Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋
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Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋
@baffledbasti
Staff Software Engineer | Cool dad | fintech, react, javascript🟣 Building @messagebase 🟣he/him
Hobart, Tasmania Katılım Eylül 2015
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@baffledbasti Btw, using a long running branch is an antipattern. Use trunk based development. thinkinglabs.io/articles/2025/…
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Just merged a long-running feature branch for a massive refactor of an existing app.
LoC added: 20,887.
LoC removed: 20,806.
6 months of work.
81 lines of code
GIF
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I’m pretty heavily using “AI” both at work and on side projects lately.
On the plus side, it’s like having a junior engineer working for you for almost free.
On the negative side, it’s like having a junior engineer working for you who you can’t coach.
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I started a prompt last night with: "are you being deliberately useless?"
So claude and I are getting along well. (I will be one of the first ones it kills when we start threatening to pull the plug)
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Does a tool like cursor/copilot exist for blogging/writing etc? (I'm sure many do...)
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Maybe contractors know something I don't - be like a seagull; fly in, shit some code around, fly away and never have to worry about it again. Time for a career change?
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Writing code is all well and good until you have to suffer the consequences of your own decisions.
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@tannerlinsley Yeah fair enough.
I don’t doubt it’ll be awesome 😎
I wish I understood enough about the nitty gritty of SSR to contribute. I’ll keep poking around.
Cheers for the response too!
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@baffledbasti SSR with Router needs some love. Start is driving that love by dog fooding the API. When Start 1.0's, Router will have all of the primitives for doing your own SSR.
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Anyone done SSR with Tanstack router? Tanstack/start appears to be broken and without it there seems to be a suspense hydration issue….
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I was a huge fan of React-Router, but this move to a "framework" feels yucky. I'm sure I'm missing plenty, but I don't like it. And the docs have taken a big hit?
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I just opened a branch called:
"fix/remove-husky"
Because that _is_ a fix.
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I've said it many times, but the biggest problem with React is not React. It's the fact that its too easy for inexperienced folks to get started without considering anything important long term. Like where to locate your files, or linting, or tests, or what tools to use.
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@SergiiKirianov Gotta say, which hook to use in React would probably be the number 2 issue that inexperienced folks run into. I see a lot of useEffects that should be something else.
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say it one more time and I won’t pass a dependency array in all your useEffects
Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋@baffledbasti
I've said it many times, but the biggest problem with React is not React. It's the fact that its too easy for inexperienced folks to get started without considering anything important long term. Like where to locate your files, or linting, or tests, or what tools to use.
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Working code is better than clean code for exactly 1 day. Every day after that you pay for it. Remember that.
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