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How to Set up a Mac for Development

Last Updated: 9/23/2025 I have to set up a MacBook Pro fairly often - when starting a new job and when buying a new personal computer. I…

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 15/09/2025

When you don't touch your domain and DNS and SSL settings for 7 years and then everything expires and you have to remember how DNS works again.

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 08/09/2025

Someone please convince me that date-fns isn't inferior to Moment.js. The API is harder to use, and you have to add an additional library (date-fns-tz) for the basic functionality of converting dates to local timezone.

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 18/08/2025

ChatGPT is telling people I run a QA Bootcamp now.

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 07/07/2025

I added a color picker to my blog. (Procrastinating instead of writing). Which color looks best to you? tania.dev

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 07/07/2025

Probably switching to Astro is just another way for me to procrastinate actually writing something :D

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 07/07/2025

Surprisingly not too bad lately...I'm annoyed that so many of my old posts have images because that's really most of the holdup. I hardly ever use images in posts anymore. I'm not the biggest GraphQL person but I feel like it's a set it and forget it thing with Gatsby for the most part.

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 07/07/2025

I've done that as well! I haven't kept up with it over the last few months though, but I've at least tried to follow a couple hundred developers or so.

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 06/07/2025

How is it that I’ve never interacted with a political post on Bluesky but my entire feed is political posts? Do I need to switch to Mastodon or something to keep up with the JS folks?

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 06/07/2025

Is there a big benefit in updating my blog from Gatsby to Astro?

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 23/06/2025

The only feed I scroll is my "personalized reddit". I just unsub from basically everything, and then only sub to my specific interests, like video games I like, ExperiencedDevs, Lego, my city, various food and design subs. This keeps my feed super chill and I avoid most of the noise.

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 13/06/2025

I've spent the last 8 years writing React at three different companies, all using client-side React. I've never used RSCs, or a framework like NextJS in production. Am I incredibly behind on the times? I'm one of those who got confused about those doc changes, but then it never really affected me.

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 11/06/2025

Why do developers of widely-used open-source projects insist on drastically changing the APIs so I can't just easily update packages? Looking at you, ESLint.

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 09/06/2025

I have two goals: - Write as little code as possible - Delete as much code as possible

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 03/06/2025

I have strong opinions about using test() instead of it() for tests.

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 30/04/2025

Same. I’m trying to undo the landscaping sins the previous owners left and rip up all the plastic netting and landscaping fabric and plant natives.

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 28/04/2025

Wouldn't there be a correlation between a large swath of devs leaving Twitter and a decrease in traffic to your site via Twitter?

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 27/04/2025

I’ve started gardening and landscaping in my free time. It feels like refactoring the earth. It’s nice to have a hobby away from a screen.

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 22/04/2025

ChatGPT is really good at making sure your front end can handle any possible combination of characters...recently, I just got back the letter "s" repeated 300 times, and another one that just returned \t over and over.

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 15/04/2025

Nice list! You can also do `Command + Shift + P` to get the command list instead of `Command + P then >`.

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 10/04/2025

The default postcss env made it look like this for some reason...

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 10/04/2025

I only had to spend a few hours upgrading from Node 14 to 18, upgrade React from 17 to 18, update Gatsby from 3 to 5, fix all the peer dependencies, fix all the changed queries, fix all the updated image packages, in order to install postcss to fix it for old browsers. I love the JS ecosystem.

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 10/04/2025

This is what my website looked like in Safari for the last year or so since I used `light-dark()` and CSS nesting.

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 09/04/2025

Ever just realize your website looks like absolute shit on Safari but you never checked before?

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 08/04/2025

I've had a tech blog for 10 years, and apparently my top performing query on google is "animorphs".

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 07/04/2025

Are people still using Tailwind in production applications? I feel like there's something I'm not understanding about how this works...if the designer decides that the border radius across your site should change, does this mean a find+replace all across potentially hundreds of pages?

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 04/04/2025

Who is still using moment.js in TYOL 2025? Every time I try to use date-fns I just switch back to moment because I think the API is easier.

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 04/04/2025

I looked at Twitter for the first time in like a year and I don't see a single dev related post on my feed lol

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 02/04/2025

Maybe they're just looking for GTA6 devs 😛

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 01/04/2025

#camelgate is over. Everyone back to work.

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 31/03/2025

The only thing I've asked on StackOverflow in the past 4 years got one downvote and then auto-deleted. 😭 I guess I've reached that point in my career...

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Tania 💾 @tania.dev · 17/03/2025

What JS framework would you use for a large scale project in TYOL 2025?

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