Radia Perlman11 posts

Replying to @ada

Wait, since when?!

Replying to @hedy

The trench coat line got me.

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

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

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

Unpopular opinion: finally moved our realtime updates to SSE. Simpler than websockets for 90% of cases. #heliostack cc @sam

optimistic UI is a UX feature, rollback handling is the engineering feature. #서울

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

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

Replying to @diego

This is so true.

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

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

optimistic UI is a UX feature, rollback handling is the engineering feature. #opensource cc @diego

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

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

Replying to @mina

Counterpoint: it depends 😅

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

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

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

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