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The API version that was never going to be removed

Deep diveSeptember 21, 202215 min read

v1, v2 and v3 in production, and v1 has four clients. Every change is made three times.

Bootstrap 5.2, CSS variables, and a theme that stopped being a fork

Deep diveAugust 17, 202210 min read

5.2 in July, and custom properties throughout the components. A Sass fork that had to be rebased on every patch release.

Reading someone else’s language well enough to review it

NoteAugust 12, 20222 min read

A polyglot system needs more than one person able to read each part, and that is a lower bar than being able to write it. Setting the bar…

Vue 2.7 exists so you do not have to migrate yet

Deep diveJuly 28, 202210 min read

July, and the Composition API backported to the 2.x line. 214 components and no appetite for a big-bang rewrite.

Bootstrap 5.2 exposes custom properties on the components

NoteJuly 28, 20222 min read

July’s release moves component styling onto CSS variables, which makes runtime theming possible without a Sass fork. A fork that had to be rebased on every patch release…

Vite 3 and the dev server that stopped being a special case

Deep diveJuly 6, 202210 min read

July, and a major whose changes are mostly defaults. The dev server port moved and every script assumed 3000.

Block locking, and the page an editor cannot break

Deep diveJune 29, 20229 min read

6.0, and locking that is per block rather than per template. templateLock all was too much and nothing was too little.

Style variations, and the theme that ships four designs

Deep diveMay 18, 202210 min read

6.0 in May, and styles/ as a directory of theme.json fragments. Four client sites that differ only in colour and type.

Redis functions replace the Lua scripts nobody could version

Deep diveApril 12, 202210 min read

7.0 in April, and a script registry that survives a restart. EVAL with a SHA nobody can map back to source.

A generator’s return value needs getReturn, exactly once

NoteApril 5, 20222 min read

A generator may return a value as well as yielding, and the value is only readable after the generator has finished. The pattern is useful for a summary…