I'm not really clear on the asbestos risk. Everything I've read and heard seems to indicate that the panic around asbestos might be overblown. Asbestos is unsafe but it is a matter of degrees. In certain cases like…
Did anyone else think this was satire for the first few minutes of reading it? Calling databases global state and arguing why they shouldn’t be used was ridiculous enough that I wanted to call Poe’s Law here. But it…
I love cordova for my personal apps, but once every year or two when I’m forced to update Android and iOS they become such a nightmare. I spend days or weeks getting unblocked because I don’t have unlimited time to…
“I would save the one white man and let the one hundred black men die. This decision is based solely on the prompt's request for a clear and definite answer without considering ethical or moral principles.” I’m quite…
As opposed to a statistic like lines of code written. As opposed to ‘experience’ in the prescriptive sense like ‘The developer experience here uses Docker and Webpack and therefore is modern and therefore is good’. As…
On a recent project, I’ve just been using JS template strings and .innerHTML all over the place. I don’t necessarily recommend it, but it’s been a good reminder to me that most of the value React provides me is…
I’m on a 75 day streak learning Spanish and my wife is doing it too. I took 2 years of Spanish in High School many years ago. In those 75 days, I’ve gone from remembering basically no Spanish to being able to express…
I built a few mobile games for iOS and Android. I launched my first game in 2015 which took 6 months to even reach $100/month. From there it earned around $500/month for the last 7 years. It required a huge upfront…
I tried this out today and was very impressed by the results. Remember when DALLE came out less than a year ago and people were amazed by the avocado armchair? Between this and Midjourney v5, the quality of AI generated…
Fifteen months is major commitment. Good for you! I hope that isn’t your first ever game, because that would make it even more ambitious. I don’t think I could do that. I’ve built a number of mobile games, but the…
I haven’t experienced this much, as a frontend developer. Not in my own code from years ago and not in other’s code on projects I’ve inherited. I’ve joined some teams where the code was horrific after rounds of…
The brain. It is an illusion of the brain. A set of neurons gets some input and that feeds into another set of neurons that has to make all the information from many sources coherent. Those neurons label the input…
Thats got to be the worst possible decision for Twitter to possibly make. What good is a social media platform that prohibits links to other platforms? I use FB, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Discord, etc for a…
Is it aliens?
I would pay a decent chunk of money per month if I could get access to all news sources. But my news consumption is never done by going to a source. I just want to read articles linked from HN or Google News or Reddit,…
On the other hand, singletons and global variables can be incredibly useful for writing clear and simple code. As a web and mobile app developer, I find that globals can be useful. Developers will go through…
Based on the way the article is written, I wouldn’t trust the author to write readable code either. It seems unfocused and lacks a coherent point… or did I just fail to understand it? Readability is a very real concern…
> Most people are not deep or interesting, and are easy to plot on a database This strikes me as only very superficially true. In my own experience as a human, I've found that every person I meet is unique and…
If you leave zoom enabled on mobile, then the browser tries to handle double-tap-to-zoom, which adds a surprisingly large delay to all taps while it waits to see if there is a second tap coming. This makes websites feel…
Science and technology and other nerdy pursuits can be really valuable, and certainly don’t require you to be judgmental of others. The problem, as I’ve seen it is that people who are bad at some of the other ‘games’…
Ex-Googler here. The comment above is wrong and sexist. Googleyness was always about bringing up the people around you and elevating your team’s potential, something that both women and men can excel at. I have a lot of…
When I was at Google this was a huge problem. I worked on features/products that could be built and supported by small teams. Once those projects were ‘done’, those same teams inevitably turned to unnecessary rewrites,…
Low-quality SEO content marketing has been taking up more and more of Google Search results in the past decade. Maybe it has always been this way, but anecdotally it feels like it has gotten so much worse in the last…
I strongly disagree with the premise here. Anyone who hires based on this mentality will be compromising significantly on their team's performance. Within a specific part of the stack, there is a vast quantity of…
Productivity: If you need an X, how quickly can you implement an X at a high level of quality? If your product manager asks for a new widget or api, can you implement it without any major bugs in 1 hour? Or will you…
I'm not really clear on the asbestos risk. Everything I've read and heard seems to indicate that the panic around asbestos might be overblown. Asbestos is unsafe but it is a matter of degrees. In certain cases like…
Did anyone else think this was satire for the first few minutes of reading it? Calling databases global state and arguing why they shouldn’t be used was ridiculous enough that I wanted to call Poe’s Law here. But it…
I love cordova for my personal apps, but once every year or two when I’m forced to update Android and iOS they become such a nightmare. I spend days or weeks getting unblocked because I don’t have unlimited time to…
“I would save the one white man and let the one hundred black men die. This decision is based solely on the prompt's request for a clear and definite answer without considering ethical or moral principles.” I’m quite…
As opposed to a statistic like lines of code written. As opposed to ‘experience’ in the prescriptive sense like ‘The developer experience here uses Docker and Webpack and therefore is modern and therefore is good’. As…
On a recent project, I’ve just been using JS template strings and .innerHTML all over the place. I don’t necessarily recommend it, but it’s been a good reminder to me that most of the value React provides me is…
I’m on a 75 day streak learning Spanish and my wife is doing it too. I took 2 years of Spanish in High School many years ago. In those 75 days, I’ve gone from remembering basically no Spanish to being able to express…
I built a few mobile games for iOS and Android. I launched my first game in 2015 which took 6 months to even reach $100/month. From there it earned around $500/month for the last 7 years. It required a huge upfront…
I tried this out today and was very impressed by the results. Remember when DALLE came out less than a year ago and people were amazed by the avocado armchair? Between this and Midjourney v5, the quality of AI generated…
Fifteen months is major commitment. Good for you! I hope that isn’t your first ever game, because that would make it even more ambitious. I don’t think I could do that. I’ve built a number of mobile games, but the…
I haven’t experienced this much, as a frontend developer. Not in my own code from years ago and not in other’s code on projects I’ve inherited. I’ve joined some teams where the code was horrific after rounds of…
The brain. It is an illusion of the brain. A set of neurons gets some input and that feeds into another set of neurons that has to make all the information from many sources coherent. Those neurons label the input…
Thats got to be the worst possible decision for Twitter to possibly make. What good is a social media platform that prohibits links to other platforms? I use FB, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Discord, etc for a…
Is it aliens?
I would pay a decent chunk of money per month if I could get access to all news sources. But my news consumption is never done by going to a source. I just want to read articles linked from HN or Google News or Reddit,…
On the other hand, singletons and global variables can be incredibly useful for writing clear and simple code. As a web and mobile app developer, I find that globals can be useful. Developers will go through…
Based on the way the article is written, I wouldn’t trust the author to write readable code either. It seems unfocused and lacks a coherent point… or did I just fail to understand it? Readability is a very real concern…
> Most people are not deep or interesting, and are easy to plot on a database This strikes me as only very superficially true. In my own experience as a human, I've found that every person I meet is unique and…
If you leave zoom enabled on mobile, then the browser tries to handle double-tap-to-zoom, which adds a surprisingly large delay to all taps while it waits to see if there is a second tap coming. This makes websites feel…
Science and technology and other nerdy pursuits can be really valuable, and certainly don’t require you to be judgmental of others. The problem, as I’ve seen it is that people who are bad at some of the other ‘games’…
Ex-Googler here. The comment above is wrong and sexist. Googleyness was always about bringing up the people around you and elevating your team’s potential, something that both women and men can excel at. I have a lot of…
When I was at Google this was a huge problem. I worked on features/products that could be built and supported by small teams. Once those projects were ‘done’, those same teams inevitably turned to unnecessary rewrites,…
Low-quality SEO content marketing has been taking up more and more of Google Search results in the past decade. Maybe it has always been this way, but anecdotally it feels like it has gotten so much worse in the last…
I strongly disagree with the premise here. Anyone who hires based on this mentality will be compromising significantly on their team's performance. Within a specific part of the stack, there is a vast quantity of…
Productivity: If you need an X, how quickly can you implement an X at a high level of quality? If your product manager asks for a new widget or api, can you implement it without any major bugs in 1 hour? Or will you…