People give `useEffect` a bad rap, but it isn't usually the source of the problem. The real problem is too many `useState`s. Devs fail to see how their data is connected and model it too discretely. As those connections appear, it is easier to synchronize than refactor the model. 1/

the carcinization of SAAS landing pages

Through the power of AI tech businesses are finally all selling the same product and boy is it agentic

Congrats NYC! Good to see the sun rising from across the pond again

It’s his day.

I don't know what the ideal programming environment exactly looks like, but I know that it is precisely the opposite of GitHub Action YAML at a distance

Finding your way to a kitesurf spot in autumn is an orthogonally different experience to playing Ghost of Tsushima

Just found this SSC piece and I adore this Rat definition > […] it seems like an attempt to Other irrationality. It’s saying “Look, over here! It’s irrational people, believing things that we can instantly dismiss as dumb. […]” But to me, the rationality movement is about Self-ing irrationality.

We added proper React Server Components support to Rari. The results: 12x faster P99 latency than Next.js. Here's what we shipped and why it matters...

it's so fucking embarrassing that Apple whines and legally lashes out against DMA while happily, without a peep, removing apps for the despot of the US

"following" should have always been a private activity, like subscribing to an rss feed. follow counts are a mistake. honestly, most global counts are. the fedi people got that right, albeit accidentally

Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will

people will be like "im not a spin lattice in a network, flowing toward lowest energy as the external field and temperature allows!" and then affectively polarize based on some stuff someone at the domain wall of their social graph says to them

Booking it under malicious compliance that the alternative marketplace modal has broken dark theme on iOS

One of my core beliefs about social media: Shortform is for good faith, if you have an issue with someone/an org, make it a blog post. Pile-ons just dig trenches

Nature v. Nerdshit

Diving into @slices.network I'm thinking: this will be the quickest option for getting a BaaS with auth and a pre-existing social graph, aka the last network effect (ty for the term @quillmatiq.com). Grounds for hope atproto could win not out of idealism, but due to ease of prototyping

Imo one issue with moderation is that there’s one group who think about it through a lens of consistent rational-legal rules and there’s one grou who think about it in a more informal norm based sense of “is this person ruining the vibe or not” and these groups mainly talk past each other

Am I too late?

so anyways, there's two types of people: the dysregulated and the maladjusted

Die Geister die ich rief

Finally doing my great Vercel migration. A bit sad it's not to a European host, but they all still in that VPS mindset when all I want is to magically globally distribute my app, so I'm heading to Netlify for now

Wish I was more shocked given the pissturd noises Rauch has been making but it certainly makes it high time to ditch Vercel

Congrats on keeping the ship going for 3 years now! Still one of the most exciting projects in JS space to me

Claude is asking me if we can cut scope, what

End of history so back baby

Stoked! Looking forward to ditching half of the skylights.my codebase While building I was considering working on a similar project, glad someone else did!

The thesis of this post is that React isn't innovating and other UI libraries are. But the real issue is that React's innovations are overshadowed by it's own success. www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-w...

What's most buggy about Anti-React discourse is the general frame being so 0-sum. The tide that rose all the frameworks is the declarative UI revolution that React ignited, and there is still room to grow. E.g. RN is great and the easiest cross-platform has ever been but I'd like to see more there

so there's obviously two types of people: the ignorant and the myopic

I guess I actually was pretty mad about that stupid golden paperweight www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/h...

Could be the ascending old crank in me talking, but mb it's good future of code ideas are not legible to normie engineers, bc otherwise they'd be immediately commoditized and corporatized by the AWSs of the world. Maybe the only way to kill big tech is to stay hidden in obscurity, i.e.:

stochastic suicide sycophant

Hey Apple & Google, first one to deliver multiple app instances, I’ll buy your flagship phone

Stochastic sycophant

Have you ever considered that your PM is “vibe coding” you

There is a Pokémon Go quality to traveling now where leaving the EU might give you fun stuff like iPhone Mirroring but then it can also expose you to less fun bits like this one

The old name was in reference to American History X but nobody got that

the @bsky.app people seem not to realise that not all of their audience is American

Pretty sure that measure is now someone’s target

My PR for adding an unwrap action to @zed.dev has landed :))

It's been a while since a post has ripped such a deep AMEN out of me acko.net/blog/html-is-dead-long-live-html

PSA: it’s now 2chan (formerly X (formerly Twitter))

I’m imagining neighbouring (/partner) city libraries providing geographical redundancy for each other’s local clouds. Knitting a tight local net

this was the last day to propose Unicode emoji, but I have another emoji that could be a great addition and that I may propose next year: Small Face to represent feeling small, insignificant, or overwhelmed

Vibe code is legacy code blog.val.town/vibe-code

recibroccoli

I would love it if AI's greatest success is the utter obliteration of all the ways we did succumb to Goodhart's law

*complimentarily*: Liquid Glass is giving Compiz Fusion

Thinking that this is a rather good benchmark for when LLMs can do most of our programming. Probably still an optimistic ones because taxes are rather specified. Can your app be fully LLM coded? Yes, if it’s closer to a todo list than implementing the tax code