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Lilly
@helbling.uk
Software dev and general nerd.
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Trying to be "strategic" about tech debt and "using it to my advantage".

As much as I'd like to be mad about the tech debt I see at work, managing it in a nearly 4 year old side project has me changing my perspective.

Suddenly things feel different when you're in the driving seat
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Anyway, ripping out the state should hopefully:
- Give me a decent API for the future
- Make the FE dumb
- Decouple the FE from its data store
- Allow me to make improvements without rewriting from scratch
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Deciding to host this on my own infra as well, so I can get some decent metrics in NewRelic

Not that Sentry can't do the job, but when I'm moving core features out, I need to use tools that I'm confident with
November 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I'm shaving my face daily now.

Might get laser done soon
October 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I didn't know you could reliably do that, I thought LLMs would just find (or be instructed to) find workarounds
September 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Oh! Didn't know that
June 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I ended up having to revert once for another reason, but had TS not been there, it would've been 4 more reverts.

Feeling very vindicated for adding an eslint rule to ban type casting
May 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM