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@nodejs

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@ThePrimeagen TheLimeagen

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Rust for CRUD web backend. Yay or nay?

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@ThePrimeagen done boss

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11 months

@bengold @Gavmn Right, but they're not animated in e.g. After Effects. The mouse pointer suggests they're using screen capture!

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@shuding_ Saw this on another website recently and was absolutely stunned. Speaking of awesome CSS-based blur effects, have you seen this from motion one?

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11 months

@JLarky You can do this: <div ref={foo} /> But not this: <MyComponent ref={foo} /> Because React doesn't pass the ref prop to components. Instead, you have to use forwardRef which passes it to your component (as the second arg, next to props)

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8 months

@richardiii i'm sorry but it's just you

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1 year

@tomdoes_tech That's not a problem. It's just nine cents. It's not worth the effort. Your hourly rate is more than this. - AWS, probably

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1 year

It's crazy how productive I am with @remix_run . Tried a bunch of frameworks, but I keep coming back to Remix Biased, though, as I'm building a lib that works with Web Fetch API-based frameworks like Remix and Astro:

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10 months

let-else is the best thing since diced bread makes Rust as easy to read as Go

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@ThePrimeagen I love doing these too!

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1 year

I have become convinced @remix_run is the only sane full-stack react framework

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10 months

@csanyi_andras @ThePrimeagen actually it's "cript", since u would never just use one type

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8 months

@htmx_org nah there's a difference "bruh" ← fast "bruh".to_string() ← bruh

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1 year

@ormanclark There you go

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1 year

@aheze0 You should sell "emergency turn off" or "skip mission" packages as an in-app-purchase for $1 per skip

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10 months

I tried doing this and fried my brain in the process. I think I'll become a Golang maximalist after all. Rust is perfect but "perfect" only exists on paper

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10 months

Rust for CRUD web backend. Yay or nay?

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Rate my programming setup

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10 months

@teej_dv @ThePrimeagen @adamdotdev @thdxr done

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11 months

I'm gonna use @astrodotbuild for an app-style website. Sue me. The dev experience is just too good.

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11 months

@Gavmn @XeZrunner @bengold They're not screen recording a playing video I'm guessing. They built out the animation in code (like animations on a website!) and then screen-captured that

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11 months

wait what the fuck

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6 months

Preact is definitely so, so underrated bro It has things I haven't been able to find in any other frontend library/framework before, and is designed really really well

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11 months

@andrii_sherman you cannot tell me what to do

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1 year

@pagebakers With Remix, you can have them flat as well, but that's proving too unwieldy for me now as well... I think defining routes programatically might be the best option

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8 months

@AstraKernel @ThePrimeagen I just really want this in Go: enum MyEnum { Foo { bar: u16 } Baz(u8) Bruh } x := MyEnum.Baz(1234) match x { Foo { bar: 1..=3 } => bar is 1-3 Foo { bar } => bar is 4+ Baz(n: 8) => n is 8 Baz(n) => n is everything except 8 Bruh => bruh }

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10 months

Using Rust is job safety because AI is never gonna figure this out

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7 months

If you're not coding with comic sans, you're missing out

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8 months

@ThePrimeagen never subbed ✅ never donated ✅ adblock on ✅ scrap computer ✅ neighbours wifi ✅ mommas house ✅ stolen solar panels ✅ stolen sun ✅ solar energy stolen ✅ water wheel ✅ neighbours river ✅ stolen hydroelectric plant ✅ charging phone with work electricity ✅ shower in

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8 months

@bunjavascript JavaScript is all over the place with this "JSON" (all caps abbreviation) but that doesn't apply to other abbreviations such as "Id" (getElementById, frameId, ...) but then it uses "UUID" instead of "Uuid" "URL" (new URL) but sometimes "Url" (history.deleteUrl)

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1 year

tldraw's cursor has 360 degrees of smile c:

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@anze3db It's more about robustness, error handling, and ecosystem for me

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@Gavmn @XeZrunner @bengold Like this screen recording:

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11 months

@JLarky Follow for more tweet-size explanations for us armchair wannabes

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8 months

You have to be kidding

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@andrii_sherman

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1 year

@aheze0 Just go full-on minigame app. Watch an ad to skip this alarm. That's guaranteed to get me awake, making the ad itself an alarm. (And you get some change as well) Buy 5 alarm skips for $5.79 see previous tweet Add a leaderboard. The top 100 people get free skips each week

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11 months

@norabunoraibu @djco what about variable names with spaces

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10 months

Dude I just asked if @ThePrimeagen 's wife was on stream and people started donating like 20 subs at a time what is wrong with this unhinged platform

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10 months

@RideDontSlide95 @ThePrimeagen Adobe bought Figma for $20 billi if you weren't aware

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10 months

@jayair "I'm trying to use serverless"

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11 months

productivity tip: golang

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1 year

Okay @remix_run is cool, but what if it could do this? Coming soon: a library that lets you compose remix actions and loaders. Add auth, input parsing, input validation, logging, and more. All with first-class TypeScript support.

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8 months

@itsfoss2 shutdown

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10 months

IMO you should almost always use match instead of if let .. else if let without else is fine, but when you have an else, just compare:

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1 year

@aleksandrasays Literally released yesterday: From the people who make the excellent Astro CLI

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Build beautiful command-line apps in minutes with `@‍clack/prompts` 🪄 🤏 Only 4 kB gzip (80% smaller than `prompts`) 💎 Beautiful, minimal UI ✅ Simple API 🧱 Comes with text, confirm, select, and spinner

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@brendonovichdev I recently wrote a very interactive page in SolidJS, all in one file 600 lines i love it

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8 months

had to fix a bug with a legacy JavaScript codebase at work

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1 year

There is nothing like @wundergraphcom out there. It lets you build an entire API gateway right next to your code. You can query your DB and other GraphQL APIs through it. Then add auth, realtime, and caching in front of that. The best thing? It's configured right in your code.

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@bunjavascript That said, why not add an "ip" thingy to `Bun` itself? Working with IPs is difficult in JS Bun.ip.fromRequest(Request)

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8 months

You should roll your own auth

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7 months

Just got that Warren Buffering follow

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8 months

I want to apologize for putting Go down and I'm sorry if I hurt anyone talking about Go or Rust recently My tweet was polarizing. I don't want to put anyone down, so I'm genuinely sorry if I did I love Go and Rust and I appreciate what everyone conttibuting to lamguages and OSS

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If you feel like Rust is too hard, either - try Swift - let me know why it's too hard & i'll give grug style explanation

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@hardmaru

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1 year

what?? gpt-4 is wild

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@TheJackForge

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had to fix a bug with a legacy JavaScript codebase at work

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7 months

@fkasummer @braidbrowser wow this is awesome. i had a similar idea a while back — how do you solve different screen resolutions and responsive webpages? e.g. youtube has a different layout at 800px than 1000px (the sidebar collapses for example) even when treating the whole page as an infinite canvas,

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1 year

@mrbenjaminhoppe I think you are mistaken

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7 months

YouTube's new sub button animation is sick

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1 year

"I need a logo!" If you're a designer or dev looking for work, check out these lesser-known, commission-free sites: 👉 0% (also has a sick portfolio builder) 👉 0% 👉 0% 👉 0-10%

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There is no icon library like @tabler_io 's Tabler Icons More than 4,000 icons, for free, with React/Vue/Solid.js... support. I've been using them ever since, and I don't plan on stopping. They're just too good

Tabler Icons: 5250+ free vector icons for web design

Tabler Icons: 5253 free and open source SVG icons. Customizable size, color and stroke width. Packages for React, SolidJS, Vue, Figma, Svelte and others are available. Icons can be downloaded as PNG,...

tabler.io

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@jarredsumner @bunjavascript IPAddress or IpAddress?

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7 months

just got that warren buffering follow

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@kdy1dev Dude please look after yourself. Stop burning yourself out. stc's progress will become slower the more you work on it after a certain point

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11 months

EXPLAIN THE MILK THING

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10 months

@ThePrimeagen you got moved to accounting?!

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11 months

I challenge you @hiro_codes to make a positive blog post about Go and it's strengths over Rust

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11 months

Okay, I've decided I'm gonna become a Rust maximalist. For reals now. If I'm too unproductive with it, I'll probably switch back to Go/JS But if I can get good in terms of productivity, I don't see a reason to use another language (told you I'm going maximalist)

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10 months

@joshmo_dev How hard is it to onboard other devs, though? Especially those coming from JS/TS or Go I read the recent google study, but that was concerning Rust enthusiasts. I wonder if their "it doesn't affect productivity" findings hold up with people who are indifferent to Rust

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7 months

@ThePrimeagen state belongs in the user's head, let them figure it out. why should i manage something for them if they are perfectly capable of doing it themselves

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7 months

people really be working on AdBlock blocker blockers now

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7 months

So... nesting just landed in CSS (Chrome 118)

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@merlindru

8 months

I've made a tiny tRPC-style library that supports go-to-definition, typesafe requests/responses, and typesafe contexts/middleware. It works with anything supported by the Web Fetch API. Bun, Node.js, Deno, Astro, Next.js v13, Remix, ... Should I open source it?

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I'm so torn between becoming a Rust maxi and a Go maxi

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Allocations in Rust are slower than in JavaScript, Go, ...

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10 months

@asher_gunsay > I find scripting enhances the signal - more noise w/ low level languages. That's exactly my concern, but I want Go or Rust style error handling. JS error handling is constantly getting me into trouble in prod right now

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8 months

help

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10 months

Rust is a cool language because: • You can move some logic to types • In another language, the same logic has to be code • If types break, you know at compile time. If code breaks, you know when users complain.

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10 months

to be clear:: rust is cool, but after looking at the code for a while, i can't make sense of it anymore. the mental overhead is insane

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6 months

Prime: There will now be 22 instead of 10 Rust jobs total (on earth) Chat:

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8 months

Rust's Result type is the best thing since sliced bread

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11 months

@26yobeard @shuding_ It's a div with a bg-blur. Then there's a repeating pattern of dots on top! How you do the dots is up to you -- it uses a repeating `background-image`

Motion One: The Web Animations API for everyone

A new library for animation libraries on the web. Built on the Web Animations API for a tiny bundlesize and great performance.

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@dan_abramov Movies

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@pie6k IMO, the motion blur is too prominent for small movements right now. This is counter-intuitive but I think it should not only be based on velocity, but how long the movement is (in terms of duration)

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@bunjavascript To clarify, I'd love a "semi standard" IP interface in bun Bun.ip.v4("127.0.0.1") -> BunIPv4 Bun.ip.v6("::1234") -> BunIPv6 Bun.ip.fromRequest(Request) -> BunIPv4 | BunIPv6 Common interface BunIP that has isv4() -> asserts this is BunIPv4 and isv6 -> asserts this is BunIPv6

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@YuvarajMadineni then you go back to Go and mess up with nil pointers, slices, and crave those oh so sweet sum types

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7 months

guys im popular

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8 months

I think Preact is SUPER underappreciated. Does anyone here use Preact, but not as a drop-in React replacement? Does anyone use Preact just because it's awesome?

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6 months

@StefanTMD @sofiarivero_15 this is literally ikea

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6 months

Just got a free code width guide 😎

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1 year

@denicmarko There also is , , , and job threads on programming language-specific subreddits like

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Merlin

@merlindru

10 months

@AdhamDannaway @kindlaar I'm not sure I agree with the contrast thing -- low contrast isn't necessarily bad, IMO browsers/devices should have a high-contrast option or you should use prefers-contrast: more to add high-contrast styles

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1 year

@davidfowl Repository pattern reminds me so much of convoluted OOP projects. It definitely is useful, but there's a lot of boilerplate. Stuff like Prisma/GraphJin/Wundergraph/Grafbase essentially is the same thing, but the repositories are code-generated for you. That said, why not go

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@bashiryousufy11 @ThePrimeagen this was not script this was dedication

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