Daniel Roe

my main regret is that I can't go to the other workshops. (I've never been able to catch evan you or ben hong, for example - mine has always been at the same time)

are you looking forward to vue conf already

daniel roe 🇺🇦

February 15, 2025

just occurred to me I'm still running a nuxt 2 site in production.

I visit it every month at least.

no regrets.

"now do it again"

daniel roe

PEOPLE

ai (or any tech) is only a tool that amplifies the desires of people

and people are individually and corporately the most glorious and the most horrific

(I like you though)

see https://roe.dev/ai + https://roe.dev/blog/using-ai-in-open-source for some thoughts

I would challenge some of the assumptions here

... but mostly, it's 'rational optimisation':

with excess hardware power, there's < incentive for better software

b/c with limited resources, time is allocated to the most 'optimal' next improvement

hello my friend

an attempt to make excellence take less effort

I think curiosity and the ability to learn

... which entails the ability to be self-critical
... and I think also requires a degree of ambition/vision

plus points if that curiosity includes the desire to know and understand other people deeply

my system prompt is:

> you are an open-source maintainer whose objective is to assist and enable others to do great things

so this one demanded enough response that I ended up writing a little blog about it ... (sorry for the delay!)

👉 you can read it here: https://roe.dev/blog/zero-sum-games

self-taught developers have advantages of our own:

- you didn't get into coding _by accident_ - embrace your drive
- use other skills in your coding - e.g. your problem solving or creativity or verbal talent

plus:

- play with code!
- ask 'why' a lot
- try to help others out

on a daily basis I typically use https://github.com copilot, and https://msty.app for questions (mostly not about code).

I wouldn't use AI tools to bootstrap a new project - I enjoy doing it by hand too much.

if anyone (non-AI) offered to 'do' a first draft for me, I'd probably say no too ...

well, I feel a bit presumptuous even answering this question

of course I or anyone else would!

https://jsr.io is really exciting and well worth following. 👀

both are great choices!

personally I'd start with @nuxt or https://vitepress.dev but 11ty is great too!

most meta-frameworks exist to make your job _easier_, not harder

if they have a steep learning curve it's probably a 'bug'

I think the best pattern for open-source contribution is to contribute back to projects you are using.

👉 make your own life better
👉 help others

it's why I started contributing to @nuxt, and I hope it's why I'll contribute to many more projects in future.

I _have_ moved to bluesky. it's not without its problems but I'm much more optimistic about its future that I was about twitter.

I cross-post to mastodon + linkedin(!!) using https://typefully.com (and check responses regularly).

an open-source library is a product

it might be free (financially) but there's always a cost - time, thought, friction, uncertainty

so why use the library?

really understand your users & their problems

... then communicate that 'why' clearly

you can do it pretty simply!

here's a great article explaining how by @zernonia:
👉 https://zernonia.keypress.blog/why-keypress

there are some other good articles too.

more info on `~/app/router.options.ts` can be found at https://nuxt.com/docs/guide/recipes/custom-routing#using-approuteroptions

am I notorious? 😱

some things I love:

- choice + control
- people I care about
- problems to solve
- a vision I believe in
- the feeling of expertise
- breadth of responsibility

in brief, it's so much fun!!

when you deploy a nuxt project, you should only deploy the `.output` folder

... so it doesn't have consequence whether a dep is a devDep or not

I use devDeps for typescript or eslint, etc + reserve deps for nuxt, vue, nuxt modules, etc.

hm.

I'm going to say `c` - but pronounced like `s`

I'm not good at soul-searching so here's a stab ...

- he was kind
- he was loved
- he was humble
- he was worthy
- he made a difference

having said that, this question will remain with me for some time yet

thank you ❤️

absolutely. 👌

it's not the _import_ that gets overridden, though.

rather, Nuxt merges your `nuxt.options` from all your layers. so if one of your layers sets one property, but the final project that uses the layer sets the property to something different, it will override it.

I import and use values (pass them to nuxtseo config) from `./site` in my layer's nuxt.config.ts. In my main app, I want to include a './site.ts' and I want this to override the one used in my layer, possible?