My Thoughts on AI, Part 2: Agent Setup, Workflow, and Tools
Introduction Hopefully you've already read Part 1: Fears, Opinions, and Mental Journey so you understand how I ended up with this mindset and approach. Or maybe you saw how long it...
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My Thoughts on AI, Part 1: Fears, Opinions, and Mental Journey
Introduction This post will be tough to write. There's a lot of discourse and arguing about AI everywhere you look. I've read it all. I don't want to get caught up in arguments, ge...
Presentations: A Guide to React Compiler Rendering
I've spent years explaining the basics and nuances of React's rendering behavior . That post is by far the most widely read resource I've ever published, and it's helped thousands ...
Presentations: How I Made Immer Twice as Fast: Performance Optimization in Practice
I've spent a lot of time debugging and doing performance optimization investigations throughout my career. It's second nature to me at this point, but a lot of developers have neve...
Presentations: The State of React and the Community in 2025
I spend a lot of time reading (and participating in) discussions in the React community, across many different sites. Over the last few years I've seen an increasing amount of frus...
The State of React and the Community in 2025
Introduction Today, the state of React and its ecosystem is complicated and fractured, with a mixture of successes, skepticism, and contention. On the positive side: React is the m...
Presentations: Maintaining a Library and a Community
The main thesis of this talk is that maintainers do a lot more than just write features and fix bugs, and that really most of what we do involves thinking about and interacting wit...
React Advanced 2024: Designing Effective Documentation
My remote presentation for React Advanced 2024 was on "Designing Effective Documentation: Lessons Learned Writing the Redux Docs". I've spent a lot of my time working on the Redux ...
React Summit 2024: Why Use Redux Today?
I had the chance to speak at both React Connection Paris in April and React Summit Amsterdam in June, and at both conferences I gave a talk on "Why Use Redux Today?". Both of those...
React Summit US 2023: What's New in Redux Toolkit 2.0
I gave a lightning talk at React Summit US, and did a quick run-through of what's changing in RTK 2.0. I've linked the livestream at the right timestamp for now, and will link the ...
React Advanced 2023 - Building Better React DevTools with Replay Time Travel
I work at Replay.io , and I've spent all of this year building some incredibly advanced React debugging features that make use of our time-traveling backend API. The biggest one is...
React Rally 2023 - A (Brief) Guide to React Rendering Behavior
My extensive post "A (Mostly) Complete Guide to React Rendering Behavior" is the most popular and widely appreciated post I've written. After the recent updates to cover React 18, ...
Blogged Answers: My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM
Table of Contents Introduction Redux Packages Background Packages and Configurations Issue History Early Attempts Migrating to Vitest Initial Alpha Testing Researching Better Confi...
Presentations: Debugging JavaScript
In mid-2021 I had the chance to do a talk on "Debugging Software" for a meetup hosted by Mintbean.io. In 2022, I did an updated "Debugging JS" version of the talk for ThisDot Media...
Presentations: 2022 Podcasts
I had the opportunity to talk on a number of different podcasts and interviews over the course of the year. I've gathered them here as a directory. ThisDot / Tracy Lee: How to Cont...