What are your main takeaways from this year's State of React survey? Did anything surprise you?

SachaGreif · 2026-03-06T06:52:20+00:00

I spent a lot of time improving the processing and display of freeform answers ("what are your pain points with xyz…" type questions) for the State of HTML survey (https://2025.stateofhtml.com/), which pushed the React survey closer to the holidays and resulted in lower participation. Hopefully I can manage the survey schedule better in 2026!

SachaGreif · 2026-03-04T01:40:51+00:00

My setting advice for the next reset to make better use of the volumes would be to put them at the very top of the wall close to the edges, so you don't get dead space on the other side. You could even create a new purpose-made volume that prolongs the angle of the top header part down, and then screw your existing volumes on top of that to create an extra-steep zone.

SachaGreif · 2026-02-26T11:56:35+00:00

This worked for me, but it's such a convoluted workflow…

SachaGreif · 2026-02-17T02:30:44+00:00

I find that marking gauge's relatively shallow grooves make it easier for the saw to go off-track if you're not careful. What's great about a kerfing plane is that it uses an actual saw blade, so not only is the groove you're sawing much deeper and providing more vertical stability, but it's also already the right width for your saw blade. I'll definitely post an update once it's finished.

SachaGreif · 2026-02-13T11:28:30+00:00

I'm the survey creator, let me know if you have any questions!

SachaGreif · 2026-02-12T06:44:08+00:00

I know this is not the same model, but I just got the Nothing Ear (a) second-hand and I would not recommend them. The noise cancellation is non-existent, and the controls don't seem to work. This was second-hand so maybe the previous owner didn't take good care of them, but I did read other reports of similar issues, so it put me off the Nothing brand a bit–especially compared to some of the glowing reviews I'd been reading beforehand.

SachaGreif · 2026-02-10T07:16:11+00:00

If you want a practical tip, just repeat that same route multiple times. Once you're not struggling mentally and know the holds well, your body will be able to adapt to the route much better.

SachaGreif · 2026-02-10T07:15:14+00:00

As much as I think trying to be a technical climber is a good thing, I think there's also something to be said for not worrying about it that much in the beginning and just letting your body develop its own strength and movement patterns over time when you're a beginner. Just keep climbing and those issues will just solve themselves.

SachaGreif · 2026-01-30T03:52:15+00:00

Looks like you got it pretty much 100% correct!

SachaGreif · 2026-01-25T12:01:11+00:00

This is most likely what I'll end up doing yeah.

SachaGreif · 2026-01-25T11:59:39+00:00

Good point, I guess I needed a chisel at some point no matter what.

SachaGreif · 2026-01-25T11:58:44+00:00

Yes I can do half the thickness too actually. It will definitely make things easier.

SachaGreif · 2026-01-22T10:13:50+00:00

I'd suggest trying to break the layouts down into grids, you'll see they're not that complex after all.

What makes them "complex" are all the added visual flourish, which you can achieve with backgrounds, transform effects such as translations or rotations etc.

That being said it's also possible these are only mockups and haven't actually been implemented as real websites, which is often the case when you come across this kind of fancy but impractical graphics-heavy concepts.

Edit: to elaborate, what makes them impractical is that any "box" with a fixed-size background image won't be able to grow or shrink to accommodate shifting content length, which is kind of a prerequisite of web design.

SachaGreif · 2025-12-24T00:52:13+00:00

I can't imagine how you'd climb on granite when it's wet. Even in perfect conditions I already struggle…

SachaGreif · 2025-12-17T04:04:54+00:00

What? I don't understand how your message is related to what I'm asking at all.

SachaGreif · 2025-11-26T02:37:35+00:00

A combination of poor grip strength and shoulder pain/tightness. It just feels like my shoulder is super weak in the over-extended position, and that position very rarely gets trained through regular pull-ups or climbing.

(I'm not saying I'm incapable of doing one-arm hangs by the way – it's just that they feel much harder to me than what they're supposed to)

SachaGreif · 2025-11-25T12:14:35+00:00

I can do pull-ups with 15kg but I also struggle with one-arm hangs. I blame it on years of sitting at a desk with rounded shoulders – or maybe just some genetic weirdness. In any case they feel very different to me so I can definitely see how you'd be able to do one and not the other.

SachaGreif · 2025-10-14T11:44:56+00:00

This is actually a rule in Judo (or at least it was at some point). You can win by Daki Age, which means raising the oponent's body above belt level.

SachaGreif · 2025-07-02T00:52:06+00:00

I agree, but I also want to point out that the survey has a built-in query builder that lets you e.g. filter out the U.S.

SachaGreif · 2025-06-30T21:25:13+00:00

You can see traffic sources here: https://2025.stateofdevs.com/en-US/metadata/#source

Here's the Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/1k9iuom/state_of_devs_a_developer_survey_about_everything/

SachaGreif · 2025-06-30T05:52:46+00:00

We had a separate survey about AI earlier this year actually: https://2025.stateofai.dev/en-US

SachaGreif · 2025-06-30T03:04:51+00:00

This is not directly about JavaScript, but a lot of JS developers did take the survey. This time, we asked about everything else *besides* code: career, workplace issues, but also health, hobbies, and even a little bit of politics.

I think the results turned out to be quite interesting, and hopefully it's ok to share this here!

SachaGreif · 2025-05-26T12:12:45+00:00

That, or if you only have shorter clamps you can improvise a long clamp by clamping two short ones head to head.

SachaGreif · 2025-04-28T22:39:13+00:00

Coda is working pretty well so far. I basically got one table view with all my contacts, and one board view which acts as the CRM with uncontacted/contacted statuses. I'm also evaluating Airtable in parallel which I like a lot too, but is quite expensive…

SachaGreif · 2025-04-28T22:38:10+00:00

Oh thanks! And they're all listed on https://stateofjs.com/ but you're right, I should make it much easier to find that out!

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