Daniel Pritchett

It’s oddly charming the way Bluesky sometimes forces you to follow the OP before you can drop a dumb joke in reply to someone nineteen comments deep

The better I get at writing Typescript the more I worry this codebase will be entirely inaccessible to other programmers. Is there some other path to eloquent static typing that avoids becoming dense and mysterious to outsiders?

Things feel *extra* icky when I gather up a bunch of cute little subtypes: 3️⃣ These are the two dozen webhook event schemas I care about here out of GitHub’s complete list 2️⃣ I’m using Pick<> to only include the fields we use 1️⃣ Oh and I’m mapping that to a list of event names as strings

The better I get at writing Typescript the more I worry this codebase will be entirely inaccessible to other programmers. Is there some other path to eloquent static typing that avoids becoming dense and mysterious to outsiders?