Astro 5.1 is now in session Introducing Astro.session, an experimental utility to share data between requests. This is for you PHP lovers. See what else we launched 👇 astro.build/blog/astro-5...

Catching up on Advent of TS day 14: It's a pretty tricky one! A pretty tricky one! Pretty tricky one! Tricky one! One! And so it begins...

Advent of TS - day 13. Why it pays to always read release notes. That one was painful!

I just stumbled upon Astro Docs Docs contribute.docs.astro.build what a fantastic resource! Really cool seeing the style guide laid out with explanations. Would be fun to try and contribute. Relatedly, anyone recommend some good resources for more tech writing like this?

Upgraded the blog to Astro 5, ez pz. Ran the migration tool and followed the (excellent) docs for legacy content collection migration. Only problem I had was the post id including the nested file path and I was using only post title before. Easily fixed during getStaticPaths() though.

Anyone else out here Googling bitwise operators and ELI5? #adventofts

Anyone got a decent/unbiased review of the differences between hosting a blog on netlify vs vercel?

TIL about the inert attribute: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... I love that after years and years of following web stuff, I still get to learn new things. I think I would be thoroughly bored in a role without having the space to learn and tinker.

Never underestimate using the right tool for the right job. With so many options and strong opinions in web development, it's too easy to fall into the trap of sticking to what you know or who shouts loudest. What you know isn't always the best tool though, neither is that rando on tinternet.

I made this today, no reason.

📢 TypeScript 5.7 is here! Now with ✅ Better checks for uninitialized variables ✅ Smarter tsconfig lookup in editors ✅ Improved startup time ✅ Stricter checks for JSON imports ✅ Extension rewrites for relative imports and more! Try it today! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...

Happy Monday. If it was anything like mine.

Tip of the week. Take a spell, even a short one, to shadow your support team or even work alongside them in the support queue. There's no better way to get to know the real users of your product, and gain empathy, which inevitably helps in all sorts of decisions going forward.

butterfly flash mob - schedule a post to X with a single 🦋 - november 16, 15:00 UTC - you know the first rule of the flash mob invite your friends with your own voice: find a post on why we should move here, quote post it, copy and paste this post text, send

To all the Safari users out there. And why do you enjoy making me suffer?

So if 9-5 is for work, 5-8 is for the kids, 8-12 is for the wife and house, and 12-8 is for sleep. Remind me again where do I fit in fun projects, tinkering, side hustles, and gaming? 🫠

Ooooo! anchoreum.com

Christmas bits going up in shops, and kids want the tree up early. So really only one thing to do. Prepare for another brutal advent of code and advent of typescript 🫠🎄

Used `git bisect` yesterday to narrow down a cause of slow rendering. Don't reach for it often but when I do, it's pretty glorious. Especially since I switched to neovim+lazygit a few months ago, lazygit is such a great halfway house between cli and full gui. 10/10 would recommend.

I must have shaved recently?!

Ready for another Christmas ruined 🤣 all fun and games up to like day 15 and recursion hell through 🌲🌲🌲🎅🌲🌲 iykyk

Yes, niiiiiicceee

📝 Testing HTML With Modern CSS (With modern CSS selectors, you can do almost all your accessibility and best practice testing in CSS itself.) heydonworks.com/article/test...

I took the State of React Survey You should too! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

I get more engagement here than X I can finally share dev links again without having to fight an algo

I made you a little something. Help yourself to this little SVG+CSS flutter effect for your links to your @bsky.app account. (Psst. And publish the links to your @bsky.app account) flutterby.philhawksworth.dev

Managed to squeeze in `:has()` to a customers CSS problem, and explain to them why it's useful, and they were chuffed to bits. Just out here spreading the good word 😎

After much messing this weekend, it kinda came down to UI libs relying on context, and Astro mostly requiring nanostores 😞 I get it, but it makes using those frameworks as islands a bit more tedious when you can't grab shad or kobalte for some quick unstyled components. github.com/withastro/ro...

Burned all my daily Claude credits trying to get solid-ui working in solid js astro island alongside react. Even Claude seems pretty stumped 😞

I see vite/vitest just joined 🦋 Anyone know of a starter pack for (dev) companies/products joining bsky?

Good morning weekend. Are we building? 💻 Or are we gaming? 🎮

Been setting up more tests with Playwright lately. It's such a pleasure to work with, the test recorder is great to kick start your tests. One problem we're having is with the server. Setting up a server instance isn't simple (docker, ~3 mins) so we only have one in CI. So no parallel testing?

Way more folks coming onboard here now eh? All the good content without having to filter 90% of everything else recommended 🦋. Like it.

Any WooCommerce devs using AI for plugin translations? We were thinking about it earlier this year, and just read a www.gravitykit.com/translating-... article where they've done the same. Wondering if there's some better models to look at, or if gpt is decent enough? 🤔

Couldn't take the constant recommendations for rage bait any longer from that "other" app. Where's all the frontend community at? Astro, TypeScript, Tailwind, React - hit me up!