Meredith Matthews @braindouche@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2022
RT @PheasantPlucka
@AlanBaxter I just saw him called Phony Stark and I can’t think of anything more appropriate.
@slightlyoff
Out of curiosity, what was your take on AngularJS?
@jalcine
@slightlyoff
That's another thing, that class of managers are the tech bros who staffed their zillion-dollar companies with teams of engineers no older than 27 who worked 36 hours a day. The systematic exploitation of recent college grads in silicon valley has a hell of a lot to do with this.
@jalcine
@slightlyoff
For a long time I thought react was a fad of the same kind as Ruby on Rails was, kinda goofy and monomaniacal but ultimately fine. I changed my mind a few years ago, I think it's much more akin to cryptocurrency, reinventing a working system badly to solve problems we don't actually have.
@jalcine
@jalcine
Not lost. Destroyed intentionally.
@slightlyoff
@slightlyoff
I'll tell you why not. A lost decade makes us victims of circumstance, while a financial bubble is driven by the malignant, ingorant, greedy and destructive forces of utterly mediocre men convinced of their own correctness. Good sense was driven away aggressively by a lot of goddamn money.
@slightlyoff
When you put it that way it makes me wonder if we shouldn't be thinking about it less like a lost decade and more like a financial bubble.
@slightlyoff
Nah, I don't have time for that grudge. If they hadn't invented it, someone else would have.
This is good news, because React itself is backed by Facebook and Facebook is looking awfully peaked lately, don't you think? Unfortunately, when Facebook goes the way of Friendster, we will have (at least) three branches of React to contend with.
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RT @indigitalcolor
These React frameworks have been backed by for-profit companies for a while but now they’re backed by larger for-profit companies that lead development of multiple f…
https://twitter.com/indigitalcolor/status/1620922828513218562
I just read on the birdsite that the framework wars are heating up again, but it's between three flavors of corporate-sponsored react framework. I think this means we can stop paying attention to it now and unsubscribe from the whole thing.
He's just so unbelievably close.
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RT @adamwathan
I don't think React is inherently better or worse than any other framework out there but it's hard to choose anything else because of how many extraordinarily hard problems you have to solve from scratch if you want to build bullet proof UIs.
https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1623714118447337476
So the good news is, it took me about 20 minutes to completely rewrite phpdoesnotsuck from scratch and redeploy. The bad news is my dns appears to be completely on fire. So for right now: https://phpdoesnotsuck.herokuapp.com
Here's a much less polite take: frameworks are so complex and confusing it requires the influence of an entire Chattering Class of content creators to drive adoption and implementation on 5% or fewer websites, a significant portion of which objectively don't need it.
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RT @piccalilli_
When you see:
”Best practices don’t actually work”
Or:
“TypeScript has won, and it’s only a matter of time you’re using it whether you like it or no…
https://twitter.com/piccalilli_/status/1625473330785525760
RT @FrankLukacovic
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RT @lazerwalker
whether or not this is The Big Outage That Finally Takes Twitter Down, you can guarantee that Elon is now having a miserable day, and I just think that's neat.
https://twitter.com/lazerwalker/status/1623447835726479360
@sarajw
Actually , I was about to rant about how localStorage seems like the correct move here but it's passé and I can't find anything useful there and I should just write a tiny localStorage library for myself and move on but Nanostores is just... That thing right there. Cool! Thanks 👍 that's pretty much exactly what I needed
@astro
Astro isn't bad but every time I pick it up I keep ending up in this place where I start thinking "this is cool but what problem is it actually solving for me?" Which is why I keep falling back on 11ty. Kinda like how I pretty much only use Sass for nesting selectors, 11ty gives me back dynamic html includes and that's really all I want.
Like, I don't need a single page application, but I still kind of want singleton state management? I think what I'm seeing is that we have SSGs and SPAs, but like the middle is still really Django Laravel Rails
Ok, so I pick an SSG for my site because I don't want to use react, but then I need some data and state from an API and the SSG is all "just scope in some react there bud" and, like, my guy I feel like you weren't actually listening to what I wanted here.
Joined Nov 2022
