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Jimmy Miller @jimmyhmiller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I spent some time playing with React Compiler to implement some optimizations. It was amazing how much performance I could gain. Makes me really want to spend more time in the frontend compiler space. So much potential performance left on the table. jimmyhmiller.com/what-does-th...

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Can we Make React Faster using the React Compiler?

I prototyped a number of optimizations as a way to learn more about the React Compiler and got some significant improvements.

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Jimmy Miller @jimmyhmiller.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've always hated that mainstream languages don't have macros as powerful as lisp macros. So I'm doing my small part to fix that. First an argument why we need them. jimmyhmiller.com/change-our-l... Second a library to add them to typescript sweetener-ts.github.io

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We Should be Able to Change our Languages — Jimmy Miller

It's time we stopped treating languages as sacred fixed objects. We need now, more than ever, languages we can change.

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 15/09/2026

here's a peak at what i've been doing for the past few years: building a calm, playful little space for thinking, doodling, journalling, and programming with materials like ink, paper, and… flux that spreads through your notes like a fluid wait what? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GurW...

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PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook

YouTube video by Ink & Switch

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Jimmy Miller @jimmyhmiller.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Now that language adoption is not bottlenecked by people learning it or liking the syntax, we are going to start seeing more ambitious languages. Type system craziness, distributed systems languages, dsl first approaches. All the crazy dreams of pl nerds are now possible.

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Jimmy Miller @jimmyhmiller.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

For the longest time I shied away from low level programming. I always found it intimidating. It turns out it isn’t any harder than other programming. It’s just that everything written about it assumes too much. So here’s my attempt at an intro to machine code jimmyhmiller.com/machine-code...

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Machine Code Isn't Scary

Machine code isn't scary. If you can make sure your JSON conforms to a JSON schema, you can write machine code.

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Tomas Petricek @tomasp.net · 06/05/2025

Can software express critical reflections on its own nature in the same way post-modern architecture does? I don't have the answers, but I wrote a long text with some early thoughts: tomasp.net/architecture/

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Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com · 03/02/2025

New blog post: Five coding hats → dubroy.com/blog/five-c... Yeah it's kinda goofy, but maybe also useful?

Early in my career, I was convinced there was “good code” and “bad code”. That you could look at something and — without knowing anything about the context — pass judgement on it. These days, my views are much more nuanced. I try to adapt my style to the situation. The code I write, and the process I use, depends a lot more on what the goals are. Am I trying to bang together a quick prototype to learn something? Or am I fixing a bug that might affect hundreds of thousands of users? My approach would be completely different in those two scenarios. Years ago, I read Edward De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats, which describes a framework for problem solving and creative thinking. The idea is that you can “put on a hat” to deliberately adopt a specific mode of thinking. It’s a bit corny but (imo) there’s a useful idea there. Maybe this applies to different styles of programming, too? What “coding hats” do I use?

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Jimmy Miller @jimmyhmiller.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

In writing, there is a distinction between those who love to outline and those who discover their story through writing. We seem lack that distinction in the programming world. So I wanted to introduce it. jimmyhmiller.github.io/discovery-co...