Tania 💾
tania.dev
Tania 💾
@tania.dev
Lead singer of Floppy and the Diskettes aka Notorious F.T.P.
Principal Software Engineer
I write at https://tania.dev
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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
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...
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
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
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
ChatGPT is telling people I run a QA Bootcamp now.
August 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I added a color picker to my blog. (Procrastinating instead of writing).

Which color looks best to you? tania.dev
July 7, 2025 at 3:19 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?
July 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Is there a big benefit in updating my blog from Gatsby to Astro?
July 6, 2025 at 5:31 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.
June 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I have two goals:

- Write as little code as possible
- Delete as much code as possible
June 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I have strong opinions about using test() instead of it() for tests.
June 3, 2025 at 4:31 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.
April 27, 2025 at 6:41 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.
April 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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
Ever just realize your website looks like absolute shit on Safari but you never checked before?
April 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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
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
I wrote a post - creating a React wrapper for a JavaScript charting library.

tania.dev/apache-echar...
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
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
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
npm run dmc
April 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
#camelgate is over. Everyone back to work.
April 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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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April 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM