https://meetguns.com Mostly engineering. The occasional library announcement. Writing by Ganapati V S. en Copyright 2026 Ganapati V S Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT vsg.inbox@gmail.com (Ganapati V S) vsg.inbox@gmail.com (Ganapati V S) https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Next.js 1440 https://meetguns.com/blog/microcharts-word-sized-charts https://meetguns.com/blog/microcharts-word-sized-charts Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT vsg.inbox@gmail.com (Ganapati V S) Ganapati V S dataviz Why I built microcharts: 106 word-sized chart types for React. Zero dependencies, interactive at 2-7 kB, accessible by default. https://meetguns.com/blog/aborting-a-fetch-request https://meetguns.com/blog/aborting-a-fetch-request Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT vsg.inbox@gmail.com (Ganapati V S) Ganapati V S fetch Cancelling in-flight requests with AbortController: the API, the gotchas, and why your dropdowns flicker without it. https://meetguns.com/blog/introducing-react-spectrum https://meetguns.com/blog/introducing-react-spectrum Sun, 22 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT vsg.inbox@gmail.com (Ganapati V S) Ganapati V S react A small library for generating colourful text placeholders. https://meetguns.com/blog/babel-plugins-loose-mode-caveats https://meetguns.com/blog/babel-plugins-loose-mode-caveats Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT vsg.inbox@gmail.com (Ganapati V S) Ganapati V S babel What Babel's 'loose' mode actually trades away for smaller output, and when it bites.