Clarence
theodorusclarence.com
Clarence
@theodorusclarence.com
Software Engineer working with React ecosystem that write blogs about development

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🚨 New section alert!
I just added a “Side Quests” page to my website—documenting all the skills & adventures I’ve picked up outside software engineering.

It’s also a way for me to show some more personality beyond my professional side
July 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
sometimes not making a props optional `?:` is the right way to go when building a component

try to minimize human error as much as possible
July 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
here's some code snippets
June 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
the power of container queries ❤️

if you have an aside layout, make sure to utilize them!

Tailwind has a nice docs about them
tailwindcss.com/docs/respons...
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
June 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
oh i forgot to post. Thanks to 240+ attendees!

It’s been a while since my last webinar, this reminds me how much I like sharing verbally

Next goal that I want to try is to do a talk in person 🤞
February 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I used to read more because I read when I commute. Now that I’m practically home majority of the time, I feel like I have no time to read.

Now I prefer to hail a taxi (even though more expensive) because I can read on the way. *public transport works too!
December 29, 2024 at 4:25 PM
3k stars 🥳

By the way, it's been a while since I initialized a new fresh project lately, so I might not have the latest info. Kindly open an issue or even contribute if you have something in mind!
December 23, 2024 at 12:39 PM
It surprises me that not a lot of people care to add a focus style when doing frontend.

Sometimes they even use "outline: none" instead 💀

Checking focus style is one of the pipeline both in self-coding and code review.
December 18, 2024 at 1:30 PM
one tiny detail that people might miss: I took my time to line those up so it feels like a print on a literal notebook 🤣

also the title & date on the top right corner is dynamic!
December 16, 2024 at 1:07 PM
3 analytics providers seem to have different values. Does anybody have any idea why?

Maybe it's due to different ad blocker and bot filtering?
December 16, 2024 at 12:51 PM
btw you can cache turborepo lint on github artifacts for free!

link in thread
December 11, 2024 at 2:59 AM
my ongoing habit right now is writing daily highlights every night

I’ve been doing this from around feb, first on a book, now moved to ios journal app
December 10, 2024 at 3:44 PM
woohoo 🍵

I can make it with tiny teaspoon of honey, cafes don’t understand the meaning of ‘less sweet’ istg
December 9, 2024 at 4:33 AM
yayy, i’ve been wanting this for a while
December 8, 2024 at 4:33 PM
my close friend bought me this after i mentored him for a few months

he just landed a remote job to my company 🙇‍♂️🎉
December 8, 2024 at 7:27 AM
🔍 Quick Tip: Fix VSCode's Annoying Import Suggestions!

Tired of VSCode suggesting the wrong imports? You can fix them!
December 3, 2024 at 2:03 PM
as an added bonus, my images now come from a custom domain 🤩

I'll share the statistics improvement in the future if this works 🤞
December 3, 2024 at 11:59 AM
I’ve only been here a month, seems like I’ve been working a lot with CSS last month 🤣
December 1, 2024 at 4:04 PM
just rewrote them to pure CSS, now faster and smoother!

deployed on theodorusclarence.com, feel it yourself
November 30, 2024 at 7:03 AM
one more left 🔥
November 30, 2024 at 5:49 AM
I was using Canvas for the hero animation. It's JANKY in Firefox and consumed a lot of CPU 😱

I rewrote it using CSS transform & perspective. CSS is king for animation perf⚡ - nothing can compete.
November 29, 2024 at 4:28 PM
linkedin algo is honestly still better than x, I got around 100k impressions this week.

And the post doesn’t stop getting impression at least for one week, while X stops in just 2 days.
November 25, 2024 at 2:46 PM
24 hours after launch 🔥

Thanks for all 6k people checking my website!
November 24, 2024 at 12:25 PM
theodorusclarence.com is officially revamped! 🔥

This is one of my proudest works so far; it has a lot of nitty-gritty details that you can find all over the website!

Check it out, it's live! Let me know what you guys think 🙌
November 23, 2024 at 12:55 PM
thank god I'm kinda good at fighting safari quirks with another quirk
November 18, 2024 at 4:57 PM