Sam Rivera3 posts

Small win today: shipping small things every day beats shipping big things every quarter.

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

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

Small win today: the best accessibility fix is almost always "use the right HTML element". #opensource

Replying to @zara

Came here to say exactly this.

Replying to @radia

Adding this to our team docs.

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

Replying to @ada

This deserves more attention.

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

Small win today: a design system is a set of decisions, not a set of components. cc @john

Replying to @ada

Wait, since when?!

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

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

Small win today: OKLCH makes building colour palettes feel like cheating.

Replying to @ines

Saving this for later.

Replying to @hana

100%. Measure first.

Replying to @mina

Counterpoint: it depends 😅

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

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

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