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MY SLACK POSTS ARE LIVING DOCUMENTS WORKS OF ART EACH MISSPELLING SUBJECT TO SUDDEN CHANGE ENTIRE SENTENCES VANISH AT THE BEHEST OF MY CRUEL HAND I AM THE MAESTRO THIS MESSAGE ABOUT HOW I AM TAKING A THIRD LUNCH IT IS MY ORCHESTRA

Things I've needed from the platform since forever: - Combobox - Async driven selects/comboboxes - Async confirm dialog (not window.confirm) - Date range picker - Async form validation - Better Date/time APIs - The ability to _fully_ style native controls - Nested dropdown menu

In React what's everyone's idiomatic way for having a stream depend on some state, but also potentially update that state, without it re-triggering the setup of the stream every time it changes that state? (Thread)

So like is there any hard evidence that software performance doesn't matter for businesses or is that just a something tell ourselves to avoid having to write CRUD apps in fortran

someone build a multimedia game designed to look exactly like a twitter feed except you’re a modern day detective trying to solve a crime by putting together what all the subtweets are leading back to

It's very strange that the cast of Clerks were once the lowest of the low in the American job market but, in the gig economy of 2020, to be a layabout in a video store seems like a magical dream of privilege

you deserve to lead a long and healthy life, to have friends who care for you, to love and be loved. i deserve to have a gundam

In #clojure you can add metadata on almost anything (collections, lazy seqs, functions, ...). In my opinion it's one of the genius features that allows for enormous flexibility.

Miyazaki’s Miyazaki’s love of the love of environment planes & tanks ( •_•) (•_• ) ( ง )ง ୧( ୧ ) /︶\ /︶\

My vial of insulin is about the same price of a nintendo switch lmfao. Imagine having to buy a NINTENDO SWITCH every month. I only use 1 vial. Some people use SIX!!! SIX NINTENDO SWITCHES EVERY MONTH TIL YOU DIE I don’t know why I’m making this comparison!!! It’s 11PM!!!!!

The EU now has 1 GB of free space

My mother in law makes a Persian eggplant dish that I really like and so she sends me texts that say “thinking of you ”

JS: Make string immutable Also JS: Allow assigning to string indexes Still JS: Silently drop change without throwing https://twitter.com/kingisaac95/status/1223193022529179650 …

What I really want is a way to render static content with interactive islands built with React. A documentation site with inline examples shouldn't force the whole site to re-render client side. I know the React team is working on partial hydration. It can't come soon enough!

Unpopular opinion: React is the wrong tool for building content websites (blogs, marketing sites, documentation, etc.) today. SSR is not good enough. You end up downloading the content twice: once in the HTML, and again in the JS for hydration. How did this become so common?