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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Technically the same issue, but novel rulesets make sudoku a lot more fun. Fog of war is my favourite. Here’s one for programmers sudokupad.app/dnz6khw1tf

sudokupad.app

Base 2 by Hanks (Sven's SudokuPad v0.611.0)

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Good news for Vercel. But I’m midway through extricating myself from their ecosystem and service (yeah, I’m being pretty slow about this) as a form of boycott. It’s a shame, because DX-wise I do actually prefer Next over the alternatives, and would love to see it developed under different ownership

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The most interesting thing is the links to DC’s New Gods

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Hm, I think this is the approach we tried, but will take another look

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Essentially we need something that can show an in-house confirmation modal for any kind of navigation, regardless of what triggered it (client-side link, hard navigation, unload, nuqs setQueryState etc)

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Using @nuqs.dev, i'm trying to find a way to use it with something like next-navigation-guard (github.com/LayerXcom/ne...), but nuqs bypasses Next's own navigation APIs so I'm very unclear on the right way to do this. Also tried forking next-navigation-guard. cc @francoisbest.com

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

It’s called tupl now, and the API is coming along nicely — quite powerful and expressive github.com/AndrewIngram...

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I think there's prior art in other languages, but I couldn't find anything like this for JavaScript/TypeScript. It's the kind of thing that a few months ago i'd have thought of - but dismissed as too much work to try, now it exists after a few evenings of prompting on a $20/month ChatGPT plan.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Motivation was that agents are good at SQL, so what if we expose a SQL interface to let agents to get exactly what they need in a token efficient way? There's some similarities to GraphQL too, i.e a user-centric facade over your data. cc @simonwillison.net (I think you'll find it interesting)

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I've been prompting into existence this thing that lets you expose a public SQL interface over your datasources, including other SQL databases. Query playground (schema editing is still a bit rough): sqlql.andrewingram.workers.dev?view=query Repo (unstable API): github.com/AndrewIngram...

sqlql.andrewingram.workers.dev

sqlql playground

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I also like to say something about the map not being the territory. A map is a useful tool to get where want to go, but you can lose it, or take a different route, and still end up in the right place. So the KRs are your day to day tool to keep you on track, not sub objectives.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It does look it has a mechanism for supporting wrappers, eg “WrappedTab”, which is the main reason why you’d want a composition-based API in this scenario

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Whilst where here, it’s also never been particularly clear to me why non- reactive dependencies are only for effects, not other things which take dependency arrays like useMemo and useCallback

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Sometimes there are perf reasons to have things defined outside of the body of a component, but at least put them immediately before it, rather than in some dumping ground corner of the file.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

fragments, styles, component props

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Some engineers are allergic to co-location, and I find that challenging

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A lot of UI state should be derived from the URL (path and query strings), but that derivation should happen at the root of your component tree so that the bulk of your components are agnostic to it -- otherwise you impair their reusability.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

It seems weird to call it out unless there's something that leverages that convention, like how the rule of hooks and devtools build off the use* one.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The actual score wasn’t that significant though, and varies widely between credit checking firms. We set our cutoff as low as we could whilst still being cautious, most of our decisions were based on other factors

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Makes sense. I used to work for a small loan lender and we only needed to do soft credit searches. Though in the UK most of the rules exist to protect consumers — ie stop you taking out loans that would ultimately worsen your financial position.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Is there an equivalent of the UK's soft credit searches?

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I've found a Chrome-only bug in anchor-positioning (it works as expected in Firefox and Safari), who do I talk to? is it @una.im ?

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Mine included all the Dungeon Crawler Carl books, which are somewhat lengthy

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

idk how people do over 50. I read every night and ever commute and only made it to 48. Maybe I need to read shorter books.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Yeah, there’s a big list of technical cleanup we have to get through before we can even entertain use of the compiler, but our build times are so bad that adding in the compiler in its current state is such a non-starter that we’re not even going to spend time evaluating it.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Truly the template against which all future Ubisoft games were designed

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The limitations of anchor postioning likely make a lot of sense in terms of not making it possible to crash browsers, but are frustrating because I can’t find a way to do the cool stuff I want to do — like having a line connecting an span in the main content area to an area in a sticky sidebar.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Not sure of the benefits in real world terms, but having transitions align to rendering frames might make things seem smoother? Like how stable frame pacing makes videogames feel better to play.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Annoyingly you can't use anchor positioning in scroll-margin or scroll-padding, so if you want to account for a sticky header with internal links on a page you still seem to be stuck with magic numbers.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Has anyone ever gone with a convention of defining their CSS animation duration in terms of frames rather than absolute duration? e.g calc(16ms * 8) cc @jhey.dev maybe?

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Which chair was it? I’m the only one at the office who doesn’t use an Aeron because it was causing excruciating lower back pain for me. At home I just replaced a pretty decent Steelcase Leap with the LiberNovo Omni, which is crazy comfortable.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Hm, also seems like you can't really use a sticky element as an anchor, it seems to just use the static position rather than the sticky one.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I suppose it's not really related to anchor positioning except to say that I was trying to see if I could make a better version of position sticky using it (spoiler: I couldn't)

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

cc @una.im @jakearchibald.com in case any of y'all are aware of existing conversations about this?

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

A missed opportunity that's potentially loosely related to the design of CSS anchor positioning is the ability to do "position: sticky" but without the annoying constraints about parent elements If you don't have full control over document structure it's super restrictive

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Feels like a documentation gap though? Maybe worth enumerating some scenarios like this where batching won’t apply.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Oh interesting, I only used mousedown for the repro because using click fired it on the initial mount (which I also found surprising), but I see you corrected for that. I’ll have to see what the equivalent hook from the library we’re using does.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I’m indexing on the information you shared and the behaviour I’m seeing that prompted the question. I don’t know *why* I’m not seeing the batching that I expect, just that it’s indeed not batching.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

All the examples in that only show batching inside a single callback

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

That release post is I’m referring to, it only talks about adding support for batching in callbacks in addition to event handlers, not about batching across multiple handlers.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Will have to make a clean example, but the docs don’t say anything about batching stuff in the same tick, just in the same handler (event, setTimeout etc)

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

So right now the side panel momentarily disappears before reopening, which is ugly. What’s the best way to fix this? cc @danabra.mov

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Is there a way to batch React state updates across multiple event handlers that happen in the same tick? Use case: I have a side panel that uses an “on outside click” hook to close it, but it’s possible the thing you’ve clicked would actually reopen it.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I think the other reason Relay isn’t more popular is because of the perception that it’s harder to use than urql or Apollo, when the reality is that it’s really not.

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I wish CSS layers defining stacking layers rather than cascade layers.

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