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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 18/06/2026

Glad we moved on from the "Use React, it's what AI's the best at" narrative.

Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 06/06/2026

Thank you for saying this, Kevin. It really helps to know that those who are highly respected in the industry also struggle with impostor syndrome. Puts things in perspective. For what it's worth, I think you absolutely do belong on that stage!

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 25/05/2026

Half my RAM goes to WSL. Browser is on a forced diet

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 25/05/2026

I had to use the RER earlier this year. Found out they don't sell physical tickets anymore, and that I had to install not one, but THREE mobile apps (IDF Mobilités, My Navigo Tickets, Ticket sans contact). And even then, some people are reporting that it doesn't even work. It did for me, luckily.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 22/05/2026

Your voice acting has improved so much! Congrats, Alanah!

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 20/05/2026

I want to believe that at some point people will get fed up with the neverending consumption of soulless slop and start seeking human connection again. Though I suspect that by that point the internet will be too swarmed by bot activity to be usable at all.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 16/05/2026

This is disheartening. I don't know where we're headed but it sure looks like we took a wrong turn.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 14/11/2025

I don't know but It's very possible. Same 2013-ish era.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 14/11/2025

Ah yup, that's the one. French company. I had no idea they had expanded to other countries. Sorry for your trouble!

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 14/11/2025

That happened in Germany too? Don't tell me it's the same company...

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 02/11/2025

It was a while ago, but I remember that on a live stream with ThePrimeagen, you mentioned that Copilot was writing a good chunk of your code. What changed? I can't imagine the model has gotten worse since then, as it must have been GPT 3.5 or something back then.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 02/07/2025

I hate this so much! I'm glad to see that others feel the same way. The auto dubs in particular revealed a new level of awful that I didn't think was possible. I also get frustrated by Amazon's forced translations of product title and description.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 02/07/2025

But haven't you heard that AI will replace every job on earth except for CEO? A CEO said so.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 30/06/2025

Vercel is just a wrapper for AWS. Where is Europe's AWS?

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 03/06/2025

Why is "Oh, you think X is bad? But you're doing X!" an accepted way of refuting an argument? It doesn't refute anything; it only shows that the person is a hypocrite. If that's what you wanted to do, congratulations. But where's the counterargument?

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 01/06/2025

Looks delicious as hell. What framework did you use?

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 01/06/2025

Cybernetically enhanced web apps that just make sense for the rest of us

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 27/05/2025

This looks really promising, great job so far! I'm curious though, what about Svelte Native? What made you and the team decide not to pick it back up and go with Lynx instead?

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 24/05/2025

I guess that's debatable, but I don't think Tailwind is an abstraction of CSS since knowledge of CSS is necessary for proper use. If anything, it's a low-level abstraction. Regardless, it's kind of wild seeing it mentioned alongside website builders as if they're comparable. That aside, I agree.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 23/05/2025

"Choose the right tool for the job," they say, as they proceed to use React for everything.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 22/05/2025

Yeah, that's a good point. Keeping things simple can be a complex process, ironically.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 22/05/2025

I'm torn because, on the one hand, I agree with you: The world is complex, and those who try to force simple answers onto complex questions are fooling themselves and others. On the other hand, I reject complexity in software and I'm convinced that it doesn't have to be this way, 99% of the time.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 21/05/2025

"seems", "feels"... quite the vibe-driven post from you, ironically. Are you sure you don't want to join our cult?

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 19/05/2025

So now all of a sudden, the "right tool for the job" is simply the one around which AI hallucinates the least? The idea that engineers need to adapt to AI and not the other way around is pretty wild, in my opinion.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 16/05/2025

Such a fantastic crossover, I'm excited to watch.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 13/05/2025

Who wouldn't want to benefit from David Bowie's expertise with design systems?

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 04/05/2025

Would love to see it! Your article on global state was really helpful.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 30/04/2025

Accessibility is too often an afterthought. If you're going to do a custom implementation (and in most cases, you probably shouldn't), at least do it with accessibility in mind throughout the process.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 29/04/2025

I hate the fact that "design system" and "system design" are two completely different things that my brain keeps reading interchangeably.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 23/04/2025

If your metric is "it's technically possible to build an application that way," then yeah, it's fine.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 22/04/2025

That would never happen in any of my projects because I spend weeks obsessing over small details such as this instead of actually shipping.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 12/04/2025

"Choose the right tool for the job" is such a platitude. It sounds good, we all agree with it in theory. But how many of us developers actually go out of our comfort zone to find "the right tool"? At best, we rationalize after the fact that the tool we were going to choose anyway was the right one.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 05/04/2025

What makes you think Histoire is no longer maintained?

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 02/04/2025

This feels consistent with the Popover API, which is nice. I look forward to it being generally available. I'm really tired of modal dialogs that don't work without JavaScript (or if they do, it's only possible through hacks that make them very clunky and with poor accessibility).

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 02/04/2025

Reverse vibe coding: AI prompts you to build its startup idea

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 28/03/2025

My bad, I skipped the "Svelte history" class!

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 28/03/2025

You mean Svelte 4 reactive statements?

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 27/03/2025

Ah, right, I hadn't even considered that, so I guess it's a blind spot for me as well. It sounds like a lot of work though.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 27/03/2025

Yeah, I personally find them overwhelming, like "here are 50+ people you may or may not know" and suddenly it's like you're browsing someone else's feed and you wish there was an easy way to undo it. In a way, that experience is closer to "discovery" than the actual discovery feed.

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Aurélien @aurelienrichard.com · 27/03/2025

Clickbaiting and ragebaiting are the unfortunate result of optimizing for engagement. We need to optimize for something else.

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