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by jitl 2y ago
One big reason is because Go has a very nice complete standard library, and Rust really does not. Things you can find in go’s built in to the language or in standard libraries that need a dependency in Rust: - green threads - channels - reg
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by jitl 2y ago
With no config file Neovim is just vim but with mouse mode enabled by default. With Lua and the new APIs it’s much easier to write powerful plugins that do crazy shit and use animation but none of that happens by default, you need to go out
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by jitl 2y ago
Tailwind I use for hobby projects but we’re still sticking with style={{…}} at Notion. Since the app launched there’s been many generations of CSS-for-React (Airbnb Aphrodite era, styled-components/Emotion era, styled-jsx/linaria
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by jitl 2y ago
Or I could just express this in code once - in the spot where I attach the class names to the HTML - instead of attaching class names, just attach styles.
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by jitl 2y ago
Use the component library’s inspector/devtools to identify components. Eg in a React app, look at the React component tree rather than the DOM tree
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by jitl 2y ago
pointless make-work compared to inline-styles-like workflow like tailwind, if you have a component framework
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by jitl 2y ago
Use a decorator to expose functions explicitly, otherwise sounds like security issue waiting to happen. All your decorator needs to do is add the function to an __exposed__ set, then when you’re looping over the dict, only expose keys who’s
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by jitl 2y ago
I agree neither of those seem like good reasons to pick tailwind. My take is that it removes needless indirection in any codebase that already has “components” - react/vue/solid/etc, template partials, functions that return h
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by jitl 2y ago
These days tailwind is often paired with a component abstraction system that takes place of css classes as an abstraction system. Component abstraction achieves an even more powerful separation of semantics from styling, compare: <
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by jitl 2y ago
I think that is exactly why tailwind is good and nice. Although I also like that it makes “how do I do X?” a quick doc search instead of a 30 minute research project
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by jitl 2y ago
I’ve been writing css/scss/stylus/linaria/whatever styling stuff for 18 years and I think tailwind improves life much more for css knowers than for css noobs. I prefer it over raw css for sure - I’ve written the same shi
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by jitl 2y ago
The node_modules folder is still somewhere on your system (~/.npm/_npx probably?) containing the same tailwindcss dependency files, but if it helps you sleep easier at night it’s okay to pretend it doesn’t exist.
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by jitl 2y ago
Sure? I don’t see how that’s an argument for CSS “being advanced enough” - SASS ain’t CSS. I like SASS (I wrote a lisp in SASS in 2011 lol) and that’s actually how I think about Tailwind utilities - it’s just using SASS mixins directly in y
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by jitl 2y ago
How’s this any different from saying “2 monitors is a security issue, what if you’re typing a password but Discord on monitor 2 was in focus”? Typically when I’m typing my password into an input on any platform, I’m looking at the password
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by jitl 2y ago
For a public API I wouldn’t do this, but for private APIs we just do POST /api/doThingy with a JSON body, easy peasy RPC anyone can participate in with the most basic HTTP client. Works great on every OS and in every browser, no f
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by jitl 2y ago
OpenAPI spec being authored by a human or a machine, it can still be the same YAML at the end of the day, so why would one approach be more brittle / breaks your clients than the other?
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by jitl 2y ago
“Real time” is why we picked it at Notion. I am not a data person so I don’t really know. But I am frequently bummed out when AWS or some other vendor ships a cool integration with Iceberg and/or Delta Lake and there’s nothing for Hud
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by jitl 2y ago
I don’t care how you do it, just make getting your dependencies deterministic based on files committed to your repo! Happily the Tailwind hex package encourages you configure a fixed version number, so you’ll never get surprise breakage as
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by jitl 2y ago
I don’t think putting html in one file and css in another file makes you more or less of a designer than putting both html and css into a single file.
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by jitl 2y ago
CSS has become more confusing over time, not less confusing, so the upside of a utility class approach like Tailwind is also improving over time rather than decreasing. Tailwind solves css confusion by presenting a “paved road” for many tas
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by jitl 2y ago
I agree it’s frustrating initially to re-learn CSS… I used to make the same arguments. But after contributing to an open-source project using Tailwind I got up to speed, and now I feel differently. Tailwind is essentially just stenography f
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by jitl 2y ago
This works for products with a very limited scope that are mostly content focused, with a very small design team so everyone can agree to use the very limited toolkit in standards.html. The approach of saying “All ui shall only use these 29
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by jitl 2y ago
Design engineers still exist, they just write more JS these days. They are still building UI and design systems and teaching craft & supporting full stack teams. The craft is there, but the tools are different.
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by jitl 2y ago
You clearly have a dependency on tailwindcss (if it can break you, you depend on it), and are using npm to fetch it (npx uses npm internally, they are installed together) so you can easily solve your problem by adding a couple json files wi
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by jitl 2y ago
You’re doing something silly living without a lock file to use a tool as part of your build process. Why don’t you actually include the version of the tool you want in your dev dependencies + lock file? That way, you don’t get broken. We’ve
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by jitl 2y ago
Who flagged this? Matt?
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by jitl 2y ago
I’m baffled by the lack of lock file in the year 2025, ESPECIALLY when you’re using a library for service X vendor Q to talk to with service Y from vendor W. Like, you know the library isn’t going to know about AWS competitor APIs.
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by jitl 2y ago
The laptop I use is just one-finger click-down->drag->up to left mouse drag, and two finger click-down->drag->up to right mouse drag.
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by jitl 2y ago
Besides the trackpad, it seems laptops outside Apple also regressed on basic stuff like “does it hibernate” and “can I trust it to not turn into jet engine in backpack”. Microsoft’s war on sleep states and demand for AI key on the keyboard
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by jitl 2y ago
I feel the trackpoint is less relevant today on laptops considering designs like MacBook Pro or these Aura laptops that have massive touchpads that are easily reachable without much hand movement. I can mouse with my thumb on a MacBook trac

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