If you play guitar The solution is Ampero II & Ampero Switch Play in Stomp mode, using stomps to change scenes (press a single stomp to turn multiple effects on/off, and/or change parameters, with natural delay & reverb spillover, and no audio gaps 🤯) Use the Ampero Switch to cycle patches 🤘

Been a while since I used @zed.dev, and HOLY SHIT it got good Multiple cursors editing multiple files, and Claude Code deeply integrated. I've never been able to refactor this fast. I'm working on my editor settings while the agent runs—here's what I have so far gist.github.com/AlexVipond/a...

Single-table design is magic This is the Eloquent query I run to get - lat/lng of the given location - Profiles of current user & their friends - Profiles of birds they identified in that location, including timestamps - Profiles of their multiplayer birding sessions in that location

I just wrote the Inertia controller for an app dashboard view that reads 5 types of resources and 16 relationships from the DB. It uses 1 query, and it does not need to eager-load any model relationships, so I can use the query's cursor() method and iterate over the results with low memory usage.

To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another.

Something happened today at VueConf China! github.com/vuejs/core/r...

"Shitty code reviews make great LLM prompts"—just some thoughts about meaningful code reviews that advance others' careers and make your team stronger. alexvipond.dev/blog/shitty-...

I'm thinking about writing a book about how to build a custom component library from scratch on top of React Aria 🤔 If that sounds interesting to you, put your email in here! learnreactaria.com

Something that sounds easy, but is tricky to get right: wrap text around the Dismiss button of a clickable card. The tricky part is making sure you don't sacrifice accessibility features like grouping, labeling, focus rings, etc. Here's how I do it: alexvipond.dev/blog/wrap-te...

The ebook Rethinking Reusability in Vue by @alexvipond.dev provides a deep dive on reusability design patterns in Vue 3 📗 - madewithvuejs.com/rethinking-r...

This VS Code config will add @tailwindcss.com Intellisense to all code between a starting comment /** tw */ and an ending comment /** endtw */ This is incredibly useful for reusable classes tucked away in a JS variable or helper function, which TW Intellisense won't automatically check

HUGE React Aria release! 🍿 🔍 Autocomplete: Command Palette, Searchable Select + Submenu 🆕 3 new components: Toast, Tree, Virtualizer 🧩 Custom Menu/Popover/Tooltip triggers 🌉 Table colspan 👆 usePress interop, fixing 15+ issues 💨 Tailwind v4 📅 DatePicker RTL react-spectrum.adobe.com/releases/202...

I've found LLMs to be pretty fantastic at writing custom, project-specific ESLint rules. Super fun way to open up new doors for code quality, and here's how you get it working with ESLint in your project: alexvipond.dev/blog/add-pro...

The solution to this nasty NextJS bug no longer lives exclusively in the comment sections of random old GitHub issues alexvipond.dev/blog/dont-li...

Vite apps can shave off some bundle size by setting `build.rollupOptions.treeshake` to `smallest`. This allows rollup to treeshake more aggressively—for example, it will now shake unused third-party libraries that didn't set `sideEffects: false` in their package.json.

Here's my progressively enhanced design & positioning logic for popups, implemented with CSS, Tailwind, ResizeObserver, and Vue. Zero usage of `getBoundingClientRect`, scroll listeners, or any other techniques that thrash the layout or block rendering!

Been scratching my head on an anchor positioning bug for _days_, and finally found the answer thanks to @nerdy.dev's blog post nerdy.dev/why-isnt-my-... TL;DR avoid `center` unless you've proven your UI breaks without it

`select` typeahead UX was something I wanted to improve on when I first started writing Baleada Vue Features composables like `useSelect`. I'm finally building a real design system on top of these composables, and loving how flexible, powerful, and observable they are.

🎁 A surprise holidays gift: after over a year of hard work, we have just published Rolldown 1.0.0-beta.1!

Finally caught up on the Vueconf Toronto panel episode, nice work @michaelthiessen.bsky.social and @thealexlichter.com!

The Epic Programming Principles: the guide I use to make decisions as a software engineer. Transcending specific tools or frameworks, these principles will help you guide your career, craft, and technical choices. See details and examples for each principle here: www.epicweb.dev/principles 📖

Tons of relatively small commits this month for Baleada Features (closest thing you can get to React Aria in Vue). This is all driven by the full design system I'm building to stress test it. Gonna learn how to do beta releases so I can get it out in the world github.com/baleada/vue-features

A subcategory of Tailwind utilities: very simple aliases that clarify the intent behind CSS tricks/techniques that can otherwise be a little magical. In this case `overlap` clarifies the intent behind forcing two elements to start in row 1 & column 1 in a grid.

You can just `fetch('https://api.github.com/users/<username>/events')` to get a list of your recent open source contributions, only ~5 minutes behind real time. On alexvipond.dev/now, I used to only list high-level projects I'm working on. I like how GitHub events add a little more life & change 🌱

Money, time, access, privilege, knowledge, skills, networks, platforms, whatever. How might I share? alexvipond.dev/blog/how-mig...

Cooking while coding is a thrill

I'm Alex, and I'm into web development and social impact 🌱 I write code and create content for these topics, and I share it on alexvipond.dev, github.com/alexvipond, occasionally youtube.com/@alpalvipond, and now Bluesky 🦋

I can't control the world around me, but I can define the person I want to be, and how I contribute to making the world a better place. I'll spend my days doing that work with intentionality.