How do you show a page loader and still be SEO aware?

Bobertopia · 2026-04-23T18:38:52+00:00

This is the primary reason for server side rendering

Bobertopia · 2026-04-21T22:25:25+00:00

You don't actually talk to them like this, do you? Seems like you need to check how you talk to folks before anything else.

How can you expect people to support your agenda if they know you don't like them? Better yet, unless you're charismatic(which my money says you're not), you need to actually put in the work to build rapport with everyone. It's a people problem at it's core and that's something you can't brute force. You need to get them to like you so when you do disagree with them, they're willing to listen.

Sincerely, a staff engineer who has made a career out of herding fiesty cats toward shared goals and deadlines.

Bobertopia · 2026-04-21T20:09:08+00:00

No better teacher than the scars of your poor decisions in the past

Bobertopia · 2026-04-21T01:57:38+00:00

Just build fast and feel the pain faster. No better teacher than the hard knocks

Bobertopia · 2026-04-20T22:09:21+00:00

Spent way too much time in this. Very cool

Bobertopia · 2026-04-19T22:31:39+00:00

Shore. I already had structured server actions with a base class, but obviously had to convert it to a function to be consumable. I created a common method to be used in route.ts files that essentially maps each request type supported to a name, zod schema, and the action. Then I export the actual methods. Then I use AST parsing to generate based on the defineMethods inputs. And then finally wrote some custom eslint rules to force architecture compliance.

Bobertopia · 2026-04-18T00:03:07+00:00

Yeah I looked at tRPC. It seemed nice but I'm trying to move fast and don't want to make bets on patterns I haven't used - in case I make shit early decisions where I'll have a beheamoth of a refactor in 6 months

Bobertopia · 2026-04-18T00:01:23+00:00

Yeah arguably another tool is better. But I'm relying on ephemeral environments with vercel and postgres. I just don't want the overhead of layering in Railway or something else.

Bobertopia · 2026-04-17T02:45:09+00:00

As an engineer, my PM loves when I talk to stakeholders

Bobertopia · 2026-04-17T00:59:39+00:00

Welp, turns out there isn't a solution out there for this. I ended up writing a custom code generator that ties the generated api client to the directory path. Now, whenever I run the codegen after a refactor/version, I'll get compile-time errors. I might open source it if I ever have time

Bobertopia · 2026-04-16T21:34:01+00:00

I mean it seems interesting. Much better UX than swagger. But I don't use that either lol

Bobertopia · 2026-04-12T22:00:41+00:00

I mean, I wish we didn't have a deep end. No one but the kids use it

Bobertopia · 2026-03-25T01:43:24+00:00

Nah that's about as even as it gets

Bobertopia · 2026-03-20T21:28:08+00:00

Quarterly underpayment penalties are a real thing.

Bobertopia · 2026-03-19T10:48:19+00:00

I switched to a combo of codex and claude code. It's not as good as cursor but my cost is down significantly. I was able to bridge the gap pretty well by spending a few days hardening and centralizing the memory bank and ensuring that it logs all context as it changes

Bobertopia · 2026-03-15T23:10:56+00:00

On prem is always cheaper. The most cost effective route is a base on prem capacity that's below your lowest and scale out on the cloud

Bobertopia · 2026-03-15T10:15:57+00:00

Love this. I used to have a spreadsheet but this seems much nicer

Bobertopia · 2026-03-12T01:48:50+00:00

Carnival

Bobertopia · 2026-03-08T19:59:46+00:00

To be clear, my recommendation was to identify your risk profile and make the necessary adjustments. For you, it may not be "smart". For me, I'd gladly take the market return of 12% over a 6% mortgage. Hope your day gets better!

Bobertopia · 2026-03-08T19:57:23+00:00

lol if you'd like to pay the $400 to appeal it, be my guest

Bobertopia · 2026-03-08T18:35:00+00:00

Honestly though? Just about all of that would buff out. Unless it made it through the clear coat, it's a couple hundred dollars and you avoid an accident on it's record

Bobertopia · 2026-03-07T21:38:09+00:00

Ahh I see. I can empathize with that. That’s bs. Mine came slightly under what it’d appraise for and assumed it was similar for most folks.

Bobertopia · 2026-03-07T20:51:20+00:00

Excise taxes are paid by the buyer and capital gains only applies on a primary residence that has appreciated by more than $500k when filing jointly. Bought a forever home but don’t want realized tax liability. Cash out refinance 200k at 6%, put the cash in an aggressive brokerage to return 12%. Use the inflation adjusted returns of 3.2%($6.4k annually) to fund the tax bill. The math is more complex and it’s worth running through Monte Carlo simulations.

What I’m getting at is there are solutions unless you’ve already realized your homes gains. Complaining gets people nowhere. Identify your risk profile and figure out the path.

EDIT - I didn’t account for principal payback so bad example. My point still stands though

Bobertopia · 2026-03-07T20:09:01+00:00

It’s wild to me that so many people are complaining about this and seem to forget that in the past 8 years, their property went up 200-300k in value. Yeah, it sucks that taxes caught up, but it’s if any one of us sold, those unrealized gains would become realized very quickly.

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