I often find communication tactics lacking between engineers at organization. To help, I documented how I approach communications in team scenarios.

I once asked for a double-promotion in title alone, not fully understanding the consequences of doing so. Here's my story of how, once I got my wish, my recruiter inbound messages died entirely:

✂️ Knip v6.0.0-0 is out A new chapter has begun. 👇

Astro 6 is here! We completely rebuilt the Astro dev server and build pipeline onto a new, more powerful runtime-agnostic architecture. Plus: New Fonts API, CSP support, an experimental new Rust compiler, and more... astro.build/blog/astro-6...

Mark my words in a few weeks, cssdaily will be the new game every webdev will be playing. Great work @tekgadgt.dev

Friends, are we seriously taking tech news from THIS source? C'mon.

Having managed a few software engineering teams now, I have some thoughts on in-person vs remote:

Whoa. Android 17 is including a new API for passing application state between devices, similar to Apple's Continuity features. Excited to see how this will integrate into Android Desktop et al

Incredibly hyped to announce Schema Benchmarks, a project I've been steadily working on in collaboration with @fabianhiller.com! It aims to provide a central and transparent resource for many of the metrics that matter for schemas, including bundle size and runtime performance 😄

Hire @ladybluenotes.dev! She's been a major force in both SolidJS & TanStack. Her capabilities are out in the open for everyone to see. And if that weren't enough, she's got a solid professional closed-source history backing that work. Seriously, the time I've spent working w/ her has been a joy!

POV you work on large-scale OSS projects and made a single patch release:

Seems like Windows isn't the only place that ARM still feels underbaked from community support. - No Google Chrome Linux ARM64 - Docker Desktop still looks for QEMU AMD64, so that doesn't work - Ghostty doesn't work under Parallels due to OpenGL issues

@tanstack.com Form just hit 1M downloads a week on NPM! 🤯 So grateful to have such a strong community response to a project I work on. Thank you!

During the evaluation process for our hosting provider, I asked a peer of mine what options he thought I should use given our requirements. Without hesitation "Fly" came to his mind; I had to chuckle because we were already well down that path. Their support is deeply appreciated.

Also featured in that video: This weird ass expression I made Thanks for sharing THAT @jason.energy - is this retribution for all the bad jokes I made that weekend? 😂

This is mentioned in a the thread, but this joint effort means that we now have nearly ONE AND A HALF MILLION WORDS on our website today 🤯 I cannot begin to express how excited I am to work together more closely with @santoshyadav.dev, Lars, and the rest of the TiL team. Here's to the future! 🥂

@dev.to if we change an organizations' username, does it redirect links to the old org username?

Welp... This is annoying I used some tricks to extract the NPU + Win drivers from a @frame.work, then Copilot + Opus to reverse engineer the ability to apply those drivers to my GPD Win Max 2.. But it doesn't have the features I thought it had (background replacement), so I did all of this for not

I've been using @coderabbitai.bsky.social on a few OSS projects for some time, and it's awesome what it's able to catch. Can't wait to bring that pipeline to our momentum at @playfulprogramming.com. 🏎️ I'm also deeply grateful for their support of our efforts. 🙏

PINNED COMMENTS ON ISSUES ARE HERE github.blog/changelog/20...

Excited to be part of the GitHub Stars program for 2026 again! 🚀

Angular 21.2 will bring support for arrow functions in templates; a massive improvement for TanStack Form users! github.com/angular/angu... Can't wait to change over our docs to show this.

There's many kinds of engineering personality. IE: Some prefer moving quickly, while others want consistency in their output As an engineering manager, it's critical to figure out how to balance these types of reports and work alongside them in their own way: playfulprogramming.com/posts/tradeo...

TIL, Chrome 144 ships some new pseudo-classes. 👏 Within limits, you can now style the matching strings of the "find in page" search. ::search-text { // matching strings } ::search-text:current { // currently matched string } More on the blog. 👇 www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-lear...

Just hit 1,000 followers on GitHub! Check it out for yourself: github.com/crutchcorn/ How exciting, thank you for joining me for my developer journey!

TIL there's ongoing work to add a native virtual file system (VFS) to Node.js!! Yes please!!! 😱🤩 github.com/nodejs/node/... @nodeland.dev you are a hero!

Exciting news—Clack v1.0 is here! 🎉 🫳 Dropped CJS distribution (the only breaking change) 🆕 Added autocomplete, taskLog, and more 🌏 Localization support 🐞 Dozens of bug fixes + performance improvements 🤗 Ecosystem alignment This release marks stable support for our current APIs

well this was fun to hack on for a bit! github.com/crutchcorn/r... got to learn a lot about glibc, libc in general, gcc, and zig!

i want to see how hard it is to use zig + c + rust together to support 3 different oses in a single rust codebase. let's figure it out together: twitch.tv/crutchcorn

This is a huge (and important!) change for the Angular ecosystem. One more step towards performant defaults in Angular. Next stop? Signal components! github.com/angular/angu...

Introducing Tab! Tab makes it easy to add shell autocompletions to your JavaScript CLI. Tab has already been adopted by the @cloudflare.social @nuxt.com and @vitest.dev CLIs. Are you next?

tauri, what is this??

I'm live on twitch doing some rust coding and other mcguffins twitch.tv/crutchcorn come hang out!

Today in the Web Fundamentals Bootcamp: JavaScript. No frameworks yet — just: – What JS is – The browser console – Variables & runtime types – Blocks {} – Conditionals Want a refresher or a clean introduction? Starting at 9pm ET / 6pm PT in our discord. Join us 👇 discord.gg/FMcvc6T

Rich text editors seem simple until you try to build one. They’re not just `contenteditable`, they’re document models, selections, transactions, and explicit control over user intent. This is why editors like ProseMirror and Lexical share similar internals, even if their APIs look very different.

Working on @tanstack.com Form's React Compiler support has taught me a lot about adapting libraries to support it. Here's what I've learned: playfulprogramming.com/posts/react-...

A sneak peek at the hero for my next samwho.dev blog post. It’s still very early so don’t expect to see this published any time soon. I want to talk about the enormous rabbit hole I let myself fall into, and why this post has taken longer to get off the ground than my others.

We are joining Cloudflare! astro.build/blog/joining...

Angular friends! @thvdnta.bsky.social has been cooking an awesome @tanstack.com Pacer integration for y'all. I'm unavail for a bit, anyone wanna snipe the review out from under me to help get this across the finish line? 👀 github.com/TanStack/pac...

`+1 -7` That was our diff for @playfulprogramming.com and our dev server has never been faster! github.com/playfulprogr... Try it out for yourself and provide the awesome Astro team some feedback 🚀

Courney has been an incredible engineer on our project and has a lot of insights to give on this topic. Can't wait to see where this series goes!

inb4 @zeu.dev and I are given our own PBS drawing show 😤

The process to become a @fastly.com Fast Forward member was impressively seamless. A lovely partner to work with through and through. I also want to give some massive kudos to James Fenn, our board chairperson and tech lead, for leading up the technicals behind the zero-downtime. He's amazing!

there is something off about this design - it's the vertical text alignment this new CSS feature just made aligning text 100x easier

In the Web Dev Challenge season 2 finale, the dev teams raced to build charming apps intended to connect people. Featuring @zeu.dev, @crutchcorn.dev, @tekgadgt.dev, Austin, @codingshaman.bsky.social, and Derek. Watch the full episode now: codetv.dev/series/web-d...

Bought an eInk Android tablet (Boox) for a friend around Christmas. While developing an app for it, we came to realize that only first-party drawing apps (using their C library) have acceptable latency. This is what a stripped down Jetpack Ink API looks like on it:

I was on a programming gameshow @codetv.dev with @zeu.dev We managed to build a PictoChat style application in 4 hours in the competition. Was a bunch of fun, check it out: youtu.be/qYx8NX49OS8

tadpole.social - Pictochat, but frogs? 🐸🎨 Watch as @crutchcorn.dev and I have the time of our lives building the wackiest chat room in only FOUR (4) hours 👨‍💻👩‍💻 Right now on @codetv.dev's Web Dev Challenge SEASON TWO FINALE 💻💙✨

Just caught and fixed a major performance problem in @tanstack.com Form for @solidjs.com We were accidentally re-rendering every field when a single value was changed. Oops! This has been fixed and everything is fine-grained as expected again.

Early preview of what my next blog post will be about: stackblitz.com/edit/react-c...