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I made a SmallTalk inspired collaborative development environment for writing web components - https://playground.now.

A "world" is a locally stored CRDT that contains the source code and data you store.

The home page, login and world editing experience is all built from within itself.

I was able to find a bug to get lots of clicks. Buy at least one bouncing DVD, open dev tools into responsive mode and make the screen width 52pixels (the lowest allowed). The DVDs will then bounce with each frame, racking up a bunch of points.

I’m optimistic for interactive and physical programming to take a foothold in our world. How many more phone apps do we really need? Aren’t many of the user optimized social apps wreaking havoc on the youth?

Shifting thinking back to extending human creativity and making programming available to less technical audiences might change our technology use to a less neck craning, social interaction devoid format.

These things take time and significant breakthroughs. See - https://www.lively-kernel.org. Over a decade ago Dan Ingalls and team built a Smalltalk inspired JavaScript flavor. IDE and language combined.

That has morphed into lively.next which is used by at least one commercial company to develop animated visualizations.

I hope to see this type of programming expanded. I had a SMART board in middle school - think figma on a big white board - and teachers came up with lots of creatives ways to engage us and get us to work with each other through doodling on the board.

Will that reach the professional world? Can NASA doodle a spaceship to the moon? Maybe with AI tool development, the idea of computers filling in the technical detail for user drawn plans isn’t impossible.

I started using Wundergraph as a backend service for our recently launched platform in February of this year. I found the usage to be simple and easy to understand, but development and deployment was rough at times, earlier this year there were bugs on some of the common use cases. The team has been very responsive and those issues have been resolved.

Two major changes have pushed this framework into a really mature place. One was a recent rewrite around custom resolvers, which allows for adding business logic in between GraphQL calls. The other is going fully open source.

Despite some initial challenges with the framework, I can't deny that Jens understands the problem domain probably better than anyone else in the world. Glad to see so many issues like authentication and API interconnectivity solved in a production ready way. I'm getting out of the box functionality that I used to depend on entire teams for. The depth of auth implementation, from one line config of Auth0 all the way down to per-operation RBAC is the shining example of how well this framework is architected.

Can't wait to see the continued development and growth from their team!

What’s the point?

This is a very small project I built last year called Compute. It's a svelte app with two math visualizations, one for Ulam Spirals and another for Game of Life. I'm looking for suggestions on math or physics concepts that would be fun to visualize or animate. If there's anyone looking for a project to contribute to I've just made the repo public https://github.com/rwest202/compute.

I really like how they have opted to make small changes gradually. Look at the feature lists here https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvement.... There's a detailed explanation for why each change is being made complimented by a GIF showing the side by side difference. I've been working on an SPA with a tight deadline and we are building new pages almost every other day. It's nice to see a project take a slow and careful approach.

And in this case you are putting the lock in a place that is not the doorknob, where an intruder will typically try to unlock the door.

Ni##as in Paris, is how it's spelled in the album

Oh, I had some trouble wrapping my head around the idea. The older people count out slowly by as much as 40 seconds. They are inferring that the perceived time for the older folks is faster.

I believe you are right, here is another article from 1996 supposing the opposite it true as well. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15220571-700-why-time...

This is really, really bad advice. Mutiny is hardly an answer to the problem here. It will certainly temporarily avoid the problems you face but if you are a member of a team and this is truly how you act you will get chucked out very quickly. But since you bring up a few of the issues you are facing it's important to address them. I want to focus on unit tests to start.

When I started my first programming job a couple of years ago I joined a team that demanded 100% code coverage. I hated them so much. I was still learning the ropes at this company and I only saw the unit tests as a barrier to getting my work done and earning my paycheck. My first solution was to create bogus tests that always passed. That was quickly discovered and I was reprimanded. My second solution was to get colleagues who shared my hate for unit tests to approve my PRs before they were reviewed by my team. That too was thwarted.

Then one day I was working with a teammate on a new feature and we discovered a bug. He quickly opened up a test file and wrote a unit test, then he went tried a couple solutions until the test turned green. Then he looked at me and said, "When when you are working in a pile of crap, testing makes you feel more confident about your code." That was my first insight into the value of testing. Eventually I came around and stopped trying to avoid tests. I just did the damn work. Once I established trust with my teammates they began to let the pressure off my PRs and slowly the displeasure of writing tests went away.

You pointed out a few different coding practices that frustrate you. And to be honest, those coding practices are not the gospel and should be deployed only when truly needed. However I think you have a serious problem with what a lot of us call being a good teammate. At the end of the day your goal should be to get the product shipped, once you focus on getting your features out the door, unit testing and pull requests become minor details in that process. At the end of the day those are just a cutesy to your teammates to show them that you are willing to be a responsible and helpful team member. Stop trying to fight everyone so much and maybe you will enjoy your job a little more.

Neat, it would be an interesting linting tool to help minify CSS. I was wondering why the pruning tool took so long but I can see they are using visuals to determine if a a style is needed or not. That's a really smart way to do it, I wonder what other use cases there are for mapping visual images to code. This is almost like a selenium test for CSS.

Ancient Romans had a ritual of visiting the baths daily. Doing so helped them reduce the spread of diseases. I remember learning in highschool latin class that Greek medicine focused on curing diseases while Roman medicine focused on avoiding diseases. If you were able to go back to Roman times you would find that people were realitively clean and well fed, even the plebian class.

You have your left hand free. It's a tough situation and I'm very sorry you are going through this. I would suggest learning to use the computer with your left hand, things will click (excuse the pun), faster than you think. Good luck to you man, wish you the best. What is the name of your company if I ever need video production?

Since you bring it up, mental health companies are springing up left and right. I work at a mental health startup myself. My interest in understanding and working on my own mental health led me to apply to this place. I think there are a lot of people attempting to create products to help us do what you are suggesting. Meditation, mindfulness and therapy seem to be the solutions that everyone is throwing up.

You're not wrong, you're so right. The author of this app described it as the technique you use in highschool to ask a girl out. Direct communication, although difficult, will get results.

That's not the point. The point is the ad is clearly marked and separate from the content you want to see. The other type of ad is known as "selling out." Where a legit content creator abuses their viewers trust in them to put out false information for financial gain. I would much rather have the first option. Although I think a paid tier with no ads is respectable as well.

Both ways.

Location: Chicago, IL

Remote: Will consider

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Node.js+Express, SQL

Resume/CV: ryanwestdev.com / https://github.com/rwest202

Email: ryanwesterberg@gmail.com

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Hi :) - I'm a Junior Developer. Trained in UX/UI and passionate about writing code.