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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 15/03/2026

The alpha @trpc.io @trpc/openapi package is now on NPM!

Nick @nicklucas.dev · 08/03/2026

Coming today: major docs overhaul for 2026, proper App Router docs (well overdue), stripped out nextjs in general documentation, revamped onboarding Currently prototyping: game-changing openapi support

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 04/10/2025

I’m beginning to think that everyone who posted 🦋 on X/twitter and wasn’t a HUGE account got deranked the same way that @danabra.mov did (twice I think?) Even paying them money I’m lucky if my posts get 50 views even with promoting the post privately to friends for likes and stuff.

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 27/09/2025

I hear a lot of folk repeating this idea that LLMs don't know what they're going to say until they've said it, and knowing a little about their workings I wrote up a post about this misconception. LLMs do know what they're going to say! dev.to/nicklucas/ll...

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LLMs do know what they're going to say

The following is written to be as penetrable as possible for a semi-technical audience, and includes...

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 05/08/2025

back in my day vibe coding was just asking your smart friends what to do and acting dumb when they try to explain never seen someone take over my keyboard and type so fast

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 12/07/2025

I honestly haven’t said WAT so much since Gary Bernhardt’s “WAT” www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 10/06/2025

I really installed this with an open mind, but colour on buttons is important and there is no way glass controls should be inheriting the colour from behind. It’s a gorgeous control, but colour is not up for grabs for arbitrary use if you like UX

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 06/06/2025

useEffect is the root of all evil and should be avoided react or dev tools should provide a mode to log all the effects which fire named by component/hook, it would massively shorten debugging journeys

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 02/05/2025

Agents are too powerful for coding. They’re not great at everything, but for very specific or repetitive tasks they’re king. I just added a WAF to cloudfront in minutes to restrict IP ranges, that sort of terraforming task used to be a full afternoon of research and fiddling

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 14/04/2025

My as an experienced dev trying vibe coding with copilot’s agent mode for the first time and seeing an actually very reasonable sourdough recipe generator and feature requests actually working

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ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a cnn background

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 27/03/2025

This investigation is the most exciting thing happening in JavaScript right now. Fingers crossed it can be fixed as it will completely change tRPC performance characteristics at scale

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 21/03/2025

For those finishing up Severence tonight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s85E... Please try to enjoy each chord equally.

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The Severance Theme sounds SICK on Classical Guitar ...

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 21/03/2025

It's been a while coming but this is a huge release. My personal favourite addition is out the box support for FormData and File/Blob/Uint8Array in procedure inputs

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 17/03/2025

I really don’t think copilot is coming for our jobs any time soon. It can’t even translate min(0) correctly from Zod to ArkType

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 11/03/2025

This is the best thing I’ve read this year. So excited!

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 26/02/2025

11.0.0-rc.814 of @trpc.io is out now, fixing a great many reported issues in the new @trpc/tanstack-react-query package! Keep the feedback coming, we also have a number of further codemod improvements in the works

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 26/02/2025

Today I was automating some documentation generation into Confluence, and realised it just works off HTML under the hood with some custom elements for widgets. React's `renderToString` method plus custom elements type declarations and you have a familiar templating engine in 10 minutes 😙🤌

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 22/02/2025

Fed up of the git checkout & pull dance, especially when you have repos that don't agree on master/main/next as your default? Here's an alias: ``` git config --global alias.sm '!f() { git switch $(git remote show $(git remote | head -n 1) | sed -n "/HEAD branch/s/.*: //p") && git pull; }; f' ```

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 19/02/2025

Looks like some small oversights in the new TanStack client for tRPC. Nothing serious but a few small breaking changes may be needed before it’s fully stable Keep the feedback coming!

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 18/02/2025

We just released our new TanStack Query adapter for @trpc.io powered by the `queryOptions` API. Codemod available (still a bit of a WIP but works quite well) for simple migration. Let us know what you think! trpc.io/blog/introdu...

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Introducing the new TanStack React Query integration | tRPC

We are excited to announce the new TanStack React Query integration for tRPC is now available on tRPC's next-release. Compared to our classic React Query Integration it's simpler and more TanStack Que...

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 18/02/2025

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Introducing the new TanStack React Query integration | tRPC

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 11/02/2025

Good things are coming to tRPC, please consider helping out by trying out the codemod to upgrade your code and feeding back or fixing any issues!

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 09/02/2025

This is absurd, I love it! Execute your typescript types as if they were runtime code! github.com/betafcc/dtsr

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 05/02/2025

Is it really the case that JavaScript generators don’t have a primitive in either the language or node.js to merge multiple generators/iterators into 1? I ended up using an EventEmitter, event callbacks, and node’s on() method to merge multiple websocket feeds, but it is grim

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 20/01/2025

Suddenly had a burst of nostalgia for when installing a game looked like this

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 14/01/2025

Building on React Native is essentially like balancing on top of an endless pile of vertically stacked dominoes Why do I miss it so much?

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 08/01/2025

Mildly surprised that I can’t find a CLI generator for OpenAPI specs. Would be nice to interact with an API from the command line sometimes There’s one written in go but that’s not much of an ecosystem if you don’t have go in your team

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 07/01/2025

2025 is the year of @tanstack.com router and trusting your CI

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 20/12/2024

🌹Roses are red 🪻Violets are blue ⚛️ Maximum update depth exceeded. This can happen when a component repeatedly calls setState inside componentWillUpdate or componentDidUpdate

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 12/12/2024

Did react 19 just kill Gatsby and NextJS static rendering with 1 line of code?

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 04/12/2024

There’s nothing like pulling apart a 700 line react component into multiple logical components, then sitting back and admiring the entirely new and unique ness you’ve made

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laura - wishlist my game! @freezydorito.lol · 03/12/2024

dan what the fuck put it back

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 03/12/2024

CSS is absolutely black magic sometimes with the number of incantations we just have to use blindly I just used position:absolute inset:0 to fix a datagrid not shrinking again during page resize Flexbox should have done the shrinking, but not this time

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 02/12/2024

Fun fact, if you took out and laid all of your blood vessels in a straight line, they would still be shorter than the average line of Java

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 02/12/2024

I’ll take it blueskyroast.com/roast/nicklu...

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 24/11/2024

Look I love Apple products, but seriously. How do you design a UI this horrible? There are so many bugs but not making logical decisions about how to swap and reorganise is a basic design decision

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 24/11/2024

There should also be some classifier locally that detects toxicity and suggests you rephrase Design choices like these will shape the platform’s tone as it grows

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 23/11/2024

But as a haiku do not useEffect but if you do useEffect do not call setState

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 22/11/2024

Now that’s my kind of fix!

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 21/11/2024

Finally getting to hang out with the legend that is @katt.dev

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 21/11/2024

Whatever infra issues Bluesky have had, they still do a better job than Reddit have ever managed 👏

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 20/11/2024

@trpc.io is looking at deprecating our @tanstack.com Query Integration in favour of something simpler and more tanstack native Come give us some feedback on the plans!

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Nick @nicklucas.dev · 16/11/2024

This is the programming equivalent of "... good chat"

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