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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · 1d

Who needs coffee when you have an AWS outage?

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · 9d

I agree

knut @knut.fyi · 9d

i now work for a company that has legitimately cool swag and i like it

sanity.market

Sanity Market

Content Operations for your Body.

sanity.market

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · 14d

watching @codey.bsky.social represent in Las Vegas from the @sanity.io all hands!

Well done Cody!!

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · 19d

We’ve been using the activity API at sanity since it was released as experimental to support multiple Iframes being mounted & unmounted whilst preserving their state & I’m really pleased at how fantastic it’s been.

react.dev @react.dev · 19d

React 19.2 is now available!

This release includes Activity, useEffectEvent, React Performance Tracks, partial pre-rendering, and more:

react.dev/blog/2025/10...

React 19.2 – React

The library for web and native user interfaces

react.dev

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · 21d

one of my favourite things open source projects do that aren't having a good time maintaining themselves is implement a stale bot – the issue isn't fixed, its still there, but on face value – the number looks nice.

Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Sep 16

Tired of passing query clients to your mutation with @tanstack.com Query? Well, now you can access it in the mutationFn – github.com/TanStack/que...

Thanks @tkdodo.eu for all your patience on this 🙏

feat(query-core): add context to mutationfn & mutation callbacks by joshuaellis · Pull Request #9615 · TanStack/query

Description Kicking off where #9193 left off, i've added the same code modifications to add context to mutationFn, in addition i've changed type references & documentation references to...

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Sanity @sanity.io · Apr 9

icing without cake is just icing

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Feb 24

it's official, i've been working at Sanity for nearly 5 months & i'm now in love with Observables.

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Feb 2

Any reccomendations on an email app that works nicely for desktop? preferrably free 🙏

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Dec 10

Truth. Composition is underrated.

Chance @chance.dev · Dec 10

I still find it useful to count renders as a means to identify and reduce needless work. Problem is when the default "solution" is memoization and not better composition.

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Dec 9

Realistically, there’s no reason react-spring couldn’t have a vanilla core & a react-dom adapter.

Could be a nice way to offer vue-springs?

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Dec 6

react19 is out. suppose i should probably update those libraries.

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Nov 12

so proud to be part of a company that recognises the work of open source developers around the world who give up so much of their free time to empower others 🙏❤️

Sanity @sanity.io · Nov 12

Open source software is crucial to the success of Sanity, so it makes sense to give back to great projects that we and our community use every day.

That's why we joined the @opensourcepledge.com with a $112k donation to great projects and maintainers. 🫶

www.sanity.io/blog/sanity-...

Sanity joins the Open Source Pledge

We are joining the Open Source Pledge, committing to pay $2,000 per year per full-time developer directly to open source maintainers and foundations.

www.sanity.io

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Nov 11

Out to @syntax.fm for sponsoring me on GH, thanks!!

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Nov 10

Tbf I’m more impressed it runs on steam deck.

Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Nov 10

Finally trying elden ring for the first time today, died in the first 30 seconds.

So the rumours are true.

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Nov 9

I’m my first few weeks @sanity.io, I had a crazy in-depth conversation about popover behaviour in conjunction with accessibility standards. It’s awesome to see how the rest of team is so committed to making a great experience for all users 💪🏼💪🏼

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Nov 7

🐐

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Nov 6

Notion, please give me split pane 🙏

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Poimandres @pmnd.rs · Nov 1

pmnd.rs

Poimandres

Open source developer collective

pmnd.rs

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Nov 1

✋ work in the Poimandres ecosystem – react-spring, react-three-fiber etc.

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Nov 1

So what's the go to react-icon library we all use now? 👀

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Nov 1

👏

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Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Nov 1

Neat, @github.com getting in on the butterfly movement 👏

Josh @joshellis.co.uk · Oct 31

All about that speed 🏎️

Sanity @sanity.io · Oct 31

We've been working with the @react.dev compiler wg to adopt it for our libraries. It has been great so far!

We're also the first ones to have shipped libraries on npm that supports both the new compiler and react 18:

⚛️ react-rx
⚛️ sanity/ui

::pats our own back::

www.npmjs.com/browse/depen...

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