🛠️ If your team has issues to work through: We do an exercise at offsites called Elephants, Tigers & Paper Tigers. - Elephants are things that the group isn’t talking about but needs to - Tigers are things threatening the team, risks - Paper tigers are things that seem like risks, but aren’t

Getting a full afternoon of uninterrupted coding is so nice. I don't get that often but today is one of those days. Feels great!

Sometimes programming just feels too much like Hänsel and Gretel.

Basic question but I can't figure it out. How are these two design patterns called? In the first, the component structure is fixed, and behavior is controlled *only* through props serving as config. In the second, an extension point via the children prop allows for more flexibility.

Don't be like me. Don't sleep on @playwright.dev's test steps. It took me 4 years to realize how much cleaner, readable, and debuggable my tests could be. Named steps = better readability, clearer reporting, faster debugging. Check out the before/after!

Some tools force you to learn a complicated API and require constant maintenance. Other tools... just work, and that's why it's easy to overlook them. @openfeature.dev is one of those tools. Do I use it daily? Yes. Do I ever have to think about it? No.

Finally moving all my pet projects off Travis CI. Not a fan of their expiring credits billing model. But where to migrate? - Circle CI - GitHub Actions - ...? What’s your pick?

I was frustrated with the lack of clear advice on setting up copilot_instructions.md. Most guides are vague, or worse, generic AI slop that *hurts* Copilot's performance. So I experimented and found better ways to make Copilot *actually helpful*. 🧵

Stack Overflow, are you alright?

Finally!! Grok 4 in GitHub Copilot.

Gen Alpha successfully rotted my brain. grid-template-columns: 1fr 2fr; now reads “one for real, two for realz.” My grid is aggressively verified. ✅

Crazy idea to utilize the webcam input. Mind-blowing.

This year's Stack Overflow Developer Survey in a nutshell

Large Language Models (LLMs) with "reasoning" capabilities are super hyped, but new research from Apple shows their "thinking" is often an illusion. Beyond a certain complexity, they fail completely. Key points in the 🧵.

To all GitHub Copilot users: What are your most-used features and shortcuts? Inline chat? Agent mode? Just the autocomplete? 🤔

Austria is outrageously beautiful.

my experience with firebase studio so far 😐

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My learning for that day: the final solution was to use the render props pattern. Kudos to @bhuynh.dev and @taranetz.com for pointing that out. We can even take a step further by leveraging React's `isValidElement` function to support both render props and a standard child component.

I have a passive theory that the manner in which junior and senior devs leverage AI assistance for coding is fundamentally different: (1/?)

They just 10x-ed #typescript!! This is huge! Here's why 👇

Life hack: you don't have to worry that someone could replace you with AI, if you replace yourself with AI.

Goodbye bash! 👋 After 10+ years of using only bash on #Linux, I think it's time to try something new. What's *your* favorite shell?

Would love to hear the perspective of any #React / #ReactJS experts on this topic.

React: passing state from a wrapper component to a child. How? I'm building a library that exposes a single wrapper component. Users of this library add the wrapper to their TSX and nest their child component inside it. The wrapper fetches some data that's relevant to the child component.

If I got a passing unit test every time I mistyped 'just' as 'jest,' I would be a farmer now.

Which of these JavaScript libraries has the highest number of npm dependents? - zod - codelyzer - anakjalanan - jsdoc You **will** guess incorrectly. (Answer in the comments) 👇

Say what you want but Deepseek R1 still wins the vibe check for me.

I finally found some time to dig into the new State of React 2024 results. Here are the key findings. 👇

Why are you still using moment.js?

Goodbye, GitHub Copilot. Just canceled my subscription. I really wished it was worth the money, but nope.

🎊 Happy new year - let’s kick it off with the January edition of the React Vienna Meetup: 🗓️ January 28, 18:00 CET 📍Dynatrace, Wiedner Gürtel 13, 1100 Vienna 💬 Server-side tracking in Next.js using Snowplow by Daria Lyubaeva 💬 How to show 10 million of something by @ccccjjjjeeee.bsky.social

What a beautiful sunset after a week of overcast skies! Taken at the gorgeous #Dynatrace office in #Vienna / #Wien.

Me coming back to work today and remembering the bug I was supposed to fix before vacation.

State of JS 2024 results just dropped. Here are the most surprising findings. 👇

I tried relying heavily on AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) for my latest hobby project, but almost every interaction ended with me thinking, "Screw this, I'll write it myself." For those of you who swear by these tools, what am I missing? How do you actually make them useful?

The release of React 19 might cause you some headaches, if you're a web component creator who happens to name their component events in camelCase (instead of kebab-case as per convention). Let me explain:

My fellow web developers, where do you stand on this? When passing props from a parent to a child component/function, do you prefer: 1. Passing the object (reference) 2. Passing only the specific values needed?

If you're in Vienna and free tonight, I'll be giving a talk at the #freeCodeCamp meetup about JavaScript UI frameworks: what each one of them offers and how to boost your chances of landing a web dev job. See you there! www.meetup.com/fccvienna/ev...

Not only does #AlbertaTech address all of the most vital points around this issue, she does so in a thoughtful, respectful and constructive way, representing the "better angels" of social media. This post is sublime. youtu.be/_a_Vz2ytVCQ?...

This is truly awful. A 🧵.

I should come to the office more often.

Me: Sure, I can fit all these requirements into this feature. Also me:

Want to use bluesky replies as your blog’s comment section? `npm install bluesky-comments` Built by @coryzue.com

When interacting with DOM nodes directly after they render, instead of useEffect you can use callback refs. Great post from @tkdodo.eu 🚀 tkdodo.eu/blog/avoidin... #React #WebDev

The new Invoker Commands API lets buttons open modals or toggle popovers *declaratively*. No JavaScript needed! 🚀 It can already be enabled in Chrome Canary, Firefox Nightly, and Safari TP. Example below 👇🏻

If you're new here as well and you haven't had the time to read into atproto yet, I highly recommend this short article. Very insightful.

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Been burning the midnight oil getting everything ready for this year. Excited to introduce our brand new platform, which we’ll be using from now on for this event! Check it out 🎄 adventofts.com

I grew up on these streets.