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1 year

Short answer: I saw syntax like v-if= and v-for= and instantly lost interest

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One of the things that puzzle me the most about our industry is why do devs keep choosing React over @vuejs . It’s bloated, produces poor user experiences, makes bigger demands on tooling, respects web standards less, and has significantly poorer DX… I just …don’t get it.

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@ken_wheeler I NEVER fetch data in useEffect, I simply use third party libraries that fetch data in useEffect

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Everyone is using and learning Golang now

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@jmmv It's running a 5 year old OS during a time of breakneck pace in performance. I was on the computer a whole lot in this era. They were often dog slow. Load up Windows XP, daily it for a couple months, and then run the same test to get the true early 2000s computing experience.

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@BlackfootOrange @Duderichy [you, smugly] i'm wasting my life to make other people rich

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@dashJdot @elaifresh likely a small child

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@SnarkyCop @davidjacoby @SFMTA_Muni imagine this kind of entitlement with any other crime. "i've been dumping my garbage on city land for ten years and now all of a sudden i get a ticket?! i demand answers!"

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@aarondfrancis @PlanetScale Really sorry to hear that Aaron, you did so much for them! for any companies reading this: I will buy whatever product or service Aaron is making content for

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@jody_lecompte showers are for solving complex coding problems actually

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@Tony__Thai className paid for my house

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@bmcnett I think you might be misremembering the 90s if you're implying that computers and the internet were fast

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@nicksaraev @pwang_szn if his message was as reasonable as he makes it out to be it would probably be in the screenshot

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"I'm tired of the compiler telling me my code is broken! That's my users' job!"

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9 months

It’s about to go down. 🍿🥤

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finding out that DHH has been using TextMate this entire time and has no interest in IDE or LSP features really explains a lot about why the Rails DX feels dated to me. it really shows the importance of choosing an ecosystem whose BDFL's tastes align with your own

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@paulctan @dtemkin @Scobleizer I've never been less productive than in a big open office. Glad it works for you but I need quiet to get my work done.

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@jkchatham @fuckyouiquit these jobs are meant for kids?

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@TheJackForge if he starts reviewing b2b saas startups the economy will collapse

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@t3dotgg greatest programming language of all time: whatever language i'm on day 2 of a greenfield project on most frustrating and poorly designed language of all time: whatever long-term project is actually paying my bills

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@TheHyyyype Small online retailer: 🎉🥳 your order has shipped! Here's the tracking number! FedEx: we have literally never heard of this company

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@samcook_ @jdcmedlock it should be a lot easier to lose your license. driving isn't for everyone.

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@ThePrimeagen Real engineers build buildings and bridges and stuff

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@xenobyte_ @MintPossum @jramseyi sounds like you're not a real programmer

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@chrisbbreuer I don't like control flow in HTML attributes like that. I had probably used some long-dead templating tool in the past that used them and it triggered something in me. I like just having the full power of JS in my templates. I know Vue has that now too.

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@SeanNyberg @ZoeSchiffer For knowledge workers work is a thing you do not a place you go.

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@polypocketknife @jeremythunder @REMARKSIST @missmollymary since u been gone is a metalcore anthem!

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@BlackfootOrange @Duderichy Oh you own your own business?

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@swlkr That's a pretty poor argument lol

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@B4s3d_4c1d @generalslug @dancow so you're saying this is evidence of human activity

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@JaimeOrtega @t3dotgg Multi-Touch interfaces are pretty tough to beat when it comes pocket tech with a wide variety of uses

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@SavageAryan007 @itissahilbtw buy nice or buy twice

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@skwee357 @stripe no users = no income = no taxes

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@jevakallio Per-seat pricing is really annoying. Render switched to this recently too and it killed all interest I had in putting any of my stuff there. For infra tools is it not enough to just charge a healthy margin on the storage/compute that I'm actually using?

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@en_ligne_ @HNDaybreak @Ahmed_UTC2 @ggooooddddoogg @DegenFurry64 no but you don't understand the car brained city set the speed limit at 30 and thus driving 30 down a residential street where you can't see the sidewalks is perfectly safe

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@AdamRackis it's Engagement Bait: The Framework

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@BradTonoff @hkarthik I read that as don't take expensive trips, not necessarily don't take time off

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@SIUC_SPS @hilaryagro

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@timClicks This is your chance to work with the smartest and most talented software engineers in the world who will work 7 days a week for $80-120k

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@ken_wheeler i strongly believe that trying to replace software developers with the current iteration of LLMs is going to have consequences that are very, very funny

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@RickAnderson @jacquesleger17 @MikePMoffatt I bought a house similar to this one in a desirable neighbourhood in Hamilton in 2008 for $175k. Same house today would likely go for $700k. They were starter homes because they had starter prices. That's no longer the case.

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@kevinlieber @Brandonpliskin @ConanOBrien my valve!

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@tekbog Don't forget keeping up with whatever new process voodoo flavor of the week management wants you to use

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@jbrancha That's very cool but I'm absolutely shoving them all into an opaque commit that says `fixes`.

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@t3dotgg Right in your wallet

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@BlackfootOrange @Duderichy depends on your definition of rich.

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@jrhodesy @zck If the only thing getting you out of the house is going to work you need to take a hard look at your life and how you're spending your time. It's important to have hobbies that take you out of the house and connecting with other people.

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@_doddzilla @MinusPeach anyone who couldn't read the sarcasm in your tweet may not be ready for twitter anyway

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@PJUllrich this is why I prefer languages with types and enums

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@RaxKingIsDead when i bought lunch at the toronto zoo burger king for myself and my wife, that's when i knew we had made it

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@jody_lecompte Name the company so we all know not to invest

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@mscccc @roshanpateI what an odd coincidence

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@rishmishra @chinesegon if you need to share physical space to tell if your devs are working or not your company is ngmi

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@BlackfootOrange @Duderichy you can stop working and keep your house

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@seaotta Is dropping math in high school finally going to have consequences for me as a web dev? 😢

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@bilbosfootcomb @deepimpactowl before enlightenment like, comment, subscribe. after englightenment like, comment, subscribe.

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@AdamRackis Back in my day full stack development was just called development

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@aarondfrancis @PlanetScale It's the truth! Just don't get hired by Bugatti or something or I'll be financially ruined. Ditto for Datadog.

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@swlkr They're not using JSDoc either though.

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@FredKSchott "You see Elaine, I'm the one who paid for the big query"

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Woohoo I'm officially a @remix_run contributor! (one line docs change)

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@housecor Missing database indexes

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@sergiodxa @AdamRackis @remix_run Remix is like "what if we did the thing that you would expect"

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@moritzplassnig @MalteLandwehr More new product companies probably should be building for profit rather than chasing VC money. Expecting to raise big for a CRUD app is a ZIRP. Building something that people want and selling it to them for profit is timeless.

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I think mine is broken

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Does your favorite JavaScript framework pass the new Core Web Vitals metrics on their own homepage? A thread:

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@Sorsfinn @MaxKriegerVG Reddit is the first bastion (is that a thing?) of the new internet. Old internet is independently run forums.

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@t3dotgg I respect them for knowing what they're about though

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@amcdnl Adam Wathan can explain it yes

CSS Utility Classes and "Separation of Concerns"

Over the last several years, the way I write CSS has transitioned from a "semantic" approach to something more like what people call "functional CSS." In this post I explain how I got to this point...

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@waq_r Yes because books will tell you things that you don't know you didn't know

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@Arkenor @daveweigel @MollyJongFast hi

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@nateberkopec It's funny to see Ruby people dunking on JS when the Rails 2->3 migration was one of the most painful in my career, followed by the migration to the asset pipeline.

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Thinking of ending my 18 year marriage with Rails over hearing Laravel's BDFL admitting that React/Vue/Svelte are actually good and worth integrating with.

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Vue too! () We love React, Vue, Svelte, and more. And, we’ve created super easy ways for you to pair them with your Laravel backend without losing your mind.

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@regisaberbache @levelsio the number of people not getting the joke here is extremely worrying

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@scott_butler_jr @dhh I push my code and then wait for it for it to pass checks (~5 mins) because either it's going to succeed and I'm going to do the next step or it's going to fail and I'll need to fix something. I don't context-switch in that 5 mins. I don't like jumping between tasks

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@ken_wheeler Being Dinks: fine, normal Producing dink content: sad, extremely cursed

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@flybayer I think the message of the post-ZIRP era should be pretty clear: compute costs money and if you're not paying for it someone else is and they probably don't want to be. Hobbyists should expect to at minimum lay down some money for a VPS or else they're going to find themselves

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@ThePrimeagen Every major religion is in agreement that the path to happiness and enlightenment is through the attainment of material wealth

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Doing some refactoring on a Rails app and I sure am glad I don't have any pesky types telling me when I've forgotten to update something. I'm sure every developer who worked on this app over the past 10 years wrote exactly the right tests to catch any potential issue!

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@swlkr You're spinning your wheels with all that Rust is why. Chasing correctness in your code when you could be chasing that paper.

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@ericowensdc @JonahMccardle @DGisSERIOUS @daveweigel Alcohol is real bad for you actually

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@jmmv You might've had a better computer than me 😅 My 1994 Compaq Presario was really slow to do just about anything within a year or two of ownership. I haven't installed Windows 11 yet so I can't comment on that

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@gillespiejames_ @tomjmaxwell @iamharaldur So we're agreed that it was endemic in the past. Can you tell me in what specific year it stopped being endemic?

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@MorkSamuel But JSX isn't HTML, it's JSX

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@kenzianidiot I used to open the cupboard and take out all kinds of human food and just pretend to put it on my dog's food. It worked like 80% of the time. We called it "special ingredients"

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@ken_wheeler When I get a peek at a white-collar-but-non-programmer's weekly calendar I fall to my knees and thank god I found qbasic on my computer when I was 10

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@gillespiejames_ @tomjmaxwell @iamharaldur The sun rose at 5:59am today.

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@sesigl @svpino Scrum: the customer asked us to drive a nail, so we told them it had to wait until next sprint and had a two hour meeting with ten of our highest paid guys to talk about how long it would take. Once we got to the job site we found out it was actually a screw.

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@LizRummy @zlingerrr

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@thomas_violence and it still shows ads in replies

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@BlackfootOrange @Duderichy ok how about: you can stop working in your 30s or 40s and keep your house

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Ruby devs will tell you type systems are stupid and then meticulously document every class and method with YARD so they can have intellisense that kinda works

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@wesbos asdfasdf-v2-final-FINAL.png

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@swyx @deedydas

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@shaunnbarron I love a good ternary

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@swlkr i can't speak for everyone but in my personal experience having static typing helps me ship faster. i find working in ruby or plain JS codebases much slower because of all the jumping around i have to do. in TS i never have to read a whole function just to see what i can pass it

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@AdamRackis Is it gatekeeping if they're wrong? The core argument seems to be that Tailwind is for people who don't know CSS, but the biggest Tailwind fans I know are people with 10+ years of experience writing CSS.

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@ethanniser I don't get the appeal of this at all, why not just write Javascript for this?

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To me this is like telling aspiring musicians to start by learning theory and notation. I would start by learning the bare minimum you need to to start playing songs and then work your way backwards from there. Start with the thing that lets you enjoy the craft.

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Young engineers: please don't do this. Learn the fundamentals; tech is all the same bits and bytes on the lower levels. This knowledge will serve you no matter what the flavor of the week is, because you'll be able to understand them all

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@DrizzleORM and dynamo is just .txt files on S3, which itself is running on MediaTemple servers

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@ryanflorence Everyone knows frameworks always get coupled to the companies that own them. That's why you can only use React to make social networks and you can only use NextJS to make cloud hosting platforms.

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