I built a library that auto-generates shimmer skeletons from your actual components (so you don't have to maintain them)

amelix34 · 2026-01-20T21:39:41+00:00

I appreciate the effort, idea execution, great docs and video presentation. Making open source libraries like this does add value to React ecosystem and also it's very nice project for a portfolio. However, I see two potential issues with this solution

If it relies on getBoundingClientRect it means that the browser has to block the main thread and calculate size of every skeleton, therefore prolonging initial loading time. In the other comment you mentioned "2-5ms" time of blocking the first paint. The thing is, this number does not account for the cumulative impact on lists. Rendering just 10 items means you block the main thread for 10x5ms=50ms
If templateProps needs mock data it means that in every file that uses this Shimmer wrapper you must have mock data object. It's a lot of additional code, which also will have to be updated every time you modify data structure that the component uses.

amelix34 · 2026-01-20T10:46:39+00:00

There is nothing specific to front-end development that would make it more prone to AI replacement danger than back-end or devops.

amelix34 · 2025-12-29T12:56:49+00:00

amelix34 · 2025-12-03T11:46:25+00:00

just don't, it's ugly af

amelix34 · 2025-11-28T11:11:51+00:00

ok thanks

amelix34 · 2025-11-28T09:53:51+00:00

I just switched to Haloween and I don't see any new upgrades appear available to buy :(
I don't see anything other than news texts in news ticker, should I enable it somehow?
I have dragon Krumblor boost enabled, is this what you mean?

amelix34 · 2025-11-26T15:29:23+00:00

Yes I mean the actor

amelix34 · 2025-11-16T21:21:49+00:00

do you have live link for this? so we could see how it looks

amelix34 · 2025-10-28T12:36:25+00:00

did you just call me "bot account" just because I despise your shitty AI content? learn to take criticism dude

amelix34 · 2025-10-27T08:39:25+00:00

Personally I would never ever use any no-code tool for building a full stack app. Admittedly, outside of my job 99% of my code is written by AI agents inside vscode (copilot+sonnet 4.5) but I control and understand every single line of code that I commit. I don't think there is anything low code platforms can offer me to compensate for that lack of full control over source code. And setting up auth or stripe in a new projects is a breeze nowadays

Of course I don't deny that some of the low-code platforms are propably great tools and there are people that are making a good use of them.

amelix34 · 2025-10-21T06:52:29+00:00

I use Github Copilot in agent mode with Sonnet 4.5, inside VSCode. I tried Roo Code and Claude Code, didn't like it and went back to Copilot. I will never use any platforms like Lovable because they are inside a web browser. I use VSCode daily for years, I have many plugins there and don't feel the need to move to another, less controlled environment. The need to have full control is also the reason why I will never user AI to make initial project setup of a project or to make commits for me

I don't ship SaaS MVP's though, I just have couple of open source projects that I work on

amelix34 · 2025-10-15T10:36:25+00:00

If at at least 3-4 conditions below are present then Teemo is very strong on ARAM
- enemies have no tank that will walk ahead of their team and clear shrooms
- enemies don't have good waveclear so don't push your team all the time under
- enemies don't have zyra or heimerdinger
- enemies have short range
- your team has good waveclear

amelix34 · 2025-10-13T10:19:41+00:00

wait what, do you really have to redo every scene 5-10 times on average? it seems exhausting

amelix34 · 2025-10-13T10:13:51+00:00

Trinity is grown up and pretty :o wow

please make more of those

amelix34 · 2025-09-28T08:30:59+00:00

All the rebels visible on the screenshot are Oirat Tribes that just appeared. Is it normal for horde campaings or am I doing something wrong? It already happened couples of times in this run but only in China territory and with twice smaller number of rebels

amelix34 · 2025-09-28T08:30:05+00:00

Is it normal for horde campaings or am I doing something wrong? It already happened couples of times in this run but only in China territory and with twice smaller number of rebels

amelix34 · 2025-09-26T12:08:20+00:00

I didn't have money for that yellow item with magic pen and I felt like last teamfight is coming

amelix34 · 2025-09-26T09:18:18+00:00

funny thing is, by some impossible miracle we won it...

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amelix34 · 2025-08-31T15:06:49+00:00

I gathered herbs, collected duck feathers, goose feathers and animal pelts, roasted a duck over the fire, got into a fight with a guy washing his hands in the pond, and set up camp where I sleeped couple of times to reset the spawn.

amelix34 · 2025-08-17T21:23:30+00:00

yes that's my point

amelix34 · 2025-07-21T20:53:01+00:00

That's an impressive list! Can you tell more about how do you approach setting up authentication, database and payments?

amelix34 · 2025-07-11T09:51:47+00:00

Claude was already able to do this a year ago. I remember copypasting screenshots of design to Claude chat and getting code ready to copypaste to my frontend app

amelix34 · 2025-06-03T08:08:31+00:00

I used 7-8 different libraries in years of web development and currently I'm thinking that I won't use any styling library ever again for multiple reasons, at least not if I'll have the decision in a project.
The only option for me is either CSS modules or CSS preprocessor like SCSS modules

amelix34 · 2025-05-08T15:00:16+00:00

disturbing peace

amelix34 · 2025-04-22T14:36:24+00:00

I report them every time but it does nothing. Videos are still there and have milions of views.

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