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Stinky manager != stinky person

I know right. I’m glad DSLs have fallen out of fashion. Just use the platform.

Besides the new form factor, resizable apps are also meant to further bridge the gap between macOS and iOS right?

The article does not come from someone who relies of Figma for a living. It's easy to call it a "proposal doc" when you're working on a specific issue for a specific product. There are still millions of designers who use Figma to define and maintain design systems that span across products and platforms, where Figma is the source of truth.

Incoming rust rewrite branch ready to merge: +1,009,257 -4,024

Well put. SQL gets put in this category of foundational technology that has passed the test of time when in reality it’s more like an example of path dependence.

“A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.”

The devs doing these kinds projects no longer think of the code as maintainable, but disposable. It's quite the 180 for a community obsessed with reusable npm packages and not reinventing the wheel. Last year Cursor bragged about ditching their CMS in 3 days: https://x.com/leerob/status/1999513884382597485

The first sentence being "I was not planning to write this article" is the cherry on top.

I’d start with the immense packaging waste and shameless overconsumption tricks that are banned in basically any other industry.

Honestly i prefer my macbook frosty

They got their priorities right for sure

I think it’s about time to backup all of my GH repos.

Not really, realistically speaking it's now possible to use an agent to read code and make sensible summaries of a codebase faster than ever before, and it's exactly the thing you'd use to onboard yourself or someone else on the team.

This is just so much fluff. All the focus on "orchestrating" is ultimately accidental complexity.

Man i love last.fm even though it's been technically superseded (for most people) by Spotify's recommendation features. It just fit so well in the zeitgeist of 2000's indie scene, microblogs, early social media.

Technically it also means you can do whatever you want and yet still nobody does.

I think if Deno had held on to their initial values for a little longer the pressure towards node compatibility would have been mended by AI agents, because a lot of the pressure is the result of skill issues: if the only way you know how to set up is using express.js then any subsequent tool or runtime must provide a similar abstraction for a “smooth” transition, regardless of how bad the first solution was in the first place. Nowadays you introduce devs to new tech by delivering your product with a set of skills that in practice have replaced documentation and sometimes can be very good at showing better alternative approaches to whatever you’re building.

"standard" IT tools?

Now i need one that explains the css counters

I thought of the 2000 version first which made this much funnier in my head

Great point about testing. The knee jerk reaction to defend this enormous rewrite because it passes a test suite reminds me of a Rick Hickey classic: what’s true of every bug found in the field? It passed all the tests.

https://youtu.be/LKtk3HCgTa8?t=938

I would love to see the actual negative and the other shots he took at that location.

After Thariq's infamous "our react TUI is actually a game engine" tweet i can't help but smirk at these headlines and wonder if it's satire or not.

The fact that tsz can compile to wasm might actually give you an even more interesting feature that tsgo can't (yet): using the type checker for data validation at runtime.

Damn

Very interesting stuff. Are any builds of Sail still available for use?

My view is that side projects are not meant to be finished at all. Ideally they shouldn’t be more than an outlet for scratching a creative itch, and like any creative project, if your main motivation shifts from a personal goal to something vapid like testing the market viability of an idea that’s costing you a lot of time and effort to begin with then you’re going about it the wrong way.

Good grief that codebase is absolute hell, almost too good of an example of accidental complexity.

Agreed. Lerner has an unique way of digging into solipsism that's truly genuine and comical (whereas I feel Knausgård and most of the autofiction crowd's stuff comes across as glorified navel-gazing). It's no wonder he's been compared to Foster Wallace in that regard, who also wrote about deeply human struggles yet still is dismissed as a lit-bro pseudointellectual.