I do frontend and management stuff.
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Francois Ward retweeted
In an election with two bad choices — one an unapologetic fascist who I think will only worsen the genocide in Gaza — I’m not going to waste my vote on a third bad choice and effectively say “bring on the fascist” simply because it allows me to feel morally superior.
It is absolutely beyond me how people (not only Americans), having realized with 'unmistakable clarity,' as Jimmy Carter would put it, that both candidates bring nothing to the table than demagoguery, lies, and astounding inaptitudes STILL argue over which one is 'more acceptable' or 'lesser evil.' You have @DrJillStein and other third-party candidates -- vote your conscience!
Francois Ward retweeted
You know that saying, “you don’t know a programming language until you know two?” Maybe it can be applied to many things- you don’t know a JS framework, you don’t know a platform, etc.
The comparison point is important because otherwise, design decisions can feel like a given.
Francois Ward retweeted
This is why ByteDance hasn’t moved much in rolling RSC into our major products. Business value hasn’t yielded anywhere near the hype.
Building an RSC-enabled framework right now is giving terrible ROI vibes. Around every corner there is some vague package/pattern/API/convention waiting for you. Despite my overall success in taking things slightly beyond proof of concept, I'm reluctant to invest in the next chunk of challenges to pin down every little detail when i could possible ship TanStack Start in that same time.
So, do you think it's worth the diversion?
Francois Ward retweeted
🤩 Excited to announce Waku v0.20.2! Waku is the Minimal React Framework with first-class RSC support. A few new contributors have joined us, fixed some bugs, and improved use cases, such as SSG. I think it’s now pretty solid for SSG.
waku.gg ⛩️
Francois Ward retweeted
Introducing Waku “pages router”! 🎉
We’re excited to bring a minimal file-based router API to the modern React era. Waku is now the fastest way to start building with server components.
Learn more 👉 waku.gg/blog/introducing-pag… ⛩️
Francois Ward retweeted
I will never get over how little developers care about the user experience they create and how much they care about what their code looks like
Francois Ward retweeted
Deno is launching a new JavaScript package registry / alternative to npm
jsr.io/waitlist
Francois Ward retweeted
If you push for process in product creation, you raise the floor *and* lower the ceiling.
So be mindful of whether consistency of delivery or an outlier experience is what your opportunity calls for
Either way, "embrace the suck"
Francois Ward retweeted
This term is a bit better, but I still feel that only technical people should be managing technical work.
There is nothing wrong with someone defining what does or doesn't go into a product, and what the priorities are, but ...
Francois Ward retweeted
Announcing React Aria Components v1.0.0! 🥳
Over 40 components with built-in behavior, adaptive interactions, top-tier accessibility, and internationalization out of the box, ready for your styles.
react-spectrum.adobe.com/rea…
Francois Ward retweeted
✨ Neat little component we use in Catalyst to ensure a 44x44 tap target for touch devices.
Actual rendered element doesn't change in size, this just expands the hit area in a totally invisible way that doesn't impact the layout 🪄
Francois Ward retweeted
React Aria is not only the best foundation for building the component library but also an incredible resource from which to learn.
I learned so much about correct naming, patterns, interaction, composition, and UX by reading their specs – spectrum.adobe.com.
Francois Ward retweeted
The longer you work as a software engineer, the more you realize that writing the code is rarely the hard part.
Francois Ward retweeted
Add
`if (Math.random() < 0.01) throw new Error('Bad luck')`
to totally stop unlucky people from using your software.
Francois Ward retweeted
We have made the decision to deprecate ESLint’s core formatting rules. We share the reasoning and next steps in this post.
eslint.org/blog/2023/10/depr…
Francois Ward retweeted
Waku v0.16.0 has been released! Huge thanks to @alexyang for various contributions.
Repo: github.com/dai-shi/waku
Demo: codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/wak…
What is Waku? It's a React framework for RSC.
This version uses Vite v4.5.0. I would like to ask help for testing. Any volunteers?
I hate codesandbox as primary documentation so much... Trying to look at a couple of code snippets and have to wait for a sandbox to load (if it loads at all) every time I clicked, and then dig in the source code to find the relevant piece.
Nope nope, do not want.
Francois Ward retweeted
Statically Typed vs. Dynamically Typed is not “settled”. In fact, that framing only confuses people. As if you have to prefer any language that is static over any that is dynamic. Some static type systems are worse than dynamic type systems. I’d rather write plain JS than Java.