Eric Clemmons 🍊☁️
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Eric Clemmons 🍊☁️
@ericclemmons
Principal Software Engineer at Cloudflare. Fixer. I wrote that JavaScript Fatigue post 10 years ago. Sorry bout that.
Austin, TX Katılım Nisan 2008
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Some exciting news: I’m joining @OpenAI to work on ChatGPT’s web infrastructure.
ChatGPT has become part of how millions of people think, work, and build, and I’m really looking forward to helping shape what comes next alongside the remarkable team behind it.
Can’t wait to get started!
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AI makes it seem like you can patch your way to success.
It takes a lot of discipline to reject the dopamine rush in favor of a thoughtful approach.
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You and some friends are thinking about a vacation together. You hop onto a zoom call and talk about dates, hotels, activities. At the end of the call you get an email with an itinerary and a link to confirm bookings, booked only after everyone confirms. This is what we should all be building towards.
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@hemanta_io @EffectTS_ I’ll meet that again.
Last time I tried it with the Cloudflare Agents SDK I couldn’t get websockets typed right for the useAgent hook.
The frontend SDKs pretty much determine the backend HTTP.
Inside that handler, no problem.
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@ericclemmons @EffectTS_ Modules under unstable might receive breaking changes in minor releases. That being said, I highly recommend you give Effect HTTP API a try. Then you get to wield the full power of Effect. Combine that with Effect Atom on the FrontEnd and you get bulletproof apps.
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I admit, Effect didn't "click" for me (for the usual knee-jerk reasons).
But, v2.alchemy.run showed me what a clean, composable API could be with it.
With effect-smol cloned, I was able to wire Drizzle + Effect into a Hono app.
Anytime I was confused, I just asked my agent "explain this" or "is there an Effect way of making it look like ".
The result is actually *very* understandable!
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30s for CI is already feeling too long.
When “vp check” and “vp test” are a second, an ephemeral whole container feels like a waste.
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I'm convinced worktrees aren't the solution. I'm onboard for a new take for git - we need something that allows for parallel work while managing the diffs between different branches of the same codebase seamlessly.
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The best and worst part of dogfooding is every paper cut is another side quest.
“That took a lot of effort and research to figure out. What if we did X and removed that boilerplate entirely?”
Agents make this possible.
Turn friction into fixes!
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@dillon_mulroy Gonna give it an honest shake on my new project!
TanStack DB has turned into my favorite way of modeling data in the client.
Even with waterfall fetches, there are way fewer patching records than polling entire lists 📉
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@cnakazawa TIL - #trpc-procedures" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">fate.technology/integrations/s…
Do I have this mental model right?
GraphQL client ➡️ Fate (client)
GraphQL server ➡️ Fate (server)
Resolvers are about the same, but fate has drizzle and tRPC to reduce wiring.
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@ericclemmons The solution is fate.technology - guess what Codiff Web is built with ;)
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I figured because it’s “stable tech”.
Honest question - what’s the alternative to the over-fetching problem between UI and APIs?
UI’s with feature flags have different data needs.
GraphQL solves this. What’s the alternative? Adding more semantic tRPC calls?
Daniel Lockyer@DanielLockyer
Is GraphQL still a thing? Haven't heard about it for years
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@colinhacks I thought Vite+ required pnpm, but are you saying I can use nub as the package manager instead? 👀
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@zeeg Starbucks if they have Blonde espresso.
Tim otherwise.
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You need coffee and only have two choices:
Tim Hortons or Starbucks?
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Codex Desktop is pretty much the fastest I’ve been able to move yet.
Annotations on Chat+Code.
Attach screenshot+content with a key press.
Built in browser automation.
Keeps state between restarts.
Not perfect, but feels like what I wanted from OpenCode Desktop.
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@hemanta_io @EffectTS_ Considered it, but it’s under effect/unstable.
AI recommended leaning into Hono for HTTP and Effect for the app.
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artifacts is nearing ~50k new repos created per day🤯
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@samhuckaby In that case let me see if I can whip up a demo real quick
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Just found out that I will get to attend the Cloudflare demo meeting tomorrow for the first time
I’ve never been so excited for a work day in my entire life
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Agree. I’m thinking:
🧍PR title
🔗 PR description = preview URLs, etc
🧍Self-review
🤖 Code Review
🤖🧍 Commits (get squashed anyway)
Human value is in the editorializing of “why” behind the code.
Self-review forces us to explain the code we’re responsible for.
Kenton Varda@KentonVarda
I just declared a moratorium against AI-written change descriptions (e.g. PR and commit messages, also issues/tickets) from my team. AI was writing change descriptions that were worse than useless to me as I tried to review PRs: outlining details of the code that could easily be seen by looking at the code, but omitting the higher-level framing needed to understand broadly what the code is doing. I think people like having AI write these things because the output looks structured and thorough, which makes it feel professional in a way. But this isn't actually valuable. Concise, high-level descriptions are better for everyone. If I need to use my own AI to interpret what your AI wrote then something is wrong. Let AI write code, sure, but for the description, I'd rather see your prompt than your output. We could maybe have extended agents.md with guidelines on writing descriptions, but this seemed a bit pointless since a good, concise change description only takes a few minutes to write -- not a significant time savings to delegate to AI. At least, it doesn't take long if you understand the code -- and if you don't understand the code, then I'm definitely not merging it.
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@jacobmparis Yeah, I don’t get it.
Vercel has been a good steward of OSS acquisitions.
And vercel-labs and AI SDK work elsewhere.
I’m happy for projects like better-auth to have the support they deserve.
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everyone: “companies should support the OSS they rely on!”
*company puts OSS team on payroll*
everyone: not like that I’m outta here
ibo@ibocodes
any better auth alternatives
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I've seen / heard the word "directionally" used more times in the last 6 months than my entire life before that.
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