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by azangru 1y ago
The words "progressive" and "conservative" in this study mean only attitude towards abortion, transgenderism, and redefinition of social norms? Other things like taxes, health insurance, globalization, Palestine, United
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by azangru 1y ago
> If I stop working on a project for 3 years, will I still be able to compile it You will certainly be able to compile it. You might have hard time updating it though.
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by azangru 1y ago
Vitest, yes. Compatibility with jest is great. The ultimate win, of course, would be to use the native Node test runner. See the sourse of the Node.js website - I think they have pulled it off despite running a Node.js app.
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by azangru 1y ago
Looks to me it will be dead soon if they don't figure out how to handle ESM imports. More and more libraries stop packaging commonjs for their new versions. I've been bitten first by d3, then by graphql-request (now graffle), then
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by azangru 1y ago
I can't, of course, pretend to know what goes on in the mind of such a person; and of course I accept that people have different views; this is very plain to see. What I lament is that people with those views insist that everyone shoul
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by azangru 1y ago
But every kid at my kindergarten already had the toy. Any time they said npm install react, the new shiny toy was brought to them. I thought that's exactly what mattered to the kids, the toy. What do they care what shop the toy comes f
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by azangru 1y ago
In a well-functioning organization, the upper management set the vision and the goals for the company and for the product(s); and then let the people who do the actual work use their best judgement to move towards those goals. The upper man
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by azangru 1y ago
It's just that if I were using Vercel or Next.js (which I don't), I would be viewing my relationship with Vercel on a solely transactional basis. If they were giving away for free something that I needed (React or Next), I would t
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by azangru 1y ago
> Every decision is affected by what they really are or think. This is called micromanagement :-) I am sure there are organizations where the actual work that people do day to day is unaffected by who the people at the top are or what th
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by azangru 1y ago
Sure :-) Being baffled doesn't make one right. Nor, for that matter, does sharing a common viewpoint.
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by azangru 1y ago
To anyone excited by this news, could they explain, like I'm five, what is it that makes it exciting? Why would developers (or non-developers?) care?
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by azangru 1y ago
According to the React team page [0], five members of the team work at Vercel. This has been the case for several years. Vercel has been a major contributor in the development of React. How does the creation of the foundation make React mor
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by azangru 1y ago
Vercel employs maybe half [correction, maybe a quarter] of the React core team. For example, at the keynote at React Conf 2025, it was mentioned that Andrew Clark, who, if I am not mistaken, is employed by Vercel, worked on resolving the re
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by azangru 1y ago
I am baffled by this take that I've been seeing all over the internet recently. A CEO is a person. He is human. Can't a human be on the wrong side of history on various matters, and what does it matter if he is? Can't he stil
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by azangru 1y ago
Haha, came here to mention the light grey text on white background as well. This is a great example of poor accessibility. It should be obvious to a human eye that this is bad; but in case it weren't, one could open up Chrome dev tools
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by azangru 1y ago
> Back in its early days it was fresh and exciting, a fun way to connect with your friends that might be far away, or make new friends online. It was cozy. No ads, no feeds, no endless videos. Instead it was just people, the whole reason
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by azangru 1y ago
> Young men are online a lot and they're seeing an appeal in traditional values and group identity in opposition to individualist and technocratic norms. > The left is weak When you say that young men see appeal in group identity
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by azangru 1y ago
> React isn’t just "winning by default" It's winning because at the core it's just JavaScript function composition. This might be just a rationalization. React might be "winning" (whatever that means), becau
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by azangru 1y ago
All that build-up, only to culminate in a slight dig at react? > React piles concepts into your mental backpack: rendering models, hooks, state libraries, routing, and a build pipeline. Say no to it, and suddenly you’re the “neckbeard st
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by azangru 1y ago
I am probably being stupid; but aren't install commands run relatively rarely by developers (less than once a day perhaps)? Is it such an important issue how long it takes for `x install` to finish? Or is the concern about the time spe
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by azangru 1y ago
In the novel Tom Brown's School Days [0], published in mid 19-th century and depicting a public school in the first quarter of that century, there is a scene describing how students those days used "vulgus-books": collections
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by azangru 1y ago
No. Could you try to put your finger on what exactly in this text gives you the vibes? Also, a sibling comment suggests that "those tiles" is some sort of slop; but I find it no more sloppy than "this little web app" in
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by azangru 1y ago
I remember when beacons were recently discussed here, someone mentioned the fetchLater API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/fetchLater_...
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In a parallel discussion happening on Mastodon, someone says: > People coming from React-land can have a hard time reasoning about the difference between a custom element and a template render function and when best to use each > This
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by azangru 1y ago
> the current advise for web components is to avoid Shadow DOM (almost like the plague) Could you provide the source for this advice?
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by azangru 1y ago
> As a linux admin, I refuse to install npm or anything that requires it as a dep. It's been bad since the start. As a front-end web developer, I need a node package manager; and npm comes bundled with node.
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by azangru 1y ago
> in order to do the incredibly unpopular but morally good things Who is electing the leaders of those states if the things they do are incredibly unpopular?
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by azangru 1y ago
> But people should also be able to get apps from whatever store they want. I agree with you. But, as devil's advocate, why not suggest that Apple should be allowed to run as crappy a store as they want, while people should be free
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> And what people in western, democratic world think about it? People are usually asked to 'think about the children'. Pedophiles, drugs, suicides, self-harm, cyberbullying; and whatever other horror stories the media has at ha
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> Can it also now load ES5 modules? ES5 standard (released in 2009) didn't have modules.

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