And then the bonus was that doing it as a bundler plugin meant it had to be fast, which forced decisions like doing it all via a Rust lexer (no ast), and those all got reused to build the codemod tool that we then used to stamp the barrels out of the source after.

Lol it'll be a riot. We did this for 5.5M loc. Tooling was the only solution. Thing that worked best: I built a "debarrel plugin" for our vite setup that dissolved barrel files so that before any code changes were applied we were already running the "no barrels" output.

it's spelled "Jason"

its been going downhill for sure, but really feels like it's accelerated

Has anyone else noticed mobile frontends (native and web) are getting increasingly terrible (as we descend into UX vibe coding?)? I keep noticing I've developed ridiculous coping strategies like constantly copying input to clipboard in case it gets lost when sending.

I've been coding on my phone since 2010, what are people so confused about

Figured I'd open source the little preact+signals mastodon client I wrote a few years ago, in case the code is useful to folks. It's called Mastodawn.com - a streaming, offline-first installable Mastodon web app that weighs under 100kb. github.com/developit/mastoda…

add Preact! same JSX element annotation as React but the tree is live and hangs off `__k` on the render root element.

the fact that you can't even check similarity without fully publishing is absurd.

npm's package name similarity validation for new packages is fucking ridiculous and should be killed

fwiw when I use htm I tend to inject my components into createElement (preact vnode hook but you could also just bind htm to an intermediary function that remaps) so that I can do: html`<my-comp num=${myNum} />`

Moltbot is cool, but this would all be a million times cooler if it was TRULY LOCAL, rather than a tip of local sitting on an iceberg of hosted inference

its crazy how bad codex (the cli at least, but probably also hosted) is at ... editing files. seems like an important feature of a thing that is for editing files.

do you code using a mouse and keyboard or are you more of a controller coder

Idea: a framework that doesn't need 300 pages of docs for frontier AI models to hold it correctly

[ DANGER ] DUE TO [ WINTER ]

it makes me sad/worried to see the junky thrown-together shit people are doing in the UI space right now

I'm pretty loyal to Claude for a lot of stuff but this is the first time it feels like it's gotten noticeably less useful in an update. It makes the Claude app's chat modality feel like "we have Claude Code at home".

Claude app with skills is unusable. So slow, hyper sensitive to client device network blips, constantly falling into painful and useless tool call loops that achieve nothing ....