TWIL February 20th 2026

• Any meeting with more than one product manager will result in 0 decisions and a future meeting with just the product managers
• Creating a global FormStore shared by all your components
  • might make sense for some cases like long, complex forms with many different input
  • but makes absolutely no sense for a form with 4 inputs with virtually no validation
  • and having the global form store can lead to fun bugs like the balance entered for the previous account showing up on the next one
• Always check information isn't already available to the frontend before trying to add it to a different endpoint
• Your apartment can randomly stop resolving gstatic.com, Google's CDN for JS/images etc.
  • This lets you load Google pages, but not actually interact with them (in some ways)
  • Most significantly, you can't use Google SSO while this is happening
  • Setting your DNS resolver to Cloudflare in system settings resolves this (at least for me)
• You can share bearer tokens between apps by just passing them to the second app to use in requests
  • Which is how XSS works, so duh
  • But never considered you could do it on purpose between related apps
• Sometimes you spend most of a week trying to figure out how to have shared sign-in between web apps from a native app, only to end up at the same conclusion a senior arrived on over a month ago
  • At least I understand how he ended up there and the tradeoffs that lead to that decision now
  • So probably a pretty worthwhile week for me, if not necessarily the company

Links

• Building Websites with LLMs - Jim Nielsen

Top tier clickbait and some interesting ideas on how view transitions can be leveraged to make your menus/dialogs just another HTML page.

• Bot or Not - OlegWock

A handy overview of the arms race between bots and bot detection, from simple steps like looking at the user agent to checking the motion data your mobile emits to know if you're in bed.

• NoLoJs - Aaron T Grogg

Might come in handy next time I need to convince someone at work we don't need JS/an NPM package for a feature but can't remember the native way of doing it off the top of my head.

• npmx

Is meant to provide a better browsing experience for NPM packages; if nothing else it lets me use NPM in dark mode.