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yeah, you're right!

TanStack Query (fka React Query) is a REST client similar to Apollo Client, with many of the same pros and cons: https://tanstack.com/query/latest/docs/framework/react/overv...

Another alternative that I have liked for replacing Make as a task runner is Task: https://taskfile.dev/

One major thing that has held back Web Components, IMO, is that the standard never provided a JSX equivalent: a convenient declarative, condensed way to express your component's st…

Yes, Obsidian by itself reads and creates files in a folder of your choice. The folder is considered a "workspace" and you can create/switch to other workspaces if you want. There'…

They explicitly mention that they accounted for that in their calculation

My personal experience for the last couple of years is that the "checkout with Paypal" option on most sites is buggy now. After the Paypal portion of the payment flow, the redirect…

Never used it, but looks like Microsoft Project would fit that box.

This link doesn't work for me in Canada, because of some faulty re-routing that Kaspersky's backend is doing (keep getting redirected to https://www.kaspersky.ca/fr ). This one doe…

there are existing startups that specialize in ID verification. E.g. in my current freelancing gig, my client uses Passbase.

How much longer till people can start receiving a Prime delivery of an ounce of fine Amazon Basics Indica?

What excites me most about Node upgrades are the introduction of new native Javascript capabilities, because of the underlying V8 upgrade. You can figure out what those capabilitie…

You don't need to have 1:1 equivalence between API resources and database models, though. For example, you can create an API resource called TweetActivity, and then the backend cod…

It's not guaranteed to get software updates, but Pixel 2 is able to run Android 11, and so I believe it will continue to get security updates so long as Android 11 receives them. B…

I think the US site doesn't, but the Canadian one does. If you follow the link below, you'll see there's a Best Buy Only toggle. That being said, it's nice that the let you quickly…

From my experience of trying to learn Rust (got almost halfway through the manual and then put it on hold), I would add that having all these ways of doing the same thing is also c…

I've been a freelance full-stack developer for the past 1.5 years. I never bothered trying out Upwork, because I had the impression the price competition there was insane, so I can…

The issue isn't just that some smart contracts are buggy. After all, all software should be expected to have bugs at some point. The bigger issues are that a)the source code can be…

I've been using Joe's Own Editor the past couple of years when I want to do basic view/editing in terminal (I use Sublime Text for development). Really like it because it provides …

Take a look at redux-actions. I use it on all my React apps and it cuts a TON of boilerplate for me.

Regularly occurring major versions, with only a small amount of changes, has actually kind of become seen as best practice in the JavaScript community. React, Node, Angular and a t…

The Windows Phone OS usually gets pretty good reviews. The lack of premium phone hardware parts until recently made MS create a very lightweight but pleasing OS. But it still suffe…

The Windows Phone OS usually gets pretty good reviews. The lack of premium phone hardware parts until recently made MS create a very lightweight but pleasing OS. But it still suffe…