Tool libraries look fantastic. I didn't know about them before watching this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAniGCwoSv0 but I looked them up and I have a local one that started this year. What a cool way to reduce consumer trash.
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Whoops, we called that API twice
In one of my codebases at work we have a custom React hook for rendering the result of a promise: At first blush this may…
On planning
I love this sentiment from one of the directors of Shopify: In summary of that video, Robert Ashe says that as Shopify grew, he noticed…
GitHub Projects “OR” in filter
GitHub sure doesn’t make it obvious, but you can filter issues in the the new Projects with an “or” operator in between conditions by joining…
VSCode deleting my code
VSCode has been automatically deleting unreachable code for me. Seems like that’d be nice, but it really isn’t most of the time. I often want…
Typescript in Node and the Client
Hey! Another one for the debug journal. We’re adding some back-end endpoints using Express.js to our Typescript/React front-end. So I threw together a server.ts file…
On creating a development build of the Expo client
I finally reached the point in development where it was time to add custom native code to a project and try out Expo’s development builds…
Doing less, well
Not to be confused with doing less well. This is a short post about software that does just what it’s supposed to. I have a…
GitHub CoPilot is Good at SQL
I’m reminded how quickly life can change when I check my blog and see that the last posts were about spending all of my time…
Unpoly.js
I’ve been doing a rapid build of a tool for creating team roadmaps at Automattic. We’ve got our plans spread out across P2s, and keeping…
Jetbrains ????
In my new role as lead of the Android team for Day One at Automattic, I moved from writing ReScript in Visual Studio Code most…