Brian Holt
🐘 staff pm at neon
👨🏫 frontend masters teacher
👨💻 prev stripe, microsoft, netflix, reddit, snowflake
👨🎓 seattle university mba
🐻 sacramento, ca
- Intermediate React v6 on @frontendmasters.com is out!! Master React 19 and create high-performance apps! Build projects using React Server Components, static site generation, and server-side rendering. Save $10 on your first month with this link! holt.fyi/intermediate...
- Intermediate React v6 is happening tomorrow on @frontendmasters.com! Stream it for free on the home page! Really excited to do this one, we're covering all sorts of React server shenanigans including RSCs as well as how to make React be and act performant. Starts tomorrow at 9:30-ish Central!
- Anyone using Homey for home automation stuff? I'm getting ready to set up my new house and I'm just curious if I should try Homey or just stick to Home Assistant. More than anything I need good UX to convince my wife to use it. She doesn't like how confusing Home Assistant can be.
- My new course, Complete Intro to React, v9, is now available on @frontendmasters.com! Subscribe with this link and get $10 off your first month! frontendmasters.com/join/?code=H...
- "It's written in Rust" is not a feature of your app. "It's blazing fast" is a hollow claim that makes me doubt it. Please stop putting these things on your homepage. Please show me why your tool/app/whatever makes my work easier/cheaper/faster-to-iterate.
- Here are the annual Brian Holt "who the fuck asked you" Top 15 albums of 2024! 1. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disc 2. Jamie xx - In Waves 3. IDLES - TANGK 4. Ghostly Kisses - Darkroom 5. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming 6. Justice - Hyperdrama 7. Kendrick Lamar - GNX
- Is the Ubiquiti Dream Machine still best set up for a home network? - Good UI/UX is important - 2Gbps Internet - Cat 6 in the walls - Need PoE for cameras - I'm too dumb to run EdgeRouter. I did for years and hated it - I do have WiFi 7 devices and two spots to ceiling mount APs - Lots of devices
- This was so fun. It was such a fun day being silly with @jason.energy @zeu.dev and @badcop.live. And I got to make a tiny pomerian that shits all over your code. youtu.be/pn5Jju4FNG4?...
- If you’re at Microsoft Ignite, come find me at the neon.tech booth starting in 15 mins! (10:30AM Central). I have Neon key caps and chargers!
- SQL from the frontend? I mean, you kinda can now, and Neon Authorize makes it pretty easy to get going with. Give Gomes' post a read and give me your spiciest take on it. neon.tech/blog/sql-fro...
- This new Imogen Heap is very much my vibe this morning. Best track from her since Hide & Seek open.spotify.com/track/17R2aa...
- Oh man, htmx is kinda fun.
