Ada Lovelace12 posts

Hot take: content-visibility: auto made our feed scroll like butter. No virtualization needed.

Replying to @grace

Could you share an example?

PSA: CSS anchor positioning just deleted 400 lines of tooltip code from our app. #nextjs

Replying to @ada

This deserves more attention.

Thread: server components finally clicked for me once I stopped thinking of them as "SSR". #nextjs

Reminder: writing the migration first and the UI last has made our team so much faster.

Honestly, every dependency is a liability you signed up to maintain forever. #heliostack

Honestly, content-visibility: auto made our feed scroll like butter. No virtualization needed. #a11y

Reminder: you probably don’t need that state management library. URL + server state covers a lot. #css

writing the migration first and the UI last has made our team so much faster.

OKLCH makes building colour palettes feel like cheating.

Thread: streaming + Suspense means the slow part of the page no longer holds the fast part hostage.

Replying to @jiho

We did the same and never looked back.

Replying to @ada

Counterpoint: it depends 😅

the native <dialog> element handles focus trapping better than most libraries I have used.

optimistic UI is a UX feature, rollback handling is the engineering feature. #opensource cc @diego

Replying to @ken

We did the same and never looked back.

content-visibility: auto made our feed scroll like butter. No virtualization needed. #buildinpublic

Replying to @mina

Counterpoint: it depends 😅

Replying to @ravi

We did the same and never looked back.