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Yesish… VB is easier for spinning up an interface but it also offers less creative flexibility than the current web platform.

The other side of that coin is training. You can train people on VB in far less time. Most people writing JavaScript for a living have absolutely no idea what they are doing. Most of these people are completely reliable on React to put text on screen and then other languages at absolutely every opportunity. While there is amazing stuff coming out of a select few start ups and many open source projects, those people are not the typical corporate software developer.

> When you load a webapp, you download and run it. It's actually pretty similar to "installing and deleting right after use".

The big distinction is security policy. There is a tremendous amount of things you can do in the browser that you cannot do on the desktop if you do not own the computer.

Texas appears well above average and Utah is just crushing it.

Predictable. When I was doing this work full time greater than 90% of the code came from outside the organization, such as NPM packages or framework plugins, and nobody reviewed the third party code. Nobody wanted to own the hard problems like security, accessibility, or performance. They just wanted to put text on the screen with JSX and call themselves experts.

Excellent research!

Nope. That is not going to happen because it will require a constitutional amendment which does not benefit supremely rural states. Even if these extremely conservative rural states completely flipped to hard blue they would still be rural.

The Electoral College is not a bad idea. It is just implemented poorly. It would work better if it actually represented the voting constituents instead of a controlling party. Nebraska and Maine have it correct.

Kind of.

Several of the new Democrat senators that flipped a seat are moderates who ran on a campaign to represent their state over their party. So, expect at least of couple of the incoming senators to not vote with their party on controversial issues.

On the contrary, though, there are still some moderate Republicans in the senate who are now freed from the insanity of the current executive that may side with the Democrats on major Democrat sponsored issues that benefit their respective states.

I completely agree. In August I discovered the key to faster data transmission is better memory management. This allowed me to write a common protocol library in TypeScript that is about 35x faster than the current fastest implementation.

Due to a defect in my perf tool I eventually discovered that about 99.2% of processing time was spent on memory management, not instruction processing or network buffer. I was working in a high level garbage collected language, so I could not fine tune adjustments to pointers. Instead I got creative with call stack management and low level data frame header authoring. Now I am trying to replicate that success back to a low level http 1.1 implementation and it’s much more challenging.

I typically write my own performance analysis tools and test automation systems but when I need to display the results visually I use charts.js.

I would build a portfolio, tracking, and distribution platform to auction those Claude credits openly and track the cumulative results over time for trend analysis.

In all fairness most developers have never shipped an architecture of their own authoring. Instead they using something like React or Spring Boot or whatever.

Managing people and managing infrastructure are separate skills. I have had some really amazing managers who were non-technical and some really shitty management that were technical. Now, in all fairness those shitty leaders were typically technical name only as the kind of people reliant on third party software to do 95% of everything.

As somebody who has been in corporate software for 20 years, given the choice between an insecure technology guy that can’t write their own architecture versus a brilliant people person I would choose the later for leadership absolutely every fucking time. I left my last job due to a toxic as fuck technology leader that couldn’t measure anything. I choosing to remain unemployed instead of going back to that bullshit.

EDIT: I thought about this a bit more. It’s simple. If they cannot write their own architectural solutions or measure things with numbers they are not a technical leader. If a person is then not a valid tech leader and not a people person they are a deficit, a net negative to leadership.

That spending may not have resulted in the intended outcome, but its influence was very real. As a person living in Texas getting not quite a dozen texts and postal mailers every single day I absolutely felt the influence. If it wasn't for this constant reminder continually reinforcing the failures and non-issues from a single party I don't think I would have felt as strongly about voting as I did.

You have to understand Texas received almost as political spending as the rest of the country combined. The result is that Texas flipped in a historically significant manner. Every single state-wide race was won by the Democrats and the Democrats did not win in every county, but they did have positive influence in every single one of the state's 254 counties. None of the polls predicted anything close to this.

Tarrant county was the largest Republican county in the country, and that is gone. Democrats won every campaign in the county except for one US congressional seat.

It is also important to note that Texas Republicans received the same number of votes as they did in 2024, but the total vote was something like 1.5-2 million votes higher than 2024 with all that increase going to the Democrats. Yes, Texas is growing its population super fast, but that vote increase is more than the population increase.

I am working on project that also provides a web based dashboard to manage docker containers and web servers. Mine also started as a project to manage household services. Yours is much prettier than mine.

Now I am trying to pivot my project into an eventual startup. I want to use it to compete with the big data integration systems out there like MuleSoft. My software is thousands of times faster and cheaper to execute, but I still have a lot of performance and stress validation to perform.

Good luck!

Yes and no. TypeScript's type system is duck typing, but if you type absolutely everything it does closely describe actual JavaScript behavior. You can even set rules in your tsconfig file to forbid implicit null or undefined, but I don't do that in my own code.

Not in Texas any more. The election wiped out the states entire judiciary.

Yes. I keep two package.json files for my Node.js application. One has all the trillions of dev dependencies and the default one has almost no dependencies. This way my application does not trip any dependency security alarms.

First of all I have never in any way implied my code was good. Secondly, I am not going to consume my time doing your research to satisfy your ignorance. If you actually did care enough to find such projects you would already be looking for them.

In the mean time you just sound entitled as though you expect other people to do all the heavy lifting for you. This is my personal reason for not wanting to take any job with React or Angular in the job description. While there are plenty of smart people taking these jobs because they need a paycheck these teams are also filled with too much immaturity. I suspect that is why so many of these lower barrier entry jobs are slowly being replaced by AI. The output from the AI might be occasionally faulty but it won't throw a whiny temper tantrum like a spoiled child with expectation management problems.

I still prefer vanilla TypeScript whether writing a browser application, command line application, or both. The language is extremely mainstream but the mere mention of not using common abstractions will trigger holy wars from people who cannot program.

I think you entirely proved my point. You did not understand the code and were just looking for something to bitch about. Strangely, you also ignored that this application is only a tiny fraction of front end code and a years old dead project.

Maybe your next magic trick will be learning to read.

You make two valid points, but they still do not qualify the validity of these markets as accurate predictors. There is a difference when people, like Berkshire Hathaway really dig into the financials and management of a company to predict its future versus somebody like me who just money on a stock. In one case an investor seeks to make money and actively influence an outcome, but in my case I am just dropping money and hoping it out paces the rise of inflation because banks are no longer reliable stores of financial security.

Polymarket projections do not provide investigative insight, as in the Berkshire Hathaway example. It's just gambling. Any influence drawn from these predictions is incidental and reactive, as opposed to active market forces like buying/selling.

I don't think that is logically correct. Commonly perceived probability has been proven frequently wrong whether naturally or due to manipulation. The reasoning here is not exactly the same, but closely aligns to bandwagon fallacy.

It would be interesting to see how frequently Polymarket predictions bet against the most common prediction and by what margins.

The LDS church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), which is also based in Utah has provided explicit guidance against participation in Kalshi and Polymarket as gambling.

Here is their official stance on gambling: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topi...

I am not sure how much, if any, impact or influence this has had on Utah law.

Grifting and corruption all around. I guess the days of Presidential ethics that we observed under Bush and Obama are just gone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_by_Geo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_granted_executi...

I enjoy writing TypeScript applications but I don’t enjoy doing it for work.

There are a great many people who write in that language for work while struggling to do more than populate text on the screen using React. The mere presence of someone who can actually program is like kryptonite for the permanently insecure imposter. It gets old.

This is exactly what I posted in my top comment.

I have had similar conversations with framework cultists in the past. Not showing the code is something I have had to learn from past experiences with repeated results. If people were authentically interested in seeing JavaScript applications not written with React there are plenty of examples out there.

There are also implementation differences due to using the framework, so the actual difference is really quite a bit larger than 70k LOC depending upon the given application. There are also all the plugins, build tools, and all their dependencies as well.

My personal preference is to ship less code because it means less to maintain over time, less tech debt.

So its not about purity, but about you being sad? Why are you so invested in my personal opinion about developer capabilities?

It's ok to say you can't do it. I wouldn't think less of you for your honesty.

Which of my opinions are purist? I have really only said I prefer to not use giant frameworks. Why should I use a factory when a hammer is more than sufficient?