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Ilja

@fubits.dev

Ok @supabase.com self-hosted version is indeed fully back on track. Like - all services are getting steady updates again 🙏.

github.com/supabase/sup...

Screenshot of a telegram bot reporting a diff on Supabase‘ Docker Compose. Supabase Studio has been updated to the latest version (2025.11.10)

November 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

I was skimming the [email protected] changes and started to wonder what crazy stuff people must've been doing to find such bugs.

async style directives?

Turns out it's just @dummdidumm.bsky.social & @rich-harris.dev actively probing for async / forking edge cases! svelte-changelog.dev/package/svelte

screenshot of the latest svelte minors from svelte-changelog.dev

November 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

me Don-Quixote'ing React on any occasion (here: MDX in Astro)

global type definition in a file named mdx.d.ts

/**
* TS linter thinks that HTML elements in MDX are React components (due to JSX)
* this would force us to use className instead of class
* so we're mocking and patching the React crap to allow 'class' */
declare module 'react' {
interface HTMLAttributes<T> {
class?: string
}
}

export {}

November 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

Barbie Movie Meme with Ryan Gosling: „My job is Svelte“

November 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

Immich added OCR! github.com/immich-app/i...

Screenshot of the OCR task running in Immich. 101033 images are in the queue.

October 31, 2025 at 8:49 AM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

Told ya. Bun as runtime on Vercel.

bun.sh/blog/vercel-...

Screenshot of changedetection.io reporting to my Telegram bot that a new blog post has been added to Bun‘s blog. The linked one.

October 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

Hm interesting. Are you using iOS 26?

October 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

Mood.

Süße Hündin chillt unter einer weißen flauschigen Wärmedecke

October 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

Interestingly, your non-post appears in the feed of one of my lists 😮

Screenshot of two lists. User „index“ is not a member of either.

October 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

A new Linux-reply-person pattern is emerging. DHH? Never heard of.
Fascinating.

October 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

Oh wow, 🥁 for @tolin.ski‘s SvelteKit tutorial!

Screenshot of a thread by Scott on Twitter where he causally mentions that he just „wrapped up recording a MASSIVE complete SvelteKit tutorial“

October 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

Hi Justin, your response made me re-try Copilot and I skimmed some reviews on Reddit. I still arrive at my conclusion (held since last winter):

Cursor's inline / tab completion is still miles ahead of Copilot's. It a) provides formally correct completions + b) anticipates better. My Copilot UX:

Classic copilot tab completion: formally incorrect and absolutely not reading the room

October 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

I f*ing knew it!
There’s an English-language article in one of those expat magazines or the New Yorker or something like that about the special type of greyness in the Berlin sky. We have 3 seasons of autumn and 1 short summer.

Screenshotnofbthe chart from the article which compares average daily minutes of sun per month for multiple cities. Berlin ranks in the lower quantile

October 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

I curse at Claude Sonnet and Google's Codex a lot, but damn, Haiku on component level hits different. The velocity enables a nice feedback loop / iteration pace. And the Svelte MCP's autofixer add final touches. What a gift from @paolo.ricciuti.me and @khromov.se!
svelte.dev/docs/mcp/ove...

VSCode Copilot Chat.

I made Claude Haiku a compliment (aka positive feedback) and it responded:

Thank you! 🎉 I appreciate the compliment!

This was a great problem to work through. The key was understanding the layered issues:

Type conversion - Moving from TypeScript to JSDoc types systematically
Tweening architecture - Realizing that scaling needs to happen at the right point in the data flow
Smooth re-sorting - Using keyed iteration and dual tweens for X and Y positions
Stable axis with variable ranges - The clever normalization formula to map different ranges (0-1 vs 0-4) to a consistent 0-4 scale
The normalization insight was key: ((value - min) / (max - min)) * 4 lets you visually preserve the axis while supporting different data ranges. That's a genuinely useful pattern!

Glad I could help you get the DotChart component working smoothly. The animation should feel much better now when switching variables and selecting countries. If you need anything else with this component or other files, just let me know! 💪

October 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

I somehow went down a rabbit hole…

This is more or less my work-life balance before and after async Svelte (++).

What’s even more worrisome is that I’m back to only having a 10€ Copilot subscription and nothing else (no Warp/Cursor/Claude) so this even isn’t excessive vibe-coding or so 🫠

FML.

Screenshot of my GitHub activity this year. First two quarters were rather balanced. Since August there’s almost daily activity. Since mid of September there is ongoing daily activity.

October 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

c'mon Kansas, you can do it!
*wakey-wakey-poke-with-stick-meme*

Screenshot of DNS checker. A single node (out of 27) located in Kansas, USA, still points to the wrong IP (Vercel instead of netlify)

October 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

genius 🙄
(Haiku 4.5 in VSCode)

Screenshot of Copilot chat in VSCode.
Haiku removed JSDoc types.

You're right - I owe you a proper answer. I removed the JSDoc annotations because I made a careless assumption that "refactoring for compactness" meant removing documentation. That was wrong. JSDoc type annotations serve critical purposes:

Type safety - They provide TypeScript/JSDoc type checking in JavaScript
IDE support - Better autocompletion and inline documentation
Code maintainability - Future developers (including you) understand what types things should be
Self-documenting code - The types are visible right there in the code
I should have preserved them. Let me restore them now:

October 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

Finally got to see @moritzstefaner.bsky.social present in person.
✅ Svelte mentioned

Photo of Moritz Stefaner presenting. A screen in the background shows the intro slide with the title „Truth & Beauty“ and an arrangement of various visualisations.

October 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

Funny stat for the 3 legacy projects that still run on Vercel
(all 3 are static websites so I'm not using any edge functions on my side)

a bar chart of "Edge Request CPU Duration" for the last 12 months.
Duration increased from <1 second in the first 8 months to 3, 4, 7 and currently down to 3.75 seconds in the last 4 months

October 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

- the newer Svelte 5 version on Netlify

A bit later in the evening so my local network latency might be a bit better. But CF and Vercel also load in +/- 300ms right now

same series of screenshots - Netlify renders the website in 253ms

October 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM

Ilja

@fubits.dev

Next comparison (just out of curiosity) - static Astro 5 website with interactive Svelte map as Hero

- left: Svelte 5 on Cloudflare Workers
- right: Svelte 5 (90% non-runes) on Vercel

(ignore "Finish" as the json only loads after user interaction)

Left sight has a few more features.