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Devon Govett @devongovett.me · 31/07/2026

New React Aria components! 🚀 🔗 PreviewTrigger – build accessible hover popovers 🐭 Context menu trigger for mouse, keyboard, and touch 🪙 TokenField (alpha) – a text input with inline tokens 📋 Editable table cells 🎹 Keyboard shortcuts 🪝 New hook docs react-aria.adobe.com/releases/v1-...

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Devon Govett @devongovett.me · 17/07/2026

Exciting news: React Aria is now a first-class component base in shadcn/ui! Initialize a new project with `--base aria`, or use shadcn/create to build and customize your own component library. ui.shadcn.com/docs/changel...

screenshot of shadcn/create showing supported component libraries: Base UI, React Aria, and Radix UI.

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Devon Govett @devongovett.me · 18/06/2026

React Aria Components v1.19.0 is out! ✨ Autocomplete supports inline completions (e.g. mentions), and a new Popover API enables positioning relative to the cursor. Also, text inputs can now be nested in GridList and Tree without breaking arrow key navigation! react-aria.adobe.com/releases/v1-...

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Patrik Svensson @patriksvensson.se · 14/06/2026

I made an animated overview of my new OSS project (Drift, proper announcement coming soon). It's a simplified setup with only one agent, but hopefully the animation will make it a bit more approachable.

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Devon Govett @devongovett.me · 28/05/2026

React Aria release! 📆 Calendar multi-select, week/day views, month/year pickers, weeksInMonth ⚓️ RangeCalendar unavailable anchor date ✅ Checkbox/Radio/Switch description and error message 👢 TableFooter ⛽️ SliderFill 💯 Non-object collection items 🧪 New test utils react-aria.adobe.com/releases/v1-...

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Devon Govett @devongovett.me · 15/04/2026

Huge React Aria release! 🏝️ Expandable table rows 📉 90% fewer dependencies 🔥 Sub-path imports – improved tree shaking, faster builds, and easier discoverability 🪟 Virtualizer window scrolling ➡️ GridList horizontal orientation 💾 NumberField and RangeCalendar commit behavior

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

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Devon Govett @devongovett.me · 04/03/2026

New React Aria release! ✅ Multi-select ComboBox with customizable selection rendering (e.g. TagGroup) 🏝️ Tree sections – create labeled groups of items 💯 Better NumberField paste handling 📆 Improved Calendar month and year dropdown behavior 🐞 Lots of bug fixes! react-aria.adobe.com/releases/v1-...

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Lars @webpro.nl · 21/01/2026

🆕 npx unbarrelify At last, an easy way get rid of barrel files! Rewrites consumers to import directly from source, then deletes the barrels. Safe and fully automated, read all about it at github.com/webpro/unbar...

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If you want an econ perspective, I worked on a book, which is likely at your library: openlibrary.org/books/OL2822... Kim Clausing wrote a more left-wing/progressive angle: openlibrary.org/books/OL2733...

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Open Borders by Bryan Caplan | Open Library

Open Borders by Bryan Caplan, Zach Weinersmith, Oct 29, 2019, First Second edition, paperback in English

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

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Swizec Teller @swizec.com · 02/01/2026

engineers with good taste will dominate

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Dominik Tornow @dominiktornow.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

The mathematical definition of idempotence will fail you in production Not this Applying a request n times has no effect beyond the first application But that Applying a request n times, regardless of how the state has evolved in between applications, has no effect beyond the first application

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 27/12/2025

I agree with you here. So far the pattern has been that the community figures out the best Rube Goldberg machine, then the providers make it the default. I’m very happy watching it all happen and then benefitting when the winner is picked and becomes the default.

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Paul DeVito @pdevito3.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

👋 @tailscale.com -- any plans for something like tsd proxy to be first class? something like this (with oauth) is SO much more straightforward than all the hoops and config with sidecars file:///Users/paul/Downloads/carbon(13).png

A proposed docker compose setup for a simplified proxy vs sidebars per service

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Devon Govett @devongovett.me · 16/12/2025

Introducing the new React Aria docs! 🎉 All-new content and search experience. Interactive CSS and Tailwind examples to get you started quickly – just install with shadcn. New guides and full example apps. MCP server and AI integrations. Check it out! react-aria.adobe.com

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Patrik Svensson @patriksvensson.se · 27/11/2025

Not a big surprise to be honest. I have myself started to consider moving away due to to all the recent bugs and quality regressions. Sad to see something so good, become so bad in such short time. ziglang.org/news/migrati...

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Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg ⚡ Zig Programming Language

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Paul DeVito @pdevito3.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

A couple awesome new EF features in .NET 10 I haven't been seeing people talk about: - Named Query Filters - New `Join` operators Details 👇

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 20/11/2025

Amusing: Google does not allow its devs to use its newly launched IDE, Antigravity, for development. Classic example of “externalisation” at Google: they have an *internal* (increasingly different!) version of it, but they won’t use what they launched to everyone else

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Devon Govett @devongovett.me · 15/11/2025

What if component libraries supported in-context errors by default via async React action props? Simple DX like toasts, but better UX. 🤔

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Paul DeVito @pdevito3.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Great AI use case — easily add tracing and metrics that you may not have before.

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Dominik 🔮 @tkdodo.eu · 28/10/2025

@ssalbdivad.dev you're amazing 🤩. Obviously WTF!? but in a good way 🤪

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Paul DeVito @pdevito3.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Been setting up skills in claude code today and the state management one is essentially a condensed version of @tkdodo.eu’s blog

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Devon Govett @devongovett.me · 14/10/2025

Having a blast re-designing all the React Aria examples this week. Flat design is so over – bring back depth! 😃

Screenshot of various UI elements including textfield, date picker, select, tags, radios, slider, switch, checkbox, buttons, progress bar, table, number field, combobox, and menu.

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 14/10/2025

The OP goes on to note:

what i found in those 47 codebases:

like 89% had zero database indexing. ZERO. your app is slow because youre searching through 100,000 records on every single request. thats not a bug thats just... why

76% were paying for like 8x more servers than they needed. the average is 13% utilization - youre paying for 100 servers and using 13 of them. burning $3k-15k a month for nothing

68% had auth vulnerabilities that would make any security person have a panic attack

91% had no automated tests at all. so every new feature is literally russian roulette

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 09/10/2025

I get a feeling that working with multiple AI agents is something that comes VERY natural to most senior+ engineers or tech lead who worked at a large company You already got used to overseeing parallel work (the goto code reviewer!) + making progress with small chunks of work

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 01/10/2025

My personal anecdote on the impact of AI (aka Claude Code + Cursor) There was this tool I wanted to build that would have helped my business a little bit at @pragmaticengineer.com, but not enough to 1. Do it myself (would have taken ~days) 2. Hire someone (too much onboarding) But...

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Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Abandon Vercel. The Replit guys have a migration tool and they are they do not support the genocide.

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Khalid ⚡ @khalidabuhakmeh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2025

The `FakeTimeProvider` in #dotnet is excellent for testing time-based scenarios. You can advance time in increments, like a true Time Lord, to test tricky timing behaviors. Get it in the "Microsoft.Extensions.TimeProvider.Testing” NuGet package.

Using the FakeTimeProvider example. See the real times on the left, and the time from the time provider on the right.

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Devon Govett @devongovett.me · 23/09/2025

You can add a "Create" option to a React Aria ComboBox in just a few lines of code. stackblitz.com/edit/szjf6ul...

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Paul DeVito @pdevito3.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Listening to Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams Hearing about the tools that engineers at Facebook made around censorship is absolutely wild. The complete lack of morals that leadership has is one thing, but the fact that all these other staff just execute it is crazy. I can’t imagine

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Ricky @ricky.fm · 13/09/2025

I don't know who needs to hear this, but here are some alternatives to fetching data in useEffect:

What are good alternatives to data fetching in Effects?

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Writing fetch calls inside Effects is a popular way to fetch data, especially in fully client-side apps. This is, however, a very manual approach and it has significant downsides:

Effects don’t run on the server. This means that the initial server-rendered HTML will only include a loading state with no data. The client computer will have to download all JavaScript and render your app only to discover that now it needs to load the data. This is not very efficient.
Fetching directly in Effects makes it easy to create “network waterfalls”. You render the parent component, it fetches some data, renders the child components, and then they start fetching their data. If the network is not very fast, this is significantly slower than fetching all data in parallel.
Fetching directly in Effects usually means you don’t preload or cache data. For example, if the component unmounts and then mounts again, it would have to fetch the data again.
It’s not very ergonomic. There’s quite a bit of boilerplate code involved when writing fetch calls in a way that doesn’t suffer from bugs like race conditions.
This list of downsides is not specific to React. It applies to fetching data on mount with any library. Like with routing, data fetching is not trivial to do well, so we recommend the following approaches:

If you use a framework, use its built-in data fetching mechanism. Modern React frameworks have integrated data fetching mechanisms that are efficient and don’t suffer from the above pitfalls.
Otherwise, consider using or building a client-side cache. Popular open source solutions include React Query, useSWR, and React Router 6.4+. You can build your own solution too, in which case you would use Effects under the hood, but add logic for deduplicating requests, caching responses, and avoiding network waterfalls (by preloading data or hoisting data requirements to routes).

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 08/09/2025

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

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Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com · 09/09/2025

Seems like an appropriate time to re-share the @aaronboodman.com thread. "Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all" xcancel.com/aboodman/sta...

Three tweets from Aaron Boodman (@aboodman) dated 16 Aug 2021, reading:

1. Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all. The team came in at 9 and left at 5 (figuratively, people actually kept their own ~8h schedules) every workday for a couple years like clockwork. No drama. No broken marriages, no broken families.

2. It was one of the most formative experiences of my career.

3. I hear you asking, dear reader, how this miracle came to pass. How did chrome-team manage to deliver high quality software without death marches?

Funny you ask... Turns out that software projects actually benefit strongly from having senior technical leadership deeply involved.

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Jeremy D. Miller (The Shade Tree Developer) @jeremydmiller.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

And it's a day ending in "Y", so I'll say yet again that the over-emphasis on layering and abstraction from how people typically explain and use Clean/Onion/Hexagonal Architecture/Ports and Adapters has caused real harm in real world systems

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Devon Govett @devongovett.me · 08/09/2025

Recreated the Apple Photos UI with React Aria in just ~200 lines! Complete with virtualized scrolling, view transitions, adjustable waterfall layout, folder tree, search, multi-selection, and accessible drag and drop. Just one of the demos I'm planning for the new docs. 🙂

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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I decided to test whether EXIF data is removed from images sent over X's new encrypted chat feature like Signal and other messengers do. I can confirm it is not. I was able to extract information including GPS coordinates from a test image sent to me.

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