The timing when an effect runs compared to reactive statements.
And yes, I managed to create infinite loops a few times.
That’s why I tend to avoid effects at all cost because I perceive them as a foot gun.
But sometimes they are the only way.
If you have a big Svelte 4 codebase with lots of reactive statements, whatever can’t be handled with `$derived` and needs an effect will be painful to migrate.
I still regularly trip over effects because I’m lacking the intuition I had for reactive statements.
Will be interesting to see models collapse when they are trained exclusively on AI slop.
Can't wait for remote functions to graduate 🎓
The live view is cool because you have serious traffic on your site.
To break down requests by country etc, do you use custom logic or is there a package or API?
New blog post ✍️
How to track page visits in SvelteKit - without any external analytics provider
scriptraccoon.dev/blog/track-p...
Dipping my toe in the waters of agent skills.
The idea is to unclutter your context and let the agent decide when to pull more advanced stuff into the context.
@vercel.com put together a site to discover skills: skills.sh
Yet to be seen if skills improve my perceived agent experience.
Animotion update 🪄
- Added API for code scrolling
- Added LLM-friendly documentation
- Added agent skill to the template
- Added various fixes and improvements
animotion.pages.dev
How is your Mandarin?
Maybe you can fire up Codex 5.3 for a therapy session with Opus 4.6.
Clicked from NL.
Holy cow! This IDE abstracts away the source code.
It's @steipete.me's approach to building stuff (without looking at source code) baked into an IDE.
In @vscode.dev, the source code is in your face. Everything revolves around code. Imagine that paradigm going away.
Shouldn't companies buy access to specific AI models and let devs choose the wrapper?
If, hypothetically, I wanted to see the movie, I would have to look for a country nearby that screens it 🤣
Nice!
Open Props is Tailwind minus the mess.
Did you use a library for the login route then or custom styles?
Does better-auth have Svelte components?
It's maybe obvious, but it's so liberating that with #SvelteKit remote functions you don't have to think about fetch calls any longer.
Do you have a link to this program?
If you made it past this hurdle, you would spend the next half hour trying to print an oddly sized PDF on an envelope.
The European experience of waking up and finding out about yet another realty distortion field that European politicians try to explain away.
I don't know the back story.
Could also be that when you hire on-site or hybrid, it's easier to get a big pool of of React devs to select from.
Screenshot from a job opening stating that they use Svelte and SvelteKit but are moving towards React + TanStack.
As much as I love Svelte(Kit), its job market has been bad and is not trending upwards.
In NL, React and Vue dominate openings. Svelte is close to nonexistent.
The screenshot from an opening in DE is a painful reminder that the stack most loved by devs, is perceived differently by decision makers.
Anything I have ever tried to accomplish on Cloudflare withered
between a complicated dashboard and docs that were completely outdated.
So, I am not sure if this is great news for Astro.
OMG, you do smalltalk with Opus? I can only afford smalltalk with Haiku.
Rebases with lots of changes, commits and conflicts are hell.
You might end up resolving the same conflicts several times.
Long running feature branches while someone else refactors can ruin a subsequent rebase of the feature branch.
I think the real underlying problem is scoping PRs.
I have long refrained from calling out people and orgs that are still on X.
Whether you are a politician, part of government, a private company or a dev, you have no reason or justification any more to be on X.
Even more so when you are supposed to investigate felonies on X, @politie.bsky.social.
Two of my former UN employers are listed in yesterday's executive order.
You can say what you want about the lack of UN efficiency and the weaknesses of multilateralism, but we will all lose in a world where 3 countries bully the rest.
