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This won’t get done in the next 25 years, if ever.

I think that’s definitely a thoughtful approach but there is no carrot big enough. 50% increase or double my pay, maybe. That’s how big of deal WFH is to most. My work is trying to develop some in office novelties that I think most won’t care about one iota. I miss the office sometimes but then I remember all the crap that comes with it.

The web would pretty bland and less usable without CSS. White background and full page width Times New Roman paragraphs, inline images.

I use Kailh Box Navy switches. Sounds like Cherry blues but deeper and louder. Like a v6 vs a v8. Ha. I work from home though. Although I will say I don’t think the crappy membrane dell keyboards are quiet the sound is just different.

After I started working from home I started showering less than every day and I noticed that I don’t feel as good if I don’t shower. I feel like I’m not fully awake. It’s not about cleanliness exactly. I start to get into a mental funk if I don’t shower. It’s like a reset or something.

David Walsh! Blast from the past. I used to read his stuff when I was starting out almost 20 years ago.

I don’t think I’ve been in the super high end Tesla but every other one I’ve ridden in felt like an economy car. The seats are terrible and the suspension on those things is an abomination. I also severely dislike all the usual suspects… huge screen, no knobs. It’s like that “safe” spaceship in Futurama. I can understand making a totally utilitarian vehicle but Tesla isn’t in that price bracket. For the price, it should be a lot more comfortable.

I don’t know why relative humidity is used for laymen. I remember when I learned the Dew Point is what you can use to gauge what it feels like. I grew up in the South and later in life moved to the northwest and people would say it was humid sometimes in the summer and could never understand why they thought that. They’re just looking at the relative humidity on the weather app or whatever. Whatever the RH is if the dew point is 70°+ it’s gonna feel way hotter.

That’s fair, you clearly know more about beer than me. I mostly just drink them. I don’t care for most lagers but a good one on a summer day is nice. I was just trying to make the point that you don’t have to choose Budweiser over craft beer to get a lager. It’s clear to me now that you already know that.

Most craft breweries make lagers and pilsners that are considerably better than “big beer.” Local/craft beer doesn’t exclusively produce IPAs, Fruited Sours, and Bourbon Barrel Aged Oatmeal stouts.

He’s writing an article.

“ Dear TK Readers:

Very shortly, I’m going to begin posting a long thread of information on Twitter, at my account, @mtaibbi. This material is likely to get a lot of attention. I will absolutely understand if subscribers are angry that it is not appearing here on Substack first. I’d be angry, too.

The last 96 hours have been among the most chaotic of my life, involving multiple trips back and forth across the country, with a debate in Canada in between. There’s a long story I hope to be able to tell soon, but can’t, not quite yet anyway. What I can say is that in exchange for the opportunity to cover a unique and explosive story, I had to agree to certain conditions.

Those of you who’ve been here for years know how seriously I take my obligation to this site’s subscribers. On this one occasion, I’m going to have to simply ask you to trust me. As it happens, there may be a few more big surprises coming, and those will be here on Substack. And there will be room here to to discuss this, too, in time. In any case, thanks for your support and your patience, and please hold me to a promise to make all this up to you, and then some.”

My take on this is, if you are writing enough JS in your app that the “terseness” of jQuery seems appealing you maybe shouldn’t be writing jQuery or vanilla (unless you’ve built a really nice framework/library specifically for your app/use case/whatever). My point is (I think) jQuery was/is best suited for “sprinkles” of js. These days with “sprinkles” of js jQuery isn’t worth the download/parse cost. If you have more than “sprinkles” use Svelte or Preact or Solid or React or Vue or Mithril or whatever.

SPRINKLES

I think React is great. In Some instances of useEffect can seem inscrutable. I believe svelte is a great counter to a lot of the ceremony in React and I see it as the most compelling “framework” available. I sorta miss JSX with it but it’s not that important after a while. I find all the tech and rhetoric that comes from Google Dev Rel people (excluding a few gems) to be either pretty damn good but evangelized distastefully or just straight up incoherent. I find everything thing with web components and shadow dom and all that abhorrent. Yeah it’s the “platform” but the APIs are super complex, convoluted and filled with caveats all to not use a framework. I also believe the narrative that big JS bundles are ruining the web is a diversion. Google, and more specifically, monetization and advertising is ruining the web directly. Large JS bundles are secondary. Advertising and ad revenue ruined the web before the much aligned SPA.

I don’t believe any game/app that was/is available on one or two of many hand held computing devices is worth much “labor” from the maintainers of said game’s/app’s operating environment. I think it’s kind of hilarious to think that ANY application written to be run on a mobile device is so important that it should run forever or even X amount of time without adhering to the constraints of the runtime environment. Humanity NEEDS access to my iOS 1.0 minesweeper because <misplaced _software_ideology>

Thanks fallacy bot. I was not trying to discredit Neil Young’s “argument.” I was simply stating my opinion that he sucks and it’s funny that he was once a part of a counter culture and and now he’s “fighting” for the “side” that’s already “winning.” If the fallacy manifested in the latter part of my comment I think you missed the forest for the trees.

How long has Neil Young been out of touch? This is the most anti-rock, anti-punk, anti-free-thinker move an old rich dude can make. No matter where one stands on the content of Joe Rogan’s podcast, Neil Young’s ideas and actions are basically irrelevant. Neil Young is beyond overrated even though many might say he’s under appreciated. Last thing, before this black text turns transparent… Why does no one talk about the fact that the discussion about “misinformation” basically assumes everyone is a dolt. Also, if everyone is so helplessly stupid, why don’t we ban infomercials for crap products like magnetic socks that “treat arthritis” or pills that make you “lose weight” as misinformation?

Ditto, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is my favorite book.

This is the correct response. Yeah, sure, tactics could change to “analysis before action” but then you lose responsiveness when you need it most. Maybe there’s a balance, but I don’t think it’s worth it. The real answer is to litigate the fuck out of any dipshit who commits the act of “swatting.” It really is like starting a fire, the potential damage is immense.

Happy to see a multitude of poignant responses to comments here. It should be clear that “gun control” is very similar to the “war on drugs”. I guess a better corollary is the prohibition of cannabis. Folks (law abiding gun owners) helping their loved ones with debilitating diseases and what not are not able to do so, in the spirit of preventing bad outcomes for the general populace. We don’t need to control guns. We need to “control” the urge to commit violence. Politics obscure the target every time.

*edited because I’ve had beers.

You’d have to drive a lot longer than an hour.

This is a really nice piece of work! I’ve been experimenting with building something similar for my employer... I like that theming isn’t really a concern here. It makes sense because Pinterest already has a “theme” and this implementation enforces the theme. I have a few questions... These aren’t framed as “defend the choices that were made because I think they’re dumb” kind of thing, haha. I just think knowing some of the reasoning behind some of the implementation details would be illuminating.

Why not use something like Glam or Emotion to handle className generation?

With absolute positioning on <Box />... is there a reason why the top, bottom, left, right props are limited to static values of and not like top={48} or left=“12px”

Also curious on api that dictates Text component: color = css property color and Box component: color = css property background-color

Does Pinterest not use textShadow? Curious why that’s not a part of the Text component. Text styling seems to be the most difficult part of a component based design system.

Anyway this is great work! Hopefully I didn’t ask any stupid questions with obvious answers. Ha

Too many people sleep on or disparage Texas, it’s such a diverse/weird/surprising/sometimesDisapointing place. It’s definitely not some place that can be categorized or disparaged with only a few words. Disclosure: I grew up in Houston