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Mike | HTML All The Things Podcast

@mikek.me

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Co-host of the HTML All The Things Podcast Head of Eng @cyfrin Lover of all things Svelte

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Mike | HTML All The Things Podcast @mikek.me · 03/06/2025

Me after telling the product team that we'll need a few weeks to update from svelte 4 to svelte 5

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Mike | HTML All The Things Podcast @mikek.me · 17/04/2025

$derived = live, memoized formulas $effect = side‑effects only In my water‑tracker: – $derived counts filled glasses & last‑drink time – $effect persists data to localStorage Right tool, right job ➜ cleaner, predictable code.

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Mike | HTML All The Things Podcast @mikek.me · 17/04/2025

Scratching your head over Svelte 5’s new runes—especially $derived vs $effect? You’re not alone. This app and blog unpacks why they confuse devs and how mastering them makes your state logic crystal‑clear.

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Mike | HTML All The Things Podcast @mikek.me · 16/04/2025

🚨 Big Tech vs Startups: Which should you bet your dev career on? AI is lowering the barrier to entry for startups — and that means more opportunities for developers to build fast, own more, and grow quicker. Here’s what you need to know before making the leap 👇

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Mike | HTML All The Things Podcast @mikek.me · 09/04/2025

Building a little water tracking app to help teach the differences between derived and effect runes in Svelte 5. Might actually use it though cause I definitely haven't been drinking enough water.

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Mike | HTML All The Things Podcast @mikek.me · 03/03/2025

Claude, ChatGPT, Deepseek they have one thing in common. Tech bias. Most libraries that aren't React or Next.js don't really have a chance because AI just doesn't have enough code to learn on.

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Mike | HTML All The Things Podcast @mikek.me · 25/02/2025

The amount of remote work red flags in this post. If you're company needs to put spyware on your personal computer to take a photo of your face every 7min, run for the fucking hills. I'd rather work at McDonalds then allow this.

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Mike | HTML All The Things Podcast @mikek.me · 18/02/2025

Got tired of manually creating our podcast embeds for different blog platforms. Made a quick little sveltekit app that pulls in the 5 latest HTML All The Things podcast episodes from spotify and creates the embeds for them from their ids. It's ugly but it works.