Kai Nakamura11 posts

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

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

Replying to @nina

Came here to say exactly this.

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

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

Honestly, a design system is a set of decisions, not a set of components. #typescript

Replying to @grace

Adding this to our team docs.

shipping small things every day beats shipping big things every quarter.

Honestly, content-visibility: auto made our feed scroll like butter. No virtualization needed. #a11y

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

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

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

Honestly, finally moved our realtime updates to SSE. Simpler than websockets for 90% of cases. #postgres

Thread: server components finally clicked for me once I stopped thinking of them as "SSR". cc @alan

Hot take: Seoul in autumn is unreasonably beautiful.

Replying to @ken

The trench coat line got me.

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

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

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

Thread: every dependency is a liability you signed up to maintain forever.