Excited to announce a project I've been working on in spare time for the last year! A fully 3D, physics based firework sim that runs almost entirely on the GPU via WebGL. It's a custom engine and has been a fun build - check out this preview (use WiFi to get HD version)

The typical standard for ephemeral UI like dialogs and tooltips is to render the entire subtree all the time, just toggling visibility with an `open` prop. It's lazy, doesn't scale for complex UIs, and even in simpler apps, it's ignorant of slower devices. A couple alternative

Scroll, focus, and text selection are still annoying when building UIs, because they're fundamentally imperative operations. In React, this often means tracking a ref to an underlying DOM element and calling native methods on it within event handlers or even effects. You can

I see too many people prompt LLMs like the first example, as if it can read your mind. It's tempting to be lazy with these tools, but you need to be intentional. The second example is the way to do it – think through details, edge cases, and lay it out clearly. Not only does

This page contains a to-do app in react that syncs to localstorage. It's popular enough it shows up ~10^29 times.

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It's base-29 encoded, but that's the easy part.

Not sure why everyone is writing code with AI, the library of babel already has the perfect implementation for your problem.

Really good engineers care very deeply about what they do. This is what leads to truly exceptional things. It's not only skill, but also caring about the craft more than most.

Lots of liquid glass criticism (of screen captures) focusing on the "phantom motion" the refraction effects add. I suspect this is a non-issue when you're directly controlling the UI. Like feeling comfortable driving a car, but getting car sick in the passenger seat.

Tried using Codex. Gave it a very easy task on a single file and it completely fumbled it. Tried again and it spent 30 minutes working, only to delete code it never should've touched. Cool concept, but I could never trust this for multi-file refactors etc.

"Dad, what's enshittification?". Well, it's like how Samsung just slapped this basic rounded corner on the edge glow, instead of matching the C2-continuous squircle of the physical screen. Apple never would've allowed this. a decade ago.

Tried finding a spreadsheet containing "some text" in a google drive folder. Asked Gemini, it said the text doesn't exist and shared irrelevant files instead, twice. Typed the text in the search bar and found it instantly. AI can be impressive, but too often it's a distraction.

I'm writing some docs and wanted to provide React and Vue integration examples for my audience. I expected Vue to be simple, but quickly realized I had to pick amongst a few ways of doing things, and include a note about the approach shown. The details got tricky, and I even made.

What happened to Vue? I feel like it used to be the simple, approachable UI library. Now it's grown complex, and worse, it has multiple competing syntaxes. If you're picking a library for a new project today, I'm not sure why you'd pick Vue over React or Svelte.

New, seemingly "world changing" tech adoption is always much slower than the timelines hyped by the people selling it. Corp/gov gears turn slowly.

RT @fakematthewbern: I’m hiring for my game development company . If you have exceptional ability and like video games lmk!.

Reinvent the wheel. Obsess over things. Learn the hard way. That's the path to mastery.

Now that em dashes are a mainstream signal of AI generated content, they might be dead. Time for the en dash to shine! You still get to flex typographically while flying under normie radar by looking similar enough to a hyphen.

RT @SebAaltonen: @gfodor That's how many programmers see real-time. They think in milliseconds, not nanoseconds. In gamedev a millisecond i….

Reservoir sampling is a neat trick! Sam here put together an awesome interactive essay about it.