🔥 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.

Modded my Bose QC35 Headphones for a USB-C port with the QC45 charging board.

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React on a roomba robot vacuum achieved! Used an esp32 and react to drive my roomba.

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TikTok - or byte dance - just forked VS code and launched their own AI code editor to compete with cursor and windsurf

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You should be using JavaScript sets more often

Now in all browsers and Node - these 7 new set methods are key for when trying to compare two arrays or sets of data.

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JavaScript roomba now sucks both ways

Figured out the motor controller Byte. First time I've had to write binary 1s and 0s in React.

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Controlling a roomba with JavaScript

Wrote the code to control it in the browser via Web Serial API, or on the server with serialport

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This is a must have editor setting . Here is how I get those coloured indentation / bracket pairs in my editor.

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I needed some data from social sites, but they don't provide an API

Here is how I scrape data from websites that don't provide an API by (ab)using the page rehydration object

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Tanstack Start doing doing server calls a bit different than React Server Components.

You can write the client and server logic in the same file and it replaces it with fetch calls when run on the client.

No "use client", no errors around using client APIs in server components

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I keep importing the wrong thing in VS Code! Pop an autoImportFileExcludePatterns in your settings file Super helpful for Radix UI, Drizzle DB adapters, and node:test

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