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Merrick Christensen @merrickchristensen.com · 29/05/2026

What a heavy week. I just want to express my deepest gratitude to everyone impacted by Webflow's RIF. Thank you for everything you did for Webflow, for our customers, and for me personally. I'm grateful our paths crossed, and that I got to learn from you and work alongside you. 💙

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Merrick Christensen @merrickchristensen.com · 03/06/2025

Play with @rolldown.rs in the browser via WASM with Module Federation support. rolldown-browser-jade.vercel.app Is the first instance of Module Federations built all in browser via WASM thanks to Rolldown!?

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Vite + React + TS

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Merrick Christensen @merrickchristensen.com · 29/05/2025

Codegen tools using @tailwindcss.com: - V0 - Bolt - Stitch - Figma Make Codegen tools using inline styles: - Framer Workshop Codegen tools using traditional CSS: - 🦗 Next token prediction demands co-location of styles... CSS-in-JS won for LLMs for the same reason it's better for people.

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Merrick Christensen @merrickchristensen.com · 06/01/2025

Why don't React server components support even a one time use of React context in the same way rendering to HTML does?

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Merrick Christensen @merrickchristensen.com · 04/01/2025

Will that produce RSC? Looks like it produces a stream of HTML?

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Merrick Christensen @merrickchristensen.com · 02/01/2025

Is `react-server-dom-webpack` still the best way to create RSC payloads directly?

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Sergey Rubanov @sergey.works · 12/12/2024

With the recent Safari 18.2 release, WebAssembly Garbage Collection is now available in all the major browsers 🥳

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Merrick Christensen @merrickchristensen.com · 11/12/2024

I’m speaking from ignorance on that and would love if that’s true! Gotta adopt it on our code and see!

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Merrick Christensen @merrickchristensen.com · 11/12/2024

It depends on the expense of those renders whereas selectors tend to be drastically cheaper. I think Redux’s useExternalSyncStore and hooks implementations are good evidence of that.

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Merrick Christensen @merrickchristensen.com · 10/12/2024

In our case, a single context update without granularity could mean tens of thousands of renders. And if those renders are higher order components their reconciliation cost is multiplied... Sounds like the team is going to stick with the compiler bailouts in render rather than granular context read?

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Merrick Christensen @merrickchristensen.com · 10/12/2024

I wish you could see the sorts of things we've had to do to squeeze performance out of React at Webflow. Granted we're running a web app within a web app... but many of our unit tests leverage counting to ensure that optimizations aren't broken over time. Really excited about compiler for us.

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Merrick Christensen @merrickchristensen.com · 10/12/2024

Would really love to get granular updates from context updates. I remember seeing the idea of memoizing within use calls?

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Merrick Christensen @merrickchristensen.com · 07/12/2024

And if you tag it @deprecated in the comment VSCode will strike through all the references and imports.

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Allan Leinwand @leinwand.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

AI traps: Lessons from launching Webflow's AI Assistant. Another great post from @webflow engineering! 🎉🙌🙏 webflow.com/blog/launchi...

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AI traps: Lessons from launching Webflow's AI Assistant | Webflow Blog

Shipping useful AI products requires avoiding constant temptation.

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Merrick Christensen @merrickchristensen.com · 25/11/2024

Claude’s MCP already has file system and SQLLite implementations! If OpenAI adds support for this I’d be so stoked!

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fry @fry.design · 25/11/2024

We’re up to 125 on the #webflow starter pack, seems like people are still arriving, give this a boost to help them find the community! go.bsky.app/Tij44E5

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Merrick Christensen @merrickchristensen.com · 25/11/2024

By the time I'm done on this planet it'll all be archives of shame... 😆

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Merrick Christensen @merrickchristensen.com · 25/11/2024

I am so proud of the work we've done at Webflow building a programming language that is visual-first. I got the chance to write about some of the traits a language needs to support a No Code experience on our engineering blog here: webflow.com/blog/webflow...

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Webflow Design Language: Bridging The Gap Between Design & Code | Webflow Blog

An introduction to the Webflow Design Language.

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Merrick Christensen @merrickchristensen.com · 25/11/2024

Reimplemented www.merrickchristensen.com from Gatsby/Styled Components -> Next.js 15/Tailwind CSS. Wanted a project that kicked the tires on server components end to end. Delighted by how comprehensive Next's support for RSC really is... Glad someone fully bet on that technology.

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Merrick Christensen

Systems thinking, engineering principles & general postulations. In pursuit of the timeless and great as it pertains to accomplishing amazing things with other people.

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Merrick Christensen @merrickchristensen.com · 25/11/2024

Right now, Bluesky feels like the early days of Twitter. Back before everyone was just trying to sell something and we could just talk about the craft. So happy to see so much of the community here!

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