JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess

I hate benchmarking code, just like any human (which, at this point, most viewers of this probably aren’t ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). It is much more fun to pretend that your caching of a value increased performance 1000% rather than testing to see what it did.

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You don't need Next.js

My tweet about this blew up, so I thought it'd be helpful to break down exactly why we made this move. I started ComfyDeploy as an open source project (GitHub) - a full stack app with Next.js doing all the heavy lifting for both frontend and backend.

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React Router 6 Tutorial

A React Router tutorial which teaches you how to use React Router 6. The code for this React Router v6 tutorial can be found over here. In order to get you started, create a new React project (e.g. create-react-app).

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An Unreasonable Amount of Time

Years ago, Teller performed a magic trick.1 First, he’d have you pick a card. He would attempt to produce the card, but fail, indicating the card may have travelled elsewhere. He’d then lead you on a short walk to a nearby park, and then be inspired to dig a hole.

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Open Letter: Let's stop supply chain attack

With this letter, I’m proposing some modification of the publish process of all package managers, and Github because it’s the most trusted service provider in the open-source world. Recently, one of the widely used npm packages is compromised and malicious code was distributed using it.

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What we learned copying all the best code assistants

Since the beginning of Val Town, our users have been clamouring for the state-of-the-art LLM code generation experience. When we launched in 2022, it was GitHub Copilot. But soon it was ChatGPT, then Claude Artifacts, and now Bolt, Cursor, and Windsurf. We’ve been trying our best to keep up.

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Formatting dates and times in JavaScript with Temporal and the Internationalization API

The Temporal API is a much improved successor to the much-hated JavaScript Date object. .toString() returns Temporal dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. For example: That isn’t easy for a non-technical users to decipher.

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