hasanhaja

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by hasanhaja 2y ago
I urge you to read Alex's Reckoning series. > performance concerns in the real world are typically measured in, at worst, hundreds of milliseconds. I think outside of the privilege bubble where a significant percentage of the world
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by hasanhaja 2y ago
> Building a web application with a UI in a professional context without a frontend build is borderline malpractice. Why do you think that? What problem is a build tool solving for you that without it you think you're being irrespon
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by hasanhaja 2y ago
> is just a nice templating lib Are these templates only used on the server-side to generate the HTML upfront? Or is it being generated on the client? > experience when you inevitably have to add some interactivity is going to be 10
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by hasanhaja 2y ago
What do you hate about 11ty?
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by hasanhaja 2y ago
What do you mean specifically when you say? > DOM be a function of the state I understand the benefits of the mental model, but the tooling that delivers that generally have a lot of complexity that isn't trivial to parse and unders
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by hasanhaja 2y ago
They offer a higher level abstraction that might make interacting with the underlying APIs a little more egonomic. For example, Python being used a scripting language for AI and other data science things. The performant APIs that the Python
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by hasanhaja 2y ago
I'm currently reading a book called "Technofeudalism" by Yanis Varoufakis that investigates things along the lines you've said. My main takeaway so far is "Capitalism" hasn't always been one thing and it h
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by hasanhaja 2y ago
The following example isn't a tech product, but it demonstrates the outrageous anticompetitive practices some of these monopolies engage in to suffocate people who are just building their own shit: Chokepoint Capitalism with Cory Docto
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by hasanhaja 2y ago
I urge you to read "Technofeudalism" by Yanis Varoufakis or "The Internet Con" by Cory Doctorow to appreciate why this is extremely difficult for consumers and entrepreneurs, and not just an inconvenience.
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by hasanhaja 2y ago
> Even though the rules are great, I'm just not sure if it will be good or bad long term for EU. We can speculate this all we want, but I think it's fair to say with confidence that leaving companies unregulated (or poorly regu
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by hasanhaja 3y ago
I think this has a lot to do with your points. > Typically, cutting edge features are deployed by browser makers in their own engines first, then, using real world feedback over several years, eventual standards are created. No feature s
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by hasanhaja 3y ago
The closed aspect directly speaks to how much diversity you can have on the platform. The features (like WebUSB) aren't the drivers for a more open platform, but they highlight what the impact of having no competition does. Opening up
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by hasanhaja 3y ago
I'd highly recommend this document to establish the scale of impact these different vendors have: https://open-web-advocacy.org/walled-gardens-report/ Google is definitely not in the clear, but Apple's anti-c
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by hasanhaja 3y ago
> That doesn’t mean that we should just adopt any nonsense that Google comes up with. That's a fair statement. Conversely, why should we put up with Apple stifling the web platform? Especially when there's strong evidence to sh
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by hasanhaja 3y ago
The desktop might be quite diverse, but the diversity on closed, proprietary ecosystems like iOS is controlled by one party. Either, we open up iOS so anyone can distribute apps without Apple being the ultimate authority (like on MacOS), or
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by hasanhaja 3y ago
Here's a pre-built one that I found that even lets you customize the debounce amount: https://ionicframework.com/docs/api/searchbar#debounce The Stackblitz example is quite good too. I'll give it shot to
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by hasanhaja 3y ago
This is a better and more concrete example of the point made in the article: - https://www.zachleat.com/web/details-utils The `details-utils` component enhances the behavior of the built-in HTML `detail` component. If
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by hasanhaja 3y ago
I think this is a little gatekeep-y. Building static sites is real engineering. When you're building a site that scales in content (for e.g. one that contains thousands of pages that are updated regularly) you need to really know what
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by hasanhaja 3y ago
What would a non-trivial example look like to you? I'm working on building exactly this resource alongside a series of posts on web components.
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by hasanhaja 3y ago
How does the React part of your page work without JavaScript enabled? Are you using a static site generator (or another server side rendering tool) like Next.js?
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by hasanhaja 3y ago
Honestly, if that's what the research shows I think that needs to be considered. It'd be healthy to challenge those claims, and engage with how and why your revision control tool is hurting UX.
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by hasanhaja 3y ago
That's a fair point. I didn't consider that
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by hasanhaja 3y ago
I don't feel it's fair to brand "web components" as a technology that was in direct competition with React. I think the nuance matters. They may have been solving similar problems then, and they may be optimized for diff
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by hasanhaja 3y ago
What do you mean by: > Quoting Alex Russel suggests you are more interested in heat than light I know he's said a lot of harsh things about frameworks like React, Css-in-js, etc, but I've read all of them from the perspective o
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by hasanhaja 3y ago
+1 Have you been exploring any other technologies since React?
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by hasanhaja 3y ago
Why would a business want to prioritize the experience of its developers over its users?
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by hasanhaja 3y ago
Solid as a React alternative, and Astro as a Next.js alternative. SolidStart is pretty cool, but I like the flexibility of Astro