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You set up React Query, wire up a useQuery, and everything works. Then a teammate asks: "why did this refetch when I switched tabs and came back, even though nothing changed?" and a week later someone else asks the…
KeyboardTest.tech is almost entirely client-side JavaScript — the whole point is real-time keyboard event handling in the browser. That's exactly the kind of app that can quietly balloon in bundle size and feel sluggish…
Commit Archive is a yearbook for GitHub repos. Every archived project gets a share card, and every contributor gets a portrait card with their numbers and a superlative like "Most Likely to Commit After Midnight". That…
My site had been live for a month. Google had indexed all 352 pages. Titles matched search queries exactly. Structured data was in place. hreflang covered four locales. Then I ran a site audit and got 24 errors, all the…
Glad to announce billboard.js v4.1.0! 🎉 This minor release is about giving back control over things that used to be fixed: how the chart behaves while its container is being dragged, what the subchart overview renders,…
Three years ago, I thought frontend development was mostly about turning Figma designs into React components. That was my mindset when I started my journey as a frontend developer. Over the last 3+ years, while working…
Building a visual editor inside a web application looks manageable until the requirements extend beyond placing text and images on a canvas. A production editor must support dragging, resizing, rotation, rich text,…
arXiv:2609.16096v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model coding agents have recently become useful for software tasks, but weaker or open-weight agents still struggle to reliably interpret user intent and…
Esta semana saqué Create React App de un proyecto y dejé escrito el plan para sacarlo de otro. Los dos eran de 2022 y 2023, y los dos seguían funcionando. Eso es lo engañoso: seguir funcionando y seguir siendo la forma…
This week I pulled Create React App out of one project and wrote the plan to pull it out of another. Both were from 2022 and 2023, and both still worked. That is the deceptive part: still working and still being the…
