Jacob Bleser

Fiance, writer, photographer, product engineer at Discord

Web dev, ADHD, Dungeons and Dragons, tech culture, gaming, and social media.

Living in Brooklyn

Now

Obsessing over personal sites with the aesthetics of social media pages

muan.co

Posts

  1. Modern web dev
  2. Optimize down not up
  3. React in 2024
  4. How I write CSS in 2024
  5. The many kinds of functions

Modern web dev

Modern web dev is 3 things:

  • Design engineering: The ability to express visual design and interaction design in the actual physical product
  • Peripheral engineering: The ability to utilitize the various platforms features offered to us. This is almost always netcode, but is also things like wasm and cookies and pwa and so on
  • Operations engineering: The ability to host and release the product These are horizontal skills. Feature development pierces into all 3