Knowledge Updates

Observations while developing web applications and creating great software.

BFS Interview Question and Pull-Ups

I don't think these questions in interviews are dumb. You can be discharged from the army if you can't do a certain number of pull-ups

"Not real world" algorithms like this are like pull-ups. In isolation seem pointless, but they show a certain level of programming fitness
— Ryan Florence (@ryanflorence) December 31, 2024

2024-12-31 #
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.

Berkeley Mono project was 2017-2022. I designed the typeface for myself as an experiment in 2017 and it was awful now that I look back. Even v1 feels so amateur now. But that means I am learning. I grew up in a family that appreciated calligraphy, my father hand wrote college…
— U.S. Graphics Company (@usgraphics) December 28, 2024

More from X

And on another person’s computer:

Ghostty by @mitchellh + Berkeley Mono v2 Condensed by @usgraphics

? pic.twitter.com/ZffQ7oJi20
— Daniel Aditya Istyana (@adityadaniel) January 1, 2025

Glyphs and FontLab

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

When I got started on Inter I hadn’t made fonts in a decade. Looked at FontLab which was the only tool I had used earlier, but the then-current version was pretty aged. @OHnoTypeCo helped me with some tips for how to get going with RoboFont but it was so painfully slow that I…
— Rasmus Andersson (@rsms) December 28, 2024

Beautiful Grafana & Sentry

Observability of US Graphics infrastructure is beautiful.

Want to thank people at @grafana and @getsentry

We use both to monitor what is going on, absolutely crucial. Sentry is such an insanely valuable product for finding issues. We are going to pay for both if the self-hosted management gets out of hand. And ofc @Cloudflare ?? https://t.co/SOvhiYH14d
— U.S. Graphics Company (@usgraphics) December 26, 2024

2024-12-31 #
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.

Whenever there’s a new terminal emulator, I’d hesitantly try it out and then switch back to iTerm2

Ghostty is the exception. It’s so snappy, doesn’t get in my way, has sensible default settings, etc. It’s now my go-to choice ?

brew install –cask ghostty pic.twitter.com/ooDPHTUujb
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) December 31, 2024

Really enjoying the Ghostty documentation. The man page and HTML docs are the same content. You get a local copy of the HTML docs. Sweet precision. pic.twitter.com/aqUyiNawsX
— Reid Burke (@reid) January 2, 2025

Here's mine but with v1.008 pic.twitter.com/6AeHQOKahk
— Sam (@beefysam211) December 27, 2024

https://t.co/39Xj39wheA ? pic.twitter.com/PH0qejFB4z
— Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) December 26, 2024

Thanks! It feels great to see people I respect and look up to enjoying what I've been working on. If you ever have any issues, let me know.
— Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) January 2, 2025
2024-12-31 #
Native TypeScript support in Node.js

Node.js now supports TypeScript.

Wrote up a full summary (posted below).

Here's the juiciest bit – the TSConfig you'll need to run it: pic.twitter.com/z9qmpyXEEr
— Matt Pocock (@mattpocockuk) December 27, 2024

2024-12-31 #
Avoiding flash of inaccurate content

Use React Router Loaders and SSR.

Yep. Either provide the right HTML for the document request, or don't render anything until you have all the data and know what to render.

CSR has a UX ceiling for initial page load, SSR is the best UX potential, but requires a bit more thought.
— Kent C. Dodds ? (@kentcdodds) December 26, 2024

2024-12-31 #

Knowledge Updates

BFS Interview Question and Pull-Ups

Berkeley Mono 2.0 ↗

Glyphs and FontLab

Beautiful Grafana & Sentry

Ghostty ↗

Native TypeScript support in Node.js

Avoiding flash of inaccurate content