I was asked to speak about parenthood in tech, and it's... very hard to do. So here's a brief attempt at some words. youtu.be/oOTuz3UUn1o

Quick thoughts on software engineering in the modern age, aka the last six weeks www.jplhomer.org/posts/ai-exi...

Building and racing a Pinewood Derby car. The most-talked-about race from this weekend! www.jplhomer.org/posts/pinewo...

ANNOUNCING MARCH MAD CSS 2026 16 devs battle it out in the ultimate CSS tournament Here are the first 9 players. Who should be added next? MadCSS.com @kevinpowell.co @joshwcomeau.com @nerdy.dev @adamwathan.com @cassidoo.co @tolin.ski

I really, really like @zo.computer. I wrote about it here. www.jplhomer.org/posts/zo-top...

@austcr.im and I are back in the podcasting biz. Vibe-moving and vibe-coding are indeed covered: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WcJ...

2025 in review: www.jplhomer.org/posts/my-202...

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Those benchmarks from @t3.gg revealed some interesting issues in Workers. Happy to say it's all fixed now, save for some lingering next.js-specific stuff we're continuing to work on. Thanks for the reproducible test cases, @t3.gg. Excessive details in blog post: blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cl...

Warning: nightmare road trip story this week on the pod 👻 You gotta listen to this one because, believe it or not, it gets worse 😱 Here's a teaser from @austcr.im. Full ep: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrNt...

I gave a talk not to long ago about React Router 7's new way to configure routes (routes.ts) I think it's a lot better than what we (and most JS frameworks) had before, without actually preventing you from using our old file-based routing convention(s)

The Inside Story of How I Accidentally Became Responsible for Shopify’s Internal AI Chat #shopify #ai #llm #aichat #chatgpt #anthropic #opensource #foss #engineering #genai #engineeringstories #techstory mawburn.com/blog/2025-06...

Shopify Polaris is now built on web components. My team and I have been working on this for a while and it's been a lot of fun to "embrace the platform"! shopify.dev/beta/next-ge... Lots of things learned, lots of fun edge cases discovered (hello moving web components to iFrames in Firefox)

Why are @austcr.im and I smiling? Because we recorded another podcast episode! After two months. A new record! Baby prep, React Miami, vibe coding, and more www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVwa...

imo many react developers would benefit from learning astro and htmx

Cursor has me legit having fun with side projects again. Lots of vibe coding. LLM debugs itself with tests. Even with 7.5 minutes of free time on a given night (typical w/3 kids), the LLM has all the context it needs vs me, who would normally have to ramp up for 30 minutes

Is @aaronfrancis.com an LLM? @austcr.im and I chat with him about Fusion, Solo, and building courses on this week's episode of the pod!

Gave this a shot tonight in Cursor, and I was not disappointed. I've never built a react-three-fiber app before. Epic Games dot com, here I come. Play: luna-game-production.up.railway.app Code: github.com/jplhomer/lun...

Say I wanted to find a way to get a flat `d.ts` of any public NPM package's types. Does something like this exist? I think Skypack's `?dts` thing comes closest but still doesn't get it perfect: docs.skypack.dev/skypack-cdn/...

Thankfully, my wife and I are both so bad at Overcooked that the only relationships we're likely to lose are friends and family who are not bad at Overcooked

What a great time, thanks for having me on! Always fun to hang with a couple fellow Iowans 🌽

What’s it like to work on an app during a growth spike of 1 million new users a day? @esb.lol thanks a bunch for chatting with us!

We did it! @austcr.im and I welcomed our first guest to the pod: @esb.lol What a treat. We talked about React Native, working at Bluesky, and all of our Iowa connections 🌽. Tune in on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2bC...

I wrote about a common conversation I’ve had with other Staff+ folks who are newly in an org lead role. I don’t think we talk enough about how difficult and isolating that transition can be! sylormiller.com/posts/2025/s...

Who is using Markdoc for their docs besides Stripe? markdoc.dev

I want like a small cozy chair or couch in my home office. For reading, podcasting, etc. But not too big. Any recommendations?

Wife needed rest so she took a sleeping pill, and my 2yo immediately pukes all over his bed. It appears the stomach flu has arrived. It's been nice knowing you 🫡

Yo @ebey.bsky.social turbo-stream question... possible to allow classes to define custom serialization behavior a la `toJSON`? Maybe with a plugin, but likely not possible to hook into RR's use of turbo-stream for that? 🤔 github.com/jplhomer/sup...

I pull this PR up every week or so 👀 github.com/facebook/rea...

Video game update: signed up for the Amazon Luna dealy and played "Fallout 3" where you are a kid at a birthday party in a bunker for 45 minutes, and "Death Stranding" where you stumble across a rocky hillside for 45 minutes. My 5yo enjoyed watching me and wanted to help.

I’m now boxing letters if you’d like to join me boxd.it/cuFZD

I am so tired of being sick and also tired

Feels like I ought to be reading Miranda Rights to my three week old every time I strap him into his sleep sack

📝 2024

Parenting toddlers is just 90% responding to life questions and obscure riddles first thing in the morning which have no real answer, and often the prize is a full-blown meltdown

Bringing the boys to their first #Cyclones MBB game this weekend. Any tips? How should I park my car? #BlueCy

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I’m exhausted by all these iPhone apps I use (fitness, eating) that are just subpar web view wrappers. The world deserves better software

The official Laravel VS Code extension is now available in beta. ✨ Blade syntax highlighting 🖊️ Eloquent autocompletion 🔗 Route, config, & middleware linking 🧠 Smart diagnostics And more... Get it now → marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

what the heck! TIL

We sold our side project Barkpass today! My wife and I started this on a whim in 2019 when we had a bunch of free time. It's since grown to be used by businesses, cities, and counties across the US for dog parks and pet licensing. Excited to see it grow. www.barkpass.com/changelog/20...

Writing about my go-to VSCode extensions for VSCode

This little guy arrived Friday afternoon. Mom and baby are doing great. Third boy!

Super clean, and love seeing Vite's Environment API in the wild 🚀

It's happening!

Now that I'm all-in on Tailwind, the only thing more annoying than going back to normie CSS and having to constantly jump between CSS/markup files: CMD+clicking on CSS Module defs, and VS Code taking me to some generic TS definition 🙃

Day 1: Durable Objects are Computers sunilpai.dev/posts/durabl...

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