Meredith Matthews @braindouche@social.cleverlibre.org

Ok fiiiine I saw the tailwind guy talk at railscon and he made a very good point that if you're templating your html a lot of your complaints about tailwind vanish and for everything else you can still write CSS and nothing stops it from being ugly anyway and frankly I respect that energy a lot

I've been handed a couple of full stack devs to help build my frontend project temporarily, and I'm finding that they're extremely weak in working with vanillaJS and regular html. I'm not surprised, exactly, but am I being unreasonable in expecting vanillaJS skills like this in the first place? Should I just plan for retraining people?

Hey can anyone remember of doom-guy John Romero is cancelled?

Programmers are so weird. It's like, our culture is viscously programmers vs management but at the same time programmers have like zero class conciousness and will actively fight you over worker solidarity.

Whenever someone complains that kids these days aren't prepared to have jobs and it's because they're on their phones too much, I recall the time before smartphones where business leaders complained that kids were on their phones too much and only knew how to type on phone keypads.

Backend developers are funny sometimes. I was talking last night with a guy on the other team. He kept insisting "this is a complex system, there are MILLIONS of entries in that db!" and he couldn't quite understand that I only care about looking at one at a time, or batches of 30 for the paginated list view, at most.

I'm not arguing that the backend isn't muscular and incredibly complex, because it is and as far as I'm concerned he's a wizard for making all that data dance efficiently. But I am front end, and all that is a black box behind an API to me and I like it that way.

Perspective will get you every time.

(Tbf he also thinks tables are incomprehensibly hard to write, so he is also kinda biased but still.)

So what can we conclude about react here?

Oh ES6 modules at runtime, why have I waited so long to embrace you?

It makes me sad that most people don't remember lonelygirl15 and what it represents, especially young fans of the now established unfiction genre. But those kids are going to keep making stuff, and masterpieces will come out over the next ten years and that is so exciting.

I swear, one guy on my team thinks front end just eats avocado toast and writes bad JavaScript all day just as a personal insult to him.

When dealing with one-man-shop vendors in inexpensive html products, how long should I wait for him to get back to my support request before putting him on blast in public?

Hey web nerds, does anyone have a suggestion for a wysiwyg website tool that's cheap or free? I want to make some deranged content pretty quickly and I need the right tool to do a bad job. Thanks!

Look, don't tell me browser performance is meaningless. I optimized just the home page of one large site for one large company and it was in such poor shape, the electricity bill went down. How far down? I forget the number, but it had roughly twice the carbon footprint as my car did driving me to work every day.

Something I think about a lot is making technology my mother could use. My mom is actually quite technically competent, and not afraid of breaking stuff or screwing things up. Her problem instead is that she's deeply impatient with bad design. She gets along poorly with phones and apps and honestly, I can't blame her in the slightest, phones are saturated in bad interfaces.

I should be more like that. It would make me a better developer.

It never ceases to amaze me how many podcasts don't sound like am talk radio, or NPR (either the old stuff or the new stuff), or sports talk, they sound like Howard Stern. Is this on purpose? I mean I understand *technically* why, but was that the plan here? We had a whole new medium to play with and this is what we did?