Linus T.7 posts

new synth arrived. productivity will be low this week.

OKLCH makes building colour palettes feel like cheating.

Reminder: the best accessibility fix is almost always "use the right HTML element".

Small win today: I love when the database enforces the invariant so the app code doesn’t have to. #webdev

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

Replying to @felix

We did the same and never looked back.

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

Hot take: optimistic UI is a UX feature, rollback handling is the engineering feature.

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

Reminder: reviewed a PR where the AI wrote the tests first. Honestly it was great. #webdev

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

Quick one: server components finally clicked for me once I stopped thinking of them as "SSR". #ai