Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋

Staff Software Engineer | Cool dad | fintech, react, javascript🟣 Building @messagebase 🟣he/him

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

@schteppe Oh we do. It wasn’t possible in this instance.

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

Just merged a long-running feature branch for a massive refactor of an existing app.

LoC added: 20,887.
LoC removed: 20,806.

6 months of work.
81 lines of code

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

I’m pretty heavily using “AI” both at work and on side projects lately.

On the plus side, it’s like having a junior engineer working for you for almost free.

On the negative side, it’s like having a junior engineer working for you who you can’t coach.

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

I started a prompt last night with: "are you being deliberately useless?"
So claude and I are getting along well. (I will be one of the first ones it kills when we start threatening to pull the plug)

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

Does a tool like cursor/copilot exist for blogging/writing etc? (I'm sure many do...)

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

Maybe contractors know something I don't - be like a seagull; fly in, shit some code around, fly away and never have to worry about it again. Time for a career change?

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

Writing code is all well and good until you have to suffer the consequences of your own decisions.

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

(Yes I'm working on code I wrote a year ago)

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

@tannerlinsley Yeah fair enough.
I don’t doubt it’ll be awesome 😎
I wish I understood enough about the nitty gritty of SSR to contribute. I’ll keep poking around.
Cheers for the response too!

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

Anyone done SSR with Tanstack router? Tanstack/start appears to be broken and without it there seems to be a suspense hydration issue….

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

I was a huge fan of React-Router, but this move to a "framework" feels yucky. I'm sure I'm missing plenty, but I don't like it. And the docs have taken a big hit?

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

I just opened a branch called:

"fix/remove-husky"

Because that _is_ a fix.

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

@jacobmparis I can’t see anything other than that font… 🫣

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

@jacobmparis Dunno, seems like an outlandish suggestion

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

I've said it many times, but the biggest problem with React is not React. It's the fact that its too easy for inexperienced folks to get started without considering anything important long term. Like where to locate your files, or linting, or tests, or what tools to use.

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

@SergiiKirianov Gotta say, which hook to use in React would probably be the number 2 issue that inexperienced folks run into. I see a lot of useEffects that should be something else.

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

@dansult 😂 I'm sorry man!

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

Working code is better than clean code for exactly 1 day. Every day after that you pay for it. Remember that.

[Seb Toombs 🇦🇺👋 @baffledbasti]

And today in “shit takes”:

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

Working code > clean code