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lugged··on Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting
After 10 years fullstack I moved into WordPress. The code I deal with is a mess but to be honest so was everything else I've ever been paid to work on.

WordPress is stable and maintains backward compat for as long as possible.

It's a real joy to build things on top of as you know you won't need to run framework updates every month to prevent a Nasty suprise down the line.

lugged··on Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)
Those are likely some really solid applications as a result.

In my experience redux just enables developers to sprinkle global state everywhere which makes tests a pain to write and code hard to debug.

lugged··on Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)
Google rug pulled angular, I know at least one very large company that pulled all Google tech from their stack over angular 1 -> 2.

React really isn't the thing people have decided is the optimal solution, jsx and keeping presentation tightly coupled to business logic is.

What is see with react is constant attempts to work against that ideal.

lugged··on Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)
React is a library that should have been a framework.

Literally everyone has to cobble some n-factor framework together and given the amount of inexperience out there, what results is a damn nightmare.

React solving the state problem natively would have made it an industry game changer. What we have is an industry mess.

lugged··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
I suspect USBA isn't going away, it's far more robust than USBC, what I suspect will happen is devices that need smaller sockets will use USBC and everything else will stick with USBA. There is a reason I have one USBC port on my motherboard and 5 USBA ports.
lugged··on Pop OS – System76
It's not denialism.. he's referring to Linux when he means to refer to specific software.

You can try and compare apple to Linux like that if you want but it's like complaining it's apples fault for docker on Mac sucking.

lugged··on Expensify S-1
Whataboutism and condescension, nice.

I watched the discussion, people were obviously distracted and upset. Reading a 5 minute email wasn't the issue, the fallout was.

Random recruiters aren't causing confusion many wide outrage and distraction.

lugged··on Expensify S-1
Its political prosthelytizing.

What you're ignoring is that 99% of our employees don't have the ability to cease doing business with these holier than thou assholes. They're forced to get these emails they don't want and they all spent time being being mad, annoyed, confused or upset, many spent hours crafting internal emails and following the very public discussion, many were annoyed by the eventual decision to stick with them. Many still bring this up when related issues arise. It's a collective waste of time and it isn't ok.

Would you be happy about a company that sent religious recruitment emails to all your employees?

Would you be happy about a company that distracted over half your employees for the better part of a day in some cases for no fucking reason other than to push their own personal agenda?

lugged··on Expensify S-1
We're also still reeling from the smartscan debacle.

The thing that pissed me off the most is when they emailed some unsolicited BLM propoganda out to every one of our employees.

lugged··on AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go
Maybe 2-3 years ago. Pretty sure it was IP based. CF drops you on a shared IP, its hit and miss of you end up on an IP next to a bunch of dodgy sites or not, do a reverse IP lookup to find out what else is running on your IP.

> It would be insane to keep this practice up.

What's the alternative?

Oh yea, did CF ever fix the domain hijacking issue for deleted sites?

lugged··on Binance just transferred 6B Tethers to an unknown address
Tether is a crypto that attempts to peg itself to USD using dodgy corp debt and other paper money.
lugged··on Pop OS – System76
Get a ThinkPad and install fedora. Read the arch wiki if you run into problems with specific software. You'll barely notice the change tbh, gnome is really good these days especially on a standard fedora workstation release.

ThinkPads mostly just work (they use Ubuntu to run their acceptance tests before shipping). You do sometimes run into issues for a couple months on new machine releases while kernel catches up but having enough Linux users running them means things get fixed eventually unlike on say system76. Dell xps works about as well if that's more your style.

lugged··on Pop OS – System76
My wife uses fedora frequently and barely notices the difference between her Mac these days, most stuff is through chrome anyway.

I use arch on my workstation / laptops for various reasons. For homelab boxes and the htpc I use fedora, easy to install and everything just works.

lugged··on Pop OS – System76
Fedora and pop OS have been ahead of windows for a while.

Personally also think Mac is going the way of windows, I have to use it for testing safari sometimes the OS is an absolute nightmare to use, always popping up asking for my password or fingerprint or some other password, or some other permission, it's just a whole bunch of antipatterns.

lugged··on Pop OS – System76
You seem to be confused, Linux doesn't have the problems you think it does. Im a daily Linux user and don't have these problems you're suggesting.

Have you made a bug report?

lugged··on AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go
Fan of what exactly?

I thought they were great and had them in front of all my sites.. til I tested the SEO impact and removed it from every single site.

The perf enhancement was minimal at best, the added costs and complexity overhead simply wasn't worth it.

Tried their DNS too, 8.8.8.8 was faster for my network.

lugged··on WordPress Latin1 and UTF-8, Part 2
You might like, https://youtu.be/vtIzMaLkCaM

Something I wish more writers watched.

lugged··on Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations
Check out Tom McDonald, will fix up your recommendations real quick.
lugged··on TX Bans Local Nurses from Quitting to Work FEMA Crisis Contracts in State
Awful title.

They're saying stimulus money must be used to secure out of state hires because they don't have enough nurses in state.

Hiring from the existing pool doesn't create a net improvement on the total nurses in state so they're saying you can't be hired with this money if you currently or recently worked for hospitals in state.

Nothing to do with banning quitting.

lugged··on White House: Walmart, FedEx, UPS to go 24/7 to address supply bottlenecks
This isn't even remotely going to solve the supply chain problems.

Didn't everyone just quit? And they want to go 24/7? With no experience running 24/7? Good luck with that Brandon.

lugged··on Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020)
If you're worried about goretex, switch to Columbia outdry, it doesn't use or rely on dwr so I'm guessing whatever plastics its using is pretty stable.
lugged··on Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020)
It's already proven not to be safe. If you overheat a pan and breath it in you'll come down with flu like symptoms and nausea.
lugged··on A variable signal at heart of the Milky Way
Maybe it's Morse code
lugged··on Tricks I wish I knew when I learned TypeScript
What's the point of typing things if you have to constantly typecheck them anyway?
lugged··on Twitch Leak Reveals Streamers on 'Do Not Ban' List
The idea that your running a business and thus must ban people with outcomes that result in censorship is pretty lazy.

I would suggest that maybe you should just take the stance that it's none of your business what users are posting on your platform.

If the police have a problem, they can get a warrant, if individuals have a problem, they can call the police or sue the poster.

If you can't identify the poster, tough shit, welcome to the internet.

lugged··on The latest campus cancellation is different
I read it too, they're saying this is different because they agree with them.

Pretty much every example of lecturers being cancelled in the last 5 years is for the same unrelated reasons.

It's boring, so you're a fan of this one guy and suddenly it's an issue? Please.

lugged··on The latest campus cancellation is different
A mission driven school? Sort of like Evergreen State?
lugged··on Facebook Recruiter Correspondence
> I understand this wasn’t self evident for many for a long time and for many it still isn’t.

Nah, it was made very clear by very many back when, all of my friends understood my concerns clearly, I made sure they knew what was happening.

They chose not to care. I don't blame them, but I have no sympathy for them either.

I don't really have many regrets either, my life improved a lot since distancing myself from the online world.

lugged··on The latest campus cancellation is different
The solution is to sue these people for wrongful dismissal.

The solution is to stop signing contracts with integrity clauses.

The solution is to stop working for companies without a backbone.

lugged··on The latest campus cancellation is different
Is that one they or many they?

Why should I care what they say?

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