Elin Berg15 posts

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

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

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.

Replying to @zara

Came here to say exactly this.

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

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

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

OKLCH makes building colour palettes feel like cheating.

Seoul in autumn is unreasonably beautiful. #css

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

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

Replying to @hana

100%. Measure first.

Replying to @ines

Saving this for later.

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

Replying to @leo

We did the same and never looked back.

Reminder: Postgres full text search is criminally underrated for small and medium apps. #ai

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

OKLCH makes building colour palettes feel like cheating.

Replying to @jiho

We did the same and never looked back.