wotamRobin

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by wotamRobin 4y ago
Principal eng working with 3 teams on a ~500k loc React site here. After lots of experimentation, we’re just using React contexts. - Redux is cool but there’s so much decoupling that it gets hard to read the code. New hires would take too l
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by wotamRobin 6y ago
What do topologists have for breakfast? Donuts filled with coffee.
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by wotamRobin 6y ago
I’ve seen the same at several different companies. There seems to be just too much that can go wrong during an e2e test like this: network failures, slow CPU causing timeouts, etc. At one company, the entire suite of 700 tests was re-run 3
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by wotamRobin 6y ago
This is a great article! It’s surprising how much tech debt pops up in games like these. Another game much like this is Satisfactory, which is basically the 3D version of Factorio. I actually wrote a very similar article about it here, thou
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Refactoring at scale with abstract syntax trees(medium.com)
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by wotamRobin 9y ago
I really like the UI and seeming wealth of different units. It doesn't look like it supports fluid ounces though. I tried "4 tbsp to oz" and it interprets oz as mass instead of volume. Google correctly gives me 2 as the answe
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by wotamRobin 9y ago
To make an analogy, right now it's possible to write and include C++ modules in your Python scripts, just like it's possible to do with WASM/JS. But people still use Python, because it's a much faster/easier way to
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by wotamRobin 9y ago
At the very least, browsers are the new JRE.