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Welcome! I’m Andrew Patton, and this site is mostly about web dev­elop­ment and design, covering topics from tooling to user experience, from per­formance to design, and from the specific to the general. I’ve worked as a web developer and front-end engineer since 2008 and am currently exploring how to use generative AI to build websites at Outlyne.io   Learn more

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How AI Coding Agents Hid a Timebomb in Our App

When a deleted comment led to deleted code and React’s Activity component masked the infinite recursion

9 Dec 2025

Crash reports started trickling in. Users would be working as normal in the app until, without warning, the browser locked up. Behind the scenes, an infinite React component tree was...

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All Praise Perfectionist, Our New Code-Formatting Overlord

The ESLint Perfectionist plugin brings order to the chaos and sanity to even the most anal-retentive programmers

4 Feb 2025

Since I published a post about how to get the eslint-plugin-import working with Yarn PnP, I discovered a new plugin called Perfectionist that works great out of the box and...

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Older thoughts

3 Feb 2025
Lorem Picsum Is My Favorite Free Placeholder Image Service
2 Feb 2025
How-To Ban Git Merge Commits
13 Jan 2025
Making the ESLint Import Plugin Work with Yarn PnP

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