hootbootscoot

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by hootbootscoot 7y ago
bandcamp. it's turned into a bit of a community, and you can rest assured that sales go to the releasing entity (8% bandcamp fee.) as well as not shunting sales into low-return streaming. I use it both for my musical releases and for f
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by hootbootscoot 7y ago
Well, either that or polyfill. Transpiling to JS may be a product of other motives (Typescript, Svelte, Elm etc.) While Ruby is pretty and all, I don't find that I'm enjoying the lie that is ES6, and don't even get me started
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by hootbootscoot 7y ago
trying to shoehorn a synchronous model onto an asynchronous state machine, are we?
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by hootbootscoot 7y ago
except that front end web dev is hard for political, rather than comp-sci, reasons... hey what's your timezone? no, i don't mean getTimezoneOffset(); https://www.iana.org/time-zones LOL
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by hootbootscoot 7y ago
... except that broken or ignored browser standards, and Javascript's lack of dealing with Timezone, for example, are not the result of complexity, per se, but of social inability: a committee or industrial consortium being unable to c
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by hootbootscoot 7y ago
At the point that they chose to use all this kit and write "beautiful ES6". Write ES5, use a few polyfill functions, include the already minified mithril/vue/react js IF you actually are going to need dynamic DOM elemen
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by hootbootscoot 7y ago
This entire concept is absurd. Technology doesn't follow some "natural" trajectory, but is political, like any other human activity.