🔥 There are 446 Hot Tips!!

Hot tips are spicy lil' nuggets related to web development and tooling that I share on my twitter account. I've logged them here to make them easier to find.

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Hot tip for anyone doing AI dev:

Use Ollama to easily run models like Deepseek-r1 or Gemma locally on your machine. It downloads them and spins up a server with an OpenAI SDK compatible API

The smaller models are fast and good enough to work on new features or debug streaming without having to pay for API requests

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Here is how to get the FPS meter and a few other handy tools running in your browsers dev tools

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This is a CSS performance problem I see all too often.

The React website has some jank due to their use of transition.

Here is how to find what causes it and how to fix it

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This Lando Norris website is insane

I dove into the code and broke it all down. Some really neat 3D effects along with scrolling and next level animations

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Oops I made a very crappy monitor

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The & in a CSS nested selector doesn't need to come at the start!

Needed to style an element based on parent AND child selectors and this was the ticket.

Good idea or nah?

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I gave bonzi buddy LLM access

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I made my own version of Sticker Box called Sticker Dream

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If you want to be able to call server functions from the client, RPC is often the move.

The Bun + Better Call combo gets you a fullstack solution in very little code. Server, Client, bundling and HMR 👌

had to record a little video showing the setup

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