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If it were a matter of choosing another language, Polish might be a more natural choice, as Poles form the largest minority in the country. But to answer the question, I personally…

Just to be clear, I do see the value in a group like the Nordic TeX Users Group choosing a neutral language for simplicity and fairness. However, it's quite different when a whole …

English has become entrenched as the de facto second official language of Iceland. It's a very depressing trend for the conservation of Icelandic, and the ongoing promotion of Engl…

Do you have any sources relating to the foreign family you mention, and of them securing landholding rights? Based on what I've found, the man that was burned wasn't rich (his fami…

While not exactly the same, the concept of "whale drift" has existed in Icelandic law [1] for almost 8 centuries, and still applies today. It specifies to whom a whale carcass woul…

I cannot edit the post above, but it was meant to say that I'm looking for new clients in 2020.

SEEKING WORK - REMOTE ONLY (GMT) I'm a web & product development consultant based in Iceland. Specializing in web development, I work with startups of all sizes and help them build…

It appears that the system font was changed. I'm trying to figure out what it is now, it appears that San Francisco isn't even installed on my system anymore. GitHub, Twitter, and …

You can buy it online from some stores - this is the first one that popped up on Google: https://nammi.is/food-drinks1/dried-fish.html

What you linked is "CSS-in-JS" (in the sense that the library/framework you use transforms the output for you, for convenience, i.e., you're not writing BEM or whatever - same as i…

SEEKING WORK - Remote I'm a web & product development consultant based in Iceland. Specializing in web development, I work with startups of all sizes and help them build MVPs and f…

I haven't seen any libraries using the new context API make use of the observedBits prop (currently called `unstable_observedBits`, as its not officially supported). There's a comm…

It's very unfortunate that the APIs of libraries that extend JavaScript builtins affect the development of the language to this degree.

It does, you can write this with a Babel preset supporting this feature: class Foo extends Component { state = { foo: '', }; // The arrow function here is what you're looking for. …

If you're interested in this approach, check out Pete Hunt's jsxstyle or Kent C Dodds' glamorous. Both allow you to pass in props that map to css rules (e.g., ` `).

Another good resource to learn about JSX (by the author of Preact): https://jasonformat.com/wtf-is-jsx/

It still does (these docs use the ES6 class API): https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/react-component.html#c...

The shallow check is on React.PureComponent. shouldComponentUpdate just returns true by default in React.Component components. See here for details: https://facebook.github.io/reac…

In case anyone reads this and is left wondering, there's no need to have n functions to handle n inputs - you only need one. A simple example would be to set the state based on `ev…

Most of the tooling is stable enough that you can lock your dependencies to minor versions (the default behaviour in Yarn/NPM) and only update when you want the new features. There…

The React API is stable. There haven't been any major changes to its public-facing API in a long time. Third-party projects that you might also depend on are not always as stable b…