steven-xu

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by steven-xu 2y ago
> Bazel is designed to be optimal and has perfect knowledge of the state of the world, yet it’s too slow for quick operations. This is one of the biggest challenges where Bazel falls short of non-Bazel tooling for us in the Web developme
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by steven-xu 3y ago
I’ve worked on two 100+ weekly committer monoliths and two similar sized MFE architectures. I think the article hits good points though I’d add some acutely painful ones it misses[1]. I’m someone who is by gut now squarely in the pro-monoli
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by steven-xu 3y ago
Universal childcare seems to me significantly less distorting than universal childcare for childcare workers. It’s larger subsidy yes but it corrects for an existing distortion (parents pay full price for childcare to raise children who the
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by steven-xu 3y ago
Setting aside the philosophical free market questions, additional government subsidy childcare seems fine. There’s a positive externality of readily available childcare: one adult to many children is more efficient than home care, and paren
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by steven-xu 3y ago
I'm glad to see Unity finally choosing to play to its strengths here from an economic standpoint by offering rev share. It's an insurance business model, which a game engine is uniquely able to offer due to its horizontal reach. T
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by steven-xu 4y ago
Berkson's paradox[1] is a useful lens to analyze inverse correlation. The pool of people doing interview prep are either smart or determined (to accumulate certifications) or both, but dumb and lazy people don't enter the pool, an
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by steven-xu 4y ago
Can you summarize Moon's sandboxing approach? I understand for phantom deps you want to delegate to pnp/pnpm. But how do you handle sources not declared explicitly as inputs to a build graph node? If I have package A only list its
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by steven-xu 4y ago
General purpose build systems need to make API expressiveness, observability, performance, and correctness tradeoffs in exchange for their platform breadth. By narrowing breadth, most often by targeting only one ecosystem[1] or making corre
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by steven-xu 4y ago
> Is it possible to integrate Turborepo with general-purpose monorepo build tools? Bazel, in particular? It's definitely possible, but I think the practical limitations would make it too complex to reason around and maintain. You&#x
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by steven-xu 4y ago
Well done and congrats to the Turborepo team on the launch as well as the Vercel merger, which I think is a great thing for the JS ecosystem! We now have a healthy competition between several JS domain-specific build tools bit.dev, Nx, Turb
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by steven-xu 4y ago
The practical disk usage difference between pnp and pnpm appears to be almost entirely accounted for by the fact that pnp zips almost all packages. Both store ~1 version of each package-version on disk; it's just that one's zipped
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by steven-xu 4y ago
Summarizing the 3 major JS package management approaches: * Classic node_modules: Dependencies of dependencies that can't be satisfied by a shared hoisted version are nested as true copies (OSes may apply copy-on-write semantics on top
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by steven-xu 5y ago
Kudos to interviewing.io to share this analysis. I agree with the many issues in methodology and analysis that others have raised here, and I agree there's a risk that a face-value reading of the blog post is highly misleading. But thi
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by steven-xu 5y ago
In the United States, the common interpretation of Section 508 requires that vendors and vendors of vendors of federal government contractors adhere to WCAG 2.0. Building it from the start prevents you from having to redesign parts of your