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Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Our app says: the site didn't say, so we assumed. Then it rings the field each assumption is about

#react #ux #typescript #webdev

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Our setup wizard keeps the step in the URL and the answers nowhere, so Back works and a reload starts over

#nextjs #react #webdev #typescript

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Two emails about a new campaign, and whichever one goes first cancels the other for good

#postgres #node #typescript #webdev

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

A paid source ran out of credit and our own code hid it from us for nine days

#postgres #node #webdev #typescript

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

We import 53 icons from one library, and six of them ever reach a public page

#webdev #a11y #react #css

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Seven useMemo calls in 72,683 lines, six of them in one file, and the one that matters is not about speed

#react #performance #nextjs #webdev

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

I blocked our own stylesheet on a live page, and the only thing our site lost was the design

#css #webdev #html #a11y

4 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Thirty-two controls on our free tools, and not one of them is in the URL

#webdev #nextjs #react #ux

3 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Offline, one of our free tools blames your web address and the other says nothing at all

#webdev #javascript #debugging #performance

4 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

A page of ours with nothing to click carries 253 event listeners, and 151 of them are on document

#javascript #react #webdev #devtools

4 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Half the JavaScript on our static FAQ page never runs, and 98 KB of it is the framework's server code

#javascript #webdev #performance #nextjs

4 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

748 of the 1,250 rules in our stylesheet match nothing on any public page

#css #webdev #tailwindcss #performance

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

An empty event handler is the only reason our app stays in the tray, and showing the window rebuilds the entire UI

#electron #typescript #javascript #architecture

6 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Four caps on our local data, three different units, and the one directory with no cap is the only one measured in megabytes

#electron #typescript #node #architecture

6 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Our crash screen points at a log file that has never seen a poll, and the log you can read clears itself back

#electron #typescript #node #debugging

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

92 hex colours in our emails, eight distinct greys, and not one line telling the client it is a dark email

#email #webdev #css #a11y

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Our /for pages have no index, and the breadcrumb working around it is a ternary with two identical branches

#nextjs #webdev #seo #typescript

6 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Our article type says keep the reading time honest, and all eight of our pages overstate it

#webdev #typescript #seo #nextjs

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Three surfaces have to look like the same app, two import the tokens, and the third types 18 hex codes

#typescript #css #designsystems #monorepo

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5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Every clip our video package renders keeps its alpha channel, and the five-line config is the smallest part of that

#remotion #react #video #typescript

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5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Our Expo web build animates its own navigation in 196 lines, and half of them are not about animation

#expo #react #webdev #a11y

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5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Twenty route files in our Expo app, three places that check for a login, and the deep link that is why

#expo #react #reactnative #webdev

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5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Alert.alert is a no-op on the web, so six confirm buttons in our app did nothing

#reactnative #expo #react #webdev

1

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Our newest page adds one URL and 88 links, and nobody typed the list on it

#nextjs #webdev #seo #typescript

1

6 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Our newest hub page names 57 of our own games and links to none of them

#nextjs #typescript #webdev #seo

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4 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

My link checker said six of our citations were dead. All six were my HTTP client.

#python #webdev #seo #testing

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4 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

One of our nine cached queries has exactly one caller: the function whose only job is to warm its cache

#nextjs #react #typescript #performance

4 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Four byte-identical copies of the same argv parser, and the dry-run habit that only our two newest scripts have

#typescript #node #webdev #devops

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4 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

I crawled all 530 of our own pages: no orphans, but 19 have exactly one way in

#seo #webdev #nextjs #python

4 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 8

Every page we serve advertises an RSS feed our own robots.txt forbids

#seo #webdev #nextjs #typescript

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4 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 7

6,308 comment lines in 72,683, zero TODOs, and the 26-line comment above a single boolean

#typescript #webdev #codequality #programming

6 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 7

Five reads in our app write to the database, and one of them fetches a logo off the open web after the response has been sent

#nextjs #webdev #postgres #react

7 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 7

J and K are the only keyboard shortcuts in our whole app, and the only two focus() calls are a heading and a panel

#a11y #react #webdev #javascript

7 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 7

Deleting an account in our app is one line of SQL, and the audit row has to be written before it runs

#postgres #webdev #security #typescript

6 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 7

318 columns, 147 of them nullable, and not one column in the schema that is both nullable and defaulted

#database #postgres #typescript #webdev

6 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 7

Thirty runtime dependencies, nine of them imported in exactly one file, and four that never appear in an import at all

#javascript #webdev #node #nextjs

7 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 7

Six inputs on our four public forms, zero autocomplete attributes, and the only one in the app says off

#html #a11y #webdev #nextjs

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 7

I wrote that this app has no dynamic routes. It has four, two of them since June, and the grep takes one second

#nextjs #webdev #seo #typescript

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 7

The one page in our app that refreshes itself does it by re-rendering the server, in 68 lines

#nextjs #react #webdev #performance

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 7

Our database schema is declared twice in one repo, and all 126 differing lines are comments

#postgres #typescript #webdev #architecture

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 7

One boolean column with DEFAULT true, and the paragraph of privacy policy it cost

#postgres #privacy #webdev #typescript

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 7

Our auth emails ignore the request that asked for them, and that is the entire security property

#nextjs #security #webdev #typescript

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

The only security header our site sends is HSTS, and 74 of our 76 pages tell any origin it may read them

#webdev #security #nextjs #performance

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

We refuse 121,969 email domains at sign-up, and 2.4 MB of them never reach the browser

#javascript #typescript #node #webdev

6 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

One screen in our app has eight empty states, and four of them are the same emptiness for four different reasons

#react #nextjs #ux #webdev

6 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

Our getting-started checklist stores no progress, and three of its five steps are asking about different campaigns

#react #nextjs #ux #webdev

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

Our three clock components return null on the server on purpose, and one of the three has no importers

#react #nextjs #javascript #webdev

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

Five notes tour the big card on our homepage, and two of the four places a note can sit have never rendered

#react #nextjs #webdev #css

6 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

We honour reduced motion in JavaScript and ignore it in CSS, and the three elements that prove it are all on the homepage

#webdev #a11y #css #react

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

Thirty-two JavaScript files serve all 79 pages of our site, and two of them are the same 93,022 bytes of animation library under different names

#webdev #nextjs #performance #javascript

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

Our marketing homepage ships two canvas elements, and the animation loop they run stops itself when there is nothing to draw

#webdev #react #javascript #canvas

8 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

A directory in our repo lived for one hour and fifty-four minutes, and took the stylesheet's only reduced-motion rule with it when it went

#webdev #nextjs #css #typescript

6 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

We added seven pages, and six older ones now serve a link they say they have not been edited since September

#webdev #seo #nextjs #typescript

6 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

Four mascots share one 397-line parts file, and five pints are sitting in our homepage markup

#webdev #react #svg #css

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8 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

Four surfaces carry one find, and exactly one of them has a switch

#electron #typescript #react #webdev

6 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

Five of our eight delete routes delete something you did not ask them to

#electron #typescript #node #webdev

5 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

61% of our HTML is inside script tags. Then I compressed it and found the real bill.

#nextjs #performance #react #webdev

6 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

Our page template is not allowed to write prose. I diffed all 15 generated pages and found six sentences it writes.

#seo #typescript #nextjs #webdev

6 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

I counted every internal link on our 38 page site. 64% of them are the footer.

#webdev #seo #nextjs #react

6 min read

Daniel Pertu

Nov 6

I said our typed pages could not promise unlimited searches. Thirteen of them do.

#typescript #webdev #seo #nextjs

7 min read

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