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wow this article sure reads like AI slop

This thing that can't be measured is up 76%. Eyeroll

The only thing surprising about the result was that they found it surprising :)

This is great, I think this is perfect use for web components and gives your customers trying to build a fully custom storefront a much better experience. I built something similar…

Really like what I'm seeing so far. It looks a lot like Sprae: https://github.com/dy/sprae one of my favorite things that no one seems to be paying attention to :) I use it on live…

This sounds awesome. As a GA pilot and software developer, I can tell you that voice comms and the need to work with them will be around for a long time. Just look at all the feet …

We've definitely experienced chaos when building large React apps. I don't think it's necessarily React's fault (though I'm not particularly a fan), I think the complexity is inher…

This sounds like a really excellent product, and I really love the description in this post of how you got there. Not working on anything just this minute that needs it, but I will…

The promise of being able to use any library from any language is really quite compelling, and that's what the WASM component model is about for me. It's pretty sad to say this amo…

Once again, missing the point of unit testing. Unit testing is about improving the design of the software, and allowing the design to evolve through refactoring (which is effective…

Eleventy is pretty great! Highly recommend.

The live-template element provides a connected, or "live" template that connects to a stateful backend application provided by Livestate. After connecting to a LiveState channel, i…

It is supported by chromium already and Mozilla has said they'll be working on it

Since you mention that state management is an unsolved problem with Web Components, I thought I would share a project that aims to bring a solution: https://github.com/launchscout/…

We've been working on a project for the last few months to make it easy to add dynamic features to static or statically generated websites. We started with ecommerce (cart, add ite…

Oh, and as far as the "shortage of Elixir developers". Unfortunately with layoffs in the startup community it's probably easy to hire just now. Even when that was not the case, we'…

We have switched to Elixir and Phoenix as our go to stack gradually over the last 5 years. We've found that LiveView in particular, with it's ability to avoid a separate front-end …

Been using Lit for a few years now, it just keeps getting better. It does what it does, and stays out the way. Please don't call it a framework though, the best part of Lit is that…

I ran across this wonderfully written article recently. I've lived through almost the entire history of the web myself as a developer, and it has led me to the same conclusions as …

Yet another UI open source project that should be web component (custom HTML element) but isn't.

Actually, it was in person the one time we had it but we brought in the speaker from out of town. It was Glenn Vanderburg, who is is a smart and fabulous human being around my age …

I just turned 50 in October, and have been coding my entire career plus. I still love and enjoy coding, and feel like I have more to contribute by far than I did early in my career…