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Mark Erikson
@acemarke.dev

My first year at Replay was modernizing our own DevTools FE codebase. Since then, I've spent all my time building out our sophisticated React analysis backend and digging into React's internals. I'd love to do conf talks and blog posts about this, but I feel like it's so niche there's no audience.

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Mark Erikson
@acemarke.dev

A blog post at least I could put up, and it'd be there if anyone wants to read it. Conf talks, though... would have to come up with the right concept and actually get accepted. I did do one a couple years ago on our React DevTools + time travel integration. But beyond that, not sure it'd work out.

Mark Erikson
@acemarke.dev

mostly me musing into the void :) but if folks feel like this is something you'd be interested in me writing / talking about, say so and I could try to make time to come up with something! :)

Mark Erikson
@acemarke.dev

I was actually thinking more about the React instrumentation and analysis layer itself :) ie the part that we built and that I'm more familiar with. but yeah, looks inside React could be interesting too!

Robert Burnham
@burnham.bsky.social

It's probably true that there's a limited audience for talks on react internals, but either way it comes down to how you package it all. Can you present on more generalized principals or patterns that serve the needs of a much broader audience, using what you know as a centerpoint? That's your talk