Most of what we call "tech" is about getting the right information into a database and trying to prevent the wrong person from reading or updating it.

📚 Had to post this a lot on the other platform lately and apparently, it blows people's mind that this is possible. I wrote it over 2 years ago, and callback refs will only get better in v19 because they will get cleanup functions. Have a read:

tkdodo.eu/blog/avoidin...

Strange times indeed!

seeing random projects pop up in the atproto ecosystem reminds me just how much public web common were stifled by social companies closing down their APIs. an entire landscape of tools given up on and abandoned

I feel like half of programming is remembering how weird stuff works and the other half is setting things up so that you do not have to remember the weird stuff