I’m tthinking the guy next to me on the plane does not approve of my mask since as soon as the wifi became available he loaded The Drudge Report on his phone and looked for stories about masks (the NC law being the first hit).
So, it may feel like I’m harping on a bit about JSR—the tech industry’s latest attempt to ‘fix’ the JavaScript ecosystem—but it kind of bugs me how little discussion there is about it
Like, it’s literally a proposal by a VC-funded startup to coopt existing infrastructure and the only comments I’m seeing online are “ooh, they put a lot of work into making it fast.”
There’s no discussion of what it’s for, whether it tells us anything about npm or how that can be improved.
@baldur best case scenario is that it is better, proves certain features are useful and desired and microsoft adds them to npm instead of what they currently are doing which seems to be nothing
@cory@zachleat Did they announce something that makes you say that? I haven't paid too much attention but I have googled how they plan to make money and they have videos saying they will never sell your data.
@cory@zachleat yeah i’m skeptical too. It’s really mind boggling how companies can get so much money without having any kind of plan to reliably make money in the future
"A completely new 0.50 cent Euro fee per download, every year, in perpetuity, to Apple for just allowing developers to exist on iOS – This is extortion, plain and simple." - Spotify press release
@LouisIngenthron@carnage4life the post office actually provides a service and nothing stops you from using fedex or ups or whatever and you don’t have to pay the post office anything just for the ability to deliver to a house with a zip code.
Wait, how many versions of Home for Xmas (single lady tells familly she had a boyfriend and has 24 days to find one) does Netflix have? It looks like there's one for each country 🤣
Do we at least get a queer one somewhere?
@suchipi i think it’s supposed to be in your field of view, not to stare in it point blank. I’m not really sure if it helps or not. I’m getting increased wellbutrin dose to maybe help more
@zachleat Side note: Whenever I see the preview share card thing for your articles I am tricked! Tricked I say! into thinking it’s going to be a youtube video because I see your little head poking out of the corner and that’s just how youtube videos thumbnails all are
I am loving the View Transitions demos but (imo) it seems risky to build framework level integrations for the feature before there are two browser implementations in the wild.
@zachleat Worst case scenario is the spec gets totally rewritten and everyone using uses the non-progressively enhanced version until it gets updated, right? Like in Astro's implementation, I don't think it would be very bad, just a bit annoying for them.
@eeeps@zachleat i don’t think the spec should be constrained by overzealous adoption of an experimental spec 🤷♀️. If it’s a genuine possibility then Chrome did a real disservice taking the feature out from behind a flag before it was ready.
I felt silly for preemptively locking the @eleventy issue about switching to tabs and now I’m very glad that I did—the opinion-havers have arrived with opinions 🫠
My go-to litmus test for where somebody lies on the sensible/insensible spectrum when it comes to work has usually been something along the lines of "do they think DHH and Jason Fried are great managers?"
I might have to start using "do they think the Techno-Optimist Manifesto is exciting or excellent?" as well.
Debating with myself whether <Flex> and <Stack> components are an antipattern... I keep finding spots in our app where we've ended up with like ten nested flexboxes where one or two would accomplish the exact same result.
Is this just a devs-not-knowing-CSS problem, or does the abstraction invite abuse?
@keithjgrant I think it's related to component-oriented development. It's easy to nest components because you think of them as lego instead of looking at the bigger picture and seeing that there is a lot of unnecessary html as a result when it could be flattened if you implemented it in a more bespoke manner.
Remember when browsers weren’t evergreen? Feature testing and cutting the mustard were more common practices. But it’s impressive how quickly things ship now.
@zachleat one of the things I’m worried about with astro is that if it does go under, it’s seems pretty complicated having a compiler and whatnot that i would have no chance maintaining for my own use. It is otherwise incredibly appealing.
