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I love my overengineered web site / playground. Yes, I hid a text adventure in the site header. Yes, it is full of stuff that no-one will care about. It's my art and my passion. I …

Everyone calm down: It was just a kid trying to hack into a video game company. He accidentally started a war simulation. The US had recently turned over control of its entire nucl…

I use vscode with Git Graph. It gives me a clear understanding of everything, allows me to manage branches easily, gives me access to every command I need, and even allows a great …

Everybody makes state management hard. All you need is a simple layer to make your typed api calls. export const ApiService = { return { getSomeStuff: async () => ..., postSomethin…

I’ve been using hooks for a year, and they are awesome (once you get used to it). I can write the same component in 1/3 of the code in a functional style. The debugging story isn’t…

Wow, you’re right! That’s faster than I can remember it loading in real windows xp on a desktop (and that was installed versus downloading additional code for that module). Impress…

No, I was specifically talking about load time which is instant (compared to the majority of the internet which is not). Also, as far as hardware is concerned, I am comparing a 14 …

Yeah, this is amazing. Works great even on iPhone. Going to save this one for the next time someone says React is slow. This worked instantly for me (just like my website, I wonder…

I hope someone pays attention, because this was fun!

This is a hack to play a text adventure in the typescript type system (no runtime at all). Typescript is awesome!

I built my desktop about 3 months ago after 16 years of using a laptop. It’s great! I also had fun researching how to get the best deal ~$2,000.

Nice! I’m teaching my children to write their school papers in markdown for similar reasons. I use a github PR to provide feedback.

No, but it's a great ideal for a blog post! When I have a chance, I'll let you know.

I’ve been doing web since 1990s and I‘ve always thought spreading a UI element across 3 separate files (often in different locations) was an anti-pattern (or 5+ files In 5 differen…

I agree, I think crime fighting requires tools that operate at the user level. So an infiltration bot: We have the technology today (gpt-3 level dialog) that could infiltrate crimi…

Awesome work! That makes sense. I imagine with some experience you have a decent idea about what you can make fit.

Thanks for the expansion and comments! On your project, I noticed the comments were about 5 times longer than the source code :) - so that makes sense how to work with it.

I can see the benefits of monitoring progress like this for a good project manager (who isn't micro-controlling or forcing a schedule, but who can keep the stake-holders at bay wit…

Amazing! Very impressive how you got all the details in. I'd be interested in hearing what the development process is like. Do you work directly in the minified code, or do you cre…

Author here - hopefully this post will help you eradicate “any” form all typescript code bases. I explain a few good strategies to deal with types and hopefully add enough humor to…

Are you sure it was the production database that was affected? If you are not sure how a hard coded script that was targeting localhost affected a production database, how do you k…

I agree completely. I started building websites in 1997 with FrontPage as a teenager. It was horrible - mostly because I was teenager and didn’t have anything interesting to say. I…