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cheeaun

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I'm a Product Engineer based in Singapore. Follow me https://twitter.com/cheeaun https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun

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daniel.haxx.se 23d ago

Do Excellent Vulnerability Reports

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charlottebuff.com 1mo ago

Rejected Emoji Proposals

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european.social 1mo ago

The European Social Stack

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yuanchuan.dev 2mo ago

Multi-stroke text effect in CSS

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eddiemoore.dev 3mo ago

Cracking the Pre-CS5 Binary FLA

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greasyfork.org 4mo ago

Show HN: A userscript that shows when you starred a GitHub repository

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nvie.com 5mo ago

15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

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shkspr.mobi 8mo ago

Now witness the power of this operational Fediverse

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www.holland-cycling.com 8mo ago

Holland-Cycling.com Stops in 2026

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badux.lol 9mo ago

Bad UX World Cup

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alistairshepherd.uk 1y ago

A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image I used

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www.theverge.com 1y ago

News publishers call Google's AI Mode 'theft'

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cybercultural.com 1y ago

GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet

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vtuber-style-logos.vercel.app 2y ago

VTuber Style Logo Collection

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atadistance.net 2y ago

Safari 17.4 Vertical Writing Modes won't change a thing

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www.justinobeirne.com 2y ago

Google Maps Testing New Apple Maps-Inspired Map Style

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infinnie.github.io 2y ago

Never, ever use system-UI as the value of font-family

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getenet.notion.site 3y ago

Eighty Shades of Option Key

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www.macworld.com 3y ago

If you own an M2 MacBook Air or MacBook Pro there’s an update for your cable

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www.straitstimes.com 3y ago

A guide to photogrammetry in indoor spaces

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cpojer.net 3y ago

Front End Engineer Archetypes

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css-tricks.com 3y ago

Creating an Editable Textarea That Supports Syntax-Highlighted Code (2021)

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www.cnbc.com 3y ago

Introverts are ‘routinely passed up’ for promotions

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maintainermonth.github.com 4y ago

Maintainer Month

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hacks.mozilla.org 4y ago

MDN Plus now available in more countries

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observablehq.com 4y ago

GeoParquet on the Web

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exploretrees.sg 4y ago

Show HN: Apple-Maps-Like Trees on Mapbox GL JavaScript

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yeokhengmeng.com 4y ago

Review, usage and repair of the Framework laptop

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twitter.com 4y ago

Completely-static, toy analytics implementation, inspired by sql.js-httpvfs

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blog.expo.io 5y ago

Introducing: Expo Run Commands

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Very curious to know more about this, regarding PMTiles:

Unfortunately, making range requests in 80 GB files just doesn't work in production. It is fine for files smaller than 500 MB, but it has terrible latency and caching issues for full planet datasets.

Wondering which part incurs the latency here.

Yeah, "full-stack" does front-end too. Though from my observation it's more like 80% BE, 20% FE. Generally they spend more time working on FE tasks than specialised ones as FE becomes so, so complicated.

I've personally seen many (junior) FE engineers decide to switch to BE, "full-stack", data or devops (or even design) because of how messy FE can get.

I know it's a lot of things (organization, management, people issues, expectations, etc) and this is basically just what I observe in Singapore. Could be different in other cities/countries.

I'm a senior FE engineer in Singapore, been doing FE since 2000, here's what I think:

1. Job descriptions and interviews now are skewed towards "full-stack" or backend. Most interviews are lacking or outdated due to the fast and volatile nature of FE.

2. Literally no career progression if you're specialised in FE. Most BE or "full-stack" devs will be given a chance to become principal engineers, tech leads, engineering managers, CTOs, etc. I've seen folks with "FE Team Lead" titles but never goes beyond that.

3. FE is a subconsciously looked-down field. Neither a designer nor an engineer. Product/design team won't involve you in meetings (but will treat you like a code monkey). BE/"full-stack"/API engineers will think your job is easy and keep throwing business logic stuff to FE.