2024/10/25/good-software-knip
if you use react, do you use the startTransition API for anything:
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
if you use react, do you use the startTransition API for anything:
this place keeps getting worse. really trying to migrate over to https://mastodon.social/@tmcw
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
this place keeps getting worse. really trying to migrate over to https://mastodon.social/@tmcw
i feel like this is not getting that much buzz, despite being one half of one billion dollars american https://x.com/poolsideai/status/1841529216711397661
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
i feel like this is not getting that much buzz, despite being one half of one billion dollars american https://x.com/poolsideai/status/1841529216711397661
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
netlify has been what i use to run http://macwright.com for years now, and i almost never talk about it, because it just works.
so let me take this occasion to say: it's been great and congrats to them! https://x.com/biilmann/status/1838970803154792875
so let me take this occasion to say: it's been great and congrats to them! https://x.com/biilmann/status/1838970803154792875
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
netlify has been what i use to run http://macwright.com for years now, and i almost never talk about it, because it just works.
so let me take this occasion to say: it's been great and congrats to them! https://x.com/biilmann/status/1838970803154792875
so let me take this occasion to say: it's been great and congrats to them! https://x.com/biilmann/status/1838970803154792875
whether something changes for every render or is constant between renders is both (1) really important and usually the difference between a page glitching and infinite-looping (2) something that react, and frameworks, hate to specify, for some reason!
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
whether something changes for every render or is constant between renders is both (1) really important and usually the difference between a page glitching and infinite-looping (2) something that react, and frameworks, hate to specify, for some reason!
in which i argue that react's documentation of useEffect is not good: https://macwright.com/2024/09/19/the-extra-rules-of-hooks
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
in which i argue that react's documentation of useEffect is not good: https://macwright.com/2024/09/19/the-extra-rules-of-hooks
kinda crazy that google didn't respond to vs code by building a vs code competitor inside of chrome on top of devtools
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
kinda crazy that google didn't respond to vs code by building a vs code competitor inside of chrome on top of devtools
the arms war of ai tools to spam job applications and ai tools to evaluate job applications is really heating up
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
the arms war of ai tools to spam job applications and ai tools to evaluate job applications is really heating up
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
housing folks: a good friend of mine pitches the idea that rental agreements should be required to have lease-to-own provisions - renting for x years legally gives the renter some % of equity
has this been tried? would it work?
has this been tried? would it work?
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
housing folks: a good friend of mine pitches the idea that rental agreements should be required to have lease-to-own provisions - renting for x years legally gives the renter some % of equity
has this been tried? would it work?
has this been tried? would it work?
the new iphone is a phone
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
the new iphone is a phone
wrote a short thing about what taxes are for https://macwright.com/2024/09/07/what-are-taxes-for
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
wrote a short thing about what taxes are for https://macwright.com/2024/09/07/what-are-taxes-for
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
local brooklyn transpo anecdata: the livingston st bus-rapid-transit lanes seem to be working, those buses are zippin
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
local brooklyn transpo anecdata: the livingston st bus-rapid-transit lanes seem to be working, those buses are zippin
val town is built on open source. we need it, so we started paying for it ($9.6k so far this year) and joined the open source pledge: https://blog.val.town/blog/oss/
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
val town is built on open source. we need it, so we started paying for it ($9.6k so far this year) and joined the open source pledge: https://blog.val.town/blog/oss/
in hindsight, @thegrid was 7 years too early, if they launched right now it'd pop off, ai-driven web design etc
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
in hindsight, @thegrid was 7 years too early, if they launched right now it'd pop off, ai-driven web design etc
will there ever be another implementation of typescript
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
will there ever be another implementation of typescript
Heartbreaking: The Leftist Writer You Respect Decided to Write A Dumb Vibes-Based Rant against YIMBYs
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Heartbreaking: The Leftist Writer You Respect Decided to Write A Dumb Vibes-Based Rant against YIMBYs
why are we doing any of this https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24225972/ai-photo-era-what-is-reality-google-pixel-9
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
why are we doing any of this https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24225972/ai-photo-era-what-is-reality-google-pixel-9
people who are deadset against taxes on unrealized gains: are you also entirely anti-property tax?
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
people who are deadset against taxes on unrealized gains: are you also entirely anti-property tax?