https://dthc.yxals.top/Essays and field notes on frontend engineering.en https://dthc.yxals.top/posts/why-i-stopped-reaching-for-a-state-management-library.htmlhttps://dthc.yxals.top/posts/why-i-stopped-reaching-for-a-state-management-library.htmlWed, 07 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000I've been working with Vue for about 5 years now, and my opinions on server-side rendering have changed more than I expected. https://dthc.yxals.top/posts/server-components-one-year-later.htmlhttps://dthc.yxals.top/posts/server-components-one-year-later.htmlSat, 20 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000A colleague asked me last week why our team cares so much about bundle size. I gave a rambling answer, so here is the longer, more organized version. https://dthc.yxals.top/posts/notes-from-migrating-a-large-app-to-vite.htmlhttps://dthc.yxals.top/posts/notes-from-migrating-a-large-app-to-vite.htmlThu, 18 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000A colleague asked me last week why our team cares so much about form validation. I gave a rambling answer, so here is the longer, more organized version. https://dthc.yxals.top/posts/how-we-test-ui-without-snapshot-tests.htmlhttps://dthc.yxals.top/posts/how-we-test-ui-without-snapshot-tests.htmlSat, 09 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000There is no shortage of articles about React. Most of them cover the happy path. This one is about what happened after the happy path ended. https://dthc.yxals.top/posts/what-actually-moved-our-largest-contentful-paint.htmlhttps://dthc.yxals.top/posts/what-actually-moved-our-largest-contentful-paint.htmlFri, 02 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000Every codebase has one area everyone is a little afraid to touch. On our team, it was everything related to accessibility. https://dthc.yxals.top/posts/shipping-less-javascript-without-rewriting-everything.htmlhttps://dthc.yxals.top/posts/shipping-less-javascript-without-rewriting-everything.htmlMon, 08 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000There is no shortage of articles about React. Most of them cover the happy path. This one is about what happened after the happy path ended. https://dthc.yxals.top/posts/design-tokens-are-a-contract-not-a-color-palette.htmlhttps://dthc.yxals.top/posts/design-tokens-are-a-contract-not-a-color-palette.htmlSun, 07 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000There is no shortage of articles about Playwright. Most of them cover the happy path. This one is about what happened after the happy path ended. https://dthc.yxals.top/posts/building-forms-that-don-t-fight-the-browser.htmlhttps://dthc.yxals.top/posts/building-forms-that-don-t-fight-the-browser.htmlFri, 21 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000I've been working with Svelte for about 3 years now, and my opinions on Core Web Vitals have changed more than I expected. https://dthc.yxals.top/posts/a-practical-guide-to-css-container-queries.htmlhttps://dthc.yxals.top/posts/a-practical-guide-to-css-container-queries.htmlSat, 20 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000For a long time I treated container queries as something to worry about later. Then a small change to our Storybook setup turned into a week of debugging, and "later" arrived all at once. https://dthc.yxals.top/posts/the-accessibility-bugs-our-test-suite-never-caught.htmlhttps://dthc.yxals.top/posts/the-accessibility-bugs-our-test-suite-never-caught.htmlWed, 18 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0000For a long time I treated accessibility as something to worry about later. Then a small change to our Vue setup turned into a week of debugging, and "later" arrived all at once.