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Dana Ciocan
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I am a Senior Engineer at Octopus Energy. I love being creative in my spare time. I make my own clothes and grow my own food. My pronouns are they/them. I blog about technology at danaciocan.com
These kinds of patterns affect the most vulnerable in society: folks who are time poor, who are less well educated, people on low incomes, those with cognitive disabilities and the young and the elderly. Do we really want to be bamboozling people like this for the sake of profit? I hope not!
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Some of the things I learned while reading it: deceptive patterns are _everywhere_ and I've personally seen many of these. I've even worked for companies that have used them. A lot of the time it's not even intentional, these patterns are that pervasive
November 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Thanks! ooh I'll have to look into it :D
October 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I think the preview is borked because in the Codepen he sits in the middle of the thing 🫠
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Happy halloween!
October 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
told you it was silly
October 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I really need to check in with RSCs again now that it's been a while and see what the latest best practices are. Lmk if you know of any good articles. Will share anything useful I find!
October 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
haha I feel like this will be me in the future 😆
October 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
nice one 🎉
October 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
tl;dr - this stops pnpm from installing dependencies that are less than two days old, hopefully stopping it from installing anything that was edited maliciously
September 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM