Most of my time goes into the platform side of frontend work. When the build is slow or a workflow makes people wait, that's mine to fix. So are the team-wide problems that don't have an obvious owner.
Really it's about making other people faster. The work is unglamorous, and the better I do it the less anyone notices, but it's what decides how quickly everyone around me can ship.
Vue, React, TypeScript, design systems
C#, .NET, Golang, Node
CI/CD, monorepos, linting, build systems
System design, mentoring, code review
Writing about TypeScript, frontend performance, and tools I find interesting
Advent of Code 2022, Day 1, solved entirely inside TypeScript's type system. No runtime code at all: the puzzle input goes into a type alias, the compiler does the arithmetic, and the answer shows up in a hover tooltip.
Node's util.format() is typed as (format: string, ...args: any[]) which lets all kinds of mistakes through. Here we build a type-safe version from scratch using generics and template literal types.
How to build a virtual scrolling Vue component from scratch. Starts with fixed-size items, then tackles dynamic sizing, accessibility gotchas, and what you actually need to think about before shipping it.
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