Chance

@chance.dev

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Senior useEffect engineer @workos.bsky.social

iPhone screenshot showing an active text field where the “clear field” button and “cancel” button are right next to one another and look basically the same, making them extremely easy to confuse and perform the wrong action.
A middle aged, white, red haired, bearded man standing shirtless in front of the mirror trying to be confident and sexy for random people on the internet for validation of his continued existence
6 electric guitars hanging on a wall. From left to right: 1. Fender Jazzmaster in olive drab green 2. Fender Tom Delonge Starcaster in Shoreline gold 3. Fender Thinline Telecaster in a dark brown stain 4. Fender HH Strat in Fiesta Red 5. Epiphone Firebird in Ember Red 6. Custom build HH Jazzmaster in Pearl White
Off white T shirt with a retro-geometric design variation of the Radix UI logo.
Presentation stage with a large screen reading “React Alicante. The international React.js conference in Spain”
Screenshot from the React docs: When to use useEffectEvent You should use useEffectEvent for functions that are conceptually "events" that happen to be fired from an Effect instead of a user event (that's what makes it an "Effect Event"). You don't need to wrap everything in useEffectEvent, or to use it just to silence the lint error, as this can lead to bugs. For a deep dive on how to think about Event Effects, see: Separating Events from Effects.
Tweet that reads: @chancethedev is giving a talk on React’s new features. October 7-8, 2025 at React Conf. conf.react.dev
Me holding a bass in a music studio throwing a 🤙 gesture
screenshot showing a StreamYard account named "OnlyChan.*s"
Me holding a medal after running a marathon in Antarctica
Selfie of me after my 10th half marathon, smiling and holding a medal. 13.16 miles in 1 hour 44 minutes, 7:54 minute per mile pace.
A drum set all mic’d up ready to record, in front of a wall of guitar amps in a music studio
Screenshot of the Rev Left Radio podcast
Selfie of my flipping the ol bird during a running race. Stats show a half marathon in 1:50 at 8:20 minute per mile pace.
Jack Nicholson as the Joker, dancing and breaking things during the painting scene in the 1989 Batman movie
Selfie with me and my lovely new wife at our wedding wearing the fanciest of wedding things
New Epiphone Firebird V guitar in red with a white pickguard
Snippet from a news article about Italian cardinals who may succeed the pope, highlighting the last name of one: “Another Italian possibility is Cardinal Piersbattista Pizzaballa…”
Text message screenshot reading “plane crashed, texting you from hell”
Photo of the bay in Miami with Strava stats overlayed for a 12 mile, 1 hour 46 minute run
Standing on stage smiling and relaxed next to Dave as he live codes intensely for a captivated crowd
A drum kit set up and mic’s up in a dark recording studio
Me and Chan looking at each other with straight faces while making silly gestures with our hands. Chan is sticking the index finger of one hand into the fist of the other, while I am interlocking my fingers
A web-recreation of a Wheel-of-Fortune style wheel, but instead of money values each segment shows a UI related concept with "React 19" in the middle of the spin button
Screenshot of a GitHub issue showing Next.is has a critical security bug with its middleware
:root { interpolate-size: allow-keywords; } .content { /* property value never changes, but size does when content changes */ height: calc-size(fit-content, size); } @media (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) { /* this does not work :( presumably because height property value has not changed? */ .content { transition: height 0.35s ease; } }
Me standing on a colorfully lit stage playing guitar
Me with an electric guitar, gesturing and cheesing for the camera in a small, poster-covered rehearsal space next to a woman holding a bass guitar and similarly cheesing for the camera.
CSS snippet body:has(dialog[open]) { overflow: hidden !important; }
Chuck Schumer pretending to grill burgers showing cold unsalted patties and unmelted cheese
Selfie, me in a sports bar wearing a Buffalo Bills tshirt
Chance Strickland: Software engineer, WorkOS Talk title: "Are you smarter than a React Component?" April 17-18 2025 ReactMiami.com
Two Notes Captor X Torpedo load box
Blurry late night action shot of me mindlessly dancing in a dimly lit bar dressed in a half-buttoned floral shirt and bejeweled police captain hat, rocking a neatly trimmed mustache to top it all off.
Selfie of me and my gal, lounging cozily on the couch in our PJs on Christmas morning
Me holding a medium order of Bo Rounds from Bojangles
Early morning view from the plane just before sunrise. The sky is a cotton-candy blue-pink gradient with sparse clouds. A thick layer of fog hides the ground, with mountains faintly present in the distance.
Discord modal reading: “Update failed - retrying in 6 seconds”
Screenshot of the Radix UI website
Snippet from React Docs: This special treatment comes with two caveats: - React will ignore changes to props after the style has been rendered. (React will issue a warning in development if this happens.) - React may leave the style in the DOM even after the component that rendered it has been unmounted.
Selfie of me wearing a dark gray Slayer tee shirt with an intricate metal graphic in white and red
Screenshot from Next docs: Adding Global CSS In Next.js, you can add global CSS files by importing them from pages/_app.js. You cannot import global CSS anywhere else. The reason that global CSS can't be imported outside of pages/_app.js is that global CSS affects all elements on the page. If you were to navigate from the homepage to the /posts/first-post page, global styles from the homepage would affect /posts/first-post unintentionally.
Manipulated photo of Obama book cover, title reads “The audacity of Nope”
TypeScript code snippet: const INPUT_BUTTON_TYPES = new Set([ "button", "color", "file", "image", "reset", "submit", ] as const); // "button" | "color" | "file" | "image" | "reset" | "submit" type InputButtonType = typeof INPUT_BUTTON_TYPES extends Set<infer T> ? T : never; export function isButtonLike( element: Element, ): element is HTMLInputElement & { type: InputButtonType };
Typescript code block. declare function A<T>(value: T): Truthy<T> extends never ? false : true; declare function B<T>(value: T): T declare function C<T>(value: T): T extends string ? T : T extends number | bigint | boolean | null | undefined ? `${T}` : never; declare function D<T>(value: T): T extends number ? `${T}` : T; // inferred as type string const ATest = A(""); // inferred as type "" const BTest = B(""); // inferred as type string const CTest = C(""); // inferred as type "" const DTest = D(""); type Truthy<T> = T extends false | "" | 0 | null | undefined ? never : T;
Code snippet showing an array filtered using the Boolean constructor still may contain falsey values
Close-up of a text link showing an icon after the text indicating that it's an external link
1password extension screenshot that reads "You're asked to re-enter your password because Chrome has an update available"
Uncle Phil from The fresh prince saying “we?” incredulously to Will before laughing and walking out the door.
iOS search screen showing no results for “Hide my email” which is the literal name of a feature in iOS settings
Calm blue ocean at sunset with a blue-orange gradient sky dotted with sparse clouds
Tom from MySpace
Snippet from an article: “We’re ahead of my opponent, and I feel comfortable with our polling,” she insisted. “Our polling is a little different. We take polling, but we also combine it with AI, which reads all of what’s happening on social media and across the Internet.”
New Fender guitar: American Ultra II Meteora. An offset electric guitar in black "texas tea" finish, double humbuckers and a fixed hardtail bridge.
Selfie, me posing in a crowd with the 🤙 after a successful 10k
The book “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” sitting on my lap with a view of the ocean on a cloudy day
Sunset Cliffs, San Diego CA, on a sunny evening just before sunset
Meme of a cartoon man looking down at a phone smiling while a semi-transparent version of his face appears to float away with a sullen look of sadness and disappointment
Running stats: 5k PR, 5.11 miles, 7:33 minute per mile pace