PNG is back! After over two decades, we released a new PNG spec. www.programmax.net/articles/png...

Ensuring that cookie logic is interoperable between PHP, NextJS middleware, server, and client components, as well as vanilla react and JavaScript is an absolute nightmare. Gotchas upon gotchas upon gotchas.

Toying with the idea of telling my PO about document.designMode = “on” Is this too much power for one man?

If you get frustrated with the “magic” of nextjs, I highly recommend experimenting with building your own react server rendering framework. All you need is webpack, ReactDOM.renderToString, and a couple of hours. Probably the most effective activity for understanding why nextjs does what it does.

My 2025 predictions: - Globally, things will seem really, really bad - There will still be opportunities to grow as an individual and contribute to our communities My goal is to make the second thing more important than the first. #HappyNewYear

Playing Indiana Jones with an Xbox controller on a MacBook Pro via GeForce Now. It works seamlessly. As a casual gamer this completely replaces the need for a gaming pc or console for a fraction of the cost. Crazy

I tend to think of the process of writing code over time as reaching a series of “tipping points” that require larger refactors in order to iterate effectively. Miłosz’s pendulum model is an inversion of the same idea and the two go together quite well.

TIL you can pass extra parameters to setTimeout. I guess it’s slightly more memory efficient, slightly less readable than the usual arrow function approach.

LPT: if you’re a frontend dev and have to give a presentation, build your slides with your web framework of choice. So much easier than fiddling with PowerPoint/Google Slides and lots of opportunities for interactive storytelling.

Performance matters to users. Implementation matters to performance. Yesterday I presented to #AlgoliaDevBit how we refactored Bike24’s Search Result Page to transform it into one of the fastest in e-commerce. youtu.be/c8eZZSPADqA?...

What #CSS can prevent orphan icons from dropping to a new line? Answer: `text-wrap: pretty;` Nice interactive demo at the end to compare `pretty` vs `balance` too muffinman.io/blog/css-fix...

Snowy sunset

To prevent eye strain while coding, follow the 20/20/20 rule. Every 20 minutes look at an object 20 feet away and then spend 20 years in the mountains.

Photo taken today from the summit of pedraforca, facing Montserrat in a sea of cloud. Within the next 48 hours this will all be covered in snow.

I love reading pre-1980s sci-fi. Writers could imagine space travel but not the internet. A character needs to learn some vital information? Off to the space library. 😂

Almost everyone cares about writing code that is easy to understand. But what does it actually look like? For me: 1) Reads like a recipe, not a choose-your-own-adventure 2) One name per concept 3) Similar problems have similar solutions 4) Abstraction & inheritance is a last resort

What is a subtle sign that someone is a good developer?

Sunrise silhouettes

When you write code, what do you care about most? (a) Runs fast (b) Easy to understand (c) Time/space complexity (d) Scalable/adaptable to probable future requirements (e) Something else?

If nobody told you that @drifte.dev is also has a cool remake of minesweeper game with react and nextjs yet, then let me mention it 😂 www.minesweeper.monster

Having primarily lived within the conventions of react in the last five years, and nextjs the last two, it’s easy to forget that there are other ways. infrequently.org/2024/11/if-n...

In Spain, every time two roads meet there is a slightly different (often quite esoteric) system to navigate. Driving in an unfamiliar area is stressful. The UK just puts roundabouts everywhere. It’s easy to drive in new places.

They really are amazing, folks. Perfect for paginating through API responses that return a cursor and/or have rate limits.

What’s the lifespan of an average line of code you write?

Hot take: AI imagery is currently somewhat high status as it is a novelty. But it will gradually become low status due to no barrier to entry. As long as it is possible to recognise it as AI-generated, brands will prefer human-created imagery to display legitimacy, authenticity, and quality.

A little trick I don't see often and would like to see more of: cleaning up multiple event listeners with AbortController

Sometimes I am delivering features. Sometimes I am coming down from the ridge line of l’Olla de Vallter. Balance in all things.

Hot take: AI will ruin a generation of junior developers, hindering both their skill development and job prospects. Established seniors will benefit but eventually retire. Software will become less reliable over time. We will try to use AI to fix the problems that AI has created.

Spending most of my waking life in front of a screen so I can spend the rest in places like this.

Idea: request data in server components, but timeout after a short period, falling back to a client request. - Initial load time is limited by the timeout - If services load correctly, they display without javascript - If services fail to load, they can be retried multiple times Thoughts?

Why do I feel like js leetcode is about to get easier but also harder 😅

So what's the most exciting upcoming thing happening in JavaScript world?

Test your javascript knowledge with this fun puzzle, and then continue to please never use the &&= and ||= operators in production code.

TIL: the value of a cookie set in a nextjs server component or via middleware will be url encoded, rendering it useless if it must be read by a different system that does not support this.

I am anti-AI simply because I am afraid to discover that human intelligence is just fancy autocomplete

Fun fact: this town (pop. 14) has fibre internet and just two digital workers. How long before everyone else realises that WFH can look like this I wonder.

One of the small quality-of-life improvement specs I've been closely following for a bit now: httpwg.org/http-extensi... Sharing just cause I'm not sure how many folks have been paying attention to HTTP maybe getting a new verb soon 😍

I’ve been writing html and css for 20 years. The longer I use tailwind, the less I can relate to the people who hate it. Coming back to old code that needs refactoring is just so much easier with tailwind.

A little trick I don't see often and would like to see more of: cleaning up multiple event listeners with AbortController

November in the Spanish Pyrenees