Tania 💾

Sometimes my favorite place on the web is about:blank.

I can’t be the only one who always thought a Magic card looked like a potato with sprinkles….right?

I am, I'm just stuck in an endless SSL certificate expiration loop. :( I'm trying to fix it.

Do you have any favorite articles (about any subject) that you think about or re-read a lot?

That is good to me as well as that.

I updated my "Setting up a Brand New Mac for FE Development" article. I've been keeping it up to date for 5 years. :)

www.taniarascia.com/setting-up-a...

When you don't touch your domain and DNS and SSL settings for 7 years and then everything expires and you have to remember how DNS works again.

Someone please convince me that date-fns isn't inferior to Moment.js. The API is harder to use, and you have to add an additional library (date-fns-tz) for the basic functionality of converting dates to local timezone.

ChatGPT is telling people I run a QA Bootcamp now.

A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most imp...

Excellent introduction to SVGs by @joshwcomeau.com! Very informative and interactive.

www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/friendly...

I added a color picker to my blog. (Procrastinating instead of writing).

Which color looks best to you? tania.dev

Probably switching to Astro is just another way for me to procrastinate actually writing something :D

Surprisingly not too bad lately...I'm annoyed that so many of my old posts have images because that's really most of the holdup. I hardly ever use images in posts anymore.

I'm not the biggest GraphQL person but I feel like it's a set it and forget it thing with Gatsby for the most part.

I've done that as well! I haven't kept up with it over the last few months though, but I've at least tried to follow a couple hundred developers or so.

How is it that I’ve never interacted with a political post on Bluesky but my entire feed is political posts? Do I need to switch to Mastodon or something to keep up with the JS folks?

Is there a big benefit in updating my blog from Gatsby to Astro?

The only feed I scroll is my "personalized reddit". I just unsub from basically everything, and then only sub to my specific interests, like video games I like, ExperiencedDevs, Lego, my city, various food and design subs. This keeps my feed super chill and I avoid most of the noise.

I've spent the last 8 years writing React at three different companies, all using client-side React. I've never used RSCs, or a framework like NextJS in production. Am I incredibly behind on the times? I'm one of those who got confused about those doc changes, but then it never really affected me.

Why do developers of widely-used open-source projects insist on drastically changing the APIs so I can't just easily update packages? Looking at you, ESLint.

I have two goals:

- Write as little code as possible
- Delete as much code as possible

I have strong opinions about using test() instead of it() for tests.

Same. I’m trying to undo the landscaping sins the previous owners left and rip up all the plastic netting and landscaping fabric and plant natives.

Wouldn't there be a correlation between a large swath of devs leaving Twitter and a decrease in traffic to your site via Twitter?

I’ve started gardening and landscaping in my free time. It feels like refactoring the earth. It’s nice to have a hobby away from a screen.

ChatGPT is really good at making sure your front end can handle any possible combination of characters...recently, I just got back the letter "s" repeated 300 times, and another one that just returned \t over and over.

Nice list! You can also do `Command + Shift + P` to get the command list instead of `Command + P then >`.

The default postcss env made it look like this for some reason...

I only had to spend a few hours upgrading from Node 14 to 18, upgrade React from 17 to 18, update Gatsby from 3 to 5, fix all the peer dependencies, fix all the changed queries, fix all the updated image packages, in order to install postcss to fix it for old browsers.

I love the JS ecosystem.

This is what my website looked like in Safari for the last year or so since I used `light-dark()` and CSS nesting.

Ever just realize your website looks like absolute shit on Safari but you never checked before?