Jacob Rask
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Jacob Rask
@jacobrask
web platform staff engineer at Volvo Cars. design systems, developer experience and scaling web teams. falling back in love with css.


After overhauling the React architecture of GitHub's "Files changed" tab, we dropped Interaction to Next Paint (INP) from ~450ms to ~100ms. 📉 React components cut from 8 to 2 per line 🔑 O(1) data access with JS Maps 🪟 Window virtualization for giant PRs






In the next version of Bun `bun ./hello.md` & `Bun.markdown.ansi(string)` pretty-prints markdown to terminal-friendly ansi text

we at cursor finally use pretext to wrap the h1 on the landing page






The opening duel in Ridley Scott's debut "The Duellists" (1977) is still one of the best, if not the best duel in film history. Realistic, tense and brief.




"If you talked to a coder and told them, 'I'm going to take away GitHub Copilot and the agentic coding capabilities,' they'd be like, 'I refuse to work in this environment.'" "It's just inhumane, almost." President of Business & Industry Copilot at Microsoft @clamanna: "The same type of thing is going to happen for all information work, all office work." "Nine months from now, if you went to somebody and said, 'We're going to take away your agentic tools like Copilot Cowork,' they'd be like, 'No way, I'm not going to go back to the old way of working.'" "There's a degree of inevitability because the benefit is so large and there's such strong pull from the end users."

This is a very well implemented CLI. It's so thorough. It dynamically registers commands, it's designed for a browser-wielding agent to automate the setup steps, it can start a MCP daemon… The author wrote a really cool article: justin.poehnelt.com/posts/rewrite-…




France doesn't only tax the rich at much higher rates than the US. It also taxes the middle class more. A LOT more. And the government still can't pay its bills.





