scathach, 4 months ago

@alex Also old fashioned finger, XMPP, Monero via OpenAlias, PGP public key lookup via WKD, and probably a bunch of other stuff too

kirby, 4 months ago

@alex a react app? you mean a script?

alex, 4 months ago

@kirby That's actually a good idea too. Maybe even a better idea.

vic, 4 months ago

@alex @kirby no, make it a React app, a server-rendered progressive web app with web workers and polyfills using ES-Next 2026, make sure it follows A11y and I18n and has good UX

kirby, 4 months ago

@vic @alex fucking REAL

vic, 4 months ago

@kirby @alex and it better use a package manager I've never heard of or at least yarn, if you use npm you're NGMI

alex, 4 months ago

@vic @kirby All these fools using pnpm haven't discovered the beauty of using no package manager in Deno.

rdr, 4 months ago

@vic @alex @kirby npm install everything

vic, 4 months ago

@rdr @alex @kirby

> successfully installed 12,537 packages

> 1,298 vulnerabilities found, 78 critical

> 38 projects are looking for funding

alex, 4 months ago

@vic @rdr @kirby Code in other languages is also full of vulns, just nobody is looking at it or paying attention. It's a huge benefit that npm even tells you this.

kirby, 4 months ago

@alex @rdr @vic don't worry alex, all code written in brainfuck is automatically immune because no one knows how to read brainfuck except for 2 esoteric language nuts

matty, 4 months ago

Isn't yarn just npm?

alex, 4 months ago

@matty @vic @kirby npm and yarn are separate programs, but both use the npm registry at npmjs.com

matty, 4 months ago

Yeah, but what's the point of using one over the other?

alex, 4 months ago

@matty @kirby @vic npm was extremely slow due to being coded poorly. Yarn came out and was 10x faster. Then over like two years everyone switched to Yarn. Then npm came back and said "hey guys, we fixed the bug, we're faster now!" But by that point the damage was already done.

matty, 4 months ago

Gotcha, thanks for the QRD