Tania 💾
@tania.dev
Lead singer of Floppy and the Diskettes aka Notorious F.T.P.
Principal Software Engineer
I write at https://tania.dev
Principal Software Engineer
I write at https://tania.dev
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Tania 💾
@tania.dev
· Oct 31
I thought 🦋 meant an extra max health in Hollow Knight.
That is good to me as well as that.
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
That is good to me as well as that.
I updated my "Setting up a Brand New Mac for FE Development" article. I've been keeping it up to date for 5 years. :)
www.taniarascia.com/setting-up-a...
www.taniarascia.com/setting-up-a...
How to Set up a Mac for Development
Last Updated: 9/23/2025 I have to set up a MacBook Pro fairly often - when starting a new job and when buying a new personal computer. I…
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September 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I updated my "Setting up a Brand New Mac for FE Development" article. I've been keeping it up to date for 5 years. :)
www.taniarascia.com/setting-up-a...
www.taniarascia.com/setting-up-a...
When you don't touch your domain and DNS and SSL settings for 7 years and then everything expires and you have to remember how DNS works again.
September 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
When you don't touch your domain and DNS and SSL settings for 7 years and then everything expires and you have to remember how DNS works again.
Someone please convince me that date-fns isn't inferior to Moment.js. The API is harder to use, and you have to add an additional library (date-fns-tz) for the basic functionality of converting dates to local timezone.
September 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Someone please convince me that date-fns isn't inferior to Moment.js. The API is harder to use, and you have to add an additional library (date-fns-tz) for the basic functionality of converting dates to local timezone.
ChatGPT is telling people I run a QA Bootcamp now.
August 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
ChatGPT is telling people I run a QA Bootcamp now.
Excellent introduction to SVGs by @joshwcomeau.com! Very informative and interactive.
www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/friendly...
www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/friendly...
A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau
SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most imp...
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August 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Excellent introduction to SVGs by @joshwcomeau.com! Very informative and interactive.
www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/friendly...
www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/friendly...
How is it that I’ve never interacted with a political post on Bluesky but my entire feed is political posts? Do I need to switch to Mastodon or something to keep up with the JS folks?
July 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
How is it that I’ve never interacted with a political post on Bluesky but my entire feed is political posts? Do I need to switch to Mastodon or something to keep up with the JS folks?
Is there a big benefit in updating my blog from Gatsby to Astro?
July 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Is there a big benefit in updating my blog from Gatsby to Astro?
Why do developers of widely-used open-source projects insist on drastically changing the APIs so I can't just easily update packages? Looking at you, ESLint.
June 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Why do developers of widely-used open-source projects insist on drastically changing the APIs so I can't just easily update packages? Looking at you, ESLint.
I have two goals:
- Write as little code as possible
- Delete as much code as possible
- Write as little code as possible
- Delete as much code as possible
June 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I have two goals:
- Write as little code as possible
- Delete as much code as possible
- Write as little code as possible
- Delete as much code as possible
I have strong opinions about using test() instead of it() for tests.
June 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I have strong opinions about using test() instead of it() for tests.
I’ve started gardening and landscaping in my free time. It feels like refactoring the earth. It’s nice to have a hobby away from a screen.
April 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I’ve started gardening and landscaping in my free time. It feels like refactoring the earth. It’s nice to have a hobby away from a screen.
ChatGPT is really good at making sure your front end can handle any possible combination of characters...recently, I just got back the letter "s" repeated 300 times, and another one that just returned \t over and over.
April 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
ChatGPT is really good at making sure your front end can handle any possible combination of characters...recently, I just got back the letter "s" repeated 300 times, and another one that just returned \t over and over.
This is what my website looked like in Safari for the last year or so since I used `light-dark()` and CSS nesting.
April 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This is what my website looked like in Safari for the last year or so since I used `light-dark()` and CSS nesting.
Ever just realize your website looks like absolute shit on Safari but you never checked before?
April 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Ever just realize your website looks like absolute shit on Safari but you never checked before?
I've had a tech blog for 10 years, and apparently my top performing query on google is "animorphs".
April 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I've had a tech blog for 10 years, and apparently my top performing query on google is "animorphs".
Are people still using Tailwind in production applications? I feel like there's something I'm not understanding about how this works...if the designer decides that the border radius across your site should change, does this mean a find+replace all across potentially hundreds of pages?
April 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Are people still using Tailwind in production applications? I feel like there's something I'm not understanding about how this works...if the designer decides that the border radius across your site should change, does this mean a find+replace all across potentially hundreds of pages?
I wrote a post - creating a React wrapper for a JavaScript charting library.
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Enabling Apache ECharts in React for Data Visualization
Making dashboards with charts and graphs is a pretty common part of the front-end developer experience, as well as deciding which JavaScript…
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April 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I wrote a post - creating a React wrapper for a JavaScript charting library.
tania.dev/apache-echar...
tania.dev/apache-echar...
Who is still using moment.js in TYOL 2025? Every time I try to use date-fns I just switch back to moment because I think the API is easier.
April 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Who is still using moment.js in TYOL 2025? Every time I try to use date-fns I just switch back to moment because I think the API is easier.
I looked at Twitter for the first time in like a year and I don't see a single dev related post on my feed lol
April 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I looked at Twitter for the first time in like a year and I don't see a single dev related post on my feed lol
#camelgate is over. Everyone back to work.
April 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
#camelgate is over. Everyone back to work.
Is npm down for everyone, or just an April Fool's joke being played on me as I try to merge a PR?
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NPM down? Current service status and errors |
Real-time NPM status and problems. Is NPM down, not working properly or are you getting error messages? Here you see what is going on.
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April 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Is npm down for everyone, or just an April Fool's joke being played on me as I try to merge a PR?
downdetector.com/status/npm/
downdetector.com/status/npm/