TWIL March 27th 2026

• Building your entire development/testing strategy around LocalStack can be an issue if they suddenly decide to start charging
• I'd definitely much rather write plain CSS than use a framework these days, messing with Oats is just annoying
• If you're gonna delete users in an async job, probably prefer one to multiple
  • having more than one makes it difficult to reason about the order different steps execute in
  • and can lead to actions being taken more than once
• Legacy products have a lot of information about the domain which is likely to be out of date
  • e.g. not knowing there are two different categories of subscription, so treating anything from one category as 'free'

Links

• Sneaky Header Blocker Trick - Josh W. Comeau

As the title suggests, provides a way to make your header transparent when needed and 'opaque' when not which is both sneaky and not something I would've thought og.

• What we think is a decline in literacy is a design problem - Carlo Iacono

Some interesting points about the 'cognitive decline' widely measured in recent years, but with a (slightly) more hopeful spin than 'Idiocracy will be real within a decade'. As ever, the challenge remains finding quality content and engaging with it, whatever the media type, though that's made much harder by social media algorithms.