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eosfpodcast@universeodon.com ("Rod Faulkner") wrote:

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WPalant@infosec.exchange ("Yellow Flag") wrote:

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Regular reminder that "less lines of code" DOES NOT necessarily equal "less logical complexity".

Aim for the latter, not the former! Nobody with any real engineering experience cares if your code is verbose. People care if your code is structured, safe, predictable, auditable.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Infinitely angry about Vercel douches admitting what the honest folks warned teams about them 3+ years ago.

Next.js is damage; route around accordingly

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

would like to say I'm nonplussed by frontend complexity merchants admitting-by-any-other-name that their efforts have been fully focused on removing critique of React dogma.

Religion is toxic in bad forms, y'all.

Do right by users while you can.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Remember: the JS-first crowd admitting that they had no fucking idea how the browser works is, at time and all places, a redeemable token.

They do not undersatand.

They are proud of it.

If you don't nope out, they'll f your product too.

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

To this day this remains the best music video to Daft Punk's Harder Better Faster Stronger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c4OLRogW0I

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Look, it's fun to taunt the JS uber ales kidz for their ridiculous misunderstandings of how browsers, networks, and CPUs actually work, but I think it's important for us to remember how dumb they were about garbage collection and hidden class transition overhead.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

If you'd like to understand React '23, look no further than Web '16. Per usual, they're only most of a decade late!:

https://youtu.be/4bZvq3nodf4

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Dear JavaScript:

Know that I say this with love: if it ain't your CPU, you are not welcome. Please back away slowly and respect the natural rituals of replacement and memory allocation.

-- yours, eveyone in your family that didn't "make it" in a sad Sunnyvale efficiency

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andy@bell.bz ("Andy Bell") wrote:

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• The creator of next.js tweets that SPAs were a zero interest rate phenomenon (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The JS community thought I was against them when I gave this talk 7+ years ago, identifying the budding crisis they had zero interest in solving:

https://youtu.be/4bZvq3nodf4

If you buy another lemon from these complexity merchents, in 2023, it's univocal proof that you're a *terrible* manager:

https://infrequently.org/2022/05/performance-management-maturity/

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ashleygjovik@mstdn.social ("Ashley M. Gjøvik, J.D.") wrote:

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• image of article linked (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

OH: "we have de-optimised for developer experience"

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Folks, don't reward B.S. artists that are unrepentant about selling you a lemon used Hummer when you finally decide to get an EV.

Even if they have 'em on the lot, I promise, they're still f'ing you *somehow*.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

You know what *didn't* cause the React community to admit HTML-first folk have been right all along?

Project Aurora.

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

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poppastring@dotnet.social ("Mark Downie") wrote:

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• A list of share buttons with Mastodon highlighted in red. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I believe mastodon.social might be under a DDoS attack currently, investigating. Sorry for the inconvenience!

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

No reason to mention this today. None at all.

But I've still got a box full of "Anti JavaScript JavaScript Club" stickers.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Folks telling you in 2023 that SPAs aren't appropriate for most sites who *weren't* telling you that in 2016? These are not thought leaders, they are boat anchors.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

So I guess the Twitter JS community is admitting it was full of shit and the lost decade was a mistake? Amazing.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Measuring the diameter of a #spider (Steatoda triangulosa) egg.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/01/30/in-case-you-wondered-how-big-a-spider-egg-is/

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• Clutch of spider eggs (remote)

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wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social ("Wesley Moore") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

screw the snow, I’m still grilling

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allafarce@hachyderm.io ("Dave Guarino") wrote:

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vertigo@hackers.town ("Vertigo #$FF") wrote:

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jeff@newsie.social ("Jeff") wrote: