Meredith Matthews @braindouche@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2022
Meredith Matthews
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@betsythemuffin @braindouche @jalcine I'm angry about it because I know what the JS-sligners got paid, for worse results, after they convinced these companies to "manage out" people who actually knew how browsers worked.
Meredith Matthews
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@slightlyoff @jalcine @braindouche
Continue to feel a lot of this was due to (mostly men) who wanted to distance themselves from the girly stench of HTML and CSS via "real" programming.
I suppose they at least succeeded in inflating FE salaries as a result. Arguably a win.
The bizarre 2-4 year period where that crowd absolutely obsessed over purity and monads in their JS code only underlines my thinks there... FP is as "hardcore" as it gets to a certain personality type.
Meredith Matthews
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@slightlyoff @jalcine @braindouche @whalecoiner
As a lady-shaped person who entered the industry via frontend pre-Bootstrap...... I can think of exactly one and a half people I know who fit those demographic criteria and who aren't ragefully perma-bitter about the dynamic. The one and a half exceptions are still rageful but like the JS community.
Perhaps not a terribly visible demographic to... a certain kind of developer. But one that had similar traumatic experiences as that type rose.
RT @PheasantPlucka
@AlanBaxter I just saw him called Phony Stark and I can’t think of anything more appropriate.
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
NEW: I wrote about the disastrous response from Byron Brown two months ago during the Blizzard and the missed opportunity of electing @Indiawaltonbflo
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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
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.
The game should be called Chitter.
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RT @TNThusky
ACTUAL game idea tho: a horror game where you can't see the monster, but have to rely on a cat who can. https://twitter.com/JortsTheCat/status/1623906151413977088
https://twitter.com/TNThusky/status/1624110374931861505
I realize that complaining about the lack of functional pockets in women's clothing is so last month, but Jesus H. Bricklaying Christ On A Skateboard I just discovered a company that makes underwear with functional pockets for men. UNDERWEAR.
This just isn't funny anymore.
RT @adhdjesse
Strengths: works well under pressure
Weaknesses: doesn’t work otherwise
This book is a visual metaphor for my entire career as a front end developer who works almost exclusively in legacy codebases.
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RT @paulrpotts
I guess this book must be print on demand now. The pages look OK, but I was startled that the cover was so badly misaligned, but no one decided it didn’t meet their quality standards.
https://twitter.com/paulrpotts/status/1623172978669236224
Maybe "the plygs are not ok" or "that is not the problem" as in, the plural marriage is not the problem with polygamy
My next hit podcast idea: a Sister Wives watchalong and review featuring three or four queer poly perverts and moderate amounts of wine. I still don't have a clever name for it. If you steal this idea THANK ME WITH WINE
The funniest thing about the minor earthquake in buffalo this morning is that the most common initial reaction was "I thought someone drove a car into my house". This is funny because buffalo is the world capital of people driving their car into your fucking house.
Joined Nov 2022
