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It's definitely a defensive statement, proactively covering the situation as "normal". Normal it may be, but emphasizing that in the limited space of a tweet thread definitely indi…

Yes, you stand behind your comments so strongly you created an anonymous throwaway account just to share them.

Phenomenal answer. No, you don't need it, but if you build something long enough you'll avoid a couple categories of common problems by starting with it (and choose a different set…

I'm not sure breadth of adoption and retention are the right metrics here — the use cases I've heard about are highly specialized, so I wouldn't expect it to be massively and quick…

> all this VR/AR hype has yet to deliver something... anything... anything at all …in the consumer space. There have been some really incredible tools I've seen in industrial or me…

I meant this as a commentary on the strike as a tactic for tech workers generally. SREs and Ops are the teams that seem most able to effectively use a strike to disrupt revenue, to…

Cheers for the correction, though I'm loathe to learn that's the state of labor law. > Mackay Radio has been called "the worst contribution that the U.S. Supreme Court has made to …

I know that the Tech Workers Coalition (TWC) has done some significant organizing against Amazon, in the form of protests/drawing media attention, and in deeper/less visible aspect…

One significant change since that era of unionization is that programmers can't actually shut down the business with a strike. If programmers stop working, that doesn't actually di…

Well, you still can't do that—WASM doesn't have DOM bindings, you'd still have to ship out to JS. I believe that's a goal, so yes eventually that could be a benefit, but not at the…

Web assembly is generally an optimization, not an app alternative. Think of it the way you would the C bindings Node.js has. If you've got a compute-heavy code path, writing it in …

This reads like you're equating collective bargaining with salary negotiation, but there are a ton of other dimensions where negotiating as a group would be beneficial. I've worked…

Vocational training absolutely could be done in tech, web/app development is much closer to carpentry than it is to computer science in my view. Unions are definitely complex, it's…

Not sure where "tying pay to tenure" came up, unless that's how you view what unions do? A union just means a group of employees negotiating as a unit, what changes they ask for is…

Bob Glickstein wrote a really phenomenal writeup https://medium.com/interstellar/understanding-the-stellar-co...

Not sure where you're getting that it's deprecated. Both the repo itself and the styled components website list it as a highly recommended (but optional) addition. https://www.styl…

That "worst sentiment of 2018" comment was directed specifically at > Things like that (CSS into JS/ typed JS/Elm) are done because the developers are not competent enough in their…

We've not run into any performance issues in our 80k LoC JS app using styled components 100%. I'm not sure it's accurate to say it's ditched static styles exporting, with babel-plu…

We use styled-components, which is one of the most commonly used css-in-js libraries, and it supports both pseudo-classes and browser breakpoints. I'm not sure how applicable this …

React has extremely careful versioning with a precise internal definition of what a "breaking change" is. Judging React by Angular's terrible version numbers doesn't seem fair to m…

Very excellent writeup of some tricky concepts. Nothing in here is terribly new (or, I would even argue, particularly controversial among those familiar with Redux), but until now …