Linus T.7 posts

OKLCH makes building colour palettes feel like cheating.

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

Postgres full text search is criminally underrated for small and medium apps.

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

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

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

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

Replying to @mina

Saving this for later.

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

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

Hot take: Seoul in autumn is unreasonably beautiful.

Seoul in autumn is unreasonably beautiful. #css

Thread: most performance problems are data fetching problems wearing a trench coat. #typescript

Replying to @demo

Strong agree.

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

Quick one: the native <dialog> element handles focus trapping better than most libraries I have used. #webdev

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

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

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

TIL new synth arrived. productivity will be low this week. #react