Alex MacArthur shows us there are a lot of ways to break up long tasks in JavaScript. Seven ways, in this post. That’s a senior developer thing: knowing there are lots of different ways to do things all with different trade-offs. Depending on what you need to do, you can hone in on a solution.
Probably worth keeping an eye on Vite+ (still in “early access”). They say it’s “everything you’ve been duct-taping together” which feels actually kinda fair when you consider this has “dev, build, test, lint, format, monorepo caching & more in a single dependency.” So even if you’re using Vite anyway, perhaps you’d get to ditch Jest […]
I saw Tony Conway & Jeremy Wagner’s post on web.dev, Use Baseline with Browserslist, and I had a little play with it myself (saved live stream). Allow me to write down what I know and what I learned. So here’s Browserslist. Browserslist is the developer community at it’s best. There are a bunch of tools […]
Code is ephemeral. What works right now might get deleted next month. That is no judgement on the code, it is a statement that code isn’t the value prop, the product is. I try and remember this during code review, because even though we call it code review, there is a person at the other […]
The Scope Creep: Pretty fun(ny) Choose Your Own Adventure style game Assume the role of a humble project manager, tasked with delivering a website brief for one of your agency’s clients. Unbeknownst to you, the project is cursed by a dark force determined to infinitely extend the job, and send you into a delirious state […]
When people complain about Photoshop or other various Adobe products and the subscription model they require (The Onion had a good one), people tend to reply with two options: But now, Affinity is free (and all the varieties combined into one app). You can thank the Canva acquisition for that. You might think that would […]
It’s a generally good thing to know that browser support for browser features isn’t always quite a simple as yes or no. There can be sub-features involved as things evolve that roll out in browsers at different times. View Transitions is an example of that going on right now. There are “Same-Document View Transitions” supported […]
Alex Riviere shares a quick story of a junior developer not looking in the right places for error messaging that would directly help them. … the tools do provide you with information most of the time. You genuinely just need to take a few extra seconds and read what it is saying.
I’m no expert here, but I understand an “MCP server” as a way to make an AI system a bit “smarter” by having more context and capabilities. I find AI coding agents pretty darn smart already particularly when they have your entire codebase and your instruction for context. But if you’re using it to build […]
I’m just hearing about the closedby=”any” attribute/value for <dialog>. HTML popovers have this “light dismiss” behavior where you can “click outside” to close them, but not dialogs (until this). I forked a previous demo to try it and it works great (in Chrome & Firefox, just waiting for Safari). I’ve been using a custom <ClickOutsideDetector […]
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