Reid Burke

Christian, husband, father, motorcyclist, toolmaker, hunter

I make tools to help people write great software. I am a software engineer at Apple helping businesses succeed.

Previously, I led the platform team for Yahoo Mail’s web application which is relied upon by millions of people every day around the world.

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  • React Fibers, Scan, and Bippy ↗︎

    You may have heard of React Scan for automatically detecting performance issues. It uses Bippy internally. From the README:

    a react fiber is a “unit of execution.” this means react will do something based on the data in a fiber. each fiber either represents a composite (function/class component) or a host (dom element).

    fibers are useful because they contain information about the react app (component props, state, contexts, etc.). a simplified version of a fiber looks roughly like this:

    interface Fiber {
  // component type (function/class)
  type: any;

  child: Fiber | null;
  sibling: Fiber | null;

  // stateNode is the host fiber (e.g. DOM element)
  stateNode: Node | null;

  // parent fiber
  return: Fiber | null;

  // the previous or current version of the fiber
  alternate: Fiber | null;

  // saved props input
  memoizedProps: any;

  // state (useState, useReducer, useSES, etc.)
  memoizedState: any;

  // contexts (useContext)
  dependencies: Dependencies | null;

  // effects (useEffect, useLayoutEffect, etc.)
  updateQueue: any;
}

    Further reading and watching:

  • MariaDB Sandbox Mode

    Today I ran into a problem I’ve never seen before when moving MariaDB databases between systems. Quickly searching on Perplexity revealed the problem. There was a dump file compatibility change in MariaDB which introduces a new directive on the first line of a dump file to disable the execution of shell commands: There are several More →

  • BFS Interview Question and Pull-Ups

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  • Berkeley Mono 2.0 ↗︎

    U.S. Graphics released Berkeley Mono 2.0. You should use it.

    Here’s Berkeley Mono v2 Condensed on my personal computer. It’s very nice.

    Pairs nicely with Ghostty and Fastfetch.

    More from X

    And on another person’s computer:


    Glyphs and FontLab

    Rasmus — the creator of Inter — gave advice on tools for creating fonts.

    Beautiful Grafana & Sentry

    Observability of US Graphics infrastructure is beautiful.

  • Ghostty ↗︎

    Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

    Here’s my configuration. The quick terminal is very satisfying.

    font-family = TX-02
keybind = global:cmd+grave_accent=toggle_quick_terminal
theme = xcodedarkhc
window-colorspace = display-p3

    Note: I don’t use dark and light theme modes because of a visual bug when opening splits and tabs when specifying them.

    Combined with Berkeley Mono v2, next year is sharing up to become the year of the terminal.

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    I will help small businesses succeed by building Apple Business Essentials — a product which brings together device management, 24/7 Apple support, and iCloud storage into flexible subscription plans. More →

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