TWIL August 1st 2025

• It's amazing the difference in perceived quality replacing a loading spinner with a skeleton can make
• Migrating an endpoint from only returning a single record to an id-keyed hash of them went smoothly
  • First modified it to accept both the single id and an array of them with different branches
  • Then added a new API call to the frontend which used it to condense multiple existing calls into one
  • Once that was live and known to work in prod, moved all the single calls to the multi-endpoint passing a single element array of ids
  • Finally removed the single id branch/route etc.
• Noticed a few PRs suggesting my old team is still working on the Chakra v2 -> v3 migration
  • This migration has been going on since something like February this year
  • In the weekly demo they said they're spending all of next week on it
  • When I accidentally kicked it off by thinking I could do the whole thing in slack time
  • Surely at some point over the last few months the sunk cost fallacy should have kicked in
  • I mean it's a UI library, and the end goal of the migration is to... look the same
  • Plus, they have 100s of Playwright tests with snapshots that make styling changes a giant pain
  • If I'm ever in charge of a team I hope I avoid committing hard to anything like that