TWIL December 12th 2025

• Having a two person team is challenging when one of you is out and the other is blocked by PR review
• You can't read Rails' encrypted cookies in a test (at least by default)
  • Since the test cookie object doesn't implement encrypted
• Someone once decided to make a 'Link' component which can be a button, link or just plain text
  • but the button can have a to attribute
  • the text can have an onClick which can navigate, effectively making it back into a link
  • something intended to be an actual a tag can become a button because you passed on onClick prop
• So in summary sometimes you can DRY things way too much
• Especially when a, button & span are already native elements

Links

• Controlling dialogs and popovers with the Invoker Commands API - Audrey Sambor

More functionality you don't need JS for is always nice, the best code is the code you don't write (because browser devs much smarter than you already did).

• Pop that bubble -

An AI takedown but from a scifi writer, which is a fresh perspective.