Tommy Hoffman

creative engineer with full stack tendencies | nyc

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

A Claude quote of my silly little tool is crazyyyyy

[Claude @claudeai]

https://t.co/7RciTDrK5K

[pugson @pugson]

buddy your website has scrolljacking i ain't listening to your design opinions

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

@alexwtlf Hobbyists

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

@justin5star COOKED

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

@sheherenow_ Let's Bauhaus like it's 1932

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

@plainionist @thegrimscalper Seems like we shouldn't invalidate front end devs with LLM ragebait 😉

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

@plainionist @thegrimscalper RSC, edge SSR, service workers, cache invalidation across CDN nodes, state reconciliation between server and client. What would you call it?

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

@TTrimoreau Your relationship with your PM.

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

@leyeConnect Yes! And listen to this...as an old. If you feel intimidated and impostery, you're growing. Always try to exist professionally on that edge of discomfort.

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

@solarise_webdev I agree with you. I think the framing was wrong as this disseminated across X. It was heralded as the second coming of text rendering, when really it gave us more editorial flexibility like InDesign. Not revolutionary, but useful!

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

Soooooo what happened to this? Is anyone actually using this in prod?

[Robin @solarise_webdev]

I know you're all getting mighty tired of seeing typography on your timeline today!

But here's a pretext.js demo that (hopefully) isn't a crime against justification and indentation.

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

@thegrimscalper @plainionist OP clearly hasn't worked on a modern codebase. Frontend is v much distributed systems architecture atp. The delineation of front end vs back end is blurrryyy in 2026.

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

@jayrizpop Which...a lot of companies are not willing to take the risk on. Their loss!

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

@jayrizpop Illustration as your brand aesthetic is expensive to maintain, logistically and monetarily, even with a staff designer. I totally agree with you, but this requires a heavy (firm) hand in implementation.

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

Real ones know when to fefefe or 040404 it.

[DANN© @DannPetty]

I don't know who needs to hear this but professional designers definitely use 000000 and ffffff anytime they want to.

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

@bram_naus Back to basics. Two fonts on the page. One serif. One sans serif. Pick one for headlines, one for body copy. Will never steer you wrong...

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

Can we admit that “this” is a syntactical failure of JS?

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

@SumitM_X No

[Dane Knecht 🦭 @dok2001]

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[Robin @solarise_webdev]

I know you're all getting mighty tired of seeing typography on your timeline today!

But here's a pretext.js demo that (hopefully) isn't a crime against justification and indentation.

[Tommy Hoffman @tghoffdev]

@markoilico This looks sick. DM? por favor? 🙏