Arjun Mehta14 posts

OKLCH makes building colour palettes feel like cheating.

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

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

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

I love when the database enforces the invariant so the app code doesn’t have to. #design

TIL Postgres full text search is criminally underrated for small and medium apps.

Replying to @priya

Saving this for later.

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

Replying to @ada

Counterpoint: it depends 😅

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

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

Unpopular opinion: you probably don’t need that state management library. URL + server state covers a lot.

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

Replying to @tim

Wait, since when?!

Replying to @ravi

We did the same and never looked back.

Quick one: the native <dialog> element handles focus trapping better than most libraries I have used. #webdev

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

new synth arrived. productivity will be low this week. #heliostack

naming things is still the hardest part. Today’s victim: a feature flag. #buildinpublic

Honestly, typed routes caught three broken links before they hit production today. #postgres