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Gal Schlezinger

Thoughts about code and life by Gal Schlezinger

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Podcast - React and Suspense on Talking Dev (Hebrew)

Published Fri Mar 20 2026

Talk - Why I'm Excited about React Server Components

A live coding video from React Next 2025

New Silent Keyboard Sound Video - NuPhy Halo75 v2

I just got my NuPhy Halo75 v2 with Silent Red switches. Here's how they sound like.

Things I Use (2024 Edition)

Software and hardware that made 2024 to be not that bad

Fixing Non-working Keybindings in Alacritty 0.13

Teaching Alacritty to handle Command-Shift-] properly

Background jobs with Pointguard 🏀

A simple and effective background job server for the web

Easy and Performant Partial Form Submissions

Choosing which fields to send in a form, without lifting state in a React app.

Out of Order Streaming from Scratch

Streaming is inevitable. Out of order streaming is an underrated tech breakthrough.

My Node.js is a bit Rusty

Replacing an internal Node.js module with a native Rust module made a x25 perf boost. Let’s understand why.

Authenticating GitHub Actions HTTP Requests with OpenID Connect

Having frictionless trust between your service and GitHub Actions, without long-living tokens

Running Vercel Postgres Locally

The setup I use for local work with Vercel Postgres or Neon database

I’m on Mastodon!

I recently joined Mastodon. Writing about that here so you know!

Custom Emojis on GitHub 🎉

Emoji is communication. Let’s see how to use custom emoji on GitHub. 🙌

DHH yells at the cloud

My reaction to DHH’s “Why we’re leaving the cloud” post.

Multiple Schemas in Supabase

for future reference, here is what needed to create a schema in Supabase.

Custom JavaScript Flavors

Two things I wish existed in JavaScript’s syntax, and probably will never exist.

Podcast: Vercel Edge Functions at JS Jabber

I joined Dan, AJ and Steve to talk about Vercel Edge Functions and their impact on the modern web.

Source Map-Aware Code Generation

Preserving source maps with the ease of a string interpolation.

Leaving Wix

After almost 4 years, I am leaving Wix and moving to my next challenge.

Holiday Project - Working with MIDI clock over BLE and ESP32

I built a MIDI sequencer over Bluetooth low energy (BLE) using Arduino-like ESP32 microcontrollers. Here are my findings.

Podcast: Front-end Land (Hebrew)

I chatted with Nir and Elad about TypeScript

React Error Boundaries in SSR

Remastered internals: How to use error boundaries in server-side rendered React app?

Why fnm was rewritten in Rust

...or, why did I rewrite a Reason-native showcase project into Rust?

Mocking in TypeScript with `factoree`

A simple way to easy and safe mocking in TypeScript

HTML over the wire with Preact

Communicating using HTML like it isn't 2021

CLI Apps in TypeScript with `cmd-ts` (Part 1)

Using `cmd-ts` to easily build a type-safe TypeScript CLI app

Using Long Paths in Windows and Rust

There's a simple solution for using long paths in Windows binaries

Preserving Form State in Refreshes and Navigation with React

Using the History API to store meaningful state that preserves across refreshes and page navigations

Typing the Technical Interview in TypeScript

Solving a technical interview question with no runtime involved

Stringly and Strongly typed TypeScript

Teaching the compiler to understand strings in TypeScript

🚀 fnm: Fast and Simple Node.js Version Manager

A super fast alternative to NVM is now open source on GitHub

RS256 in ReasonML/OCaml

It took me a decent amount of time figuring out how to sign messages for a ReasonML GitHub app. Here are my findings.

The Programming Language I’m Looking For

I love programming languages. Every one of them has this catchy thing that I wished the others had. Lately, I’ve been distracted by the question of which language would I use if I would start a new side project.

Fun with Functors and ReasonML

A short introduction to ReasonML types and functor types from a beginner

“Sign up” and “Sign in” forms could (and should) be the same

Why have both options?

IFTTT Ideas for Software Development

I use multiple types of software every day. I’d like to connect them to maximize productivity and organization.

Versatility is your enemy

The larger set of options I get, the less work I can actually do.

I failed to deliver.

Over the last 3 years, I’ve built some inter-organization communication tools that failed. They all failed for the same reasons.

Being in a band made me a better software developer. vice versa.

I’ve been playing guitar for almost 12 years now, and it affected my perspective about software development, commandership and team leading.

Leaving The Comfort Zone

I’m leaving my convenient development infrastructure team leading role in favor of being a commander in the technological officers course.

Regression

Running back and forth between development environments. Time traveling my development decisions.

Composable SQL In JavaScript

Using SQL queries in conjunction with Functors to create reusable querying systems ⚡️