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jQuery has had the reputation of being very antiquated for a while. The problem that it set out to solve no longer exists. The same will be true of what you mentioned above. Now th…

The current front-end web stack today is not the answer, I think that is not so controversial except to the most die-hard fanboys. Most of the contents in this handbook are going t…

Troll picks: Curtis Yarvin a.k.a. Mencius Moldbug ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin ) Xah Lee ( http://xahlee.org/ ) Michael O'Church ( https://michaelochurch.wordpress…

Agree with this. I think that many of the people named here may be more talented at marketing their ideas and themselves within certain developer communities. Their work may seem p…

Looks pretty impressive at first glance, but it seems that most of its features come from dependencies such as PouchDB, RxJS, JSON Schema, crypto-js, and more. The built version is…

I didn't say that Facebook's reference implementation is the only one (it is in fact the most popular based on downloads), everyone else is performing free labor for Facebook. The …

I don't buy into the GraphQL hype. Actually it is a rehash of older technologies like RDF & SparQL, but marketed to a newer generation who didn't know that old things exist. I'd wa…

I think the nuances of the offering are not entirely clear from the marketing website, so here's what I've interpreted. The product itself seems to be a Node.js framework that glue…

Actually the site loads about 4.3 MB of compressed data over the network, or 6.5 MB uncompressed. Edit: out of curiosity, I looked at the package.json of their open source project,…

I haven't heard of Fabric before. Fabric seems to have an ambiguous name and their marketing website is equally ambiguous. Something to do with mobile app analytics? I find this tr…

Something very similar already exists: https://github.com/pretenderjs/pretender I don't think it's a good idea in general to mock server responses because they are subject to chang…

1) Doesn't always work if you want to target embedded systems or need performance, and all you know are scripting languages with huge overhead like Ruby, JS, Python, etc. Some lang…

What's wrong with good old notepad.exe and *.txt files? Notepad (nano, ed, other lightweight editors) has a quality that this doesn't: unstructured text. When writing I don't want …

It depends on what you already know, I think embedded development with systems level languages and hardware know-how is a very durable skill. On the other hand, some fields like we…

Fun fact: Jeff Bezos from Amazon was an early investor in Mashape :)

That makes Web 1.0 sound bad. AWS seems to be using Angular and is full of UI quirks and bugs that would have been impossible without JS. HTML forms work predictably, reliably, and…

>something React-like as part of the web standards. Hell no. High-level APIs should remain in user space, they are too often optimized for short term thinking, prone to breakage, a…

And what about those McKinsey consultants, surely their work can be automated as well? :) It is funny that the managerial class thinks that they are safe from automation.

Should qualify this as Web Developer tools. Nearly all of the things here would be irrelevant to systems programmers.

May I ask why one would want to switch from a well respected engineering profession to one which literally kids can do? Outside of the HN bubble where there's lots of VC-funded Int…

Stupid question: what does Omniref do that can't be done with source code comments? Comments are readable by anyone in any editor and do not require external tools. They are co-loc…

Why should anyone use this, instead of just using a Redis client, the `cluster` module, and a WebSocket server directly? It's only 251 lines of code as of writing, which is partly …

It is important to note that Zuckerberg did not claim any original contributions, nor does he name any of the non-Facebook libraries used, denying the acknowledgement of others' wo…

Uber is a douchebag company, who knew? On a serious note, there is no obligation for any user no matter how big to contribute anything upstream in open source. If that were the cas…