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by matthoiland 5y ago
Along with the training wheels analogy, Ram Dass also said, (badly paraphrased), "To remove a thorn from your foot, you use another thorn – then you throw them both away, or you'll likely get pricked again."
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by matthoiland 5y ago
If I closed my eyes and designed the API first, it would look like the `/pages` convention – just add state "slice" files in `/store` (like `src/store/user.ts`) and then use either React hooks inside the compon
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by matthoiland 5y ago
I totally understand. The old Redux adage is "don't use it until you need to". Most apps won't need a big, opinionated state management – but when you do, it's nice having something robust, verbose, opinionated, and
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by matthoiland 5y ago
Hey Lee, thank you for all your work! Big company here in Portland, and we just went all in on Next.js – so far our development speed has increased, and junior devs are easily onboarded. One request would be an official state management ext
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by matthoiland 6y ago
I really like your argument concerning reasoning – especially considering how we can experiment with the "shadows" of four dimensional shapes in VR. Science, research, reasoning – all very likely to be revolutionized with VR. But
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by matthoiland 6y ago
> Man riding a bicycle was twice as [efficient] as the condor - way off the end of list [compared to all other animals]. And what it really illustrated was mans ability as a toolmaker, to fashion a tool that can amplify an inherent abil
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by matthoiland 6y ago
I "waste" a lot of money on Roblox - $30-40/mo. It's where all my kids friends are, and it's a safe space on the internet that I trust as a parent. They build theme parks, space stations, small businesses – it'
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by matthoiland 6y ago
Very cool demo! And also nice to know my laptop fans still work. (2019 MBP 16", Chrome v84)
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by matthoiland 6y ago
Consumers want electronic starters on their chainsaws – but they're less reliable, prone to error, more expensive, etc... in the end, us engineers gotta make products that people will buy.
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by matthoiland 6y ago
Thanks for the reminder! Sometimes the meaning of these colloquialisms are diluted or lost.
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by matthoiland 6y ago
> We will all be serfs (NPCs) in a feudal corporate cosplay. Perfect.
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by matthoiland 6y ago
>Programming the WorldWideWeb client was remarkably easy on the NeXT. There was already a software module, the Text Object, which was an editable multifont editor. I just had to subclass it to make a hypertext object, and add the interne
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by matthoiland 6y ago
>$16,000/mo, enough to cover his salary along with his new hire That's $192k, pre-tax, between two people and likely infrastructure and tooling costs. Most developers of You's skill earn nearly double that at FAANG compani
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by matthoiland 6y ago
>On the one hand, and for the most part, people have expressed an urge to restore certainty ... Politically speaking, citizens have looked to strong leaders for containment and control, a phenomenon some call the “authoritarian reflex.”
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by matthoiland 6y ago
Completely normal phenomenon
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by matthoiland 6y ago
I've spent most of my career as a front end developer. We have three tools in our toolbox: HTML, CSS, and Javascript. We need them all and will push each to the extreme to create better experiences for our users and reimagine what the
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by matthoiland 7y ago
The season finale of 2020 sounds terrifying.
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by matthoiland 7y ago
Exact same. Although I did have a kid - three of them. No change. Still most productive between midnight at 4am.
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by matthoiland 7y ago
A server can issue a JWT and forget about it. Most cookie auth strategies requires the server to persist the token to confirm validity. Also, a JWT can work across a microservice architecture easily for the same reasons.
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by matthoiland 7y ago
I can't believe it doesn't even define what JSON means... JavaScript Object Notation
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by matthoiland 7y ago
I wonder how much of this is due to Scott Galloway. He's been brutal on We Company and Adam Neumann for weeks now.
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by matthoiland 7y ago
I'll confess that my last visit was in 2015, but I've never felt crowded there during my many visits. And of course, a "zero limits" model is not what anyone wants, nor what I'm advocating.
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by matthoiland 7y ago
I think this goes against the initial concept of the US National Parks. It's owned by the people, and meant to be seen and experienced at any time. There are days that I needed to be recharged emotionally and could drive to Yosemite Va
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by matthoiland 7y ago
This was the kick in the pants I needed to finally subscribe. Thanks.
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by matthoiland 7y ago
Same. Coda v1 was my first step into development, and I still compare editors (VSCode, Sublime) to it. I really miss the micro-IDE space that Coda occupied – not quite VS Code and not quite WebStorm – and I hope Nova is the same. Go Panic!
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by matthoiland 7y ago
>RF Seismograph showed an increase in noise on 80 meters some 13 hours beforehand, as well as some propagation changes on 40 and 30 meters — low before the quake and increasing in its wake. Hours. Hours beforehand. Having that much prepa
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by matthoiland 7y ago
I just send my dad an apology as well.
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by matthoiland 7y ago
During my last sideways Netflix/cheeto/mayo binge I thought – magsafe on both sides?
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by matthoiland 7y ago
I like to believe that he succeeded and that Anne is now a little boy in Spain.
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by matthoiland 7y ago
"If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it." –J. P. Morgan

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