I maintain the ticket sales for a small running race in Elverdinge. Ten miles, a shorter 8 km loop, a kids run, a few hundred runners, one weekend a year. It is the kind of project you could build with just about anything. The first version was written in ReScript, which was and is as solid a pick as any. I want to tell you why the newest one is plain TypeScript, and why the person who wrote the first version would have found that embarrassing. The honest answer is not "TypeScript is better." It isn't. The honest answer is…

I'm currently working on a frontend project using and React 19. While I consider myself a competent React developer, I appreciate having tools that help maintain best practices. A linter proves invaluable in ensuring I follow , and since my instinct for React memoization isn't perfectly tuned yet, I'm leveraging the new React compiler to handle that optimization. ReScript doesn't include built-in linting or analysis tools, so in this post, I'll explain how to set up to analyze the JavaScript output. For this setup, I'm using as my JavaScript runtime and package manager. At the time of writing, I'm…

Want to run JetBrains Rider in your WSL environment? I recently navigated this process and want to share my insights. With , this is now possible, though not without some hurdles. Here's how to start: Launch Rider with the rider.sh script: Rider didn't launch for me: I encountered an error related to libXrender.so.1. It turns out I was missing some rendering packages, which I resolved by installing Nautilus: While Nautilus isn't the direct solution, it installs necessary dependencies. Running Rider in WSL2 can be resource-intensive. To improve performance, I configured WSL to use more memory: I've had limited success with Gateway…

Hey there, let's cut to the chase: the dotnet SDK release brings some feature flags that can turbocharge your F# compiler.In this post, I'm shining a spotlight on three of these gems that you absolutely need to give a spin. First things first, you need the latest ( and beyond). Then, let's tweak some to fine-tune the F# compiler in MSBuild.Just drop this snippet into your or file: () Want to double-check if it's working? Run and spot the extra compiler flags in : But what magic do these flags weave, you ask? They…

Early this year we announced our plans for .We are happy to announce that we have wrapped up the development of version 6 and a preview is now available on . Fantomas 6 is a major release and contains a lot of new features and improvements. In this post we will highlight some of the most important changes. Fantomas 6 is now able to format multiple files in parallel. This is a huge improvement for large projects.This happens out of the box and you don't have to do anything to benefit from this. In recent months, the has been…