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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 24/09/2026

This is how moving from heavy Fable use to trying Opus 5.5 feels like for my token spend.

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Andrew Cooper Andrew Dance

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 21/09/2026

I used the Codex Desktop App all day today after having only used the Claude Code for the past six months or so and oh boy I’ve been missing nice-looking UIs. 🤤

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Erik Rasmussen @erikras.com · 09/09/2026

📢 I'm officially looking for a new job. You hiring? Full time, remote from Spain, paid via EOR, IC, TypeScript, no crypto, support for 3-4 conference speaking gigs/year. Share plz. 🙏 DMs open.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 16/08/2026

Daddy, draw an elephant.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 15/08/2026

Coming back from vacation this week, work felt strangely tedious. Recently, I’ve really felt that working with agents is pure decision-making: make a call, move to the next one, repeat. Very few natural breaks. Almost like working on an assembly line. Repetitive, but mentally hard at the same time.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 13/08/2026

/goal write tests @kentcdodds.com would be proud of.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 12/08/2026

No idea what just happened but got 16 new friends today on this platform. Hello everyone! 👋

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 05/08/2026

Personal website maintenance day.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 04/08/2026

I've chatted with a few friends lately about the work we're doing at the moment. It's a fantastic way to spark new ideas for articles. Added two new topics to the list. ✍️

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 03/08/2026

A weird urge to read some fiction. I think for the past 10 years or so I only read non-fiction books. Any recommendations?

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 25/07/2026

Me: closing my laptop on Friday before two weeks off Anthropic: drops a new model

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No! God! Please! No! Reaction

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 19/07/2026

I haven't missed a workout in two months. Feels really good.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 09/07/2026

This week, I did my first ever user research interviews—giving people a prototype of a feature and watching them try to use it. It's fascinating how differently people use software, yet they still run into many of the same problems.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 01/07/2026

Turns out, I’m going to be building a Figma-style editor next week. Good that Fable is back, just in time.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 26/06/2026

Me on the other side of this weekend (peak temperature: 40⁰C).

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Scared Fried Egg Cooking

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 25/06/2026

I think I'm old enough now to get a walking pad. 🫣 Anyone has recommendations? Looking for something to put under my desk, for walking only.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 23/06/2026

A year ago, building a custom tool for one library upgrade would've been a waste of time. With agents, the math flips. Things not worth building before are suddenly worth it: run once, then delete. I walk through one I built for a React Query migration. blog.tomaszgil.me/throwaway-by...

Throwaway by Design: Building a Regression Verifier with Agents

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Astro @astro.build · 22/06/2026

Astro 7 is here! A new Rust compiler, a new Rust Markdown/MDX processor, Vite 8 and more. Get ready for 60%+ faster builds. astro.build/blog/astro-7/

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Astro 7.0 | Astro

Astro 7.0 brings faster builds with Vite 8, a new Rust compiler, Advanced Routing, background dev server support, and structured logging.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 14/06/2026

The best software I’ve written has always been software I was a user of. Using it every day made the rough edges impossible to ignore.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 13/06/2026

The number of sessions I managed to have with Fable before the shutdown: 1. 🤐

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 07/06/2026

Huge thanks to meet.js for having me at the Summit — the heart of Poland's JS community since 2011 — for my first-ever large-stage talk. Terrifying, and one of the best things I've done as an engineer. Recording's up! 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfCM...

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Tomasz Gil - Shipping Offline Support on the Web

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 30/04/2026

Final post in the Offline Support for Web Apps series. 📴 Image bytes don't belong in your app state. This one is about splitting the data layer — data in one place, image bytes in another — and letting a service worker handle the transport. More in the article. blog.tomaszgil.me/offline-supp...

Offline Support in Web Apps: Serving Images without the Internet

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 18/04/2026

Hear me out: self-healing codebases. 👀 Periodically feed the agent all rules and architecture docs and let it apply "safe" fixes.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 01/04/2026

I've been moving off of Cursor, to Claude Code. Man, it's slow. 🥱

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 01/04/2026

New post in Offline Support for Web Apps series. 📴 Prefetching can make offline UX feel seamless — or completely tank performance. This one breaks down how to do it carefully: when, what, and how much. More in the article. blog.tomaszgil.me/offline-supp...

Offline Support in Web Apps: Data Prefetching Strategies

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 29/03/2026

I'm switching away from Cursor, diving into Claude Code. 👀 What is your preferred way of interacting with it? I'm specifically interested in something for managing your conversations within and across projects.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 26/03/2026

Days since I used `useImperativeHandle` in React: 0.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 25/03/2026

Today: trying out Ralph. 🤖

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TypeScript @typescriptlang.org · 23/03/2026

TypeScript 6.0 is now available! This release brings better type-checking for methods, new standard library features, new module features for Node.js, and more! But most important, this release brings us one step closer to the upcoming native-speed 7.0! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...

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Announcing TypeScript 6.0 - TypeScript

TypeScript 6.0 is now available! TypeScript 6 is a stepping-stone release, aligning with the upcoming native-speed 7.0 release.

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Dominik 🔮 @tkdodo.eu · 23/03/2026

📚 Continuing my series about design-systems, today I wrote about why I believe data-testid is a bad practice and and how role-based selectors actually help ensure your app is accessible.

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Test IDs are an a11y smell

Users don't use data-testid, so why do your tests?

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 23/03/2026

I’ve stopped writing code by hand. I hesitated to post this because it already feels obsolete — my workflow is evolving as I write this. Still, I break down how I currently work with AI agents end-to-end. More in the article. blog.tomaszgil.me/the-agent-fi...

The Agent-First Workflow: Building Software with AI

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 22/03/2026

AI promised me I’d finally have time to post unhinged memes on social media. Now I’m just doing more work and endlessly tweaking my workflow. Send help.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 21/03/2026

Roughly two weeks ago I drafted a post about how I use AI in my workflow, reflecting on the last 6 months or so. It already feels obsolete. I wonder if I should even post it. 🙈

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 17/03/2026

New post in the Offline Support for Web Apps series. 📴 This one moves from queue implementation to real application usage — wiring the queue into React, capturing offline mutations, and syncing them safely later. More in the article. blog.tomaszgil.me/offline-supp...

Offline Support in Web Apps: Foreground Queue for Offline Mutations — Part 5

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Dominik 🔮 @tkdodo.eu · 10/03/2026

Being good at context switching becomes a lot more important when you have multiple agents running simultaneously on different things. In my experience, most devs prefer focused work and being “in the zone”. I feel this is gonna be a big adjustment and why many are still sceptical. It’s hard.

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dax @thdxr.com · 09/03/2026

i really don't care about using AI to ship more stuff it's really hard to come up with stuff worth shipping i want to ship the same amount of stuff with higher quality both in product and code

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 07/03/2026

I was fixing debouncing problems in a global search component. AI couldn't figure it out, multiple tries, attempting weird hacks. Jumped in, debugged rendering cycles, found an unmemoized component at the top of the tree, causing full page re-renders. One-line fix. Take that, LLMs.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 04/03/2026

Just finished speaking at meet.js Summit 2026 about Shipping Offline Support on the Web. 🎤 It was my first time presenting at a conference of this scale — and what an experience. Huge thanks to the organizers. Appreciate the engaged audience, sharp questions and conversations afterward. 🙏

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 02/03/2026

There's no legitimate reason to "write code by hand" anymore.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 01/03/2026

I didn't realise how or when it happened exactly, but after almost 10 years in the industry, I have a small network of people I can rely on, discuss things and ask for help. It's incredibly valuable. I'm really grateful for that.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 25/02/2026

Slides ready. Excited for next week. 👀

Title slide for "Shipping Offline Support on the Web" talk

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 23/02/2026

If you haven’t had a chance to grab your ticket for the 15th meet.js Summit yet (psst… I’ll be speaking there 👀), here’s a -10% promo code for you! 🎟️ cart.easy.tools/checkout/bra... See you on March 4th! 🚀

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 16/02/2026

I morged a featue today, no tim wasted.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 16/02/2026

Today, I prepared an animated, interactive visualization with Codex 5.3, for my upcoming talk about offline support on the web. I’ve never written custom canvas/svg animations. Until today. So much fun.

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Tomasz Gil @tomaszgil.me · 15/02/2026

It's been only yesterday, when a friend mentioned that with only skimming through AI-authored code, he already feels it's harder to come back to it to maintain it, fix bugs, etc.

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dax @thdxr.com · 14/02/2026

everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code here's what things actually look like - your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping 1/4

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 11/10/2025

I'm beginning to suspect that a key skill in working effectively with coding agents is developing an intuition for when you don't need to closely review every line of code they produce. This feels deeply uncomfortable!

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