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software developer @ microsoft ⚜ dad ⚜ ENM ⚜ javascript fan ⚜ Builder of build systems http://github.com/giltayar/bilt ⚜ and lots of love ❤️
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Gil Tayar @gil.tayar.org · Nov 6
My flow as a developer is like Matisse's:

"When working, [...] there is a constant back and forth until the work and I are in harmony. Like a writer, I am always revising, going back and making new discoveries".

Programming is a craft.
A panel with the following text: In this painting, please note the traces of redrawing visible in the face, the back of the chair, the left hand, and the right shoulder. The left hand appears to have been left intentionally vague, the outline and color of the left sleeve are left inconsistent, and the outlines of clothes are etched in scratched lines. Matisse deliberately left these as evidence of the creative process, and explained their importance as follows: "The artist's reactions during each stage of the painting's development are as important as the subject matter, because these reactions originate from me, not from the subject. When working, I begin with my own interpretations and there is a constant back-and-forth until the work and I are in harmony. Like a writer, I am always revising, going back and making new discoveries." (Henri Matisse, Notes of a Painter)
gil.tayar.org
Hmm... why doesn't `--erasableSyntaxOnly` in @typescriptlang.org not show an error on decorators?

🤔

It passes typechecking with this flag, but Node.js doesn't run it ("invalid token" error)
June 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
gil.tayar.org
If I create a simple loader that just console.logs the source code, and I import a `.ts` file using the @nodejs.org support for it, I get the TS code and not the transpiled code.

This means that loaders that analyze the source code will now need to understand TS.
Source code with the following code: registerHooks({ load: (url, context, nextLoad) => { const ret = nextLoad(url, context) console.log(ret.source) return ret; } }) await import('./main.ts')
June 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Reposted by Gil Tayar
open-web-advocacy.org
🚨 NEW: The DOJ wants to break up Chrome from Google — the consequences could be catastrophic for the web.

📖 Read our article: Break Google's search monopoly without breaking the web.

👇Link: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/break-g...

/1
The World Wide Web sliightly exploding
April 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
gil.tayar.org
If a package is used only in `import type`, should that package be in `dependencies` or `devDependencies`.

It feels wrong for it to be in `dependencies` because the JS runtime doesn't see it, but it MUST be in `dependencies` because `.d.ts` files generated by the package refer to it. 😢
March 20, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Reposted by Gil Tayar
andrejnsimoes.com
Svelte 5 is not Javascript
For the last couple of weeks, I've been dealing with the fallout of upgrading a web application to Svelte 5. Complaints about framework churn and migration annoyances aside, I've run into some interesting issues with the migration.
teklinks.andrejnsimoes.com
February 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Reposted by Gil Tayar
fraying.bsky.social
This is the template, Democrats.
Pritzker invokes Nazi references, criticizing Trump, during budget speech
YouTube video by The Center Square
youtu.be
February 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Reposted by Gil Tayar
phry.dev
Node 20 is getting all the require(esm) goodies unflagged now 👀
github.com/nodejs/node/...
[v20.x] backport unflagging of require(esm) to v20 by joyeecheung · Pull Request #56927 · nodejs/node
This backport includes the following commits: See diff module: only emit require(esm) warning under --trace-require-module module: mark evaluation rejection in require(esm) as handled module: do n...
github.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Reposted by Gil Tayar
goose.art
i cant believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI
January 28, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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matanbobi.dev
@gil.tayar.org on stage in the JavaScript IL meetup!
December 26, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Reposted by Gil Tayar
dr-axel.de
Short survey: What languages do you use to compile to #WebAssembly?
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I’ll publish the results on January 1 as a blog post here: 2ality.com

🦋 Reposts appreciated!
WebAssembly languages survey
Who should fill out this form? • You are interested in compiling to WebAssembly and may do so in the future. • You are already compiling to WebAssembly. I’ll publish the results on Mastodon on 1 Janu...
docs.google.com
December 24, 2024 at 10:15 PM
gil.tayar.org
Interesting how the browser is now a valid place to run frontend tooling, thanks to tools like @stackblitz.com and @codesandbox.io
evanyou.me Evan You @evanyou.me · Dec 19
Rolldown's wasm build just got significantly faster in browsers thanks to @broooooklyn.bsky.social!

One challenge of native bundlers is that they have to ship and run as wasm in browser environments. Some bundlers like rspack doesn't even support this due to the complexity it involves.
December 19, 2024 at 5:19 AM
Reposted by Gil Tayar
bondit.bsky.social
עוד לא מצאתי כאן את #פידטק, אבל אנסה בכל זאת: נפתח ה cfp של ריאקט נקסט
גם השנה לכנס יהיה מסלול ריאקט ומסלול js כללי, ואני ממש ממליצה להגיש. כנס שממש כיף לדבר בו ונותן הרבה תמיכה למי שצריך. דברו איתי בפרטי אם יש לכם שאלות / התייעצויות.
הגשות כאן: sessionize.com/reactnext-20...
@barzik.bsky.social
ReactNext 2025: Call for Speakers
ReactNext is Israel's largest Frontend conference, bringing together over 1,000 developers from Israel and around the world. For nearly a decade, it h...
sessionize.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:02 AM
gil.tayar.org
If you ignore the clickbait-y title, this post is a surprisingly good assesment of the problems with microservices.

And I am a developer who (still) firmly believes microservices are the way to go.

venturebeat.com/data-infrast...
Why microservices might be finished as monoliths return with a vengeance
Microservices architecture may look appealing, but transitioning from a monolith is challenging and can increase system complexity.
venturebeat.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:51 AM
gil.tayar.org
I feel seen
susiedent.com Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Dec 1
Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots.

To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.
December 1, 2024 at 2:48 PM
gil.tayar.org
This
runspired.com Chris Thoburn @runspired.com · Nov 30
could we do something like `at.domain.tld` e.g. `at.runspired.com` or even `@runspired.com` so that my website is still my website but there's a shorthand that redirects?
November 30, 2024 at 12:37 PM
gil.tayar.org
Look at this post - it has a *link* in it!

How is that possible?

Digging a bit, it seems that the 🦋 app has support for rich text (docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...), so I'm guessing that while the 🦋 client doesn't support writing it, the Ouranos client below does, and the 🦋 client shows it.
November 26, 2024 at 5:52 AM
gil.tayar.org
@nx.dev - why oh why does remote caching only work in CI, and I have to `export CI=1` to make it work locally? This feels _very_ opinionated, from a tool that in general is not.

A CLI argument or `nx.json` option would have been better, as I would really love to use remote caching on dev machines.
November 25, 2024 at 6:49 AM
Reposted by Gil Tayar
anabrandusescu.bsky.social
"I don’t think the goal is really to provide a safety net for everyone — I think it’s actually to speed us up, so we can see more patients, reduce visits down from 15 minutes to 12 minutes to 10. Efficiency, again."

www.codastory.com/stayonthesto...
I’m a neurology ICU nurse. The creep of AI in our hospitals terrifies me
The healthcare landscape is changing fast thanks to the introduction of artificial intelligence. These technologies have shifted decision-making power away from nurses and on to the robots. Michael Ke...
www.codastory.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Reposted by Gil Tayar
tannerlinsley.com
Isn't it funny how many people dogged on component fetching because it created waterfalls that are now hailing RSCs because they enable... component fetching, albeit on the server.

It removes one side of a round trip for a fetch, but a waterfall is a waterfall and you know what they say...
November 22, 2024 at 5:05 PM
gil.tayar.org
And they never tell you what it *really* does.
threepointone.bsky.social Sunil Pai @threepointone.bsky.social · Nov 20
oh wow you have a SaaS? Let me guess what your website says

- "what used to take months and does it in minutes"
- "scales effortlessly"
- "lets you focus on business logic and leave the hard bits to us"
- “unlocks the potential of your team”
- “powerful yet easy to use”

/1
November 20, 2024 at 3:26 PM
gil.tayar.org
It's not a coincidence that the icon for LLM actions is something like ✨.

Because LLMs feel like magic. And just like magic in fantasy and fairy tales, LLMs can totally backfire on you!
November 20, 2024 at 5:23 AM
Reposted by Gil Tayar
matanbobi.dev
So, How many occurrences of React.Dispatch
matanbobi.dev/posts/stop-p...
React Anti-Pattern: Stop Passing Setters Down the Components Tree
Let's see why passing useState setters as props creates abstraction leaks and tightly couples child components to parent implementations.
matanbobi.dev
November 19, 2024 at 9:53 AM
gil.tayar.org
TIL: A more flexible alternative to `Array(4).fill(1)`.
Code from the Node.js repl: > Array.from({length: 4}) [ undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined ] > Array.from({length: 4}, (_, i) => i) [ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]
November 19, 2024 at 7:13 AM
gil.tayar.org
OMG! Google Slides can now show speaker notes in a separate window ***automatically***!

(Without me needing to move windows from screen to screen in an awkward way at the start of the presentation)

Too bad I got so used to not having speaker notes, that I don't need them anymore. 😁
A screenshot showing an option in Chrome Settings that shows "Window management" with a dropdown next to it showing "Allowing"
November 19, 2024 at 5:18 AM
gil.tayar.org
Is there a way in 🦋 to get notified when somebody posts/skeets?

Twitter has that functionality, which I found useful.
November 18, 2024 at 1:08 PM