Rach Smith

Rach Smith

@rachsmith.com

Writing the React, fighting with the application state, designing the GraphQL APIs, cursing the TypeScript errors, learning Golang, migrating the databases, and admiring the amazing content at CodePen.

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Rach Smith
@rachsmith.com

hello, I’ve been largely offline lately… just too busy with IRL stuff. Anyway, this is the newest member of our family, Teddy Bear.

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Chris Coyier
@chriscoyier.net

The way our @codepen.io 2.0 editor deals with npm packages is pretty cool. 1. Detect package usage 2. Create/edit `package.json` file to reflect needed packages 3. Inject an `<script type="importmap">` into any HTML produced by compiler Here's using React in 53 seconds.

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Amyville Hoyrror
@amyhoy.bsky.social

can you imagine making a feature that's so awful you have the most creative people on national television calling it a piece of shit and telling you to "FUCK OFF." on national tv.

Matthew Noe@noethematt.bsky.social

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Rach Smith
@rachsmith.com

I’ve been rewriting one of my home-cooked SvelteKit apps with Go and @data-star.dev. Had to wrap my head around the paradigm shift (I’ve never tried HTMX) and deepen my understanding of Go templates… but now that’s done, I’m loving the simplicity of this stack!!

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henry ✷
@strange.website

yea so this is no big deal. ive been taking the lead protein powder for about six months and the only noticeable change is that lately I'm really into using LLMs to unlock critical strategic business insights

paris martineau@paris.nyc

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

consumerreports.orgProtein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer ReportsCR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
Rach Smith
@rachsmith.com

It's a long story but basically we've been without broadband for an entire week so I've had to survive on my spotty 4G connection. Most of the web doesn't work with a shitty connection but the worst offender for me and my needs has been github.com.

Rach Smith
@rachsmith.com

What is really quite good: woolworths.com.au. I mean... you'd think performance would be a top priority for most big commercial operations... but no. It's not like I'm surprised, I knew it would be bad but it's BAD out here.

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Jason Lengstorf
@jason.energy

solved an edge case style override in @astro.build using CSS layers a little while back and got around to writing it up still extremely happy with Astro and its technical choices to lean heavily on web standards. makes stuff like this feel so natural 💜 codetv.dev/blog/astro-c...

codetv.devCSS overrides without important using layers in Astro componentsWe used to need `!important` to override styles, but it’s not 2021 anymore and there’s a better way: CSS layers.
Rach Smith
@rachsmith.com

As a kid I was resentful about being made to learn classical piano while other kids got to play pop songs. Now I’m like why would I want to play pop when Beethoven is lit.

Rach Smith
@rachsmith.com

When I go back to a dynamically typed language (Ruby) after working in a statically typed language (Go) I wonder how I even built *anything* with this thing. Golang has ruined dynamically typed languages for me. (except for JavaScript of course… my ride or die.)

Rach Smith
@rachsmith.com

apart from the fact it’s literally hard to see, it just feels so… dated. I swear I had a Winamp skin just like this in 2002. It’s like the way I feel about super low rise jeans. We don’t need to do this again!

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Annie Sexton
@anniesexton.com

I love CSS folks. They are soldiers of joy and delight. The world is burning and AI debates have people at each others throats and CSS peeps keep being like “check out this dancing turtle I made out of divs 🥰”

Rach Smith
@rachsmith.com

people talking up their agents always be sounding like this

Cassio Zen@handle.invalid

Claude AI successfully ran a shop by itself! - Actually a vending machine - Actually a mini-fridge in our office - Actually it gave lots of discounts and free products on our slack - Actually it hallucinated a Venmo account and people sent payments to God-knows-who www.anthropic.com/research/pro...

anthropic.comProject Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)We let Claude run a small shop in the Anthropic office. Here's what happened.
Rach Smith
@rachsmith.com

Spotify streaming quality has completely gone to pot. It does this thing where it skips (kind of like an old CD would) and then tries to make up for it by playing the track super fast? It sounds like dog shit and makes my four year old absolutely furious. I’ve pa... 🔗 rachsmith.com/2025-05-16-0...

rachsmith.com16 May 2025, 6:34 amSpotify streaming quality has completely gone to pot. It does this thing where it skips (kind of like an old CD would) and then tries to make up for it by playing the track super fast? It sounds like dog shit and makes my four year old absolutely furious.
Rach Smith
@rachsmith.com

what are your favourite examples of sites that have might have a fairly simplistic design but the type is just really nice….. like the typesetting and font choices just have you going damn, that’s nice.