Building WebSites With LLMS

I recently shipped some updates to my blog. Through the design/development process, I had some insights which made me question my knee-jerk reaction to building pieces of a page as JS-powered interactions on top of the existing document.

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Avoiding Server Component Waterfall Fetching with React 19 cache()

The cache() API is a new feature released in React 19. In this blog post, we will explore it in the Next.js App Router, and see how it can be used to reduce data coupling and preload data, optimizing performance and avoiding waterfall fetching when using React Server Components.

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Subverting control with weak references

Weak references are neat. The best language features unlock different kinds of abstractions, and weak references do exactly that. Let me show you why. In JavaScript we have two APIs to work with weak references: WeakMap and WeakRef.

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Rethinking Find-in-Page Accessibility: Making Hidden Text Work for Everyone

I regularly attend UX Graz (Meetup / LinkedIn), a meetup covering diverse UX-related topics, alternating between in-person and remote events. At one recent event, a blind speaker demonstrated how they navigate websites (on LinkedIn).

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How Core Git Developers Configure Git

A few weeks ago I wrote about Git’s help.autocorrect setting and the strange tale of the origin of it’s deciseconds value. It got me to thinking about other git config settings that most people likely don’t know about and which should probably be defaulted differently.

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Making Cloudflare the best platform for building AI Agents

As engineers, we’re obsessed with efficiency and automating anything we find ourselves doing more than twice. If you’ve ever done this, you know that the happy path is always easy, but the second the inputs get complex, automation becomes really hard.

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Sunsetting Create React App – React

Today, we’re deprecating Create React App for new apps, and encouraging existing apps to migrate to a framework. We’re also providing docs for when a framework isn’t a good fit for your project, or you prefer to start by building a framework.

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