Lena Novak7 posts

Replying to @ada

Wait, since when?!

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

Replying to @ada

This deserves more attention.

Replying to @dennis

The trench coat line got me.

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

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

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

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

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

Replying to @frances

The trench coat line got me.

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

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

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

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

Replying to @mina

Counterpoint: it depends 😅

Replying to @hana

100%. Measure first.

Thread: you probably don’t need that state management library. URL + server state covers a lot. #react

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

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

Replying to @margaret

We did the same and never looked back.