Bits of Hui

Ship It: The Case for Smaller Pull Requests

Large PRs don't get reviewed — they get approved. Here's how I broke a bad habit that was slowing my whole team down.

There's an inverse relationship between PR size and review quality. A 10-line PR gets read carefully, questioned, improved. A 400-line PR gets a "LGTM" within 3…

Jul 25

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css

The CSS I Rewrote After Learning Tailwind

Not a hot take post — just an honest look at what utility-first changed in how I reason about styles.

I resisted Tailwind for two years. My reasoning was principled: separation of concerns, DRY styles, semantic c…

Jul 25

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typescript

TypeScript Types I Wish I Knew Earlier

Conditional types, infer, and the satisfies operator — three features that removed most of my type-assertion hacks.

I spent a year writing TypeScript like it was JavaScript with type annotations bolted on. Types were…

Jul 25

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reactnextjs

Why I Stopped Using useEffect for Data Fetching

Jul 25

React 19 and the RSC model changed how I think about async data — and killed most of my useEffect calls overnight.

There's a rite of passage every React developer goes through: you learn about useEffect, and suddenly it's your hammer for everything. Need data? useEffect. Need to sync state? useEffect. Need to do s…

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