Pedro Mendes

I spent the last 10 years of my career working in React, and I wouldn't trade those years, but it's hard not to feel a bit like I'm in a bit of an unintentionally toxic relationship.

“He taught me that […] the system is designed so anyone can keep up. If you’re more driven than most people, you can do way more than anyone expects. And this principle applies to all of life, not just school.” sive.rs/kimo

"No time spent learning, is time wasted." seated.ro/blog/tinkeri...

Here’s what I said to our teenager and some other young folks who were around at the match: there’s a difference between a demonstration and a protest, and you need both because people are at different places in their engagement with a movement, and there are different kinds of power.

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

You will never be able to make "data driven" decisions until you realize just how much your decisions are driven by emotions: fear of missing out, defensiveness of your favorite idea, apprehension over something unusual. That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.

I guess the story is that AI makes tech employees so productive that we now need to work on weekends?

Why do so many UX designers love horizontal scroll? It's the worst interaction pattern of all time

wrote about the bureaucractic banality of andor because I needed to understand what really appealed to me about the stories. blog.ronbronson.com/the-bureaucr...

Just published a new blog post on why I think it's time that the web platform added a declarative template API. Let me know what you think! As I find time, I'll be working on more of a concrete proposal over the next few months... justinfagnani.com/2025/06/26/t...

I just launched Kelp UI (my UI library for people who love HTML, powered by modern CSS and Web Components)! Currently in alpha. Rapidly building out the docs. Let me know what you think! 🎉🎉🎉 kelpui.com

We've been growing fast lately, and we're growing the Ghost team to keep up! Still looking for more staff-level product engineers to come and work with us full-time on open source:

Yesterday I presented about #Temporal at #JSNation. In case you missed it, here are my slides! (with clickable links on the "learning more" page!) ptomato.name/talks/jsnati...

Today, I'm excited to announce msw/playwright! This is a designated integration package for MSW to provide a better developer experience when mocking APIs in Playwright. Check it out. github.com/mswjs/playw...

> our implementation was not developed by Mozilla employees, but was contributed entirely by a single volunteer, André Bargull. Temporal is an absolutely massive spec and complicated implementation - it's been YEARS in the making. André out here just beating out billion dollar corps

Folks, we have until May 17 to support a petition to ask for a ban on conversion practices in the European Union. It takes 2 minutes to sign, so please take those, they might end up saving lives. eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

@tannerlinsley.com just launched a bunch of new @tanstack.com shirts/sweatshirts/hoodies/etc. All merch is zero-profit at cost of @cottonbureau.com and very high quality. Enjoy! Go grab it here: tanstack.com/merch

WE ARE GOING UP 😍 🔴⚪️ #WxmAFC

Automated Visual Regression Testing With Playwright from Frederik Dohr on @css-tricks.com css-tricks.com/autom... #FrontEnd #WebDev #WebDesign #Testing

If @wesbos.com says it, you better believe it: @tanstack.com Query is the best API in the world ❤️ 🌍 Link to episode: youtu.be/khUwj39q5PU?...

🗣️ The talk I gave at @reactdayberlin.gitnation.org in December last year, “React Query: The Bad Parts”, is now available for everyone on Youtube:

💡 CSS Tip! Do you want a set of buttons to be equal in width to the widest one? A few lines of CSS and you are done! css-tip.com/equal-width-... #CSS

I’ve been making YouTube videos on CSS for over 8 years and one question that always comes up is how to transition to and from display: none. For a long time, the answer was “it’s complicated”, but now it’s actually pretty easy! html-css-tip-of-the-week.netlify.app/tip/transiti...

If you #build #components I am sure you ran into the issue of text balancing. Since your components have to work on different viewports and devices, it is hard to control. But now we have some much needed guidance thanks to @ishadeed.com:

🗂️ From the archives Eric Bailey teaches us how to make a hyper-resilient component that responds not only to the container, but other languages too. piccalil.li/blog/making-...

I just made a thing: A collection of links for web developers to navigate the web platform more easily. 🟢 Places to follow progress and keep track. 🟣 Places to make your voice heard and influence the platform with your use cases.

OMG. Life perspective through UI. I freaking love it. My life in weeks by @ginatrapani.org weeks.ginatrapani.org

People have massively overcorrected on prop drilling imo. I see this kind of thing so often: ``` <MyContext.Provider value={context} > <ChildConsumingContext /> </MyContext.Provider> ``` You should have a compelling reason for opting out of explicit data flow and a well defined interface

Finally getting to play with some of the newer baseline css features. Friends, native styling of the scrollbars is so nice. Like it's such a small thing, but sometimes scrollbars can snap you out of a design & being able to make a scrollbar match your palette with one line of css is just 👩‍🍳💋

If you haven't checked it out, I highly recommend Every Layout (both the book and the website). It's really helped me rethink how I build layout components. every-layout.dev

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

I think I found my answer for this! I'm going to try ofetch. github.com/unjs/ofetch Found it while reading Nuxt.js docs. nuxt.com/docs/getting...

🌠 The linear() timing function allows us to embed lush spring physics inside vanilla CSS. It’s one of my favourite modern features. But: providing a fallback for older browsers has been pretty painful. I just discovered a lovely pattern for this. ✨ Here’s the code. Description in thread. 🧵

`use-zustand` Uses Zustand Without `useSyncExternalStore` newsletter.daishikato.com/p/use-zustan...

When I'll design a competitor to CSS I'll just call my units a, b, c, d, ...

Many in tech value brutal honesty, but people often focus more on the brutality than the honesty, making them defensive. Instead, aim to be “direct yet kind.” Start with curiosity and a desire to help before offering criticism. When others see empathy in your words, your feedback is more effective.

"How to Use ARIA Alert Effectively", by Florian Schroiff www.a11y-collective.com/blog/aria-al... The alert role helps communicate information to screen reader users. The article dives into ARIA alerts, best practices, common issues (and how to avoid them), and more #html #accessibility #aria #a11y

I sometimes think it would be funny if there was a future where humans are long gone and AI chatbots continue to interact with each other with boring corporate jargon for thousands of years

Anchor positioning is awesome... until you run into a situation where it just doesn't work. Here's a checklist for troubleshooting, and a recommendation for how to avoid issues in the first place.

📰 The new era of component testing is here. It is time we talked. It is time you took a deeper look at the browser-like environments, learned how they actively harm your tests, and what you should use instead in 2025. Here's "Why I Won't Use JSDOM". www.epicweb.dev/why-i-won-t...

Principles are extremely useful in programming, especially for teams. I've written about this one and many more principles here: www.epicweb.dev/principles/t...

Introducing Mentoss: The fetch mocker, a new mocking library for global fetch() calls. 🚧 Routing with URLPattern 🔍 Easier debugging with helpful error messages 🕸️ Browser request support (relative URLs, CORS) Read more: humanwhocodes.com/blog/2025/01...

the world they want is one where you're either unemployed or work an almost no wage job, you have almost no political input or self determination and you’re happy about it because you can get a t-shirt off temu for a $1

so this one demanded enough response that I ended up writing a little blog about it ... (sorry for the delay!) 👉 you can read it here: roe.dev/blog/zero-s... #ama roe.dev/ama