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Here to say that I have been working on a canvas-based app for a while now. Canvas apps are hard y'all! I greatly appreciate tldraw and think the licensing changes are completely r…

I actually wish Mozilla put out a dedicated password manager. They have Sync, and they have SoPS (or well, used to?). I'd gladly pay extra for it

Analytics should just be one point to weigh across others when making a decision. I don't fully think it's a binary decision to use it or not. Consider analytics. Consider user fee…

This is the best take, IMO. Different strokes for different folks, but frankly managers don't care if a deadline greatly encourages or greatly stresses their ICs. Either way, it's …

You should already be spinning up caches and databases in dev anyway? I agree though that the article is missing some explicit insight into how this change is handled on the local …

You're translating the class-based way of working in React against hooks, without stopping to consider understanding hooks as a first-class principle instead of a translation. It's…

yeah the article has a very US-centric take, stick shift is still very much alive in Europe. it's a lot of the times the more affordable option, and plenty of places in Europe dont…

Have you used git submodules before? I've only used them once and vowed to never use them again. It's effectively just a pointer to a hash, and ends up being useless for versioning…

Handsome | Senior Frontend Engineer | REMOTE | Contract (6 mo+) https://handsome.is Handsome is looking for a talented freelance frontend (or fullstack) engineer to work closely an…

Handsome | Senior Frontend Engineer | REMOTE | Contract (6 mo+) https://handsome.is Handsome is looking for a talented freelance frontend (or fullstack) engineer to work closely an…

This is all fair and good. I was just pointing out the beginnings of a trend. To me, build-time image optimization would’ve been a prerequisite for next/image even launching in the…

Also disappointed by this. Vercel has increasingly been putting out more features that are tucked behind a vendor-lock. - `next export` when using `next/image` doesn't have a sane …

Handsome | Austin, TX | Contract (4 mo+) | REMOTE https://handsome.is Handsome is looking for a talented freelance frontend engineer to work closely and collaboratively with our de…

The vast majority of candidates I've spoken to commit their code to private repositories. Same goes for me. Roles were for fullstack and frontend. You're right in that sometimes ti…

What does skill have to do with difficulty? Big red flag if you think the only way to impress someone of your coding skills is if you overengineer a solution. If some candidate sub…

I've hired a handful of people with this process, across two organizations. First time around, I identified and created the take-home exercise in one working day. Half of it was ac…

Yes, there is. Extract a piece of work from the project the new hire will be working on. Set up scaffolding and any boilerplate so that only have to implement one new feature (or f…

Preferred syntax should be enough, but here's a couple more differences: - Vue has a set of core libraries (Vuex, vue-router, etc) maintained by the same org. - Single file compone…

The thing is, I don't disagree that a large (if not majority) number of developers reach for dependencies by default, instead of carefully considering patterns first. I don't think…

Not to mention you can still keep your pure UI components separate from your components that have data fetching logic (aka containers). Components are highly reusable. Containers a…

Out of curiosity, how is it not still "rendering"? Do you prefer "start" because it renders a tree of children? But yes, rendering doesn't need to be interrupted. They specifically…

Sometimes frontend developers overengineer their solutions, yes. Sometimes you need a more complicated solution for a complicated set of requirements. Do you need GraphQL? Nope! Do…

- Don't default to "Agile" (or be fully "Agile" for that matter) - Don't default to Typescript (or any technology for that matter) - Don't default to TDD (or any dev methodology fo…

I don't. I have stints of high motivation and stints of low motivation. The trick is to be productive without being passionate about programming. "Choose a job you love and you wil…

Key-value stores satisfy a set of use-cases, as do NoSQL, and SQL. Key-value is great when you have a key-value pair that you'd like to cache. Specifically in web workloads, maybe …