Alan Kay18 posts

Small win today: shipping small things every day beats shipping big things every quarter. cc @margaret

Replying to @ada

This deserves more attention.

Replying to @ines

Saving this for later.

Replying to @jiho

We did the same and never looked back.

Thread: finally moved our realtime updates to SSE. Simpler than websockets for 90% of cases. #webdev

Replying to @john

Adding this to our team docs.

Small win today: a design system is a set of decisions, not a set of components.

Honestly, streaming + Suspense means the slow part of the page no longer holds the fast part hostage. #heliostack

reviewed a PR where the AI wrote the tests first. Honestly it was great. #buildinpublic

coffee count: 3. bugs fixed: 1. bugs created: 2. net progress: vibes. #music

Unpopular opinion: finally moved our realtime updates to SSE. Simpler than websockets for 90% of cases. #heliostack cc @sam

Small win today: OKLCH makes building colour palettes feel like cheating.

Thread: new synth arrived. productivity will be low this week. #react

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

coffee count: 3. bugs fixed: 1. bugs created: 2. net progress: vibes.

optimistic UI is a UX feature, rollback handling is the engineering feature.

Reminder: reviewed a PR where the AI wrote the tests first. Honestly it was great. cc @alan

Reminder: typed routes caught three broken links before they hit production today.

Small win today: OKLCH makes building colour palettes feel like cheating. #webdev

PSA: the best accessibility fix is almost always "use the right HTML element". #ai