i have this unhinged fantasy that maybe in an alternative world, the “Preact” naming wasn’t taken, and server components could be called “Preact components” (pre-React, “runs before React”) which kind of helps communicate it’s a form of prerendering.

started drafting a post about RSC myths. any other myths you want to see addressed (or wanted to ask about)? https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:fpruhuo22xkm5o7ttr2ktxdo&cid=bafkreidaet6mrwfuaswp36tqmg3tnoooyfmjsgdhv4sn72ewpgjrp7jkeu

first month of [overreacted.io](

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conversely, i invite folks who enjoy htmx to watch pete hunt's "rethinking best practices" it's how react was introduced to most of us, and if you haven't seen it, you might enjoy it! i find the energy and the clarity of the explanation there comparable to the best of the htmx essays RE:

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i think every react developer should read htmx essays. i don’t particularly like their solution but they’re great at articulating the problems ...

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does anyone know any good ways to make the writing process less agonizing? i feel like i don’t have a very healthy relationship to it

is anyone doing Astro *with* htmx?

are there any good writeups from ex-FB about the data layer? like the Ent stuff, TAO, whatever. how do you organize an in-memory data layer for many low latency calls

i wish more ex fb people were blogging Astro is reminiscent of XHP ([codebeforethehorse.tumblr.com/post/3096387...](

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)) htmx is reminiscent of Primer ([blog.williammanley.net/2024/02/20/p...](

Primer: facebook's HTMX from 2010

)) fb moved to react *from* those, whereas in open source people see these as somewhere to move *from* react

who up there writing their blog? i want to see yalls blogs! criteria: - you wrote at least a post in 2025 - it doesn't force a paywall so we can actually read it

in case you missed it, new post today! (finished it at 4am lol) RE:

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⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: RSC for Astro Developers https://overreacted.io/rsc-for-astro-developers/

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