Tuesday, October 21, 2025

useEffectEvent

Fireship on new React happenings. Most notably, "useEffectEvent" is being blessed.

But boy. I really shake my head at how widely known the problems with coding in React are. I am convinced the platform made a very bad set of tradeoffs.

Monday, October 13, 2025

the home-cooked-meal metaphor for apps

An app can be a home-cooked meal... interesting metaphor.

And I'd say... it doesn't have to be an app. The classic web and a cheap VPS is just a brilliant way of putting up all kinds of functionality and making it available from a huge variety of devices. Get a little nudge from AI if you need to!

URLs remain one of tech's best ideas.