Chandler Gonzales
chandlergonzales.com
Chandler Gonzales
@chandlergonzales.com
Building something new in manufacturing. Formerly @Logixboard
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Immediate impulse purchase.

Josh's animations are SO COOL and I can't wait to learn his tricks!
We’re live!! My brand-new course, “Whimsical Animations”, is now available. 🥳🎉

whimsy.joshwcomeau.com

I’m so excited to share all of my animation tools and techniques with y’all. 😄
Whimsical Animations
Learn how to create charming interactions and delightful touches using the magic of CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and Canvas. I’m sharing all my tricks in this one!
whimsy.joshwcomeau.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Josh builds the highest quality educational materials I've seen in the world of web software development

If his last 2 courses are any indication, I'll be referencing this for years. I highly recommend checking it out
We’re live!! My brand-new course, “Whimsical Animations”, is now available. 🥳🎉

whimsy.joshwcomeau.com

I’m so excited to share all of my animation tools and techniques with y’all. 😄
Whimsical Animations
Learn how to create charming interactions and delightful touches using the magic of CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and Canvas. I’m sharing all my tricks in this one!
whimsy.joshwcomeau.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
C++ is much easier post-ChatGPT.

Was grumbling that current project forced my hand into building a portion in C++, and now I'm breezing through building it

Dependency management is also much better than it was in ~2016, but it is still very rough. make's pip look good
April 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I'd love to see a post on React's useOptimistic from @joshwcomeau.com 😁

The React docs and existing resources out there are too high level. They don't actually explain how it actually works in detail - they just show an example of how it's used.

In my experimentation, it seems sneakily nuanced!
March 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Diving into Next.js and it feels like the cacheing primitives are designed more for semi-static sites than for dynamic ones

e.g. it'd be huge have cache tags be dynamic. Then I can revalidate a single cache entry, not just the entire cache

really hope they're working on this
March 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Delightful little post on what happens when you don't understand the *why* behind copy-pasting a solution from the internet. Even more important in the age of vibe coding / LLMs

smoores.dev/post/no_such...
smoores.dev - There’s no such thing as an isomorphic layout effect
There’s something off about the most popular approach to quieting React’s warnings about using layout effects during server-side rendering. Let’s break down why the warning exists, and when it really ...
smoores.dev
March 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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🎉 Introducing my upcoming third course, Whimsical Animations!

This course will teach you how to build top-tier animations and interactions using a variety of techniques. ✨

You can join the waitlist on the course’s brand-new site, which is the most ridiculous thing I’ve built in quite some time:
Whimsical Animations
Learn how to create charming interactions and delightful touches using the magic of CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and Canvas. I’m sharing all my tricks in this one!
whimsy.joshwcomeau.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I wonder how much economic output has been eviscerated debugging CORS issues
February 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
2 things I'd love to see from new cloud providers like
Railway, Fly.io,

1 - an LLM to chat with that has the context of the state of your whole account. "Why am I seeing X?" "It could be because this setting is set over here"
February 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
uh, I think I found a bug in Chrome rendering today??
January 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Anytime I am helping someone with CSS and they seem to have the wrong mindset in how they approach writing it, I tell them to watch this video by @miriam.codes

As far as I'm concerned it should be required viewing for anyone who is learning CSS.

youtu.be/aHUtMbJw8iA?...
Why Is CSS So Weird?
YouTube video by Mozilla Developer
youtu.be
January 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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rust is basically a really nice version of javascript
January 24, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Someone should do a regular TypeScript “Packages we Love” inspired by @oxide.computer’s “Crates we Love”.

It’s a delightful format, and I imagine everyone listening would learn something

oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/cra...
Oxide and Friends | Crates We Love
Love Rust? Us too. One of its great strengths is its ecosystem of crates. Rain, Eliza, and Steve from the Oxide team join Bryan and Adam to talk about the crates we love.In addition to Bryan Cantri...
oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm
January 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Finishing up ESLint’s financials for 2024 and…it’s not pretty. ESLint ran at a nearly $60,000 deficit. We managed due to our prioritizing building up our reserves for several years prior in case of a rainy day. We can use your help closing the gap.

eslint.org/donate
Donate - ESLint - Pluggable JavaScript Linter
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.
eslint.org
January 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
It's kinda wild how slow the F street car in SF is. Pretty sure it's significantly slower than a bike. Would be curious to see if ridership numbers justify its existence
January 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Time and time again, I keep coming back to @joshwcomeau.com's CSS and React courses to refresh my memory on something. They ay very well be the best resources on the internet on those topics

www.joyforjs.com
Joy for JavaScript Developers • Josh W. Comeau
Grab both of my flagship courses — CSS for JavaScript Developers and The Joy of React — in one delightful bundle 😄
www.joyforjs.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Manually managing focus state in a web app is not a fun time. Would not recommend it

(also couldn’t find a better way for supporting keyboard nav through elements in a canvas??)
January 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Kinda wild that we don’t have an HTTP status code for partial success other than 206, which seems focused on the range request

I wonder what would break if the GraphQL community just commandeered a 2xx number and started using it. We’ve still got plenty of numbers, right? 😅
January 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I know that ship has already sailed, but it’s a tiny shame that the term “query” is used in GraphQL requests to refer to the whole document and to the query operations. Could’ve calledthe request the “document” or maybe “queryDocument” to better disambiguate. Naming is hard
January 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Somehow I made it 6 years working on GraphQL, and I never RTFMed. Turns out, it’s really well written and I learned a few new things!

graphql.org/learn/
Introduction to GraphQL | GraphQL
graphql.org
January 6, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I sometimes think about my high school math teacher than said being a programmer was a horrible job and that I should not study computer science
January 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Was hoping to use Neon Database for my Postgraphile (by @graphile.org) deployment, but event triggers are required for Postgraphile's "watch mode"

Is branching worth forgoing watch mode 🤔
January 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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I wanna hear the untold stories of the huge architectural and data migrations that go into the “smallest” changes

like when Slack added the ability to add someone to a group DM and *move past messages* to the new conversation

or how Amazon no longer asks which Kindle to send your library book to
December 22, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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Playing with React again after being away a while, pretty stoked about this setup:

- @bun.sh serving @tanstack.com start + router
- @biomejs.dev handling formatting, linting
- @tailwindcss.com styles
- Wasm with Rust + wasm-bindgen + wasm-pack
- All dockerized and deployed to @fly.io

Very slick ✨
December 21, 2024 at 11:19 AM