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Could not have said it better: I want to think about the code I ship myself. It's not about the LOC, but about the understanding of underlying structures. Generating the code won't give you that knowledge! Kudos @localghost.dev! localghost.dev/blog/stop-ge...

Do you like a free tool? Send money. Do you use a tool at work? Convince your employer to sponsor it. Stop marketing OSS as free stuff to your employer, and treat it as a cost for the company. You only endanger the OSS project, if you don't give something in return.

Maybe I should start hanging out around here more often again 👀

Just started the course and am already pretty excited about my progress! In the "Match my curve" section, I was even able to get a 100% match. Hopefully I get something special since it was Josh's favorite 😁

I recently had to create the weirdest type helpers with a usage of generics that would even make @mattpocock.com proud! And since I am also very proud of those, I had to write a blog post about them www.dertimonius.dev/posts/til-36

Mattia doing weird stuff again: nuking the git history of the Material Theme again and renaming the repo to something different. Again, a great example on what not to do in OSS.

Damn, the automated title translations in Youtube are annoying. But happy to see that @syntax.fm is talking about Rückenwind 4, it's way cooler than @tailwindcss.com 🙃

in medicine, there's the famous saying "when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras" to suggest that you should not think of exotic diseases first when there are simpler, more common explanations. this was a nazi salute and nothing else. ffs.

it's this kind of day

Time to look back at the challenge this year has been for me blog.dertimonius.dev/posts/til-33

"Inaccessible products are broken products. The first step to fix them is to give a damn." uxdesign.cc/giving-a-dam... #a11y

my AoC experience today

me: let's use regex to parse the AoC inputs this year also me: *keeps forgetting that wildcard matching is greedy in regex* did I just spend over an hour trying to find a bug in my algorithm just to realize I parsed the input incorrectly? maybe

I once removed a 20+kB package from a production app by writing the two (!) utility functions we actually needed myself. In sum, it was only 30 lines of code, why always import libraries when you can do it yourself?

My favorite framework just keeps getting better and better!

the more I use @elysiajs.com, the more I love it 😍

AoC day 3: good thing I am trying to focus on regex. AoC day 4: why 2D arrays? just why?

The first 2 days of Advent of Code have been suspiciously easy...I feel this is a bad sign for later challenges

If one Christmas themed coding challenge with Advent of Code is not enough for you, don't forget about Advent of TypeScript: www.adventofts.com

'The heuristic I like to use to avoid shooting myself in the foot is asking “what is the simplest thing that could work?”. Then I only complicate that to solve actual problems.' Another great trick to write maintainable code: don't write clever code you won't understand next week...

"And as for you, developers, if you can’t write good code without an AI, then you shouldn’t use one in the first place." Could not agree more! Using copilot, cursor or whatever does not help you to learn the concepts faster, I would argue that it actually holds you back as a beginner

gotta say, the Bluesky API is pretty neat!

regex are a pain, but getting them right first try is always so satisfying!

I went for a walk today! I know, that doesn't really sound impressive, but as I have battled with long covid for the past year, this is actually a huge achievement for me 💪

the main reason I do not want to use Cursor, Github Copilot or inline AI tools: I feel that they hinder my learning. I want to tackle harder problems by myself to grow my knowledge. AI is great to get unstuck, but even then I wait some time and mostly I ask for hints, not specific solutions

Not posting this over there but cookie banners are NOT the issue. Sorry to my friends in 🇺🇸, if that's your opinion, it's an L take. Making "Reject all" difficult to trick users into clicking "Accept all" is the problem. That and sharing data with 850+ "partners" to "improve services"...

being a JS dev is like every day discovering that the Boolean type is actually a megabool

For the latest Starlight release, Astro maintainers @hideoo.bsky.social and @hippotastic.bsky.social dug into performance and accessibility. Enjoy up to 35% faster builds and improved accessible markup for our Aside and Tabs components. Make your next docs site shine at starlight.astro.build/ ✨

really been enjoying Karnivool's first record lately. highly recommended for anyone interested in progressive rock/metal!

debugging e2e tests that only fail in the CI is currently the bane of my existence

how to fix 80% of bugs 1. find unnecessary accumulating state 2. derive it from existing stuff on the fly

This Week In React 208 ⚛️ - Compiler - Next.js - Docusaurus - TanStack - Actions - nuqs - StyleX - Storybook - next-link-validate - uikit 📱 - React Navigation - Shopify - Nitro - CocoaPods - VisionCamera - Reanimated - Maestro - BottomTabs Read online or by ✉️ thisweekinreact.com/newsletter/208

Photo of the Day: somewhere in Brussels

does anyone else keep forgetting critical password that you only use once in a blue moon or is just me?

As much as I dislike the AI hype train, this will be true in the not too distant future

The energy I bring to bluesky

Sunday activities: tweaking the ZMK layout. Totally normal behaviour.

Vim trick of the day: "dib" As someone who is using an ISO layout, using "di(" to remove everything inside parentheses is pretty annoying. Thankfully, swapping "(" with "b" still performs the same motion! Neat!

Really sad to see as it is my daily driver, but I think Theo is right: Arc will die sooner rather than later