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by acemarke 3mo ago
Wrote up my approach recently in a blog post: - https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2026/05/ai-thoughts-part-2... TLDR: OpenCode + CodeNomad web UI, Opus 4.6, bunch of customized plugins and some codebase indexing M
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by acemarke 4mo ago
I've tried a few. Currently settled on `grepika` and `tilth`. They're not quite as comprehensive as I imagine I would want this kind of tool to be, but my agent has been able to use them very effectively and I've seen contex
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by acemarke 6mo ago
Hi! I played a major part in getting that "installation" page rewritten to actually mention other tools like Vite :) The general TLDR is: - CRA was listed in the _old_ docs site - The new docs site coincided with the React team em
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by acemarke 7mo ago
Yup. I'm the primary Redux maintainer and creator of Redux Toolkit. If you look at a typical Zustand store vs an RTK slice, the lines of code _ought_ to be pretty similar. And I've talked to plenty of folks who said "we esse
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by acemarke 8mo ago
Hi, I'm the primary Redux maintainer. I'd love to see some examples of what got generated! (Doubt there's anything we could do to _influence_ this, but curious what happened here.) FWIW we do have our docs on testing approac
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by acemarke 9mo ago
I haven't looked specifically at Webpack's development lately, but having seen the overall activity and competition in the bundling ecosystem: no, a 6.x release seems unlikely, and also pretty irrelevant at this point. And no, I
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by acemarke 9mo ago
I used WinDirStat for years, but WizTree is _much_ better. It reads directly from the file system metadata tables instead of having to scan the whole filesystem, so the file tree loads much faster. No need to wait for all those pacmen mun
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by acemarke 9mo ago
Completely unrelated. - Immer (C++) appears to be roughly equivalent to Immutable.js ( https://immutable-js.com/ ): a set of specialized data structures - Immer (JS), on the other hand, uses JS Proxies to wrap plain values,
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by acemarke 9mo ago
I've never seen this kind of benchmark graph before, and it looks really neat! How was this generated? What tool was used for the benchmarks? (I actually spent most of Sep/Oct working on optimizing the Immer JS immutable update
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by acemarke 9mo ago
Like I said above and in the post: it was an attempt to generalize the data fetching patterns developed inside of Meta and make them available to all React devs. If you watch the various talks and articles done by the React team for the las
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by acemarke 9mo ago
No, but it's primarily because Meta has their own server infrastructure already. RSCs are essentially the React team trying to generalize the data fetching patterns from Meta's infrastructure into React itself so they can be used
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by acemarke 9mo ago
We actually built a full-blown time travel debugger for Javascript at Replay.io: - https://www.replay.io/devtools
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by acemarke 9mo ago
Don't think Archive links work on Substack or other similar sites like Ed's, and this link stops at the paywall cutoff (ie just the free content portion).
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by acemarke 10mo ago
Hi. I'm the current Redux maintainer, and have been since Dan handed it over to me in mid-2016, one year after he created Redux. It's also worth noting that Dan never used Redux on a real app (that I know of), whereas I've s
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by acemarke 10mo ago
Because that's the responsibility we've placed on ourselves :) I actually did a recent conference talk called "Maintaining a Library and a Community" where I discussed how being an OSS maintainer is really about communic
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by acemarke 10mo ago
What "naming conventions and file structures" are you referring to? I don't think Dan ever really popularized anything like that for _React_. If you're thinking of _Redux_, are you referring to the early conventions of
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by acemarke 11mo ago
That's one of the main theses of the book "Die with Zero": - https://www.diewithzerobook.com/welcome Read it earlier this year and it definitely changed some of my thinking along those same lines. My loose su
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by acemarke 11mo ago
React's bundling system and published packages has gotten noticeably more complicated over time. First, there's the separation between the generic cross-platform `react` package, and the platform-specific reconcilers like `react-d
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by acemarke 11mo ago
Correct - Elm was one of several inspirations for Redux: - https://redux.js.org/understanding/history-and-design/prior-...
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by acemarke 1y ago
Hi! I maintain Redux and am deeply involved in the React community, and have spent a lot of time both critiquing the React team's decisions and explaining their decisions to the community. I actually wrote exactly that blog post and di
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by acemarke 1y ago
I recently used https://github.com/okibcn/wslcompact to shrink a couple of WSL VHDX files, and it worked great. Looking at the source, it seems to use a `wsl --export` option rather than `diskpart`.
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by acemarke 1y ago
I'm the primary Redux maintainer. FWIW, `connect` still exists and we have no plans to remove it, but it's also _very_ complicated internally and we honestly don't want people using it today. If I _could_ remove it without b
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by acemarke 1y ago
It's ironic you say that - I wrote the post, and I _maintain_ Redux :) FWIW, I can confirm that hooks have _not_ "eradicated Redux" - it's still the most widely used client side state management lib in React apps. It&#x2
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by acemarke 1y ago
React's actual implementation is in the reconciler logic, which is then built into the platform-specific packages like ReactDOM and React Native. So, the `react` core package is tiny because it just has a few small common methods and s
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by acemarke 1y ago
Sounds like another one of Dan's talks, "React from Another Dimension", where he imagines a world in which server-side React came first and then extracted client functionality: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by acemarke 1y ago
What kind of "updates"? Library versions? Code changes? What kind of types are you having to change? Yes, managing types does take more work up front than _not_ having types... but the overall result should be that you benefit fr
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by acemarke 1y ago
FWIW, I'm the current Redux maintainer, and that is an absolutely horrible and unfair description of how Redux was created. Elm was _an_ influence on Redux, but there were many other influences as well. Dan Abramov's prior experie
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by acemarke 1y ago
You can see exactly what the React compiler output is by pasting the listed code into the compiler playground: - https://playground.react.dev/#N4Igzg9grgTgxgUxALhAMygOzgFwJY... In this case, it looks like the compiler has h
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by acemarke 2y ago
I got to watch Dimitri posting internal updates about his progress on this, and it has been utterly mindblowing. This is genuinely one of the most amazing things I've ever seen done with code. Absolutely legendary feat! (And also an i
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by acemarke 2y ago
fwiw I submitted this over in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051961 , and there's a few comments in that thread.

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