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by i_like_robots 1mo ago
Poor choices whether influenced by this article or engineers chasing CV points are no different. Boring technology is a tool or communication device like any other. I hope in your situation you were able to influence the engineers utilisin
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by i_like_robots 1mo ago
You seem to agree with the lecture/article but disagree with the title. However, it's influenced a lot of people for more than a decade and the snippy title might well have something to do with that.
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by i_like_robots 1mo ago
I see innovation as a guardrail against CV driven development. More, I think you need to consider the context of when this was written. It was a period of rapid innovation/evolution - I remember more than a handful of projects failing
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by i_like_robots 1y ago
I've seen visualisations similar to this before, but this one is by far the most beautiful and I could watch it all day. I echo the sentiments on the TfL API, I've built the same Tube Tracker app over and over for more than 10 yea
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by i_like_robots 2y ago
Firstly, congratulations on launching - it's uncanny timing and similarity to the project I've been building in my 10% time at work! Here's a screenshot of my own efforts so far: https://github.com/user-attach
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by i_like_robots 2y ago
Very cool - reminded me of https://github.com/creationix/dombuilder which I have... memories of. Shout out too to https://microjs.com/ for allowing me to relive some nostalgia.
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by i_like_robots 2y ago
Agreed! About 5 or 6 years ago I wrote a library to demonstrate to my teams that JSX a) was not magic b) not limited to React. After that was done I became a little obsessed with making the library the fastest JSX renderer - which I think i
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by i_like_robots 3y ago
Take a look on https://gifcities.org/ - I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for!
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Ask HN: How do you track runtime versions in use by your systems?
2 points by i_like_robots 3y ago|1 comments
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by i_like_robots 3y ago
Congrats, this looks really nice! I recently finished a side project using Fastify and the Fastify Swagger plugin (which extends the built-in request and response validation and can dynamically generate an Open API definition) which was a g
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by i_like_robots 4y ago
I mostly agree - that was the intention of the caveat - although I don't think there would be too much harm done if somebody started with ES5 then layered ES20xx features or new browser APIs on top as needed.
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by i_like_robots 4y ago
Perhaps look for web development books published around 2010-2012, before the large JS frameworks gained a major foothold. These will be missing some of the very valuable and useful developments in CSS and JavaScript (e.g. grid layout and p
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by i_like_robots 4y ago
> Webpack's loaders can't really check your types because, without doing a lot of extra magic, they operate on one file at a time. This is the point folks really must understand when setting up a new tooling pipeline to deal wi
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by i_like_robots 4y ago
Like you I tend to agree that the effort delivering front end projects often seems to outweigh the value added over recent years. I can think of half a dozen projects I've seen over the last few years where the effort teams put into fi
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by i_like_robots 4y ago
This is how we did it at the FT. We looked at on demand HLS or DASH via our CDN as well but this didn't become a requirement during my time there.
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by i_like_robots 4y ago
Yes. Prior to my current company I think I'd only met two candidates face-to-face who had sent misleading CVs (one of whom memorably tried to tell me MooTools was a new Linux based operating system.) But so far this year I've cut
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by i_like_robots 4y ago
I work four days in my current role and will continue doing so in my next one. I don't have much choice in the matter so I always raise it at the earliest opportunity and have even added it to my CV to make sure I don't waste anyb
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by i_like_robots 4y ago
Tell me about it! "Chickenshit Minimalism - The illusion of simplicity backed by megabytes of cruft." https://medium.com/@mceglowski/chickenshit-minimalism-846fc1... (The article is also available on my perso
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by i_like_robots 4y ago
I'm super pleased to see the FT towards the top of the charts. It's a couple of years since I worked on the project[1] to make it faster and it's really great the team have been able to keep it that way. We bet on measuring s
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by i_like_robots 4y ago
Same, although I'd add it wasn't easy (in the UK.) I found most of the companies I spoke to the last time I was on the job market were open to me working 4 days a week. I made sure to raise my part time status at the earliest oppo
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by i_like_robots 4y ago
Agreed, and there are some innacuracies that could have been corrected with a little research. For example, the description under the Girl logo states "The company doesn’t only make skateboarding products for females, but it has launch
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by i_like_robots 4y ago
My experience is similar. I also "burned out" a couple of USB-C hubs (including a very similar Anker branded unit) so eventually upgraded to a decent monitor with integrated USB-C hub. Being able to switch between all the laptops
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by i_like_robots 4y ago
Absolutely, we can always try to assume that our predeccesors or past selves had the best of intentions but nothing beats writing down the context and problems at that moment in time for future reference.
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by i_like_robots 4y ago
I suppose we can only accurately define a problem when there are no big unknowns, so I wouldn't prescribe readme based development in every scenario - a quick and dirty exploration of the space which can then be scrapped is more import
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by i_like_robots 4y ago
> Never start coding (making a solution) unless you fully understand the problem. It’s very normal to spend more time listening and reading than typing code. Understand the domain before starting to code. A problem is like a maze. You ne
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by i_like_robots 4y ago
I was a very early adopter of React and I am very grateful for it. It’s now it’s my job to listen carefully to the concerns of my teams and I’ve helped developers of all abilities and experiences through their troubles on all sorts projects
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by i_like_robots 4y ago
This article helped me a lot, it's still a large amount of information to internalise though: https://medium.com/the-guild/under-the-hood-of-reacts-hooks-...
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React Through Time: The evolution of a React app over 8 years(github.com)
1 points by i_like_robots 5y ago|0 comments
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by i_like_robots 6y ago
I'm hoping that module federation will enable multiple, separately deployed services to reuse assets so that users moving between those services may do so without redownloading the same things over and over. We've been able to ach
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Taming Webpackʼs content hashes (how hard could that be?)(matthinchliffe.dev)
2 points by i_like_robots 6y ago|0 comments

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