Vlad :: gwer

Decided to try designing shoe patterns using the British method instead of the Italian one.

Damn imperial measurements! I fucking hate inches!

The CSS Anchor Positioning Module is exactly what we've been needing.

How long do you think we'll have to wait until we can use it widely?

And it's worth keeping in mind that it's quite useless without the support of the anchor-scope property, which for some reason almost no one talks about.

Cursor 2.0 is absolutely amazing. It's the best way I've seen to get people to spend more tokens and pay more money.

When I was making my previous sneakers, I experimented with a soft heel counter and found it incredibly convenient for quickly putting them on and taking them off.

I thought I'd invented something brilliant, but then I discovered Gucci uses this same solution in their loafers.

This was a good idea for neat little components, but not for completely replacing classes with hooks.

I don't understand how people change jobs every year or two. The best "I told you so" situations often take three to five years from the moment they were said.

The React compiler is a hack to fix problems that didn't exist before hooks.

Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more:
adventofcode.com/2025/about#f...
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So, should we avoid TanStack like a new Next.js?

No one's goal is to make services user-friendly anymore. It's only important to improve metrics. And the most valuable metrics, like time on site and page depth, are often achieved by reducing usability.

What a great idea to make a browser-compatible Web Storage API in Node.js (v25.0.0).

You can finally write code that, depending on the context, will work either with private storage in the browser or with shared storage on the server.

What could possibly go wrong? It's completely safe!

Honestly, it's pretty easy to do this without a framework, since we already have FileSystemRouter. But I'd like to see the result.

What I'm really looking forward to from Bun is a built-in Framework. And I hope there will be Preact support as well.

github.com/oven-sh/bun/...

That's why I prefer simple and predictable solutions over convenient magic.

WUTA chisels set

Finally got a new set of stitching chisels. Interchangeable adapters with six different step sizes (3–6 mm). Five hole types.

I'm a little concerned about the rigidity. I usually prefer solid chisels.

Next month will mark a year since I bought a huge (seriously, you wouldn’t believe how heavy) ThinkPad, after a decade of MacBooks I had grown tired of. Still don’t regret.

As I see, people are slowly starting to prepare for the next Advent of Code.

Pomegranate roots

Rosemary roots

Seven months ago, I planted a couple of plants (pomegranate and rosemary) in my 3D-printed air-pruning pots, which I created 3dpot.net for.

I finally checked on them. They're doing surprisingly well. The pots are working.

I used to be surprised that people preferred MongoDB for their MVPs (and not just MVPs) just because it's easy to use and doesn't require thinking about schema.

Now I'm surprised that people prefer PostgreSQL for the same purposes just because there is Supabase.