Rich Harris
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Rich Harris
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- Tens of thousands of celebrities, businesspeople, musicians, models, porn stars and 'influencers' bought millions of fake Twitter followers, some of which had stolen the identities of real people. This is the most fun I've had working on a story in a while
- removing types from your own code is clownish, epically misguided behaviour, but whatever — to each their own. removing types from a library THAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE TO USE, however, is just user-hostile dickwaddery"So farewell, TypeScript. May you bring much rigor and satisfaction to your tribe while letting the rest of us enjoy JavaScript in the glorious spirit it was originally designed: Free of strong typing." world.hey.com/dhh/turbo-8-is…
- TIL Prettier is considering making tabs the default in 3.0. This is huge — it would make an entire set of programming languages more accessible (if you're somehow still pro-spaces, read this comment to instantly convert), and, more importantly, vindicate my personal preferences
Replying to @threepointone @CherryJimbo and @petebdMaybe one day it'll be the default... github.com/prettier/prett… - every day, i have several dozen interactions with software that is completely broken. it's not usually quite as bad as this, but this also isn't an outlier. nothing in the digital world fucking works. as an industry, we have completely and utterly failed. we're a joke.
- i'm going to need to write a blog post on this topic, but this is a deeply under-appreciated fact about web dev, and one of the reasons native apps tend to feel more robust than web apps. as someone who frequently amtraks through connectivity dead zones, it resonates deeply.
- Let's say your Pulitzer Prize-winning colleagues have unearthed new tax information about the president, and need you to make a bar chart to illustrate their findings. Bar charts are easy, right? But there's a catch.
- what happens when @trueadm joins your team (and the performance isn't even the most exciting part! svelte 5 is going to be radical and i can't wait to share more)
- holy shit! @sveltejs is the number one framework in terms of both interest (as per last year) and satisfaction (overtaking React) thank you so much to everyone who has helped us shake things up — contributors, educators, app developers, Open Collective supporters. you da best 🤗
- apologies if somebody already made this
AMC Theater CEO Adam Aron says their cinemas won't require masks upon reopening because they didn't "want to be drawn into a political controversy" bit.ly/3hB8bzX - JS lifehack: put common utilities in a node_modules directory *inside* src, so you can import w/o '../../'. Unlike faffy alias configs, this works consistently across bundlers, and you'll still get completion hints/typechecking etc. Just remember not to gitignore that directory
- literally could not care less about wordpress — sorry — but rubbernecking doesn't get better than this saga. every day this man stares at us, unblinking, and says 'think i can't get more unhinged? WELL WATCH THIS'
