Dennis R.10 posts

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

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

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

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

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

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

PSA: a design system is a set of decisions, not a set of components. #서울

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

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

Honestly, new synth arrived. productivity will be low this week.

Replying to @diego

Saving this for later.

Replying to @dennis

The trench coat line got me.

Replying to @priya

Saving this for later.

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

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

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

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

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

Hot take: server components finally clicked for me once I stopped thinking of them as "SSR". #buildinpublic