Alan Kay18 posts

Quick one: Seoul in autumn is unreasonably beautiful.

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

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

Unpopular opinion: if your cache has no invalidation story, it is not a cache, it is a bug farm.

if your cache has no invalidation story, it is not a cache, it is a bug farm.

most performance problems are data fetching problems wearing a trench coat.

if your cache has no invalidation story, it is not a cache, it is a bug farm.

new synth arrived. productivity will be low this week.

Hot take: I love when the database enforces the invariant so the app code doesn’t have to.

Replying to @dennis

The trench coat line got me.

CSS anchor positioning just deleted 400 lines of tooltip code from our app.

Replying to @frances

The trench coat line got me.

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

Seoul in autumn is unreasonably beautiful. #css

Replying to @ken

Adding this to our team docs.

Replying to @ines

Saving this for later.

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

Small win today: I love when the database enforces the invariant so the app code doesn’t have to. #webdev

Replying to @theo

100%. Measure first.

Replying to @margaret

Saving this for later.