A few months ago, I published [You're a Real JavaScript Developer Only If...](https://dev.to/hadil/youre-a-real-javascript-developer-only-if-294c) It was supposed to be a little post for fun. You know, just a few things JavaScript developers could laugh about before going back to fighting their bu...
Read article--- title: Git Isn't a Diff Tracker: How Blobs, Trees, DAG Commits, and the Index Actually Work Under the Hood published: true description: A visual, 10-minute deep dive into Git internal architecture. Learn how content-addressed storage works, why Git never stores diffs, how the index prepares tree...
Read articleI wrote a fiction series with [six characters](). Each one drinks a different coffee. I didn't plan it that way. But somewhere around the tenth story, I realized: what someone orders at the bar says more about them than anything they actually say. Here's the lineup: --- ### Lena — Long Black ☕ ...
Read articleI haven't written here in a while. Not because I ran out of opinions. That would be concerning. I just got tired of the endless stream of: - AI will replace developers - AI will never replace developers - this model changes everything - this agent changes everything - software engineering is dea...
Read articleHave you ever written a line of React code, looked at the output in your browser, and thought: *"Wait... why did it do that?"* Here is the classic code snippet that every single React developer writes at least once: ```jsx function Counter() { const [count, setCount] = useState(0); function h...
Read article> The config migration was small. Preserving the package contract was the interesting part. Hoi hoi! 👋 I'm [@nyaomaru](https://github.com/nyaomaru), a frontend engineer who enjoyed looking for fungus this season. 😸🍄 Recently, I migrated its build setup from [`tsup`](https://github.com/egoist/t...
Read article I've always loved the idea of reusing old hardware, especially when it's still more than capable of the job you need it for. Planned obsolescence aside, a lot of machines can still do what we need t...
Read article# I’m More Interested in Why Things Break Than Why They Work I don’t think I became interested in technology because I wanted to build apps. I think I became interested because I wanted to understand things. There’s a difference. When something works exactly as expected, there usually isn’t much...
Read articleRecraft Studio is a web app where you generate images and then work with them on a canvas. The canvas lives on one very important page — the editor. It is a huge page with a lot of tools, and one day we faced a problem: how long our editor is loading. Four pull requests later, the editor reaches th...
Read articleDescription: "I stopped decorating my GitHub profile and started shipping it like a product page. Four apps, four download buttons, zero widgets."  I [stopped / spent a weekend] treatin...
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