Chris Jarling
@chrisjarling.com
Building things, some work
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chrisjarling.com
Working on a button component doesn't have to hurt 👇
Shitty button components. We've all seen them, we've all written them. But they don't have to stay shitty! I wrote about building better button components, with simple patterns that I now use everywhere.
Also: the word "button" appears 181 times in it.
timomeh.de/posts/a-bett...
Also: the word "button" appears 181 times in it.
timomeh.de/posts/a-bett...
A Better Button Component with Composition | timomeh.de
timomeh.de
July 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Working on a button component doesn't have to hurt 👇
Say about AI what you will, but the fact that I can basically tell my editor to "write tests for that", go make coffee and come back to a very solid first draft for tests is great.
March 14, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Say about AI what you will, but the fact that I can basically tell my editor to "write tests for that", go make coffee and come back to a very solid first draft for tests is great.
Doing a bit of housekeeping on my website today. Was tempted (and even started) to start from scratch, but decided I wanted to clean up instead.
March 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Doing a bit of housekeeping on my website today. Was tempted (and even started) to start from scratch, but decided I wanted to clean up instead.
Given how the past week went, I want to publicly thank Mr. Arthur J. Ibuprofen for his invention.
Took some Ibu 400s this week and they worked great.
The dedication to do 399 iterations just to find product market for on 400. Truly inspiring!
Took some Ibu 400s this week and they worked great.
The dedication to do 399 iterations just to find product market for on 400. Truly inspiring!
March 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Given how the past week went, I want to publicly thank Mr. Arthur J. Ibuprofen for his invention.
Took some Ibu 400s this week and they worked great.
The dedication to do 399 iterations just to find product market for on 400. Truly inspiring!
Took some Ibu 400s this week and they worked great.
The dedication to do 399 iterations just to find product market for on 400. Truly inspiring!
Friends don't let friends raise big PRs that could have easily been split up into multiple smaller ones
March 3, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Friends don't let friends raise big PRs that could have easily been split up into multiple smaller ones
Sometimes, Copenhagen doesn’t feel like a real place.
#photography
#photography
March 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Sometimes, Copenhagen doesn’t feel like a real place.
#photography
#photography
Huge personal update: I bought an proper office chair.
March 2, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Huge personal update: I bought an proper office chair.
Reposted by Chris Jarling
I upgraded to Tailwind CSS v4 today, and it was bit of a bumpy ride to migrate to the new config, but i also made some discoveries and thought: why not share them?
timomeh.de/posts/upgrad...
timomeh.de/posts/upgrad...
Upgrading to Tailwind v4.0 | timomeh.de
timomeh.de
January 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I upgraded to Tailwind CSS v4 today, and it was bit of a bumpy ride to migrate to the new config, but i also made some discoveries and thought: why not share them?
timomeh.de/posts/upgrad...
timomeh.de/posts/upgrad...
Reposted by Chris Jarling
Is there a need for another bluesky client? No
Will I build it anyways? Yes
Will I likely abandon it before it has the chance to amount to somehting? Also yes
Will I build it anyways? Yes
Will I likely abandon it before it has the chance to amount to somehting? Also yes
January 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Is there a need for another bluesky client? No
Will I build it anyways? Yes
Will I likely abandon it before it has the chance to amount to somehting? Also yes
Will I build it anyways? Yes
Will I likely abandon it before it has the chance to amount to somehting? Also yes
Good morning
Starting the new year off with an on-call shift. All quiet so far 🤞
(Also looking into Go)
Starting the new year off with an on-call shift. All quiet so far 🤞
(Also looking into Go)
January 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Good morning
Starting the new year off with an on-call shift. All quiet so far 🤞
(Also looking into Go)
Starting the new year off with an on-call shift. All quiet so far 🤞
(Also looking into Go)
Nice late Christmas present: Been holding $MVST for about two years now, averaging down time and time again to ~$0.80. Nice to see it gaining momentum again those last few days.
December 27, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Nice late Christmas present: Been holding $MVST for about two years now, averaging down time and time again to ~$0.80. Nice to see it gaining momentum again those last few days.
ChatGPT is down. Does that mean my job is temporarily not in danger?
December 26, 2024 at 8:09 PM
ChatGPT is down. Does that mean my job is temporarily not in danger?
First On-Call shift of the holiday season ended with 0 calls 👏
December 26, 2024 at 6:26 AM
First On-Call shift of the holiday season ended with 0 calls 👏
Had a (somewhat) clean shave for the first time in probably 15 years yesterday.
Wife hates it, I’m so-so 🤷♂️
Wife hates it, I’m so-so 🤷♂️
December 25, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Had a (somewhat) clean shave for the first time in probably 15 years yesterday.
Wife hates it, I’m so-so 🤷♂️
Wife hates it, I’m so-so 🤷♂️
Reposted by Chris Jarling
I’m having a conversation with my mom about something I want for Christmas and a week later Santa gives it to me.
When will we pass privacy regulations
When will we pass privacy regulations
December 25, 2024 at 2:48 PM
I’m having a conversation with my mom about something I want for Christmas and a week later Santa gives it to me.
When will we pass privacy regulations
When will we pass privacy regulations
I don’t get why we’re still arguing wether or not Christmas miracles are real when there’s CLEAR evidence for them.
An example, you ask?
Here, I published something on my blog today. Miracle!
www.chrisjarling.com/posts/transi...
An example, you ask?
Here, I published something on my blog today. Miracle!
www.chrisjarling.com/posts/transi...
Transitioning to the Management Track - Chris Jarling
As of November 2024, I transitioned to the management track for the first time in my career. This is what I learned so far
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December 25, 2024 at 6:37 PM
I don’t get why we’re still arguing wether or not Christmas miracles are real when there’s CLEAR evidence for them.
An example, you ask?
Here, I published something on my blog today. Miracle!
www.chrisjarling.com/posts/transi...
An example, you ask?
Here, I published something on my blog today. Miracle!
www.chrisjarling.com/posts/transi...
I did not expect Coldplay to be my most played artist this year
December 19, 2024 at 11:22 PM
I did not expect Coldplay to be my most played artist this year
Not sure when the last time was that happened 🤯
December 17, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Not sure when the last time was that happened 🤯
This created some fun oddities for us in the past few days. Sharing just in case your CI is doing funky things as well and you have no idea why.
github.com/actions/runn...
github.com/actions/runn...
[Ubuntu] Breaking Change: runner user will have UID 1001 instead of 1000 for larger runners · Issue #10936 · actions/runner-images
Breaking changes The user ID of runner user on larger runners, used to execute github jobs, will change from 1000 to 1001. This will match the UID on standard runners. Target date December 09, 2024...
github.com
December 16, 2024 at 8:46 PM
This created some fun oddities for us in the past few days. Sharing just in case your CI is doing funky things as well and you have no idea why.
github.com/actions/runn...
github.com/actions/runn...
Test locally with MAMP, drag&drop it onto FileZilla and the. pray it will not break on production. Those were the days
December 16, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Test locally with MAMP, drag&drop it onto FileZilla and the. pray it will not break on production. Those were the days
Oh boy am I excited to have founds this back in my feed 🙌
December 11, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Oh boy am I excited to have founds this back in my feed 🙌
My scheduled Slack messages at 8:58 AM
a group of young men are playing a video game in a room .
Alt: a group of young men holding back another one who is trying to run away
media.tenor.com
December 9, 2024 at 7:58 AM
My scheduled Slack messages at 8:58 AM