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if you’ve been writing HTML since 1999 like me then it’s newfangled. in 2008 when i got my first paid job writing ASP and PHP at a web dev shop, nobody was “frontend”. there was th…

this is a shallow and dismissive comment lacking any basic charity or nuance: dijkstra was just bad at “goto.” this doesn’t worry me, though. those in the react crowd that insist o…

we’re using htmx at work, migrating away from react. the technique we’re using is just rendering the whole page, e.g. we have a page where one side of the screen is a big form and …

we’re using htmx at work, migrating away from react. the technique we’re using is just rendering the whole page, e.g. we have a page where one side of the screen is a big form and …

I think if something is intuitive after 5 years then it wasn’t intuitive, you’ve just adapted.

TS has terrible type inference. At work I collect a list of the failures.

It’s not a difficult part if you already have a powerful web framework. We’re using Htmx with Servant which has type-safe URLs built in. For the targets, automatic name generation …

SQL is not functional. But otherwise I support the desire for an FP and relational language.

Scheme also abbreviates: call-with-current-continuation To call/cc The forward slash serving the purpose of “with”.

Human and animals interaction is all physical. Babies and early children spend most of their brain development on physicality. By depriving a mind of having a body, that mind canno…