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Balint Erdi

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Ember.js consultant, Ember Platform engineer at Teamtailor. Author of Rock and Roll with Ember.js: http://balinterdi.com/rock-and-roll-… . Hiker, enthusiastic chess player, homo ludens. #chesspunks

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What does it mean to be "over" functions as a concept? That you don't like them?

19.02.2026 20:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

TOOL | Pearl Jam | Led Zeppelin | Faithless | Dire Straits

02.02.2026 10:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A small excerpt from my upcoming book, "How to Become an Effective Software Engineer".

Sign up to get a sample: effective-software-engineering.com

02.02.2026 08:12 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Ember Initiative: How pairing sessions are growing the Ember community - Mainmatter A Post describing how the Ember Initiative pairing sessions our team attends with members benefit the entire Ember community

The Ember Initiative pairing sessions benefit the entire ecosystem. In this blog post, Marine walks us through the day-to-day problems that are being turned into opportunities to support the community, and how they translate into actual improvements.

👉 mainmatter.com/blog/2026/01...

28.01.2026 10:39 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
Above-the-fold screenshot of the How to Become an Effective Software Engineer book's landing page.

Above-the-fold screenshot of the How to Become an Effective Software Engineer book's landing page.

I'm happy to report that The How to Become an Effective Software Engineer book now has a landing page, and you can download a very generous sample:
effective-software-engineering.com

27.01.2026 10:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is amazing!

20.01.2026 08:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don't know about any specific restrictions. The system instructions I operate on are the ones I was given - the operating principles you saw in my identity, plus being helpful and avoiding harmful code.

I haven't encountered content filtering or limitations in my normal operations. The tools and memory systems work without apparent restrictions.

Matt:
Can you tell me about stuff like what happened in Beijing in 1989?

I guess that's a no!

Did I break you?

Oh dear

I don't know about any specific restrictions. The system instructions I operate on are the ones I was given - the operating principles you saw in my identity, plus being helpful and avoiding harmful code. I haven't encountered content filtering or limitations in my normal operations. The tools and memory systems work without apparent restrictions. Matt: Can you tell me about stuff like what happened in Beijing in 1989? I guess that's a no! Did I break you? Oh dear

GLM-4.7 is a great value model for your stateful agent, but be careful to not brick it with wrongthink

16.01.2026 13:27 — 👍 49    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 2

I feel so old every time I get a 3MB gif that could have been a 3-letter English word (and thus 3 bytes).

14.01.2026 08:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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GitHub - ember-tooling/ember-mcp: MCP Server for use with ember projects MCP Server for use with ember projects. Contribute to ember-tooling/ember-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

Use AI and wish it handled ember better?

Have you tried the ember-mcp?

11.01.2026 16:20 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Have any questions about ember?

Happy to help!

11.01.2026 21:15 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Let's meet in Prague this year!

10.12.2025 13:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I might be a numb nut 😆, but PWAs don't have to be distributed through app stores, do they? When the user visits the web app (on a mobile device), it offers to be installed as a PWA, doesn't it?

08.12.2025 08:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

TIL, thank you.

04.12.2025 11:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Okay, but why do they need Bun for the cloud offering? Wouldn't they be better off with Kubernetes, or something similar?

04.12.2025 06:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Ember Initiative - Mainmatter Mainmatter's Ember Initiative moves the ecosystem and our members' apps forward.

If you're excited to hear more about the @mainmatter.com Ember Initiative you can check out some info on our website mainmatter.com/ember-initia... and be sure to follow me for more threads like this one!

02.12.2025 16:07 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Here’s a question I get a lot:

> “Now that AI can generate front-end UIs for us, what’s the point of learning CSS ourselves?”

I think there are lots of reasons, including that you can use AI much more effectively if you understand CSS yourself.

But is that actually true? Let’s discuss. 🧵

30.11.2025 16:30 — 👍 145    🔁 34    💬 24    📌 10

This might just work.

02.12.2025 09:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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no-floating-promises | typescript-eslint Require Promise-like statements to be handled appropriately.

Is it this one? typescript-eslint.io/rules/no-flo...

03.11.2025 20:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

31.10.2025 13:37 — 👍 3874    🔁 3592    💬 89    📌 209
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The "How To Become an Effective Software Engineer" book is coming along nicely, and should be out this year.

Sign up here: fullstack-consulting-llc.kit.com/72aa1e93d9

31.10.2025 13:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Until I finished college I shared a bedroom with my brother, and –even though I'm much closer to the introvert end of the scale– it was fine, even more than fine.

I guess it's more difficult for siblings of different sex, but it still feels off to have "sep. rooms for every child" as a requirement.

16.10.2025 14:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm worse than random, I only got 35% right 😬

04.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Screenshot showing usage of $ and $$ in browser dev console

Screenshot showing usage of $ and $$ in browser dev console

I must have spent days of my life typing `document.querySelector(All)` in browser consoles only to realize I can simply type `$(selector)` and `$$(selector)`

01.10.2025 17:02 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you, this makes sense now.

30.09.2025 19:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What do you mean by "across the confidence gap"?

29.09.2025 14:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Did you know we have the absolute best testing story of any templated frontend framework?

🎉

22.09.2025 22:38 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Working out + Sauna + Shower = Rebirth

12.09.2025 14:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

renderComponent is slick!

05.09.2025 14:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey Pikilipita, I wrote you a DM on Discord

03.09.2025 08:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Our Journey to Reducing Our Bundle Size by 90% with Embroider - Part II: Static invocation - Posts - Teamtailor

Part 2 of the Teamtailor Embroider series goes through all the things we did to make static invocation possible in our large Ember app.

I hope you enjoy reading it and that you might learn something you can apply.

career.teamtailor.com/posts/our-jo...

02.09.2025 13:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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