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I'm curious if anyone else is advocating for HTMX as a mechanism to simplify bloated front end code bases

I won't try to guess the industry trajectory as a whole. But I can speak from personal experience. I've been on teams jump on the single page application bandwagon. React in partic…

When you have a team with predominantly back-end knowledge expertise using a templating language they are familiar with plays to their strengths. MVC applications were written for …

Recently we went through an exercise where we built a to-do simple app using react and rewrote it using HTMX. The functionality was identical between the two apps. The amount of to…

That's the thing. It doesn't really matter. It's sort of like asking what backend tech you pair with jQuery

Not for large DOMs. And for websites which Don't require support for low internet bandwidth this is optimizing for the wrong problem

By choosing an SPA. You must choose a dedicated static site hosting which is separate from your web application. You may already have this but you may not. In most cases you must c…

In more cases than not I've noticed the choice of single page app itself is pure overhead. SPA technology brings some key advantages but also a whole new realm of cost and complexi…

How would this work from a fault tolerance perspective? For example the listening application happens to be offline but the database is inserting records. How would the application…

Perhaps the overhead of chatty queries is diminished in this special use case. But it doesn't change the fact that standalone database server processes are designed to support spec…

Select N+1 is a fundamental anti-pattern of relational database usage. Reducing the latency per round trip doesn't change this fact.

What's the point of this article? An attention getting headline followed by some bombastic claims followed by walking them back later in the next paragraph. It's like generating de…

I look at it differently. If vim is a useful tool in your daily workflow then it's probably worthwhile to invest time into customizing it and enhancing it with plugins. The open so…

I used to think the same thing until I considered that single page app development is really just a reinvention of thick clients. When you look at an SPA as a thick client state ma…

Agreed! I'm surprised at the comprehensive work going into researching the history of state management in this article while completely missing MobX. What problem does MobX not alr…

If your team is comfortable writing in pure python and you're familiar with the concept of a makefile you might find Luigi a much lighter and less opinionated alternative to workfl…

I think this is what Snowden referred to as the concept of "TurnKey tyranny".

Agreed. It's a cool idea. It's not really computer science as much as a penetration test involving humans and processes. Of course without any semblance of prior consent it isn't q…

"Please provide to the public, in an expedited manner, all information necessary to identify all proposals of known-vulnerable code from any U of MN experiment. The information sho…

Thanks! It's still a lot of hoops to jump through coming from visual studio perspective where all settings can be imported or exported to a file. But this is workable!

So let me get this straight. I make a theme. In order to actually use that theme I must sign up with azure DevOps create my own organization then get a personal access token then p…

I've been using an almost stock installation of spacevim both in gvim and terminal for the last couple years. It's sort of like a distro of vim plugins dialed in to play nicely tog…

Isn't this article essentially what terragrunt accomplishes

I never appreciated the popularity of redux. My impression was astonishment at the amount of boilerplate I needed for what I felt was a vanilla web ui use case. Then the required v…

This really hits the head of so many nails. Similar to you I think I grew up in deep north. Our generation can not subside in the economy of factories and Timber Mills. Most of the…