I'm trying out https://runjs.app for prototyping js/node.js snippets locally.
Creating a new node project every time I just want to run a quick node.js snippet is just too time consuming.
Interested in any suggestions of similar tools js devs recommend. I know repl.it is another option, but running locally is a requirement for me. #js#webdev#node#tools
This is hilarious. A #Google engineer invented #zx to make command line scripting easier with #NodeJS, because at a certain point #shell scripts get too complicated and you need a Real #Programming Language.
This is exactly #Perl’s use case from thirty-six years ago. But the kids want #JavaScript everywhere and would rather it take more work to convert their ascended #Bash scripts to a vastly different syntax.
https://fuckgov.org/@h Oh, I don’t deny it’s useful. And you’ll never catch me saying it’s bad to stick with what you know if it gets the job done—that’s one reason I continue to use #Perl.
My main point was that it’s less work converting #Bash to Perl than to #JavaScript.
The “kids want JavaScript everywhere” was admittedly a little snark directed at the “continuous amnesia” of prior art (not unique to #JS developers but their sheer number means it’s really prevalent) as described here: https://www.ufried.com/blog/continuous_amnesia_issue/
Early in 2023, I stood up an instance off my main domain to check out Mastodon and see if the rumors were true: did it really feel like early Twitter and the short lived ADN?
The answer is yes, it most certainly does, so I while I wanted to continue to engage and meet people,my domain kinda sucked and I never gave a proper #introduction.
Now I want to check out Calckey!
My name is Kevan and I'm kind of from all over the US, but I've been in #Chicago since 2007.
I moved here for college and never left. I came to study #theater and #film with the idea I'd #write and perform on #SNL.
I thought for a long time I'd wind up in #politics, but my stint running #product at BallotReady during the 2020 election—while the thing I'm most proud of professionally—broke me of that fantasy.
I'm current the VP of Product for a commerce focused #startup. Fortunately, I work from home because this #MechanicalKeyboard is loud AF.
If you’re using HTML Validate (you should; it’s ace), update to 7.15.2. It no longer flags multiple buttons with the same name used in forms as a validation error (this is a valid pattern that lets you interpret a form differently on the server based on which button it was submitted with).
What's even remotely "modern" about them at this point? They're bloated dinosaurs that are one comet strike away from being next week's Active Server Pages.
I think I'd vastly prefer a post-modern #JS framework. Like something that keeps me from writing any JS in the first place.
Blazor in .NET, Phoenix LiveView in Elixir, and Yew in Rust... those are actual modern web frameworks.
Posit announced this week that the Shiny #Python 🐍 version is moving out from alpha stage to general availability. The Shiny package is one of the great tools in R for building interactive and complex dashboards without #JS or #HTML knowledge. It has a HUGE ecosystem, mainly due to community contribution, and it is great to see it expanding to the Python community.
@alcinnz
I'm constantly raising an eyebrow at websites that don't even display basic text and images with JS turned off, or whose layout code is so JS-dependent the page turns into a hot mess without JS running. It's like a road you can't cycle or take public transport on, because the people who designed and built it expect you to be in a private motor vehicle. In both cases, it's hell for accessibility.