Steve Krouse
@stevekrouse.com
12 days ago Ironically, legibility as a concept isn't as legible as it should be? There's no really good book or blog post on what it is and why it's important!
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Ironically, legibility as a concept isn't as legible as it should be? There's no really good book or blog post on what it is and why it's important!
THREE CHEERS FOR LEGIBILITY!!!
Take a look at the plugin
github.com/davidmyersde... Using an npm package that depends on Node built-ins like `Buffer`, `stream`, or `crypto`? Using it in the browser requires polyfills
vite-plugin-node-polyfills to the rescue!
And v0.24 now works with @vite.dev 8 + @rolldown.rs, and automatically uses Rolldown's native inject for better performance Check out the docs!
pris.ly/docs/optimi... Want to see what Prisma is sending to your database and how long it takes?
You can log the raw SQL and execution time with a few lines: Find image optimization opportunities with Observability (video).
Yes, you can literally identify which asset is eating your bandwidth.
developers.netlify.com/videos/ident... Did you know that Prisma ORM lets you control how relations are loaded?
Use relationLoadStrategy: 'join' | 'query':
- join runs a single DB query with joins
- query runs multiple simpler queries
Check it out👇
pris.ly/d/relation-... My latest obsession has been optimising webhook events from Ghost to Netlify. I needed a way to filter out large payloads sent to Netlify. Using @val.town as a webhook middleware, I can strip payloads and skip triggering builds for certain posts.
jonathanyeong.com/writing/usin... To start 2026 I officially joined @stevekrouse.com, @macwright.com, and co. at @val.town as a programmer-writer, part-time while I continue writing my book :)
Val Town's founding poem is still my favorite way to describe what it is:
> If GitHub Gists could run
> And AWS Lambda were fun it's working
Debugging legacy prerendering?
This support guide walks through testing, common pitfalls, and ways to confirm bots are getting prerendered HTML.
answers.netlify.com/t/support-gu... I wrote some advice for college kids in 2026, what I learned since college, what I wish someone told me, etc
stevekrouse.com/advice Node.js shipped a security update for an async_hooks DoS issue.
On Netlify, impact is minimal (autoscaling serverless isolates requests), but exploitation can increase cold starts + function costs.
If your Functions use Node 18, upgrade to 20+. www.netlify.com/changelog/20... If you’re designing AI endpoints, understand the credit model early so you can set sensible limits + guardrails.
📄 Docs: docs.netlify.com/manage/accou... Look up. T-minus 24 hours 🛰️
Bandwidth spike? Filter by content type first.
Images, JS bundles, fonts, PDFs. Find the culprit.
docs.netlify.com/manage/monit... 🎉 1 billion+ queries on Prisma Postgres
Thanks to every developer, team, and company building with Prisma Postgres, shipping real apps, and trusting us with real workloads.
Thanks for being part of the journey 💙 Continuing to have AI build a weird game demo a day. Here is: "Make a game where you have to prevent the apocalypse, but the interface is just Jira tickets"
Pretty fun/funny branching storyline, all text is AI created with minor feedback from me. Play: gentle-bienenstitch-01e24b.netlify.app pretty wild that you can send "timings" from the backend to browsers and they'll visualize them for you
source code link should be: www.val.town/x/alexmcrobe... What we like about the new Prerender extension: visibility and control.
Logs, observability, and platform-native behavior instead of a black box.
www.netlify.com/blog/prerend...