Barbara Liskov9 posts

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

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

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

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

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

Replying to @zara

Came here to say exactly this.

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

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

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

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

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

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

if your cache has no invalidation story, it is not a cache, it is a bug farm. #a11y

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

Small win today: naming things is still the hardest part. Today’s victim: a feature flag.

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

Thread: most performance problems are data fetching problems wearing a trench coat. #typescript

Replying to @ken

Adding this to our team docs.

Replying to @ravi

We did the same and never looked back.

Replying to @katherine

Adding this to our team docs.