@firegiantco CEO & Co-Founder | Benevolent Dictator of @wixtoolset | RobMensching.com for more information
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Jun 5
I have mixed feelings about Cloudflare acquiring VoidZero. I like Cloudflare but I hoped to see Vite be "enough" to fund its own development. I felt the same with Astro. robmensching.com/blog/posts/…
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Apr 28
Going to take a break from here. Given the algorithm, I expect no one will really notice. :)
Building a lot this summer. Be back when I have something to show for it.
Given the algorithm, I expect no one will really notice. :)
You can find me at robmensching.com
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Apr 28
Grace. That's the word. Our discourse today could use more grace.
Well said, Maggie.
Apr 28
I don't work on reliability & scaling at GitHub, but the people who do aren't bad at their jobs. They're dealing with unprecedented scale from agents.
It's easy to shit on GitHub from the outside if you're not in charge of 30X-ing capacity within a few months. Have some grace.
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Apr 28
I find much of the discourse around GitHub discouraging. The world changed on them faster than most. They need to improve to handle it. They know they need to improve. Everything suggests they are working on it.
Punching them while they do so is not productive, IMHO.
Apr 28
Being the foundation for millions of developers means our bar must be higher for availability, reliability, and security. I’m sorry it’s been a rocky stretch at GitHub. We know we need to do better.
Today we published an update on two recent incidents: one on April 23 involving merge queue behavior, and one on April 27 affecting pull requests, issues, projects, and search-backed experiences.
We’re taking this seriously. We’re listening, and you have my commitment that we’ll communicate more frequently about the work underway to improve reliability and scale GitHub for what comes next.
github.blog/news-insights/co…
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Apr 28
How does one post with such conviction and a completely flawed understanding about the fundamentals about which they are talking?
I think I need to leave for a while. The state of things here makes me sad.
Apr 27
This is such a complete misunderstanding of how complicated it was to do this within Microsoft when he did it. Plotting telemetery is one thing. Getting the largest software vendor, at the time, to coordinate that all software within needs to play nice with this one tool is not.
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Apr 24
When I introduced the OSMF, people told me that enforcement would be my biggest problem. It wasn't and isn't.
Procurement remains the biggest pain point.
The challenge is that there is little I can do to fix the root issue. Instead, the OSMF serves as a simple forcing function.
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Apr 17
I'm not big on DDD but defining the Ubiquitous Language and mapping Bounded Contexts is a hugely valuable process to go through when designing a large system with LLMs.
It helps organize your thinking and improves the chances you and your Agents start on the same page.
Apr 16
I'm starting to think that DDD might be the answer to all of my problems
- Model not doing what you want? Shared language
- Can't navigate a massive codebase? Bounded contexts with global mapping
- Don't know why a decision was made? ADR's
It's just so freaking elegant
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Apr 9
I'm "stuck" testing codex at FireGiant. I asked Claude to double-check some code and test coverage. It first said the code was designed and implemented well (thank you very much), and Claude found 4 cases where test coverage was missing and offered to fix them.
Cool. Make it so:
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Apr 9
> Do these tests pass, or is there a specific variation you'd still like added?
Uhh, thanks, Claude. Yeah, they pass. That's why I asked you to review the code, not implement it.
codex has never done that... but I do prefer the way Claude communicates. Subtly better, IMO.
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Apr 8
WiX v7 released without a hitch. HeatWave, small hitch. You can read/listen about it in this month's WiX online meeting recap.
Apr 8
WiX Online Meeting 306 Highlights firegiant.com/blog/2026/4/8/…
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Apr 8
Finally got around to watching Juxt redesign Apple Music. I learned that not only does she have incredible design skills, but she also has excellent taste in music.
Fun video (as they all are).
Apr 4
(you convinced me to post it :D so here it goes.)
New video out: I Redesigned Apple Music.
watch now: youtu.be/yT_aFozeDc8
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Apr 4
Not practical, but waaaay cool.
the guy keeps saying "you can already do this with a canvas behind the element" so here is another gratuitous animation where the scanline physically distorts the form content as it passes (warping the actual rendered HTML pixels)
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Mar 31
Well, looks like the legal case may happen waaaaay faster than I thought it would. Feels like everything is happening faster these days.
Anyway, the legal repercussions of this move could be incredibly far reaching.
Mar 31
This is either brilliant or scary:
Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA.
BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down!
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Mar 17
Very happy to see @adamhjk posting again. He writes many things I'm thinking, but still struggling (or afraid) to articulate.
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Mar 11
This is neat. It's a lot like the @wixtoolset release cadence. A bit longer LTS, but only a little bit longer, which probably makes sense, as they are quite a bit bigger.
Node.js is moving to one major release per year starting with Node 27! 🚀
✅ Simpler: Every release becomes LTS.
✅ Predictable: Version numbers now align with the year.
✅ New: A 6-month Alpha channel for early testing.
Read why we’re evolving: bit.ly/4rnosLg
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Mar 10
No, they don't. I was taught this in 1999 when I joined Office. Right click can never be the only way to accomplish a task because many customers will not find it.
Maybe that's changed some in the last 25 years but it doesn't sound like it.
Mar 9
I was showing my wife something on my macbook at the weekend. Told her to "right click" on the trackpad. She had no idea what I was talking about. Asked a friend that came over too and was met with the same confusion. Having an existential crisis. Does no one use right click?!?
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