azangru

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   by azangru 3y ago

   I don't understand these attacks on Google and Chrome. Yes, Blink in general and Chrome in particular are dominant. Yes, Google has a shitload of money. But at least it invests its money in the web platform, which, if you are a web dev
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   by azangru 3y ago

   > I used to think heavy criticism of Perl's use of punctuation characters were valid, until I looked at PHP, Ruby and Rust The mandatory dollar sign in variable names looks dumb in php, I grant you that. As well as the dot for strin
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   by azangru 3y ago

   React?
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   by azangru 3y ago

   How has it been going for Purescript since its creator and maintainer Phil Freeman stepped down?
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   by azangru 3y ago

   > and migrate to some other language (most likely Bucklescript Given this was written in 2020, how has the migration to Bucklescript / Rescript / ReasonML been going?
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   by azangru 3y ago

   I am with you. I don't understand what 1:1s are for in a well-functioning team, where information flows freely. Or in a dysfunctional team, for that matter — dysfunctions can, and probably should, be addressed collectively.
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   by azangru 3y ago

   It just takes a (very) long time for me. Surprisingly, the server response time is very long even though all it sends back is a mostly empty static index.html. Is it the absence of caching that's responsible for this?
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   by azangru 3y ago

   I've never before seen a codebase that has a package-lock.json, but no package.json https://github.com/Tanza3D/reddark/
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   by azangru 3y ago

   I actually tried it in Chrome on MacOS before writing my comment, and did not see the Install button, but only the tiny install hint in the url bar. That surprised me, because I clearly remembered the button; which is why I thought that may
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    by azangru 3y ago

    > We don't need any more unsolicited banners or prompts. If you open https://squoosh.app on a phone (or in browser dev tools emulating a phone), you will see what I think is a great example of use of an install prompt th
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    by azangru 3y ago

    Tangential question: how does accessibility work in Google Docs after they've switched to canvas? Or in Google Maps, which would be a much closer parallel?
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    by azangru 3y ago

    No ads tho!
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    by azangru 3y ago

    I thought so too; but then I discovered that I was seeing seconds-long interaction delay on my old laptop after scrolling down the feed a bit. The performance profile I recorded in dev tools then looked like this: https://i.imgur
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    by azangru 3y ago

    > There must be some force here, because Twitter's UI is also garbage. It's called modern frontend, I'm afraid :-) By the way the next iteration of Reddit web UI, which this time is based on web components with Lit rather
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    by azangru 3y ago

    I think you crashed his site y'all.
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    by azangru 3y ago

    > Other than that, prob. lit-dev (with time). Yes. Nothing excites me more than web components and moving closer back to the browser. Somehow, it feels more exciting than server components, signals, compilers, resumability, etc. etc.
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    by azangru 3y ago

    OpenOffice vs LibreOffice? MySQL vs MariaDB? Glimpse vs GIMP (that one didn't go so well)
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    by azangru 3y ago

    > And then they pushed them out of the conference behind leadership's back? If I understand the story correctly, they downgraded the talk from a keynote to a regular talk. Which — if, like you say, was about purely technical thing t
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    by azangru 3y ago

    Is it up to car manufacturers to lobby legislators to regulate cars' top speed though?
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    by azangru 3y ago

    I wonder if deno will ever converge with node the way io.js did.
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    by azangru 3y ago

    > If you are using standard DOM APIs and are first changing the text of a <span> element, then changing it back to what it was before ... the browser will have to re-render the element twice As far as I understand, not if this all
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    by azangru 3y ago

    > not use bandwidth that would be tracked for streaming music while coding Is this explicitly disallowed?
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    by azangru 3y ago

    Ah, makes sense. Thank you.
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    by azangru 3y ago

    No complaints about the spread operator :-) But the plus in javascript produces this: [1,2,3] + [1,2,3] // '1,2,31,2,3' (never tried this in js before; so was amused by the result)
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    by azangru 3y ago

    > Read the following code as if it were a documentation page: If I read this as a documentation page, this makes me scared: `Order::create($validated + ['status' => 'pending']);` What does it mean to add an array t
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    by azangru 3y ago

    I looked at the schedule for the web section, and some of the talks look useful. Much has been done in the browser space: new CSS capabilities and webgpu among them.
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    by azangru 3y ago

    Same. Chrome 113 on MacOS.
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    by azangru 3y ago

    I just installed Chrome 113 on a macbook today. Either the site is super glitchy, or WebGPU in Chrome on a mac is; because I am randomly getting the "unable to create adapter" error, and a couple of times I got a weirdly flashing
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    by azangru 3y ago

    Does Github owe debt to open-source, or does open-source owe debt to Github?
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    by azangru 3y ago

    So. The article is comparing Kanban done right with Scrum done wrong. That doesn't seem fair.