Check out this productivity hack I just unlocked! Instead of jumping right into building the thing, you first write some stuff down about the thing. Bullet points ideally. Then you send that "plan" to people (yes! slow, human brains) and they give you feedback. Bullet points ideally. 1/3

@tkdodo.eu 👋 I’m curious what your go-to solution is for global UI/client state manangent in React. Perhaps Zustland judging by your blog? Trying to pick what to use alongside React Query for the new GitButler SPA.

Today was my 100th #parkrun! 🎉 Love this event. Cheers to all the volunteers who make it possible.

'Tech is full of people who care deeply about their area of chosen specialism, and we’re all struggling in a world where doing lots of stuff really fast has become the most important thing.' Keep caring and wait it out. rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...

“AI is a tool for capitalism. It's not making people more efficient; it's changing expectations.”

In personal news, I’m on the job market again. If you need DevRel leadership or just a solid Dev Advocate with over 15 years of experience, hit me up - pj at devrelate dot io I’m also available for contract gigs

Really good read! “The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility” by Casey Reeves xogium.me/the-text-mod... #tui #a11y

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

@jacquesnewman.bsky.social 👋 Hey! Love your work on focusgroup. I have a question: do you plan to support trees (as in the ARIA APG Tree View pattern)?

✨ New post “Difftastic — my new favourite diff viewer” pawelgrzybek.com/difftastic-m... #git #diff

AI & Alignment Raw coding speed isn't the bottleneck. Alignment is the bottleneck. That seems to be a zeitgeist-y theme lately. If you're using AI to code, maybe you're feeling it. You can code more and faster. And clearly a boatload of other developers are doing that too. But software doesn't…

When they said tech jobs would be lost to AI, they meant we’d be replaced by AI. What we are seeing is jobs being lost to bad decisions to invest in AI that don’t work out. So the company loses money because of AI. AI is costing jobs but not replacing them - just failing to deliver results.

Gordon Ramsey, technical writing, and the importance of people who care rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...

Beautifully written by @rachelandrew.bsky.social "The importance of people who care" rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...

If I had to drop @jj-vcs.dev I honestly don't know what I would do with myself. The megamerge workflow is so incredibly powerful for me that my brain short circuits trying to do anything else isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujuts...

We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git L: https://blog.gitbutler.com/series-a C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712656 posted on 2026.04.09 at 21:52:58 (c=2, p=7)

@pnpm.io's experimental global virtual store is brilliant. The install performance gains are a game-changer for git flows. You get near-zero per-worktree overhead and instant installs for new worktrees as packages are already in the global store. @kochan.io can't stop making pnpm better 🤌

Noticing a trend of so many cool new tools popping up that you realise have only been active for a few weeks and were almost certainly vibecoded with minimal thought.

From my experience the best way to use LLMs is as glorified codemod tools, but nothing more. Still very much engineering, just asking it to do the transformations and toil work.

I think the reason plan mode never sticks for me is because I’m much better at pattern matching code than I am plain text. If I don’t like the code it generated, I can throw it away, refine my prompt and try again. It’s quicker for me to review the code than it is to review the plan.

Looking for volunteers that use @tanstack.com query with suspense. I have a PR that switches from throwing promises to `React.use` (with a shim for React18). Tests pass after changing them 😅. Try it out pls🙏 npm i pkg.pr.new/@tanstack/re...

I wrote a blog post about pull requests, comprehension debt and Jujuts lubeno.dev/blog/reinven...

The CloseWatcher API landed in Firefox 149, making it easy to listen for platform-specific 'dismiss' signals. Here's how it works:

📚 Continuing my series about design-systems, today I wrote about why I believe data-testid is a bad practice and and how role-based selectors actually help ensure your app is accessible.

𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚝-𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛-𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 is great for declarative error handling, but it breaks with Server Components: it swallows 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝙵𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍() and 𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝(), and 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚝() can't re-fetch server data. Next.js 16.2 𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑𝙴𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛: framework-aware, and 𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚛𝚢() re-fetches RSC data. Blog post + demo in the thread ↓

Ghostty key tables keybinding workflows are the best. Look at this! ⌘+d, j = open new split to the bottom ⌘+d, l = open new split to the right ⌘+r, k = resize to the top ⌘+r, h = resize to the left This should be very familiar to tmux or vim users. Love it ❣️ github.com/pawelgrzybek... #ghostty

Two weeks in at GitButler and I’m loving it! I feel very excited about what’s to come.

I do want to make sure we're being clear about this: The Bluesky team maintains the same review, red-teaming, and QA processes that we always have. AI coding tools have been proving useful, but haven't changed the fundamental practices of good engineering. Human review and direction remain key.

@danjordan.dev Hey! Was great hanging out yesterday. Did you try the album?? bsky.app/profile/oliv...

My team at Unsplash are searching for a new lead front-end engineer. I'd love to help them find the right person. If that sounds interesting to you, send me a DM!

“If AI really is replacing software development with bot-slop and existential dread, somebody forgot to tell the web folks. State of the Browser 2026 was a celebration of code, craft, open standards, collaboration and transparency – and not a ralph loop in sight.” dylanbeattie.net/2026/02/28/s...

Finally got round to publishing my article on implementing faster/better cookie consent banners: lessonsofacto.com/articles/006... It's a lot (>3700 words!) so there's a demo site here: cookie-consent-example.netlify.app and the heavily-commented code is here: github.com/ryantownsend... #webperf

I tried out the new @codepen.io 2.0 editor! It was a bit confusing at first, but once it clicked, I realized how cool it was 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R4l...

Had such a great day hanging out with web folk at State of the Browser! ❤️ @letorey.co.uk @pawelgrzybek.com @jakearchibald.com @cassiecodes.bsky.social @bram.us @keithamus.social @andydavies.me @amyhupe.bsky.social and many more

On my way to State of the Browser! Hope to see some of you folks there.

I'm often asked why you would use a JS library like React Aria for modals instead of the HTML <dialog> element, so I wrote up a detailed response. One of the main features of <dialog> (top layer) is also one of its weaknesses. github.com/adobe/react-...

Rather than using AI to *write* code, we should reframe it as using AI to *type* code. You're still designing the code in your head. The AI is just a faster way to get it out of your head and into the computer (as opposed to typing).

Reprompt is the new rebase.

Apparently it's still not possible to jump to a comment in a @github.com PR. 🙃

Copilot PR review comment: "this will cause a TypeScript compilation error" CI: ✅

@jackf.io 👋 Hey! Some feedback for Chrome dev tools. My request throttling wasn't working. After banging my head on the desk for awhile, it turned out I had this checkbox disabled, but it was far from obvious given that pane was hidden at the time.

Great article on the hidden cost of high-velocity engineering in the AI era. We talk about how AI tools make individual tasks faster, but there's constant context-switching and decision fatigue. siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-f...

Browser developers are working on custom form controls ( `appearance:base`), the next giant task is looming: customisable input type=date/datetime/color pickers. These are huge and have wildly varied UI. Send me your examples, I'd love to see them and build up a body of these pickers.

I just tried the package comparison in @npmx.dev to decide between two packages. Where has this been all my life?! 😍

📝 A new post about AI skills daverupert.com/2026/02/magi...

Now GitButler has a CLI! Stacked and parallel branches, smartlog, simple commit editing, easy undo, json output to every command. And it just works in any Git repo. Check it out: blog.gitbutler.com/but-cli

Some news: after 9 years, the time has come for me to leave Unsplash. I’ve dedicated a lot of care, time, and effort to Unsplash, and it’s incredibly difficult for me to say goodbye to the team and what we’ve built together. But I'm very excited for what's next… 🧵

SelfCI is super interesting: app.radicle.xyz/nodes/radicl... Essentially: “works on my machine” is largely a solved problem, our machines are faster than rented dev servers, most of us work with code from people we trust, and debugging remote CI sucks.

Excitingly, Chrome Canary recently added support for <meta name="text-scaling"> behind a flag. What is it? It's something that we're all going to start using on our websites to improve accessibility. Here's a blog post with more info. www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-0...

✍️ I wrote a short opinion piece about a pattern I keep seeing lately: switching to the smallest responsive layout too early. I call it The Too-Early Breakpoint. 🔗 ishadeed.com/article/too-...