Ben Kinsey 🌴

Father and husband, web developer, open source enthusiast

[David K 🎹 @DavidKPiano]

If you have index files in your app code that look like this, just delete them ❌

Import directly; avoid barrel files. They don't really make your codebase more organized, and have a bunch of downsides.

[Cory House @housecor]

This.

Years ago I thought barrels were useful. They’re not.

🚩It’s more code.
🚩It masks unused code.
🚩It bloats the bundle by inhibiting bundle splitting and tree shaking.
🚩It slows developer navigation by creating an extra layer of abstraction.

[Alessandro Palombo @thealepalombo]

This is Uruguay:

- 0% tax on foreign income for 11 years
- Permanent residency in just 2 years
- Less corrupt than the US

It is the safest country in South America.

Here are 11 reasons why the “Switzerland of South America” is a hidden gem:

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too?

And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates.

A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

[Sebastian Aaltonen @ SIGGRAPH @SebAaltonen]

Using AI to write production code is similar to outsourcing. You are no longer doing the fun stuff: designing and writing high quality code. Instead you: Review bad code N times to make it somewhat acceptable, panic fix bugs in production, maintain ever growing messy code base.

[dax @thdxr]

Cloudflare has officially joined OpenNext to help solve the nextjs vendor lock-in problem

they are now maintaining an official adapter that can deploy your nextjs app to cloudflare

we have a new discord, new github org, and we're adding support in sst soon

[Adam Wathan @adamwathan]

Another pattern we use a lot — instead of conditionally adding classes, conditionally set a data attribute and use the `data-*` variant to add styles.

Feels a bit more Tailwind-y and your class strings are a little less messy without the ternaries and stuff.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Dear managers: Raising productivity is not about monitoring people. It's about motivating them.

94 studies: Surveillance fails to improve performance—and increases stress, distrust, and dissatisfaction.

Tracking people is not a substitute for respecting and valuing them.

[Laurie Voss @seldo]

Did CEOs have some kind of group meeting where they decided to make employees miserable

[emily freeman @editingemily]

I will die on the hill that RTO hurts families with young children the most — and mothers above all when mom is still the default caregiver.

Don’t make people choose between their kids and their careers.

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

Extremely strange TS behaviour someone just DM'd me.

Adding | [] to a generic type parameter seems to infer the type as a tuple, instead of an array!

Pretty weird, and quite useful to know about!

[Austin Huang @austinvhuang]

Announcing -

WebGPU Puzzles:
Learn GPU Programming in Your Browser

It's a web app that let’s you practice writing GPU compute kernels using WebGPU - runs 100% in the browser, locally on your GPU (even tiny integrated laptop GPUs).

[Fernando Rojo @fernandorojo]

To make your TypeScript server auto-restart for things like codegen'd files, add this to your .𝚟𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎/𝚜𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜.𝚓𝚜𝚘𝚗 and thank me later:

"𝚝𝚢𝚙𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚝.𝚝𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚎𝚛.𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑𝙾𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜": {
"𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑𝙳𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢": "𝚞𝚜𝚎𝙵𝚜𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜",
"𝚏𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔𝙿𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐": "𝚍𝚢𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚌𝙿𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚢𝙿𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐",
"𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑𝙵𝚒𝚕𝚎": "𝚞𝚜𝚎𝙵𝚜𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜𝙾𝚗𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝙳𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢",
"𝚜𝚢𝚗𝚌𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚆𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑𝙳𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢": 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚎
},

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

TypeScript 5.6 brings a new VSCode option for disallowing auto imports via regex.

This is AWESOME for preventing importing from a package's barrel file, like lodash.

[DHH @dhh]

In the US, it'll cost you, say, $200,000/year to rent one biological programming core. Hetzner will rent you 1 AMD EPYC core for $55/year. You damn well better be optimizing for the maximum efficiency of the biological core over the silicon core.

[Ben Kinsey 🌴 @bkinsey808]

@t3dotgg @mihaidinu88 Lol

[Ben Kinsey 🌴 @bkinsey808]

@t3dotgg @mihaidinu88 I appreciate your confidence but don't u think a hack like that would be worth a lot more if sold to nation states?

[👩‍💻 Paige Bailey @DynamicWebPaige]

👇 If you haven't already tried it: @googlechrome now has an embedded version of Gemini - and specialized guides for developers detailing how to use other local models within your browser.

[Santiago @svpino]

Programming is 1% writing code and 99% understanding why the code you wrote is not working.