Dev Wells
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Dev Wells
@wlls.dev
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Principal Eng @ Judi Health -- focused on frontend
It's less that Node strictly can't do concurrency, but it's far from what it's known for.

Especially compared to yeah, Go, or even like idk Erlang/Elixir/Gleam/anything on the BEAM. My frustration is at this linkedin slop appearing everywhere.
December 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
alright last one i promise

i like that javascript somehow gives you a windmill??
December 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
i mean
December 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
alright this one is off topic but i mean come on lmao

"Frontend is dead! Go learn UI/UX!"

yes, UI/UX, which by the way has no overlap with FE development
December 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
a few random examples:

cool cool laravel! wait what am i looking at

I love Node but... really? We're advertising Node, a javascript runtime, for "realtime" "high-concurency" workloads?
December 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
@lukeburns.com re our earlier convos
December 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
disclaimer: I am only just now starting this, there may be bugs

#buildinpublic or something
December 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Based, will give it a go! (also thank you @rocicorp.dev team for being on top of the docs 🙏)
December 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Oh wait did the APIs consolidate? Just saw the docs changed.
December 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
How's support for synced queries / custom mutators now? I had looked at your impl a bit ago but rolled my own to lean into the new APIs. Would love to drop my hand-rolled one for the community version 😅
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
oh god that gif quality did not do this justice
December 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
SvelteKit! Deployed a demo app of a holiday celebration project forked from an internal version I ran with my team.

github.com/devdumpling/...
GitHub - devdumpling/snowglobe: A template app for spreading some holiday cheer with your team. Try the demo 🎄
A template app for spreading some holiday cheer with your team. Try the demo 🎄 - devdumpling/snowglobe
github.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
just used this for the first time and it was seamless, thank you!
December 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Zed has been my daily driver now for over a year and only keeps getting better. Highly recommend giving it a shot for anyone on the fence.
December 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
For me it has gone downhill. It used to be very useful (maybe 3 months ago) and wouldn't veer off topic. Now I feel like I get a bunch of article summaries that aren't coherent to my original query.

It also seems to over-emphasize clickbait as opposed to actual research, which is annoying.
December 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
FWIW this also seems to be the case with languages. I've had a surprising amount of success with anything statically typed that has a small surface area (Gleam has hit this sweet spot for me lately).
December 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
question: how does one learn atproto? i have apps i want to build in it but not sure where to start (initial search mostly brings up more academic resources)
December 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM