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Wojciech Maj

@wojtekmaj.pl

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Dad, husband, TypeScript developer.

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Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 17h

Pure JavaScript connoisseur

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 6d

a man in a black shirt stands in front of a green background with just do it written on it

ALT: a man in a black shirt stands in front of a green background with just do it written on it

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Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 6d

Sort of a Catch 22 thing I guess

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 6d

I have released a major version of React-PDF dropping CJS with something along the lines of "You can make it for your own sanity, I wholeheartedly recommend migrating to Vitest instead" in the release notes, and no one batted an eye.

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 8d

Really good slides! Enjoyed it a lot. Thanks!

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 9d

That just sounds like wanting Preact with extra steps

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 9d

Helping you out is the bare minimum we can do to thank you for your efforts.

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 9d

👁️ Conspiracy theory: The React team keeps making React heavier with every release to boost demand for RSC, pushing devs toward server infra... All to drive up Vercel sales. 🕵️‍♂️💸

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 9d

Czy trzeba w nim samemu sobie złożyć drinka?

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 9d

Bundled app that imports createRoot from react-dom is:
- 193 kB (60.3 kB gzipped) in 19.2
- 185 (58.2) in 19.0
- 141 (45.2) in 18.0
- 28 (10.1) in 17.0 (imported render here, no createRoot to begin with)

So 19.2 is a 4% increase over 19.0, 39% over 18.0, and, uh... 591% over 17.0.

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 9d

You'd be correct, but it shows the trend. Measuring it otherwise would probably not result in a fairer comparison.

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 10d

And everyone using Next.js should not use Next.js

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 10d

Bundlephobia is practically an abandonware, unfortunately, and it reports bundle sizes unreliably.

Here's an alternative. Compare:
bundlejs.com?q=react-dom%...
bundlejs.com?q=react-dom%...

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 10d

React 19.2 is 12% bigger than 19.1.
And 60% bigger than 18.3.
And 136% bigger than 17.0.

I'm so tired of this.

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 13d

Loved every minute I've spent there but they gotta fix this bug where the Sun goes to the left

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 15d

As a maintainer of ~50 thematically different but architecturally similar repositories I love my foreach-cli and foreach-sh utils that recursively find git repos in working directory and execute shell commands/scripts, respectively, on them :D

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 15d

I don't. I didn't have the opportunity or need to try Deno out. As an outside observer, I find Deno's existence much less hype-driven and its development more balanced and thoughtful.

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 15d

Shameless plug: it's just a good idea for any serious enough project.

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Why using Bun in production (maybe) isn't the best idea

Bun deserves credit. It's fast, ambitious, and it shook a JavaScript ecosystem that had once been...

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 16d

The car is parked on the driveway. 😅

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 16d

BUT NAAAH

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 17d

Thankfully only 252 995 people downloaded it and there's no 5.3.1 :D

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 17d

OXC team be like

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 20d

Actually yes!

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 21d

What's stopping you from coding like this?

A Renault dashboard featuring Visual Studio Code on the main multimedia screen

Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 22d

That awkward thing you did/said back in 2019 that still makes you cringe every time you remember it? No one else remembers it.

luna @imlunahey.com · Jan 30

people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?