Meredith Matthews @braindouche@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Nov 2022
Ok, I gotta pick a vue component library, and primevue looks like catnip for cranky old web developers that hate react like me. I like it's opinions, I like where it's unopinionated, and I like the progressive enhancement approach it seems to have.
Quick, argue me out of it.
@hollie
Are agile coaches and scrum masters still in demand? That's another direction she might check.
@castastrophe
That's great news! I'm gunna apply to this SO HARD
@patrickfulton
This looks like amazing compassionate work -- can the position be done remotely?
If someone could remind me that a cover letter to a major tech company isn't the place to share my feelings of disillusionment and dissatisfaction with my current career and my naive hopes that moving to [REDACTED] would solve that for [REASONS], I could really use the help right now
I'm serious, if you want nothing but html coming back at you from the server, please tell me because I have SO MANY QUESTIONS
HTMX: hey, wanna get a little freaky and run your ajax as an html attribute?
Me: I have so many endpoints. Pls take them.
HTMX: WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS JSON CRAP I CAN'T WITH THESE RESPONSES
Freshly squeezed html responses from the server? Who is this for?
HTMX: hey, wanna get a little freaky and run your ajax as an html attribute?
Me: I have so many endpoints. Pls take them.
HTMX: WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS JSON CRAP I CAN'T WITH THESE RESPONSES
Freshly squeezed html responses from the server? Who is this for?
Meredith Matthews
boosted
Suggesting or greenlighting a new React-based project in 2023 is not a victimless act. It's the fast-track to team pain, P&L trouble, and user marginalisation.
Pay people to solve problems with HTML & CSS, not to make them with JS.
@cferdinandi
I don't even like writing php all that much, but it's a pretty good language that's very good at the things it's good at and I've been tired of the discourse for however long the wayback machine tells you I have been.
I am entirely on board the jamstack, progressive enhancement, browser performance, a11y-first, vanilla-everything pain train, and I've been pretty good at finding jobs for my 17 years as a web dev, but I'm having a terrible time finding jobs that actually do this stuff. I'm convinced I'm not searching the right keywords, but maybe that's not it.
Any suggestions, fediverse?
@cferdinandi
I'd jump on board with both feet and start hollering, but heroku decided to start charging me to run phpdoesnotsuck.com after like 10 years and I didn't agree with that and I have done absolutely nothing to fix my broken website yet so I'm not a greeeeaaaaat person to march at the front of this particular parade, but yes.
Meredith Matthews
boosted
For a long time I had trouble with the concept of unionizing programmers, because it felt like we're already so privileged compared to blue-collar workers.
What I realize now is that all that privilege vanishes like a mirage the moment people start talking about unionization. Or the moment interest rates go up.
The more I learn about reactjs, the more convinced I become that it's primarily a cross-browser compatibility library extremely akin to jQuery, and should be considered similarly superfluous.
I was noodling around on the react.dev homepage today, taking screencaps for a presentation I'm putting together. I had dev tools open and I noticed something odd: every time I would hover over a link, something would get fetched over the network. "That's odd, and quickly adding up to megabytes of bandwidth", I thought.
So I looked at the fetches being fired, and it appears that the website is preloading the content of the page being linked when you hover over the link. Any link, every single time.
Let me say that another way: on react.dev, every onHover over a link costs the user between 5kb and 10kb of bandwidth every single time.
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Forget the fact that this website costs 2mb to download and takes 23 seconds to complete loading, how can charging the user and the app for every hover over a link be sustainable? How is this appropriate?
Just for the record, I love JavaScript modules. They make me happy.
Just got pinged by a squarespace recruiter. Anyone have a clue about squarespace as an employer?
@a11yMel
In my experience, most js engineers would benefit greatly from learning JavaScript.
Where is the Jacob Gellar for programming? Who are the great literary essayists for coding? Is there any creative nonfiction for software engineering? A little bit of Jeff Atwood, perhaps. Kevlin Henney, occasionally. Heydon Pickering, more often. Paul Graham. Linda Rising?
Joined Nov 2022
