I have avoided Tailwind for years. I find myself having to add in design tokens from an external source to some tailwind code...

My only question - who hurt you? Why would you bind yourself to this.... "syntax"....

TIL that the useful code quality tool Sonar has a rule that you don't have to write code coverage if you make a change that is less than 20 lines.
So that one line critical hotfix passes the check without needing a test, or any comments of any kind.

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It's my birthday tomorrow, a tennis number! To celebrate, here's a song about getting old https://youtu.be/zOL81oOjGUI?si=SiYplPGMrinl9kHf

This week at Maersk is the Front-End community's annual conference. Hundreds of developers from all parts of the company brought together in three different sites with three guest speakers and 7 internal talks.

This is the fourth time we've done this and I'm just as excited/anxious as ever […]

I _could_ let an AI try to code a Saturday project for me whilst I sit in the sunshine, but it's more like trying to relax with a needy toddler, constantly falling over, getting stuck, imagining things and flicking sand in your eyes.

I have real children for that!

The gas main in my street is being replaced. So far I've watched them dig 5 holes and suck rubble out with a lorry-sized vacuum cleaner

Today I learned about how lots of systems have defence in depth for issues, and that there's holes in each layer like swiss cheese.
Sometimes these holes line up and bad things happen.
We spend all our time focusing on the active problems that the systemic issues aren't ever resolved

Third party cookies need to go. https://w3ctag.github.io/web-without-3p-cookies/

Front End north is a fantastic conference that’s returning in July. They’re putting loads of effort into making the speaker line-up as diverse as possible too. To help with that, it would be amazing if you put in a CFP. These events are a great way to get into speaking! […]

Me: AI, make a test suite for this component, using the other tests as a reference
AI: OK...
Brrrrrr..
AI: Done!
Me: Shockingly that worked. Can you make the code have less duplication?
AI: I will try...
Brrr...
AI: Nope, now it's broken, let me fix it
Brrr...
AI: I fixed it
Me: You changed the […]

A little trip to Denmark and Sweden this week for a team off-site.

Just interviewed a Flipkart engineer - the whole thing is now React and React Native. All of the PWA goodness has gone away.

And for all that React, it doesn't even sound like the developer experience is any good either

Y'all are going crazy on DeepSeek - yesterday I had to show someone how to install VSCode on a Mac.

They've been using a copy in their Downloads folder for 2 years

There are bigger problems in the world