@ben_eb

Software developer. Views expressed here are my own.

 Leeds, England
beneb.info
Joined July 2009
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Introducing Bun - an incredibly fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime. bun.sh/

Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime

Bundle, install, and run JavaScript & TypeScript — all in Bun. Bun is a fast JavaScript runtime & toolkit with a bundler, test runner, and npm-compatible package manager built in.

bun.sh
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github copilot is incredible. it just sells code other people wrote, but because it's an "AI" it is apparently allowed to launder that code without it being a "derivative work". lol. lmao. what an amazing grift.
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Don’t forget to play with your code. Don’t forget to do weird stuff in CSS. This is genuine code written in CSS. Change the code or the selector. And don’t forget to play with your code. codepen.io/jonneal/pen/ZErVV…
The following CSS: button { --handle: { pointerdown(event) { console.log(event.type, event.target); }, async click(event) { console.log( await Promise.resolve('CSS Can Do That') ); }, }; }

ALT The following CSS: button { --handle: { pointerdown(event) { console.log(event.type, event.target); }, async click(event) { console.log( await Promise.resolve('CSS Can Do That') ); }, }; }

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Excited to launch my latest project dontbuyayeti.com 🎉 Doing my bit to stop the madness that is the Blue Yeti.

Don't Buy a Yeti

Saving the world from the Blue Yeti microphone. Doing good, honest work here.

dontbuyayeti.com
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Morwenn@Morwenn_Ed26 Apr 2022
My clothes storage be like
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Yishan
@yishan15 Apr 2022
I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter. So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little knowledge/insight into how actual takeover battles work or play out) (long 🧵)
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Stately.ai@statelyai30 Mar 2022
What software development is really like…
State machine for “what software development is really like” showing an initial state of “make it work”, transitioning through “it works” to a compound “maintain it” state containing parallel states of “make it right” and “make it fast.” The “maintain it” compound state transitions through “oops” back to the initial “make it work” state. The final state of “Done!” is disconnected from the rest of the statechart.

ALT State machine for “what software development is really like” showing an initial state of “make it work”, transitioning through “it works” to a compound “maintain it” state containing parallel states of “make it right” and “make it fast.” The “maintain it” compound state transitions through “oops” back to the initial “make it work” state. The final state of “Done!” is disconnected from the rest of the statechart.

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A problem that is endemic to the whole developer community is the urge to "rewrite everything". It is the one of the most harmful practices in software engineering. Why? (thread)
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Please excuse the dust, I just put this together quickly out of necessity but still, I have something of a portfolio online now! davemc.me/ — Appreciate sharing for those looking for a remote UI/Product Designer!
Dave McNally@davemcnally17 Mar 2022
I didn't see it ending this way. None of us did and I will forever be grateful to @avalonstar for the opportunity. TL;DR — @altairdottv has come to a close and as Design Lead, I'm looking to find a replacement role! DM's are open. Details in 🧵👇🏻 [1/3]
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🔥 TypeScript Tip #10 🔥 Using a crazy trick I picked up from @AndaristRake, you can throw detailed error messages for type checks. Here, I move a runtime check in a function to the type level, meaning you get a detailed error if you use it wrong.
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I would like you to meet Polina Kovaleva. Polina is a 26-year-old glamorous Russian girl from London🇬🇧. She lives in a huge apartment in Kensington and loves to party, her instagram feed looks like a non-stop holiday. That’s not unheard of, but there is one small detail…(THREAD)
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Laurie Voss
@seldo8 Mar 2022
Strongly seconded. Web development is hard, because we are constantly raising the bar. The tooling is a symptom of that, not the cause, and we should be glad it's there.
Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen7 Mar 2022
Replying to @bentlegen
6/ There is an attitude out there that web development was "solved, actually" in some halcyon past, and that the community has made everyone's lives worse by needlessly fixing "non-problems". I disagree, and I think this is disrespectful to tool authors. Over free software!
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Cassidy
@cassidoo2 Mar 2022
Whenever I finish a task I've been procrastinating on for ages that is ultimately done in less than 5 minutes, I'm like, "wow, that was amazing, I need to just do things sooner next time!" but I know I won't
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Looking at Amazon's quarterly financials, it would be easy to mistake the company's $31b ad division as a serious shift in the online advertising industry, but that would be a huge mistake. You see, Amazon's not really selling *ads*. 1/
Jean-Leon Gerome's painting Pollice Verso, 1872, depicting gladiators in an arena with noble onlookers giving a thumbs-down gesture. The tapestry before the nobles has been replaced with a US $100 bill in which Ben Franklin's mouth has been replaced by an Amazon smile logo. Image: Jean-Leon Gerome (modified) US Treasury (modified) Amazon (modified)

ALT Jean-Leon Gerome's painting Pollice Verso, 1872, depicting gladiators in an arena with noble onlookers giving a thumbs-down gesture. The tapestry before the nobles has been replaced with a US $100 bill in which Ben Franklin's mouth has been replaced by an Amazon smile logo. Image: Jean-Leon Gerome (modified) US Treasury (modified) Amazon (modified)

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swyx
@swyx22 Feb 2022
By far the most common piece of advice I repeat to developers who want to produce more content but don’t have time: **You don’t have to say something new.** It’s often much more valuable to say something timeless in a new way.
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eevee 💨@eevee20 Feb 2022
um, stolen? what do you mean? they changed hands via a legitimate transaction. it's all recorded on the blockchain, which is 100% secure and immutable and trustless. where did "stolen" come into it? hundreds of people simply decided to transfer their tokens simultaneously
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Crypto miners literally bought a coal power plant to exclusively mine crypto (it was going to be decommissioned) Crypto and its harm to the environment is not an abstract, “theoretical” concept; here it is in black and white theguardian.com/technology/2…

Bitcoin miners revived a dying coal plant – then CO2 emissions soared

Critics say the enormous electricity consumption needed to sustain cryptocurrency is fueling the climate crisis and now threatens a partial resurrection of coal in the US

theguardian.com
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We announce start of new browserl.ist/ website development. An amazing team from @thecubejs will work together with @sitnikcode: @anton_cube @aria_rzer @dangreen58 @igorlukanin @krikarrina @sashasushko github.com/browserslist/brow…
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