Leonard Koch
leonardkoch.com
Leonard Koch
@leonardkoch.com
CTO @ Schüttflix & Organizer React Hamburg
If it doesn’t have cringy AI artwork is it even a real Substack?
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Reposted by Leonard Koch
i think the @react.dev Compiler team could include more of this type of messaging. i'm being a bit inflammatory here (and Haskell may not the best analogy), but the principle of "pure things are safe to move around" is fundamentally simple and has been known for decades. teach it to new generation!
October 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I couldn’t solve a problem in my app, so I asked an ai to write code that asks another ai to solve it for me.
January 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🪿 in ❄️
January 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
TC39 Proposal: ai-hallucinate-properties-of-null
Imagine how powerful JavaScript would be if it could read properties of null
January 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
December 28, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Was just looking at some stuff on npm trends and this one struck me.
npmtrends.com/styled-compo...
Truly shows how crazily styled-components took off back then, that it - as a react only library - is only now being overtaken in the last year by the de facto new standard for the entire web ecosystem.
December 7, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Two days until Sanderson’s Wind and Truth and I’m really excited to spend December reading it. Probably losing some sleep for it too 😄
If you like Sanderson as well, what else would you tell me to read?
December 4, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Reposted by Leonard Koch
Lmk what you think
November 25, 2024 at 8:56 PM
That wonderful feeling when you start a new project and the codebase doesn't _yet_ have any of those terrible mistakes you're about to make.
November 16, 2024 at 11:22 PM
I’ve decided that cute dogs aren’t just for instagram. Hugo who’s just woken up from a nap fits in on Bluesky just as well!
November 16, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Reposted by Leonard Koch
[email protected] is out today with a replacement for sibling pre-rendering. Give it a try and maybe we can ship React 19 soon?

github.com/facebook/rea...
[React 19] Disabling prerendering siblings of suspended components breaking common pattern · Issue #29898 · facebook/react
Summary I'm creating this issue to continue the discussion that spawned in the already merged PR (#26380) Several community members have raised concerns about this change and it has gained traction...
github.com
November 14, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Reposted by Leonard Koch
The thing that really differentiates Bluesky is that it doesn’t feel like it was designed by a bunch of people who will lose their jobs if I spend a little less time on Bluesky.
November 13, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Ever since iOS 18 Siri has been gaslighting me.
Noise cancellation: *Being very much off*
Me: "Hey Siri, turn on noise cancelling"
Siri: *Turns noise cancelling on* 😏
Siri: "Noise cancellation is already turned on" 😜
...
November 9, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Reposted by Leonard Koch
new blog post: React Native, and “the native feel”
React Native, and "the native feel" — mozzius.dev
by Samuel · 11 min read
mozzius.dev
October 25, 2024 at 2:27 PM