Rachel Cantor

React's whole promise was to be declarative and tree-like, but useEffect quietly reintroduced the timeline, and most codebases leaned into it. Moves like banning useEffect aren't just about agents. They're about closing the gap between what React promised and how it's actually...

Patreon's engineering team just published a deep dive on their seven-year TypeScript migration. The part that stuck with me: the typed foundation had to come first, or none of the tooling could be trusted. Wrote up a how-to on that infrastructure-first approach, including an...

Here's the tl;dr on how I handle feature development using Cursor as a solo dev:

1. Pick a feature and use the plan tool with blocking/non-blocking tasks in mind

2. Ask Cursor to analyze the plan for gaps in logic and unintended consequences

3. Use Cursor Composer to execute tasks...

Building RecipeCast solo meant I was my own QA, accessibility expert, and code reviewer. I needed AI to remember my preferences without me repeating them constantly. See how I use Cursor rules to ship consistent code: https://rachel.fyi/posts/say-less-with-cursor-rules/