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@thomas.forge42.dev

Co-Founder @forge42.dev, ex-amazon, ex-cto, ex-ie5 expert, now working on reshaping the landscape for developer tools setting new standards for developer experience @forge42.dev. Based in Vienna / Austria ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น remix.run, fly.io, sqlite aficionado

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That's a significant win for both Angular and the Vite ecosystem, ultimately benefiting all Vite-based frameworks, meta frameworks, and libraries.

06.11.2025 14:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A speaker presenting on stage at a tech conference, standing in front of a large screen displaying the slide โ€œExperimental Vitest support.โ€ The audience is seated in a spacious hall with arched architecture and soft purple lighting, creating a professional and engaging atmosphere.

A speaker presenting on stage at a tech conference, standing in front of a large screen displaying the slide โ€œExperimental Vitest support.โ€ The audience is seated in a spacious hall with arched architecture and soft purple lighting, creating a professional and engaging atmosphere.

โšก๏ธFinally! The official statement!

@vitest.dev is now the official #Angular #testing framework ๐Ÿ’ช

06.11.2025 09:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 52    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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React Router fundamentals - Painting the Screen Join me for a 1 day live event where we will dive deep into the fundamentals of React Router and start our journey of Building a comprehensive e-commerce

Here is the link where you can join the waitlist for the next cohort btw. : www.epicweb.dev/events/react...

05.11.2025 14:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I just had the pleasure of test running @alem.forge42.dev 's first React Router workshop today with him, before the official one tomorrow. He did a great job with the workshop, and it was a pleasure to go through it with him. To all participants tomorrow: Enjoy the learning experience, have fun!

05.11.2025 14:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wonder how many CPU cycles are wasted for generating the same HTML by running the same code, db queries, and network traffic for the same requests and responses, even if nothing has changed.

01.11.2025 17:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Omg the more I see from @astro.build, the more I love it. Itโ€™s the framework I would have wanted to create if it didnโ€™t exist. Fonts, Images, CSP, sessions ,โ€ฆ itโ€™s just right.

30.10.2025 10:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

I don't write Python, but I highly respect and acknowledge that: pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
Congratulations to the PSF for making that decision. Many other companies and open-source projects should demonstrate some of that backbone!

29.10.2025 15:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Although I prefer to end all my text files with a newline, cause its part of the "Unix philosophy" for reasons. It doesn't hurt, especially in the JS/TS ecosystem, does it? After reading the comments on the linked issue, I don't understand the argument against having the last line end with a newline

29.10.2025 14:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thatโ€™s really cool

28.10.2025 16:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The only example I probably would use an LLM for is to remove/replace profanity from a text, as I think (not tested) it might be better to understand and find more subtle profanity from the meaning of a text if thatโ€™s a requirement.

28.10.2025 12:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Stop Using AI For This
YouTube video by Syntax Stop Using AI For This

The existence of this video is VEEEERY frightening imho youtu.be/pVBKWLkRqXw

โ€žFormatting JSON using AIโ€œ
โ€žExtracting phone numbers from a text using AIโ€œ
โ€žUppercasing a string using AIโ€œ

๐Ÿซฃ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Thanks @w3cj.com for pointing out the โ€žshould be obviousโ€œ things in your video.

28.10.2025 12:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I can so relate to what you wrote, but itโ€™s not just the tech industry with AI, imo. Social media, politics,โ€ฆ I canโ€™t stand this black-and-white thinking.

27.10.2025 06:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This weekend was a delightful and blissful time spent with my brother and niece. It felt like healing, even though I wasnโ€™t aware that I was broken โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿฉน. Love you ๐Ÿฅฐ

26.10.2025 17:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
For a basic crud app, you have "must haves", "Nice to haves", and "Polish". In each are different skills, like "Data fetching" or "Remote logging". These skills are differently weighted between how often a company does them and how valuable they are for individuals to have as skills on a team.

For a basic crud app, you have "must haves", "Nice to haves", and "Polish". In each are different skills, like "Data fetching" or "Remote logging". These skills are differently weighted between how often a company does them and how valuable they are for individuals to have as skills on a team.

Most companies have similar business needs for their software, but not all needs are met equally

IE: Error handling. Critical for biz needs. Yet so many companies I've seen absolutely neglect it. Why? Not enough engineers focusing on that discipline

Get good at that stuff and you'll be unstoppable

26.10.2025 15:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Thatโ€™s awesome ๐Ÿคฉ

24.10.2025 15:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m concerned that I overdid myself during Leg Day, as my feet are burning so intensely that I can barely sit, stand, or walk ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

24.10.2025 10:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hot take: Next.js has become overly complex, even for an enterprise. It lost its identity. Look for simpler alternatives (enterprise friendly)

Content with JS? Choose @astro.build or @nuxt.com

Fully SPA? Go for @tanstack.com

Roll your own? @vite.dev and its ecosystem got you

23.10.2025 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is Cam Cole the coolest Mfer on this earth? Few weeks ago I was told i should listen to his songs. So I did. Now finding out that he is living/touring England and the world in his self built, solar powered truck with his self built foot drums and mostly self built sound system WAT ๐Ÿคฏ.

23.10.2025 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Imagine there would be a curing cancer med tech โ€žbubbleโ€ instead.

23.10.2025 13:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nice. Thanks for sharing

22.10.2025 21:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thatโ€™s super useful! Hopefully, as it seems, we will be able to add OpenTelemetry instrumentation to it and add a custom Prometheus endpoint to our RR7 apps.

22.10.2025 19:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ

22.10.2025 17:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It shows again that there will be a โ€žconsolidationโ€œ of AI companies and services needed, and consumer AI products will probably not survive.

22.10.2025 07:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats, and please be biased towards Astro ๐Ÿ˜…

20.10.2025 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s the worst update, not just because of the liquid (gl)ass thingy, generally feels buggier and UX degraded for a lot of things which were working well for me just, as far as I can tell, because of the new glass UI theme. I was never closer than now to switching back to Linux tbh.

20.10.2025 12:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€ฆ and the Video is fun to watch ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜…

19.10.2025 18:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Sora Proves the AI Bubble Is Going to Burst So Hard
YouTube video by Adam Conover Sora Proves the AI Bubble Is Going to Burst So Hard

Just yet another sign that the AI bubble will burst so hard: youtu.be/55Z4cg5Fyu4

I am still sure that โ€žAIโ€œ is not going away though - mostly the good parts will hopefully keep getting better and improved.

19.10.2025 18:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What have you used it for?

19.10.2025 17:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wow, @astro.build is really looking good, and listening to Fred Schott talking about his ideas and their principles really makes it very interesting. Not being forced to use a single specific frontend framework like React is refreshing as well.

19.10.2025 17:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€ž49 Million Fake Accountsโ€œ wow ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

19.10.2025 12:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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