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Surma

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Surma

@DasSurma

DX & monorepo at @ShopifyEng Craving simplicity, finding it nowhere. Internetrovert 🏳️‍🌈 He/him.

Bristol, UK

Joined June 2008

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Surma
@DasSurma
Jun 17, 2025
📝 First blog in a long time! I always like “flow-based” programming, and it’s a very powerful paradigm. LangGraph lets you codify complex workflows as graphs, and also integrates really well with LangChain, if your workflow is LLM-driven.
LangGraph for complex workflows — surma.dev
From surma.dev
Surma
@DasSurma
Jan 21, 2019
*sigh* okay: Frontend dev: hard. Backend dev: hard. Language design: hard. Writing docs: hard. HTML/CSS: hard. UI design: hard. Communicating: hard. Leading people: hard. Management: hard. It's all hard. Each one of these is an endless rabbit hole. And it's not a competition.
Surma
@DasSurma
Nov 8, 2019
Incrementing variables in for-loops i++ - overused - nonsensical - imbalanced i-=-1 - hipster - expressive - symmetric
Surma
@DasSurma
Jan 10, 2018
My password generator just spat out a password that starts with <H1> and ends with </H1> and now I’m seriously questioning the RNG...
Surma
@DasSurma
Mar 30, 2022
Happy accident: Had my ultra-wide monitor in split-screen mode and plugged in the same laptop via USB-C and HDMI. This might be my favorite set up yet.
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Surma
@DasSurma
Feb 14, 2022
I wish I had known about this a couple years ago: A really detailed, interactive diagram of WebGL’s internal, global state object, where you can see how each WebGL API call affects said object. webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/…
Surma
@DasSurma
Dec 27, 2018
Mini function of the day: `nextEvent()`. Gives you a promise for the next event of a certain type. Really nice in conjunction with async/await.
Surma
@DasSurma
Oct 25, 2022
It’s been 0 days since a new build system for JS came out.
Surma
@DasSurma
Oct 4, 2017
TIL: If you hover a request while holding shift in Chrome DevTools, the initiator while be green, and all child requests will be red.
Surma
@DasSurma
Jan 4, 2022
New year. New city. New job. After almost 7 years, I left the Web DevRel team at Google today. It was an incredibly tough decision, but I think it was the right decision for me. I’ll miss working with this incredible group of people on a daily basis.
Surma
@DasSurma
May 16, 2018
TIL: `document.getElementsByClassName()` & Co return _live_ `NodeList`s. `document.querySelectorAll()` returns a _static_ `NodeList`. Use `querySelectorAll()`, people!
Surma
@DasSurma
Oct 27, 2018
Looking for a Senior React Hooks engineer with at least 4 years experience. DMs are open.
Surma
@DasSurma
Jul 4, 2022
🎉 As of today, @ShopifyEng is officially a member of Ecma and I will be one of the delegates for TC39. Feeling pretty chuffed I get to continue pushing JavaScript forward.
Surma
@DasSurma
Oct 28, 2017
This is your reminder to enable Brotli on your servers. It beats gzip in compression ratio and decompression speed. caniuse.com/#feat=brotli