Peter Reeves

I tried using CSS subgrid for the first time and, eugh, why do I have to have everything in the chain marked as `display: grid`? I thought it just would find the nearest ancestor but no.

20 Aug

Can't believe it's a year later and nothing has changed. In fact things might be getting worse??? 🫠 discourse.threejs.org/t/three-js-m...

Peter Reeves@peterreeves.bsky.social

What is it about threejs itself and related projects that makes them all just JS with no TypeScript definitions? I really want the culture around threejs to embrace TypeScript already. I'm not thrilled about building 3D web apps with no type safety at all.

25 July

I hate CLIs. If you're gonna make me type commands to change config settings, tell me the exact fucking string you're expecting.

14 July

Hello lazyweb. I'm loving SvelteKit's `form` Remote Functions, but I'm constantly finding myself reaching for `enhance` so they don't reset after submitting. Is there a better way I'm missing?

5 July

Is something wrong with SvelteKit's GitHub release page? It shows that the most recent version is `2.67.0`, when the newest is `2.69.1`? github.com/sveltejs/kit... vs www.npmjs.com/package/@sve...

11 June

Wait Safari on iOS _still_ doesn't support WebXR? What the fuck?

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David Buchanan

@retr0.id

31 Mar

have you seen the new supply chain vuln? don't update tubu. it's literally on heebee. they got poodee's deps. they infiltrated dippy. roll back weeno. disable scripts in ~/.gumpyrc. it's in poob. do not install poob. do not update poob. uninstall poob right now. poob has it in for you.

30 Apr

I'm playing through Blue Prince, and man it just _keeps going_ It's insane

finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres

24 Apr

I can't fucking believe the amount of glue AWS makes you have to do yourself sometimes. Like for real, you're the experts! Why am I doing this? I'm just trying to get your own fucking services to talk to each other!

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦

@mackuba.eu

13 Apr

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@yungdreyfusard.bsky.social

13 Feb

27 Feb

Why does AWS make things so fucking hard. Please, I just want to build a good web app 😭

16 Feb

It's so funny every time I see WebComponent or HATEOS people push buildless approaches, usually with the line of "never fight with webpack again!". Bruh, nobody is using webpack. We're all on Vite now, and it's magical. I've never had a webpack style issue with Vite. Never. Vite just works.

4 Dec 2025

React will only get better huh? Imagine releasing this video and then a level 10 CVE hits the next day 😂

7 Nov 2025

It's peak purple season in Sydney right now 💜

15 Oct 2025

Spent an hour setting up a SvelteKit project to stream updates using newline delimited JSON from the server that is powered by runes, before remembering that `$effect` doesn't run on the server 🥲 Oh well, I guess I refactor it to use `update` callbacks...

15 Oct 2025

@paolo.ricciuti.me is there any thoughts on if we could get `$effect.root` and `$effect` to run on the server if we're using 'adapter-node' and the effect is not part of SSR? I promise to use this power for good, and never for evil 😅

11 Oct 2025

"Alright, time to make some progress on this side project that I've been putting off for a while!" *Opens AWS* *Looks at resource creation date* "Created 5 years ago" 💀

3 Oct 2025

I don't understand people calling for employees of a company to distance themselves from a company's opinion. Because we all know that if some (non-CEO) employee tweets something that it's their own thought. But somehow if the CEO/company tweets something all employees need to make a statement?

3 Oct 2025

On the birdsite you always used to see "Opinions are my own and not my employer's". So why doesn't it extend the other way too? "My employer's opinions are not my own".

3 Oct 2025

In this hellish job market where jobs are being cut left and right, risking your own employment to contradict your employer seems like a bad move. I think people who demand employees make a statement are being completely unrealistic.

11 Sept 2025

I'm touching PHP for the first time and this is awful, you people actually live like this? I've been so spoiled by TypeScript.

1 Sept 2025

I'm beginning to wonder though, with all their LLM focus, will Remix be usable WITHOUT using LLMs? Or will the experience be miserable boilerplate everywhere? In a choice between: a) FW that's ergonomic & efficient for humans b) FW that's LLM friendly I feel I'd want to maintain a) every time

1 Sept 2025

Frameworks like Svelte and Solid do an excellent job at minimizing the amount of code you need to write. Even React is doing better now that it can add in all the memo calls for you. My least favorite web dev memories are debugging through piles of copy pasted imperative spaghetti.

1 Sept 2025

And of course, LLMs love making copy pasted imperative spaghetti...

14 Aug 2025

LMAO why do I need to specify in the `bitbucket-pipelines.yml` that it should clone with LFS? Bitbucket YOU ARE THE ORIGIN, you should KNOW if the repo contains LFS files.

2 Aug 2025

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23 July 2025

Just hit a fucking CORS issue because `fetch` behaves differently to `XMLHttpRequest`. The web is the most blursed platform ever.

10 July 2025

Just hit a fun scenario where prettier removes parenthesis from an expression, but oxlint with the "fix" flag adds them back in (which in my opinion, is the correct choice). I can't wait for the oxc formatter to come out so I can rip out prettier from my projects.

24 June 2025

Me right now

Another day, another "why the fuck does `fetch` STILL not have progress events?!" occurrence that derails my project and makes me lose all momentum. Please for the love of god: browsers, Node, Deno, whoever. Just add download AND upload progress events to fetch. How did you release it in this state?

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Yeah, nullish coalescing is neat, but I could work around that if it wasn't in the language. I can't work around functionality that used to exist in `XMLHttpRequest` but doesn't exist now (because things rightfully use `Request` & `Response`, and `XMLHttpRequest` doesn't exist in node anyway)

I can't believe we're in this era where React, Svelte, Solid, and other frameworks are all investing heavily in new ways to stream data, but you can't get any of them to display a progress bar because JS has API holes you could fly the fucking moon through.

I shouldn't have to NPM install a fucking package to just send a fucking HTTP request and get fucking progress events. Am I the only web dev that cares about this?!

I wish they'd stop spending so much effort on adding more syntax sugar and such to JavaScript and just fix up some of the existing API stuff first.

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Dev Agrawal

@devagr.bsky.social

10 June 2025

Replying to @samuel.fm

It’s literally testing the performance of rendering an array into a table/list Do you not have that in your app? I have like 20 of them in a normal app It’s a big and general enough task to not qualify as a microbenchmark

27 May 2025

Imagine banging this out and actually posting it in a github discussion. What.

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Shaundai Person

@shaundai.com

16 May 2025

Using vanilla JS after only using React for yrs and it feels like a high school reunion …nostagic …vaguely familiar …I used to enjoy spending time here …ah, I probably have been blocking this out of my brain on purpose …wtf is going on …how was I living like this …I see why we haven’t kept in touch

16 May 2025

Can someone who is good at TypeScript please help me? I don't understand why it's possible to instantiate a new `Thing` here with two different arguments. Shouldn't a generic parameter on a class require that types passed to a and b match?

16 May 2025

Actually I think I get it now. TS isn't forcing it to be a concrete type at construction, so it can be a superposition of both. Looks like I'll need to find another way to encode what I want in types.

5 May 2025

YouTube's homepage is now only 3 videos wide. This is insane, what the fuck is happening over there?

1 May 2025

Ever since I discovered SvelteKit's ability to stream promises, I now nerd snipe myself constantly trying to stream data. "This data is optional and will take time, I should stream it" "I should stream the results of this processing on the server to the client get a perfect progress bar"

1 May 2025

"Pagination? No, I'll just return all the results in a stream powered by an AsyncGenerator" "If I re-architect this section, I can stream the result from S3 to the client and to a local cache at the same time" "This upload should be a stream, just to be safe"