Mike Ekkel

Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics

7 Oct 2025

Back to work after NordicJS. Honestly I was most inspired by @una.im’s CSS talk. I love new CSS features and I wish I could do more with them. Also, thanks a lot Una for having a chat with me that day!

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@danidonovan.com

10 Feb 2025

do you know how dangerous i’d be if i had self-discipline

tailwindcss.comTailwind CSS v4.0We just released Tailwind CSS v4.0 — an all-new version of the framework optimized for performance and flexibility, with a reimagined configuration and customization experience, and taking full advant...

27 Jan 2025

I just noticed Tailwind v4.0 was released. It's been a while since I used it but I'm pretty excited to try it out. Bunch of really cool new things in there. Honorable mention: config in CSS and Theme tokens. tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwin...

27 Jan 2025

I really wish they would stop pushing everyone away from building SPA's. There are many use-cases that work incredibly well with an SPA and not everything has to be packed into server components and actions.

Mark Erikson@acemarke.dev

yeah. If I could magic-wand this: - Immediate: - merge + publish template fixes - update docs to say "deprecated" - nuke issue spam and archive repo - follow-up: - rewrite React "Installation" page to list "SPA" and recommend Vite - have `cra` print deprecation message

21 Jan 2025

Soooo… we’re just going to pretend he didn’t mean to do what he did? Alright then 😬

17 Jan 2025

Elon horrible, never buying Tesla, blabla (all true) This is a nice little quirk, tho. A really great example of an untested scenario in software. I can hear the QA going: "But what if a train passes by?" and the devs just going "it's a car..."

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train labyrinth.zone/notice/Aq5V7...

youtube.comNintendo Switch 2 – First-look trailerYouTube video by Nintendo UK

16 Jan 2025

Finally! Looking forward to this one. Full backwards compatibility with existing Switch games, the joy-cons click into it instead of sliding in, a seemingly stronger back rest. Bring on the games, Nintendo! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxLU...

15 Jan 2025

About 8 and a half years ago I was doing my bachelor's in UX design. An important part was the choice of minor + subsequent project. This was a real-world project for which your team had 20 weeks to build a product. I really wanted to get into development, so during the project I was the developer.

youtube.comMAXIMUM VS Code Productivity — Navigating Codebases QuicklyYouTube video by Syntax

15 Jan 2025

I bought @wesbos.com's "React for Beginners" course and not long after he released ES6 for everyone. He kickstarted my career and now, after nearly 7 years of experience, is still teaching me new things. Absolutely amazing stuff. Highly recommend his new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0HO...

swiftjectivec.com@DefaultIfMissing - My Codable FailsafeSometimes, you just want some leniancy with codable. Here’s how I get it.

Having to use optionals everywhere instead of being able to simply set default values for Codable is maddening... Spent too long figuring out why my decoder wasn't returning any data. @jordanmorgan10.bsky.social to the rescue: www.swiftjectivec.com/swift-codabl... Brb, decorating EVERYTHING 👀

Last year brought huge changes at work, like joining a new team. This challenged me to grow a ton in engineering-related soft skills, and along the way, I found myself stepping into an informal leadership role. I’ve discovered I love this kind of work, so I’m leaning into it hard this year.

So much so that I'm trying to convince my manager to let me take @kvlly.com's self-paced management fundamentals course. It sounds like something even a non-manager would benefit from, which is great.

It also gives me a great reason to finally get @sarahedo.bsky.social's "Engineering Management for the Rest of Us". I went through some of the open sourced parts before and they were super useful!

10 Jan 2025

This first week back at work after vacation was chaos and honestly just what I needed. Finished up my performance review, dealt with an incident, released a change that improved load times by ~3 seconds for APAC users, broke prod, fixed prod… It was wild. Good to be back tho 😄

2 Dec 2024

As an engineer this has been my experience too. It's great to quickly get started and move through mundane things but you eventually hit a roadblock. Even knowing how the code works, it still sometimes feels like trying to fix something in a legacy codebase.

Peter Yang@petergyang.bsky.social

Honest reflections from coding with AI so far as a non-engineer: It can get you 70% of the way there, but that last 30% is frustrating. It keeps taking one step forward and two steps backward. If I knew how the code worked I could probably fix it myself.

2 Dec 2024

I think using AI while coding is incredibly powerful but figuring out when to stop using it before it makes things much worse for you is an art-form in and of itself.

2 Dec 2024

@angiejones.tech I bookmarked your betterment metric post from last week but it seems the page doesn’t load. All your other posts load just fine 😬

23 Nov 2024

So far I’ve struggled quite a bit with project structure for a SwiftUI app but I had the realization that there are so many commonalities between SwiftUI and React that I can approach it the same as I do in, for example, Next.js Moving much faster now and loving it!