Jeff Valore

New blog post; Pointing out the things I've come to really love about JS/TS over the years. "JavaScript/TypeScript is actually really good" codingwithspike.wordpress.com/2025/01/01/jav…

Pro UI tip; if you make a "dark mode" for your website, you should probably set the text input color to white.

Jeff explains some compelling reasons to move to microservices as well as some serious drawbacks in this post on moving to microservices from a monolith: blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/architec… #SoftwareArchitecture #SoftwareDevelopment

In this series, we take an iterative approach to scaling your applications from monoliths towards microservices. In this blog post, we are carving the monolith. blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/architec… #SoftwareArchitecture #refactoring #scalability

If you've been following our Supercharged Sagas series, Kyle shows us how to test sagas using #NServiceBus with NServiceBus.Testing. Learn more: blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/supercha… #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareArchitecture #Sagas

Why is it that CSS continually adds new features, yet HTML hasn't done anything in a decade? The basic input controls could use dramatic expansion. Autocomplete box? Select box placeholder? Shouldn't have to code up a bunch of JS to get basic inputs that are useful.

If you are using Ardalis.SmartEnum and need to persist it in #EFCore, @KyleMcMaster explains how you can accomplish that in this post: bit.ly/3v6xx3M

Our team has leveled up! Welcome, Jeff! 🎉 blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/welcomin…

@housecor I lean toward "yes" (even for server rendered web apps), because your service is more valuable to integration partners if it's available as an API. Look up the "Bezos API mandate". It's part of why AWS is so successful.

Poll: Do you believe every web app should have an API (REST/GraphQL/RPC) in front of the DB? If always, why? If it depends, upon what?

More people need to be online by 7:30am ... ... so I can have someone to voice my woes to and share all the links to broken code I keep finding that are preventing deploys from working.

@kevinkuebler Oh that's awful. I guess "Address" is a header for the "section" of address inputs, but it's the same font and weight as the rest of the labels, so it looks like 8 labels for 7 inputs. Ouch.

Good example of a form violating the proximity principle of UI design. This confused me for a moment. Most of the labels are above their corresponding inputs. But the address fields have labels *below* their inputs that are closer to the next input than the one they label.

@jsneedles @ardalis going through that situation currently. it's the worst system I've ever worked in. I'm convinced aws small accounts model is just a way for aws to increase your spend by making you pay for more VPC and event bridge traffic.

@ardalis If you add in “each team gets a separate AWS sub account” and add in the VPC networking fun, you get… INF

So you have a problem, and you want to solve it with microservices... So now you have N problems... plus N(N-1) communication problems, plus consistency problems, plus hosting, deploying, debugging, monitoring problems... #microservices

All registered for @stirtrek. You should come. stirtrek.com

@yagiznizipli 'yes', but; corepack should be enabled by default, and any repo where packageManager is not set should default to npm, so "unbundling" should be 100% transparent to the end user, with no disruptions. (i.e. don't install via the node installer, install npm via corepack)

@sadukie I did a 1-liner FizzBuzz in JS recently, which doesn't have a range operator, just to see how terrible it could be.

Today I solved a LeetCode with 22 lines of Ruby ... 🥲

After fifty-three release candidates, Yarn 4.0 is now officially stable! 🥳🎉 yarnpkg.com/blog/release/4…

@robconery @jongalloway One of my first big open source contributions was adding Oracle and DB2 support for SubSonic way back in the day. That was such a useful project. And as others said; much easier than EF.

So, anyone hiring? JS/TS/React/Node/Ruby The general job market is rough. Realizing how much not staying in contact with social circles the last couple yrs has really hurt networking and knowing what jobs are out there.