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The “Roman salute” you’re referring to never existed in history up until the 19th century when popular media introduced it. It’s fiction, it resonated with Italian facist which is why they started using it.

The “Roman salute” you’re referring to never existed in history up until the 19th century when art and later film took creative liberties.

It’s fictional symbolism that resonated with Italian fascists and eventually became the greeting associated with nazism.

JSON Patch 2 years ago

Not only that; both a dot (“.”) and a forward slash (“/”) are allowed to be used in/as a JSON property name.

An array of keys alleviates this issue entirely because any string element of the array can be used as a JSON object property name too.

A less vicious but similarly dumb ‘ux/security’ measure is when the password being entered only registers after a key event fires while the field is in focus. An event that never occurs with password manager autocomplete, making the user add a random character and then remove it.

We throw everything out (to thrift stores if possible) after a year of no use. Has bitten us almost never and when it has it’s usually something useless to someone else too (cheap to replace).

and I absolutely hate that there is no separation of concerns

There is a separation of concerns when using react but it’s not split by technology but by responsibility. A react components is an isolated piece of the puzzle which’s concerns are separated from the other puzzle pieces.

In 2001 the EU switched (mostly) from a local currency to the euro. For years people would calculate prices back to the currency of old. If you do it nowadays, over 2 decades later, people look at you funny.

People who still rant about the simplicity of jQuery are of the same cloth.

I understand that hotwire is already an established term but it has hacky connotations and hyper(textlanguage)wire sounds infinitely cooler.