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Fun animation ft bun :D
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Viewing tech solution as separate entities (infra, db, backend, fe) is a mistake

Good solutions overlap boundaries

Start with UX and work backwards from there
April 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
There's a lot of complexity in data fetching in frameworks. What if you could just declare the data you're fetching and the compiler:

- streams it in as props
- implements a component level error boundary
- wraps it in suspense boundary
- fetches in parallel on the server via RSC

Anyone have op?
March 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Setting up SSR (including hydration) with Bun is insanely easy.

Here's a little bonus:

Want your server to reload when you make a change to the code? All you have to do is run:

bun run --watch server.tsx

Bun is the all in one platform designed to build fast apps fast
March 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
first merged pr to bun :D
March 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
every engineer should read the tigerbeetle's tiger style design doc:
github.com/tigerbeetle/...
github.com
February 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
v8 isolates are the magic for cloudflare's workers.
At request time:

- typical serverless: boots up full runtime (lambda avg is 200ms) + users code
- cloudflare workers: preboots shared v8 instance so only an isolate (~5ms) + users code is required

read more here: reilly.dev/posts/overvi...
February 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
It's absurd how quickly you can iterate on GPU rendered apps with Zed's gpui framework. I'm only a few hours in. It's just so damn intuitive.
January 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The limits are your imagination <3
January 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
You can just read source code to understand things
January 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
You can just read source code to understand things
January 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Debugged an issue where a shadcn Dialog component was flashing twice before mounting. Memory usage spiking up to 1.4GB. Recorded it in the performance tab and saw that it was the React Developer tools. Removed the extension and the performance issue went away.
January 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
2025 will bring a lot more visual based DX tooling - a severely underutilized category of tooling imo
January 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The greatest jr front end eng that I've ever worked with - @kasskodes.bsky.social is looking for a new opportunity. If anyone in the Charlotte area /remote is looking for a kickass front end dev reach out!
December 16, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Here's a 30 second overview of e2e typesafety in Partykit! Super excited to wrap this up for everyone to enjoy! <3
November 25, 2024 at 8:17 PM
update on upgrading type safety with
Partykit (s/o to @threepointone.bsky.social)

you now get inferred types on not only your type of message but bc of discriminated unions.
The dx is 10x better with these new types!
Next step is transferring this data to the client.
November 23, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Default to variables for everything. Use state when you HAVE to.
November 21, 2024 at 6:22 PM
mylo xyloto is one of my fav albums of all time
November 15, 2024 at 3:35 PM
partykit inherits a problem of crossing network bounds—no e2e type safety. But imagine you run a command that requests types from your PartyKit server, which introspects and responds with a type snapshot. Add a wrapper & voila e2e type safety with PartyKit. POC soon!
November 13, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Biggest advice for new developers is don't blindly do tickets & do stuff bc it says to do stuff. Instead think through what the ask really is. Make sure your ticket actually leads to the desired outcome.
November 12, 2024 at 8:42 PM
I've been spending more time contributing to open source lately in projects like Bun and react-use-websocket. Got to explore a lot of the codebase from the CLAP zig code, to initializing the VM & handing off execution to JavaScriptCore, the engine that runs the JS
October 30, 2024 at 11:56 PM