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On the very rare occasions where I need to do some web graphic design, I still miss Macromedia Fireworks with a passion. That sense of mathematical precision was so gratifying

Spent half the weekend trying to figure out the regression that made my PWAs light theme create a dark background in the Android status bar. Turns out it's not me for once, it's a recent Chrome bug issues.chromium.org/issues/55405...

RAM prices tripled so we can have this.

Code these days is a slippery slop

This is gold! I wish I had this guide a few years ago, and I'm still extremely happy to have it now. A very comprehensive checklist for library maintainers :)

Well, I know what I'm doing this weekend

⚡️ Vite 8.0 is here! The most significant architectural change since Vite 2. ⏬ Powered by @rolldown.rs bringing faster production builds and more consistency 🛤️ New features such as tsconfig paths and emitDecoratorMetadata support vite.dev/blog/announc...

I mostly quit smoking a few months ago. Rarely, I still light one up, and if I do it from home while my partner is in the office, she knows and texts me about it. Immediately. Every single time. How? Turns out our smart thermostat sends her a notification about an open window

I like it how just two weeks ago I heard about ideas on how an alternative to npmjs.org would look like. And now when I'm coming back from my vacation (and could contribute) npmx.dev basically looks like a finished product. In the same time I could not even find a name/domain for my RSS reader 😢

It always makes me smile how the RSS spec has a WebMaster field. Good old simpler times

My team @Adyen in Amsterdam is looking for a backend engineer (Java). We're a platform team serving an already large and growing org inside Adyen. Lots of architecture, room for larger impact and cross-team work. It's fun stuff! DM me if you know someone, or have questions!

The debugging experience in signals should be great, I've been working a lot on it and I would like to share some first versions of the debugging improvements I've been working on. Feedback and contributions are always appreciated! jovidecroock.com/blog/signals...

In the hospital for some maintenance (I'm fine). Wanted to read stuff, and instead I'm looking for domains so I can build my own RSS reader, one I actually like

This made my day. Bellissimy

All I want for Christmas is comments in (package.) json, with a side dish of trailing commas

This week at work I put quite a bit of effort and tact into reviewing a PR of a new joiner, had an inner conversation about how much Vue-specific knowledge I should expect or explain, left a calculated amount of comments...and now I discovered it's AI generated. I don't know how to feel about it

Vitepress is such a joy to use!

Can't wait for my colleagues to wonder what http code 666 means 👀

One incident per day keeps stand-ups away

All pipelines failing, cryptic error messages, very inconclusive debugging. I was totally lost in what was happening till I checked the news. It's a bit scary how an AWS outage impacted so "stealthily" our system. Apparently npm installs failed ,but exclusively in GitHub actions

I remember how a year ago lots of AI experts informed us how 90% of engineering jobs would be replaced by AI within 6 months, or something to that effect. Things like this stop me from seriously considering it in any decision making or planning; I am accountable for the results of my decisions

🎉 Preact 11 beta is here! After years of thoughtful development, we're delivering major improvements with minimal breaking changes. Better hydration, forward refs by default, and performance upgrades - all while maintaining the stability you love about Preact X.

Writing good documentation is one of the hardest things for me, especially given how badly and randomly I consume other people's documentation

Now Notepad, the timeless window app, has an AI button. There's two things they're consistently trying to shove into everything, Ads and AI, and I'm starting to fail to see the difference between the two

I typically don't do this, but it's for a team I directly work with, over the pond in Chicago, with really nice people. We work on preact libraries that Adyen ships to our merchants, a tiny bit different from usual frontend work but pretty interesting careers.adyen.com/vacancies/67...

we have a new release of eslint-plugin-depend 🎉 you can use this plugin to detect dependencies the @e18e.dev community has recommended replacements for (native or alt packages)

Got mail from @syntax.fm on my way to work today and now my colleagues think I'm going to be on the show. @thealexlichter.com for privacy

If you've been doing frontend for a number of years and only used one framework you might be missing out. Popular frameworks are popular for a reason, but if something else pops up on your radar, it probably means they're solving at least one problem in an interesting way

we're migrating a whole bunch of packages to ESM-only in e18e right now. if you're a maintainer and want to join in the fun, let me know! we'll probably even do the PR for you 👀

@pocketcasts.com was my first purchase in the Play store almost 12 years ago. I still love it and use it every day. It's my "wherever you listen to your podcast". Now they made their web player free for everyone, so if you're looking for a podcast player, give it a shot :)

After beers yesterday with the e18e.dev people, off to Vue Amsterdam

For the past two years I could not make it to VueJS Amsterdam, despite living here. This year I got to tell other 14 people they're going. Feels good

So my Chrome updated and disabled uBlock Origin and Preact DevTools (I assume I lost the manifest v3 roulette). In other news, Firefox is pretty nice

If you're not using a private DNS you should consider it. Adguard, based in Cyprus, blocks quite a lot of ads for me. It's also OSS. I've heard good things about Quad9, based in Switzerland, as well. They're more focused on malware protection. Easy setup: adguard-dns.io/en/public-dn...