seb @sebvilhelm.bsky.social · 05/01/2026i posted the yegge blog post in slack because i thought it was unhinged, and now the cto wants us to try it oh no 000
seb @sebvilhelm.bsky.social · 19/08/2025It’s infuriating to see engineering being accused of being opaque, when it’s consistently the most transparent and collaborative department in an organisation (RFCs , ADRs, post-mortems, version control, pull requests, etc.) 000
Reposted by sebDavid Crawshaw @crawshaw.io · 20/07/2025Optimization is the vital lifeblood of our industrial world, and its poison. 171
Reposted by sebabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 27/05/2025you cannot have an "injection attack" in a system with no formal distinction between data and instructions. what you actually have is an "everything is instructions" model and a failure to isolate untrusted inputs from the elevated privilege of access to private information 1145
seb @sebvilhelm.bsky.social · 15/11/2024@devongovett.bsky.social Huge appreciation for how powerful an abstraction React Aria Components is. 050
Reposted by sebtef @tef.bsky.social · 04/10/2024someone was trying to explain to me why chatgpt had helped them write some code, and it kinda helped me put into words why i just don't value the approach i argued that it didn't help them write code they understood, and they argued that was the entire point—no learning, no doc reading, just code 7534
Reposted by sebJames Munns @jamesmunns.com · 25/09/2024> The Android team has observed that the rollback rate of Rust changes is less than half that of C++ This is a sleeper hit of a quote. 13010
![Code snippet for a react component:
function TabsRouter({ children }: PropsWithChildren) {
const [searchParams, setSearchParams] = useSearchParams();
const selectedKey = searchParams.get('tab') ?? null;
function onSelectionChange(key: Key) {
const newParams = new URLSearchParams(searchParams);
newParams.set('tab', key.toString());
setSearchParams(newParams);
}
return (
<TabsContext.Provider value={{ selectedKey, onSelectionChange }}>
{children}
</TabsContext.Provider>
);
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