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by grayrest 3y ago
> So my default is lean HTML, lean CSS, raw JS. This is fine but having spent a decade of my career doing this, I would never advocate for it in an app with any kind of frontend complexity or a chance to grow into it. The frameworks most
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by grayrest 3y ago
> maybe someone can shed some light into the downsides of Svelte Svelte trades off runtime size for component size. It was created in the context of infographics for the New York Times online and for projects that roughly line up with th
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by grayrest 3y ago
Solid works differently in that the output is implemented as a side effect of a subscription to a piece of state. Simplified, think of a signal as an event emitter and a variable with a getter and a setter. Using the getter adds its downstr
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by grayrest 3y ago
> $20 a year is a straight ripoff. Low cost has never been the priority. If you don't value their service at $20/yr they have no problem with you going elsewhere.
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by grayrest 3y ago
I worked for Squarespace 2010-2012 and the focus from management was mainly on keeping customers happy. It's not like it's ad focused and there's a need to extract maximum value from the userbase. It's possible that&#x27
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by grayrest 3y ago
As a longtime Reddit user, I immediately disliked the redesign but since I've been on the other side I decided it give it a month. I now deliberately dislike the redesign. I get most of my value out of reddit in the text subreddits and
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by grayrest 4y ago
> The average Recumbentist is a White Male, Typically with a beard >50 years old, 30% are overweigth, 30% are average build, 30% look semi/more-fit, 10% are female. I'm white, male, beardless, and 40 and am almost always the
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by grayrest 4y ago
> Is Svelte and in extension SvelteKit somehow the next step in the evolution of frontend frameworks? I personally would say no. I like Svelte's dev experience but I don't like the output code and while it has smaller invalidat
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by grayrest 4y ago
I've been laughing about this for years. I showed it to my graphic designer in 2014. She was delighted and did a small t-shirt run so I have the face on page 23 center row far right printed on a shirt.
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by grayrest 4y ago
I think Nim does DSLs particularly well and is the performant option for the Python class of scripty general purpose languages. I personally prefer more state controlled languages (Clojure, Rust) but I've considered pushing for Nim on
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by grayrest 4y ago
The site was moved from a host that got a D rating on TTFB from whatever precursor to lighthouse he's using here onto an edge cached CDN. I expect the distance to server is helping but most of the improvement is from github pages havin
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by grayrest 4y ago
Tailwind's implementation is a total mess. I have a custom preset for UnoCSS [1] focused on Tailwind compatability and use that for my company's low code platform. It's a couple orders of magnitude better for both size and
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by grayrest 4y ago
> Animation is usually the biggest pain point with frameworks like this -- and it usually feels like a complete afterthought for framework designers. It tends to be. The only (popular) JS framework where it's a first class concept i
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by grayrest 4y ago
> There’s absolutely no way you’ll have worse performance with this vs React. It's normal to get much worse performance than React if you layout thrash and it's very easy to layout thrash without batched updates. There's o
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by grayrest 4y ago
What about them? Self-adjusting computation is probably the closest term for what I call cell libraries but the only time I've seen it used outside academia is when Jane St announced their cell library. My understanding is that the ter
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by grayrest 4y ago
If you solved your problem then it's not a big deal. The web isn't that old and has been in constant churn. The signal for a shift in what's popular starts with articles like this one or the two dozen others I've seen wi
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by grayrest 4y ago
They're in the same general class of dataflow systems but the emphasis is different. Rx and other FRP libraries emphasize control over the flow of data through the observable chain: lots of combinators, explicit creation and merging of
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by grayrest 4y ago
There's a lot of gotchas/drawbacks with the current approaches, which is why it's an active area of development. Remix, Astro, Qwik, and Marko are all taking different approaches at mixing client and server side rendering.
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by grayrest 4y ago
For Dustin, since you're following the thread: The area you're covering is closely related to an active area of development within the JS frontend framework community. They consider it hydration perf work and the working terminolo
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by grayrest 4y ago
I've written quite a bit of PHP and jQuery but with that approach there's a decision when you consider writing the code if you're going to implement the feature in PHP or in jQuery. The difference with the upcoming generation
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by grayrest 4y ago
This post is part of a broader effort among emerging js frameworks to send less code down to the browser. It's not just bandwidth. The time to parse, compile, and execute the JS can take as long on a phone as the download itself For a
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by grayrest 4y ago
If you're into this sort of thing you should look into Marko. They're kind of obsessed about page load perf with the justification that it's good for e-commerce. They've also been into streaming, partial hydration, out o
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by grayrest 4y ago
> I though SpaceX catches its entire rocket (all stages) now with rafts/boats, doesn't it? SpaceX doesn't catch anything at the moment. The first stage lands itself either at the launch site or on the autonomous barge at
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by grayrest 4y ago
> Blue Origin, which I personally consider to be a vanity project I could see an argument for that given the time/resources invested compared to the results but ULA's future and a large fraction of Project Kupier's planned
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by grayrest 4y ago
> Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse) I've been semi-tracking them because they're a local NYC Clojure shop and had wondered how they were handling the social network name overlap. Glad to hear they're still around.
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by grayrest 5y ago
There's plenty of non-Vercel attempts at this and it's kind of table stakes for frameworks hoping to get popular. There is a push for server-first/MPA app development where SSR is assumed to be the baseline. Remix [1], Qwik [
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by grayrest 5y ago
It might be used this way in other commonwealth countries. In the US we'd use plan, project (personal endeavor), or program (government endeavor) instead. Scheme itself means the same thing but it's fallen out of use and the only
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by grayrest 5y ago
> Can Rust replace C or C++ yet, atleast for green field projects? Mozilla has been replacing parts of Firefox C++ with Rust for a decade. They recently celebrated Rust hitting 25% of the LoC in the main repo. More broadly, serious code
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by grayrest 5y ago
> What about Svelte? Svelte apps aren't written in JS but in Svelte's own component syntax files. It's "HTML" but all the parts are extended (JS -> reactive, HTML -> directives, CSS -> scoping) and it ne
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by grayrest 5y ago
I think it's interesting that the online recumbent community as I've encountered it is in general agreement that most styles of recumbent climb worse than a diamond frame. I say most styles because recumbent bicycle design covers

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