if you want stable and reliable software, give developers stable and reliable employment
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it clearly needs to be repeated that layoffs are a leadership failure, full stop.
*gently opens up the December 15th flap on my react CVE advent calendar*
you’re very popular on linkedin (DEROGATORY)
I don’t know if this is a good decision but it also feels long overdue
TIL about 
from [@db](
) which seems to be carrying the torch forward from my blog post a few years back: 
JSX.lol
JSX.lol
Does anybody actually like React? A cherry-picked collection of React (and React-tainted) criticism.
social.lol
David Bushell ☕ (@db@social.lol)
137 Posts, 174 Following, 742 Followers · Freelance Designer, Web Developer, Blogger, UK – dbushell.com
Zach Leatherman
A Historical Reference of React Criticism—zachleat.com
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
went on a small side quest this morning and added an AI Mode toggle to my blog posts
e.g. 
Zach Leatherman
Never write your own Date Parsing Library—zachleat.com
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
TIL about the HTML Size Analyzer from DebugBear. Great for finding sneaky Data URIs or large payloads of JSON in your pages:
HTML Size Analyzer
Break HTML document size down by tag and attribute. Discover bloat like code duplication, large hydration state, and inline images.
as “industry” survey season rolls around again it’s important to remember that the results from these things reflect the biases of the most popular dev communities that promote them (and then we get to all pretend like the results are meritocratic)
I now believe it’s better to not participate at all
Thinking about dark/light mode pickers that have three options: Auto/Dark/Light.
If the default is “Auto” — in what scenario might someone want to move away from Auto (which would visually be a noop to the same theme?)
I’m using Light mode as my system preference, but it seems unlikely that I would swap from Auto (Light mode) to Light mode (not Auto) on a specific site