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At my work, I have a somewhat clever (or idiotic) technical solution to the problems of feature flags: they are actually implemented as feature modules that monkey-patch the base a…

Really reminds me of Parenscript[0], which is a subset of Common Lisp that transpiles to JS with no runtime. It's basically a thin skin around JS and it feels more like writing JS …

If I had to guess, it's because the WebAssembly Text Format is S-Expressions, similar to the target language, Scheme. Also, less tooling involved to build the binary, since the tex…

I've never actually used Knockout but I guess it looks vaguely similar. s2 has the advantage of being much smaller (a little over 2kb compressed), and faster on benchmarks[0] and p…

Open source is not a business model, and I think the expectation to get paid for open source is a bit disingenuous. There is also the ideological aspect of free as in freedom licen…

the root template references the other one with data-template=“#countbox”. this allows for composition and re-use of templates.

It is pretty much feature complete already, there are only so many fundamental operations and DOM attributes. besides, I would like to keep it around 2kb ;)

Hahaha this will never work for an obvious reason that isn't socially acceptable to state. As soon as looks get involved, it's over.

I think concurrent mode and fibers are kludgy hacks that arise from the problem that only the main thread has access to the DOM. As far as I know and I may be ignorant but few, if …

I made something almost exactly like this: https://simulacra.js.org/ This actually uses object getters/setters, has full support for arrays, and nested arrays of objects. There is …

This is my first time reading about Edsu, it seems very similar to the Solid Platform in one important aspect: it keeps data in the control of the user, separate from applications.…

There is no way this isn’t well done satire. Facebook might as well hire people to work on their open source just to keep them away from being productive at other companies, and th…

From what I understand, it installs a bunch of opinionated packages and then you're on your own. This isn't the same as "create a useful app in 30 seconds".

REST failed at marketing itself and its primary document is a doctoral thesis, hardly something that an average developer is going to grok, understand and implement. Hypermedia is …

Software seems to actually be progressing at such a slow pace, I don't think more frameworks to do the same old things are helping. It seems to be harder to retrofit a new format o…

Funny how the advice to hire people smarter than you, doesn't work out in real life. Meritocracies are rare, and only seem to emerge out of necessity. That applies for tech compani…

As long as your employers are not acting in good faith, then I don't think they are worth any extra effort. When most employees are doing just enough work to get by, it says more a…

You don't have to be 35 to start hating your job, I did at 25. It begins with the realization that you're a loser in the corporate hierarchy, and do as little work as you can possi…

Consider facts: React is over 40k lines of code, there are 30+ classes/methods to be aware of though maybe 10 of them are commonly used. Would you call it "minimal"? There is still…

npm downloads seem to exaggerate how many actual people are downloading packages rather than bots. A funny pattern that emerges in the above chart is that downloads drop sharply on…

Regardless of technical merit, I don't think it stands any chance of adoption without major users. Specifications and standards are only really valuable as a contract between two o…

Care to explain how your product has been around for 6 years and you're just beginning to push it?

It was clearly not my intention to judge programming competency by appearance. But it is also undeniable that the industry does select for young, good looking people.