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If AI is good, why does it make me feel bad?
abstract.properties
Sufian Rhazi's weblog
Latest posts
Gooey internals: simplifying the graph
An upcoming change to Gooey's dependency graph
Gooey internals: keyless lists
The key prop isn't necessary for rendering lists in frontend frameworks
The Shadow DOM is in the front
It'd be easier to understand if it was the "Front Facade DOM"
Operational burden is a choice
Being oncall 24/7 is a technical choice, does it need to be that way?
Devlog: dependency graph as architecture
How Gooey works as an architecture for applications
Devlog: a sketch of this application
A rough idea of what I'm building
Devlog: what is a module?
A module is a bit like a function, could both be manipulated in the same way?
JavaScript's upcoming Explicit Resource Management is great!
Disposing of things is about to get much easier
Devlog: week one
Let's start with regular updates on my project
Practice and smoothing
Thoughts on what practice is and what practice means for programming
Fall 2024
Starting the season of change with new software
Why are the rules of hooks rules?
An exploration about why React hooks are awkward
How this Website is Put Together
An overview of abstract.properties
Fool's Gold
Reflecting on a career in tech
gpt.py
gpt.py is a minimal commandline application to query OpenAI
Subclassing Function in JavaScript
How to subclass a function in JavaScript and TypeScript
TypeScript's useDefineForClassFields is Slow
A surprising performance regression for polyfilling spec-compliant field access
Introducing Gooey
Gooey is a new, experimental web UI framework
TypeScript compile-time inference assertions
Using TypeScript 2.8 features to perform compile-time type inference assertions
Interviewing in 2018
Reflecting on interviewing for senior IC/management positions
Management: philosophy and expectations
What should you expect from me, and what should I expect from you?
Management: what is it anyway?
What does a software engineering manager really do?
Incentives and web browsers
What is funding the browsers we use?
Ten years in software: The value of a test
Reflections on the past ten years of my career: things I've learned. This lesson is about automated tests.
Ten years in software: fear is the mind killer
Reflections on the past ten years of my career: things I've learned. This lesson is advice against fear.
Ten years in software: burnout is self inflicted
Reflections on the past ten years of my career: things I've learned. Here, I talk about my burnout.
Ten years in software: study other people's code
Reflections on the past ten years of my career: learn by studying other people's code
Ten years in software: how to solve problems
Reflections on the past ten years of my career: things I've learned. The first lesson was profound: a method to solve any problem.
Exciting ES2015 Features
A dive into exciting features that aren't often talked about in ES2015.
Generators and Tasks
How asynchronous programming can be written in a synchronous style using generators.