Carsten Bönsel

JS engineer, partner TAM @PayPal, previously building applications in @CommerceCloud with @DeptAgency. Here for web development news. He/him/his.

[Carsten Bönsel @Cachsten]

Should I use JSR for serious live projects?

[Ryan Els @RyanEls4]

The User will find a way to break your App 🧐

[Swizec Teller @Swizec]

Don’t use AI to write your tests

[Chloe Condon @ChloeCondon]

Working in tech as of late:

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

This is why physics is such a wonderful magic.

[Tomasz Łakomy @tlakomy]

Anyone got this to work? It’s not doing anything for me

[Cory House @housecor]

“I don’t have time to exercise” is counter-productive.

Exercise is fuel for motivation and focus. So, exercise improves my per hour output.

My rule: If I say “I don’t have time to exercise”, my life is out of control.

[Cory House @housecor]

GitHub CoPilot saves expensive developer time by purchasing cheap AI time.

So, if a company won't pay for GitHub CoPilot, they either don't realize how much time it saves, or they're bad at math.

[Christina Monti @dev_christina]

📢 Join us at the Berlin Developer Meetup!

📅 Date: Tuesday, November 7th
🕒 Time: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

📍 Location: Berlin PayPal Meetup Group
(https://t.co/aNAlEE2UKB)

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with us and the community!

[Carsten Bönsel @Cachsten]

@dev_christina Heard good things about contentful.

[Carsten Bönsel @Cachsten]

@dev_christina It depends: Who will ultimately contribute the docs content? If it’s engineers (who are used to markdown / git anyway), then a repo containing markdown will do. Good read otherwise: https://t.co/EwvER6bJIR

[Cory House @housecor]

Bun is exciting.

But Bun’s “all-in-one”approach has many risks and downsides:

🚫 Bun will often lag behind changes to the separate tools it replaces. When JS tools innovate, will Bun be able to quickly support something similar?

🚫 If it’s buggy or insufficient, Bun is harder to replace than separate tools.

🚫 Can I still mix and match tools to select a “best-of-breed” stack?

🚫 Higher risk - The tool chain is reliant on one team instead of many. What if Bun’s small team burns out or runs out of funding? Replacing Bun quickly may be hard.

🚫 Lack of ecosystem. Will cloud providers support Bun? Will a community form around Bun to provide extensions and support? Are the docs sufficient?

🚫 Will Bun honor JS standards or seek to “extend and extinguish”? The latter is a common approach that makes products sticky, but also breaks compatibility. Bun already has some non-standard behaviors.

🚫 Can one small team support something this complex long term?

To be clear, I’m rooting for Bun. But what they’re trying to accomplish is hard and risky. Will it work?

[Kent C. Dodds 🐨 @kentcdodds]

Spend more time talking about things you like than you do talking about things you don't like.

[Chris Heilmann codepo8.bsky.social @codepo8]

Damn...

[Cory House @housecor]

Some programmers are code-first. They focus on the code.

Other programmers are product-first. They focus on the product and user experience.

Strive to be product-first. Remember the Rule of Good Code:

"If the product doesn’t work well, the code is not good."

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

I’m tired of native apps.

> download this app to register your kid for tennis

> download this other app to see your the tennis schedule

> download this app to pay your bill

> download our app
> download our app!
> download our app!!

Websites are great, btw

[Carsten Bönsel @Cachsten]

@devpato @WeAreDevs @mhevery @dan_abramov @techgirl1908 @FrancescoCiull4 @joel__lord @IObert_ @cassandrafaris Unfortunately, I don't, but living in Berlin. Attending the BeatCTF competition right now... How long are you around?

[Cory House @housecor]

“I don’t need Tailwind. I’m a CSS expert.”

⚠️Will your docs will be as comprehensive?
⚠️Will your class structure will be as thoughtful?
⚠️Will your dev tools and extensions be as robust?
⚠️Will your build automatically exclude unused styles?
⚠️Will new hires potentially already have experience with your approach?
⚠️Does your entire dev team have a shared understanding of your CSS strategy?

The answer to these questions is almost certainly "No."

So, the most likely outcome of not using Tailwind...is creating an inferior alternative to Tailwind.

[Carsten Bönsel @Cachsten]

It usually doesn't help to just complain. The best thing I learnt while programming is to chop complex problems into pieces. I like to then think about the first thing I can do to start improving. And try to keep doing it every day...