Loren

Here’s an excerpt from a home concert we had a while back. I’m playing @haniaranimusic ‘s gorgeous piece Glass

I published a four-part series on building agentic systems with @nestframework @fastifyjs and @OpenRouterAI You can start reading here: lorenstew.art/blog/llm-tools… Please fork the code and build something exciting!

Sometimes DOM-as-source-of-truth is so much easier to deal with than `ui = fn(state)` The web platform just isn't designed to be used that way Easy examples: - You can't really "control" window scroll position - Definitely can't control if an <select> is open/closed

BS TS - sketchy but a make #devswhoskate

When you need to optimize something, you should be able to go DOWN a layer of abstraction You should not be asked to go UP by introducing a new layer on top

I refuse to call JWT a "jot"

Let's talk about the future of Svelte! Everyone is excited about the recent async and remote functions proposals, but why? Let's explore how data loading works in Svelte today and what problems they solve. youtu.be/NhOV9SLbJuk

You don’t know what you like until you try it. This is includes major things like careers. I thought I’d hate teaching middle school. It was my favorite career, it just doesn’t pay enough.

🎉 @Tan_Stack Start now has Selective SSR Opt-in/out of server-side rendering per route, even dynamically: 🌎 ssr: true – full SSR 💽 ssr: 'data-only' – server runs loaders but skips HTML 💻 ssr: false – pure client-side 🧪 ssr: (ctx) => any of the above Another win from the…

I was 33 before I ever saw a line of code.

Modals can be very easy. No custom JS logic needed developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web…

I don’t have a costume, but I do have a crooked grind @theo #devswhoskate

TIL about RFC 7807, 'Problem Details for HTTP APIs', a specification for a JSON object that specifies details in a response body for HTTP error responses: datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc78… Reminds me of dev.to/yawaramin/hand… !

New t-shirt!

opencode rewrite is done and ready for general use - works with claude pro/max - beautiful themeable tui - shareable links for any session - zero config LSP support - works with 75+ LLM providers (including local) link in reply

Here’s my attempt at @philipglass ‘s Morning Passages. It’s an incredible piece of music. youtu.be/kHsO-lCmQ6M?si…

the contrarian play is to have integrity while being good at your job

Old guys can skateboard too!

a good article on using htmx & lit pragmatically no reason to use htmx for things it's not good for! lorenstew.art/blog/eta-htmx-…

I love this combo 😍 I use it at work all day, lucky meeee!