Like a lot of other people my age, The Princess Bride and This Is Spinal Tap were a big part of my formative years and why I grew up to become the person that I am today. I don’t have the words for how sad this is.

Do agencies still do web dev projects? If I had access to cloudflare and sveltekit and claude code in 2010 there really wouldn’t have been much of anything my 20 person agency couldn’t have built.

It’s been three months since my baby was born and I’m re-entering adult life on Monday. I’ve probably gotten two weeks worth of sleep since then. Wish me luck.

Industrial design peaked in the 80s and I’d like to go back.

I’m surprised there isn’t more talk about moonrepo.dev. It isn’t much more complex than turborepo but feels like goes a long way toward the flexibility of something like bazel. Setting it up took a minute or two and it does everything I’d want in a polyglot repo.

I finally cancelled my Spotify subscription. Between boosting Joe Rogan, running ads for ICE, diluting their content with gen-AI garbage to devalue real musicians, and the CEO investing $700m in an AI weapons company, no thanks. Also it just doesn’t sound as good as other platforms like Apple Music

String directives in JS like ‘use server’ aren’t bad because of ergonomics, but in the vast landscape of JS compilers with their various plugins, their meanings become incredibly opaque. I don’t believe more than a small percentage of NextJS developers could explain what use server does, explicitly.

I haven’t hit a ton of paper cuts when working with Cloudflare workers but one that I’ve run into with R2 in dev is that certain APIs like FixedLengthStream are only available when running with miniflare, which makes a normal debugger workflow with, say, sveltekit, really difficult and annoying.

pretty excited about this feature (thanks @ottomated.net!). dealing with file uploads can be a bit of a pain — the way it works normally is that you (or your framework) does `await request.formData()` to get a FormData object. but it has to buffer every file into memory first. that's a problem!

I didn’t realize just how much of early fatherhood was going to be getting puked on

Most of the junk you buy won’t last two years. Great headphones can last literally a lifetime. AirPods are cool and I use them a lot but my Audeze LCD-X and Shure 846 genuinely change how you feel about listening to music and are built to last decades.

Mamdani has won more votes than the entire population of any of the 5 smallest states.

Both very excited and very nervous for New York and California today.

We went out for the first time since having our baby and I'd forgotten what it's like to be able to spend more than 3 minutes eating a meal while also getting to use both hands to eat.

New post! www.lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanb...

2 of the last 5 things that I’ve ordered from Amazon just never came. Either they didn’t even ship it or it got as far as out for delivery but they just never came to my house to deliver it. It’s wild to see how, as tech has taken over all aspect of life, most things have gotten so much worse.

Well well well

I’ve been building some things on Cloudflare as a learning exercise for all of their primitives while I’m up late with the baby. Auth provider, log warehouse, analytics storage and querying, asset transform and storage. It’s pretty unbelievable how cheaply you can do all of these things.

I get people who are really into model trains. Like, it’s not for me, but wanting to build an analytics warehouse and oauth service from scratch for funsies is more or less the same thing.

Looking at the Remix 3 demo app, it’s very interesting and I see what they’re going for, and I appreciate it, but it doesn’t quite resonate with me. I think a little bit of magic for the sake of being concise (eg, DOM event bindings) goes a long way. github.com/remix-run/re...

I’m falling behind on a lot of this but Cloudflare has email services in private beta. I haven’t had a chance to try containers yet but the gap between Cloudflare and AWS is shrinking, and Cloudflare is cheaper and has a MUCH better developer experience. blog.cloudflare.com/email-service/

Oh wow do I not like this place sometimes.

Just throwing it out there, I like Cloudflare a lot, they are absolutely worth checking out. What you get out of the free tier is generous a what you’re getting for $5/mo in not just bandwidth but feature set is just silly. And the DX is fantastic. And they own the infra, it’s not an AWS wrapper.

I don’t think I’ve ever bought a new iPhone and made it more than a week without scratching the screen.

The work that the Svelte team is doing is, in my opinion, the most exciting thing in web dev. Not only is what they’re putting out transformative and so, so, so well designed, but they’ll announce some huge new thing coming out “in the future” and a week later, it’s in a patch release.

Super excited to announce the experimental release of asynchronous SSR in Svelte! github.com/sveltejs/sve... `await` expressions in your Svelte components can now be rendered on the server, meaning you don't need to render them inside boundaries with a `pending` snippet. Next up, streaming SSR!

I’m not sure what my YouTube recommendations say about me but this is where the algorithms at right now youtu.be/r4FHbjuCHvA?...

Love waking up to a surprise trailer for Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 which is actually coming out in a few months, NOT in 2027 youtu.be/RYI-WG_HFV8?...

I’d like to see the new Tron movie but I want the soundtrack so much more youtu.be/aGahcuAGNkg?...

Ok look I’m clearly going through something where I’ve become obnoxiously sentimental for the early 2000s but I think we can probably agree that most things were just better then?

Industrial design peaked with the Motorola RAZR V3 in black back in 2004.

we just released SvelteKit remote functions. feel like 'minor change' undersells it a little tbh ✅ await in components svelte.dev/docs/svelte/... ✅ remote functions svelte.dev/docs/kit/rem... 🔜 async SSR truly can't wait to ship the rest of this stuff

Today I realized that Johnny Depp is the Cybertruck of humans

Back in 2010 I wrote my first custom select element with a bunch of divs and jQuery and it sucked. 15 years later and you can finally just use css.

New in ChromeDevTools: Debug complex CSS values more easily! 🎉 The Elements > Styles tab now shows a tooltip on hover with: 1. A step-by-step evaluation of complex CSS calculations to trace values back to their origin! 2. The full definition chain of CSS variables!

Excessive? Most definitely. But still cool that you can do it without any JavaScript.

It totally slipped my mind that containers came to Cloudflare in beta last week and they look very interesting developers.cloudflare.com/containers/ github.com/cloudflare/c...

I appreciate Duolingo but the last bunch of sections have all been really negative and it’s a little obnoxious?

Async Svelte and SvelteKit remote functions are very very good and I can’t wait for server side caching (for cloudflare) to be implemented

Today a coworker told me that I had a pretty terminal setup and now my heart is full

I've been using Claude Code with neovim and tmux, and I'm really liking the ability to opt into using the LLM to do things rather than constantly fight off autosuggestions that I'm not interested in.

Watching the first videos from the Nine Inch Nails tour trickle out

I spent too much time trying different Javascript animation libraries and in the end I was the happiest with a (mostly) CSS approach. Wild what you can do with CSS masking and trig functions.

i don't know what it is but there's genuinely something meditative about writing go

I finally started learning VIM keybindings and I feel so powerful

Bring Her Back was so good but I’m starting to worry about how unaffected I’ve been by and generally desensitized to every horror movie I’ve seen in the past decade

Rich Harris' talk from this month's Svelte Summit is now freely available on our YouTube channel. The other videos will follow: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dAT...

The biggest boosts to productivity I've gotten as a dev have been from: 1. Picking up graphite.dev 2. Writing services in Go instead of TypeScript

I rewatched S01E03 of The Last of Us yesterday, the episode that focused on Bill and Frank, and it still puts me at a loss for words. It was truly just some of the best television.