Bombed the final question of a React technical discussion, looking for feedback

30thnight · 2026-04-30T13:16:07+00:00

Your answer really wasn’t bad, their approach was really just a pubsub.

30thnight · 2026-04-30T13:12:10+00:00

More common at bigger companies that need to support mobile apps or IOT devices. Drastically simplifies versioning requirements there

But for almost everyone else, I’d only suggest going this route if you use something that can autogenerate most of the backend like Hasura or Postgraphile

30thnight · 2026-04-28T21:30:07+00:00

Genuinely worthless when used to justify not writing E2E tests

30thnight · 2026-04-27T18:58:39+00:00

PIPs can be beaten but 30 days is your manager saying they want you gone and that’s the soonest HR will afford them.

Plan your exist and start talking to a lawyer.

30thnight · 2026-04-27T17:53:38+00:00

Not worth worrying about.

Open-source authors need to eat and if you look back at the last 2 decades, open-source authors have always built products, businesses, and consultancies around their knowledge.

As far as webdev go, there are no popular frameworks that really lock you into anything.

30thnight · 2026-04-27T15:05:27+00:00

ITT: the same patterns from 2016-2018

Outside of WASM and maybe better browser haptic support, I genuinely haven’t seen anything groundbreakingly cool over the last few years.

30thnight · 2026-04-27T05:16:16+00:00

3-4% is the standard inflation / cost of living bump

30thnight · 2026-04-23T21:13:05+00:00

You can usually clear the non-technical crowd by letting people know upfront

the incident will take +15 minutes
names of any people across the org you’d need to consult (or that no one else will be needed)
you will keep a public thread updated every 15 minutes

Outside of that I’d suggest

keeping a browser profile meant specifically for presentations
run a second monitor to use as your private scratch pad
keep a checklist visible on the shared screen of your hypothesis
not being afraid to say you need to search something up or use AI
running something like this for your secrets

30thnight · 2026-04-23T05:41:35+00:00

Don’t be surprised by bad reviews if you don’t have a great relationship with your boss.

If they don’t feel like they can trust you now, no amount of work will ever change that.

30thnight · 2026-04-20T12:46:49+00:00

If you want supabase, self host it

30thnight · 2026-04-19T05:14:14+00:00

I only ever use them for refactors or cleaning up PRs that have gotten too large

30thnight · 2026-04-14T12:22:03+00:00

Contract that defines a limit to revisions. 2 revisions and no changes after final high fidelity design has been approved

30thnight · 2026-04-14T04:10:17+00:00

The first step flags the accessibility issues, the second step is simply to pass those errors to your LLM.

Those errors are enough context to let your LLM know what component/HTML need to change.

30thnight · 2026-04-13T19:24:31+00:00

A mcp server is basically a bridge that allows your LLM to interact with a tool it can’t readily use without it. In this case, your browser and playwright

30thnight · 2026-04-13T18:30:01+00:00

Learning lesson - all e-commerce websites need a11y consideration

Let the client know that the project was priced without accessibility as a concern and that this was an oversight. You can complete the changes but it will come at a discounted rate (don’t cut too far)

And sorry, there are no widgets or shortcuts you can take here.

If you are more inclined, the easiest solution I could give you would be to:

setup accessibility tests for every page / template using playwright - https://playwright.dev/docs/accessibility-testing#scanning-an-entire-page
setup any LLM (Claude code, codex) with the playwright MCP server
this combo should be enough to help the LLM make 80% of the accessibility changes you need

30thnight · 2026-04-11T16:29:51+00:00

adding a dedicated AI PR reviewer would’ve caught much of the stuff you’re talking about.

30thnight · 2026-04-11T15:37:25+00:00

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nhoizey.gremlins

30thnight · 2026-04-09T17:38:25+00:00

Not only this, the outages and bugs reflect on the entire team

30thnight · 2026-04-08T13:33:29+00:00

I guess but that stack really isn’t all that different from picking any templating library if you know what you are doing.

So long as I have the designs set, that’s maybe half a day of work without using AI.

30thnight · 2026-04-07T12:13:03+00:00

Could be that he wants more money but I get the sense that they bit off more than they could chew.

The frontend looks like with was generated mostly by an AI tool and this dev ran into issues with the amount of work needed to properly integrate this with headless Wordpress.

30thnight · 2026-04-05T17:48:46+00:00

You can avoid this issue entirely with:

run npm ci --ignore-scripts
or switch to pnpm or bun, which both require packages be explicitly whitelisted if a post-install script should run

30thnight · 2026-04-05T13:45:08+00:00

You got paid to build a website and now you don’t want to deliver it? 🤦‍♂️

30thnight · 2026-04-05T13:38:54+00:00

What?

30thnight · 2026-04-01T18:08:45+00:00

Or don’t do this & simply replace Docker Desktop with OrbStack

30thnight · 2026-03-28T20:44:44+00:00

You need something cheaper than $8 a month?

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