the best code is written at night

Elegance in code is tricky to define, but for me a good heuristic is "how easily could I codemod this?" Similar: does it lead to good Copilot suggestions?

heard about it, it's pretty great

You can zoom into a single react characteristic and say “oh, that’s just [some other simpler thing]” But if you zoom back out you see it’s the encapsulation and composition of all of those things with reacts component model that makes it unique and explains its massive adoption.

It takes 10 minutes to implement this using Algolia 👍

I'll be at #ReactParis with Algolia! Whether you're into search, recommendations, AI personalization, or passionate about UX, DX, and OSS, let's chat!

Join me next week for a technical deep dive into Real-time Personalization! Learn how to: turn raw data into user intents, extract user preferences & goals, and deliver personalized UIs at the right time.

Starting in 15 minutes!

Another hot take: Your frontend should dictate your API not the backend. If you backend engineers are defining your API response data you're gonna have a bad time.

Reunited with the OGs François Chalifour & Vincent Voyer at dotJS Algolia X Vercel teams ❤️

New post! "Impact, agency, and taste" (link below):

the beast is back