Munawwar Firoz

17 May 2025

Announcing Preact Combobox - Multi-select & Single-select modes - Partial word matching, accent matching - Lazy options loading and remote search support - Light / Dark theme, RTL, Translation, form submit support www.npmjs.com/package/prea...

Dairy: "Explain in 2 sentences" works on llms but doesn't work on the wife

Cheap Sol / Opus makes me feel insecure about job. 1. my boss can do most of the work I do, with better understanding of clients needs than me 2. there is cheaper, younger & more energetic devs, in other countries who leveled up with ai assistant so where's my place now?

30 Aug

I didn't announce here that I packaged my shadow preserving algorithm into a paid app: PackshotPanda (dot com)

30 Aug

The client is a 3 MB neutralino app that uses Preact and plain CSS (BEM style) I didn't need much native capabilities. Just ability to write to a directory and OS notifications once image processing is done.

25 Aug

Most background removal tools don't retain natural shadow. I figured out how to retain it. And also how to align them shoes to be perfectly 10% away from the bottom,left,right edges within a 2048x2048 canvas (allowing the shadows to occupy that 10% margin)

27 July

Previously if I was tired and still had work pending I forced myself to sit on my chair and focus on the work. Now I can lie down and talk to my phone.

22 July

Was looking at toggle switch designs and landed on a shop that sells physical toggle switches as fidget toys. It looks soo good!

8 July

Pepper is mildly hot! Unless it's chili pepper. github.com/Munawwar/Pep...

Jovi 🐨@jovidecroock.com

Preact is cool

4 July

A tiny island nation, Cape Verde, made Argentina sweat! One of the best matches so far.

github.comGitHub - Munawwar/DynamoDb-GUI-Client: 💡 DynamoDb GUI Client (Web, Desktop)💡 DynamoDb GUI Client (Web, Desktop). Contribute to Munawwar/DynamoDb-GUI-Client development by creating an account on GitHub.

27 June

DynamoDB GUI now has desktop app just to support AWS SSO github.com/Munawwar/Dyn...

27 June

ws-affected can now run root package scripts with --run-root in parallel with workspace scripts npmjs.com/package/ws-a...

Pepper v0.3 component rendering work in-progress. Right now updating something at lower level of component tree bubbles changes to the top. Might make this more efficient.

Improved that. Also added a Svelte inspired context api as well. v0.2 already had a Store and different way to wire that up, but with the new component model had to reinvent it.

Pepper v0.3 component rendering work in-progress. Right now updating something at lower level of component tree bubbles changes to the top. Might make this more efficient.

This is the sort of stuff JS framework benchmarks don't benchmark.

14 June

If this Fable ban gets reversed by Monday I'd believe it was staged all along and the marketing stunt turned out great

14 June

Haircuts are such a waste of time. Need to go bald like the tech ceos

6 June

VSCode extension for the nimble-html fork

6 June

I think my nimble-html fork is done here, from here onwards I need to vendor it into Pepper for integrating my component model. I added SSR, hydration, dom reconciler (for lists), spread syntax, linter, type checker, vscode extension. cc @joe.trusktr.io

6 June

I've changed colors in 5 years. I changed my sleep schedule from being a night owl and it's visible here. cronotype.vercel.app/munawwar?his...

natemoore on elm street 👻@natemoo.re

this is what they call "burnout and recovery" very happy to be a weekend warrior these days! cronotype.vercel.app/natemoo-re

5 June

New version of QuickJS engine dropped and it supports ES2025. Portable executable (APE) is now at 3.3 MB.

4 June

Didn't notice that KDE 6+ looks bit more modern than the 90s design it used to have 👀

Munawwar Firoz reposted

pilcrow

@pilcrowonpaper.com

3 June

Announcing my auth book! A completely free online resource on implementing auth with fully-featured examples Over 10,000 words right now and I still have plenty of things to write about auth.pilcrowonpaper.com

2 June

/goal prove P = NP If you don't know what to do with your tokens

1 June

Tagged template literal (TTL) based rendering library can handle spread syntax `...${props}`. I think it can have react-like `children` / slots idea too. Will be trying to (dis)prove the idea soon. Though the type checking story is weaker than what JSX can give.

1 June

Type checking story is weak because TS doesn't give the template's interpolation / hole's types to annotate it properly. If that was there then it would have been achievable.

1 June

Hot take: I prefer we named our divs instead of relying on react dev tools to know where a utility class essay came from

29 May

Bsky just doesn't load sometimes. Does it happen to anyone else?

25 May

Trying out new terminal based on ghostty: github.com/am-will/limux I keep losing my tabs and split layouts, so this remembers it (even after restart)

26 May

Immediately switched to this. Remembering terminals and split panes after restart alone is awesome But I also learnt that ghostty could enable focus on mouse hover all along from Limux. And I didn't know ghostty had text search feature since March.

github.comGitHub - Munawwar/nimble-html at pseudo-hydrationA light-weight `html` tagged template string function for writing declarative-reactive web apps. Zero dependencies. - Munawwar/nimble-html

24 May

My fork of nimble-html has - (pseudo) hydration - dom-reconciler for lists (based off udomdiff code) - ...${prop} spread syntax - types safety isn't possible directly with TS syntax, so .. it now has TS server plugin, CLI linter tool, vscode extension (for squiggly + syntax highlight)

Munawwar Firoz@munawwar.bsky.social

Playing with nimble-html. Added (naive) hydration logic: github.com/Munawwar/nim... It doesn't aim to reduce DOM creation, but only to preserve form element states. So no CPU/Mem savings, but whatever user typed before hydration is preserved. Trade-off for lesser LoC. cc @joe.trusktr.io

24 May

I think that sets a performant base for Pepper v0.3, hookless-style component model built on top. It has to run on tiny engines like QuickJS with good SSR perf.

I like DOM template API spec so far. The direction is awesome.

This day is a sad day

It's done .. just 2 remains. Uninstalled most of them, disabled a few.

I think just remove npm publishing from CI and publish from your machine (w/ 2FA enabled).

20 May

With the github attack, I switched off auto update of vscode extensions. And going to move to a editor that doesn't need so many 3 party plugins. Which one folks? Zed?

developer.chrome.comDeclarative partial updates | Blog | Chrome for DevelopersLearn about new out-of-order streaming capabilities and the renewed HTML insertion and streaming methods available for testing from Chrome 148

20 May

2026 is the year we unplug from the internet because of constant attacks

Munawwar Firoz reposted

Barry Pollard

@tunetheweb.com

19 May

So here's an interesting little thing or 2 @nomster.bsky.social , @foolip.org , and myself have been cooking up—along with lots of help from others!: developer.chrome.com/blog/declara... This could lead to some VERY interesting changes in how we write web pages. Would love to hear your thoughts!

19 May

Does anyone care about long sessions that has gone through multiple compactions anymore?

github.comGitHub - Munawwar/nimble-html at pseudo-hydrationA light-weight `html` tagged template string function for writing declarative-reactive web apps. Zero dependencies. - Munawwar/nimble-html

16 May

16 May

* Trade-off for lesser LoC, and also to not have marker comment nodes around all the time just for hydration purpose.

15 May

GM again! Start the day by upgrading Next.js yet again!

Munawwar Firoz@munawwar.bsky.social

GM! Start the day by upgrading Next.js yet again.

github.comGitHub - step-security/harden-runner: Harden-Runner is a CI/CD security agent that works like an EDR for GitHub Actions runners. It monitors network egress, file integrity, and process activity on tho...Harden-Runner is a CI/CD security agent that works like an EDR for GitHub Actions runners. It monitors network egress, file integrity, and process activity on those runners, detecting threats in re...

13 May

Library maintainers check this for CI: github.com/step-securit... (I am not affiliated with the company .. just sharing stuff)

13 May

I think all SSR code has to be run in a sandbox on server so that any client-side library supply chain attack won't be able to mess with the server. I understand it's breaking the point of the original idea of "isomorphic code" but that era is coming to and end.