Emilia Sonder
@emiliasonder.bsky.social
Just a full-time dev with too many side projects and not enough time 🌱
What's more annoying than trying to figure out why your local changes aren't applying on the production website?
August 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
What's more annoying than trying to figure out why your local changes aren't applying on the production website?
I've been working on a large app in Next.js, and there are no state managers at all. No RTK, no Zustand. It's been.. interesting. Seems like a project can do perfectly fine without them
July 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I've been working on a large app in Next.js, and there are no state managers at all. No RTK, no Zustand. It's been.. interesting. Seems like a project can do perfectly fine without them
It's a small thing, but getting all 100s on PageSpeed Insights instantly made my day better
May 20, 2025 at 4:01 AM
It's a small thing, but getting all 100s on PageSpeed Insights instantly made my day better
Whenever something feels too complex, I try to name things more clearly. Half the time, renaming a variable or file is enough to untangle the logic
May 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Whenever something feels too complex, I try to name things more clearly. Half the time, renaming a variable or file is enough to untangle the logic
Excited to announce that Googling is still a better skill than writing prompts for ChatGPT :)
April 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Excited to announce that Googling is still a better skill than writing prompts for ChatGPT :)
Sometimes I'm not sure if I’m writing code or just carefully avoiding making everything worse
April 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Sometimes I'm not sure if I’m writing code or just carefully avoiding making everything worse
It's funny how the tools that are meant to make things easier often end up being the reason everything feels so complicated
April 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It's funny how the tools that are meant to make things easier often end up being the reason everything feels so complicated
Just found out the hard way that using styled-components in Next.js is a bad idea. Server-side rendering issues, hydration mismatches.. lesson learned
March 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Just found out the hard way that using styled-components in Next.js is a bad idea. Server-side rendering issues, hydration mismatches.. lesson learned
If a project has been in production for over a year, there’s at least one piece of code no one understands anymore 🥲
March 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
If a project has been in production for over a year, there’s at least one piece of code no one understands anymore 🥲
Opening an old project is like reading your old texts. You have no idea why you wrote that, but it's too late to take it back
March 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Opening an old project is like reading your old texts. You have no idea why you wrote that, but it's too late to take it back
Building my own front-end architecture. It’s been a challenge, but also a really interesting process. Experimenting with different structures, refining what works, and making sure it stays clear and scalable.
March 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Building my own front-end architecture. It’s been a challenge, but also a really interesting process. Experimenting with different structures, refining what works, and making sure it stays clear and scalable.
Woah, I wish I had found Mantine UI earlier. I'm never touching MUI again
March 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Woah, I wish I had found Mantine UI earlier. I'm never touching MUI again
It’s wild how much frontend has changed. I started with just HTML & CSS, then React, then Next.js… at this rate, in five years, we’ll be writing websites in a whole new language.
March 1, 2025 at 5:45 AM
It’s wild how much frontend has changed. I started with just HTML & CSS, then React, then Next.js… at this rate, in five years, we’ll be writing websites in a whole new language.
The more I look at FSD, the more it feels like a solution looking for a problem. It adds layers of complexity, but for what? Everyone implements it differently, and instead of solving structure issues, it just creates new ones. Overrated, to put it mildly.
February 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The more I look at FSD, the more it feels like a solution looking for a problem. It adds layers of complexity, but for what? Everyone implements it differently, and instead of solving structure issues, it just creates new ones. Overrated, to put it mildly.
Just setting this up! Gonna be posting about frontend, design, and whatever else seems interesting. Might drop some food for thought or just rant about JS. Let's see where this goes 😄
February 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Just setting this up! Gonna be posting about frontend, design, and whatever else seems interesting. Might drop some food for thought or just rant about JS. Let's see where this goes 😄