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Cldfireon Nine things I learned in ninety years

Love these. This quote stuck out to me:

> It follows, I think, that the luckier you’ve been, the more humility and generous spiritedness you need, and the unluckier you’ve been, the more compassion for yourself you need, and unfair as it may seem, the more you need irrepressible resolve.

Cldfireon How we used esbuild to reduce our browser extension build times by 90%

Hey folks! I worked on speeding up our web extension build system and wrote this blog post afterwards.

Happy to answer any questions!

Cldfireon Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k

> One example is how almost every password manager including the built-in one in most browsers will assume that if there's a type="password" field, then the previous sibling field must be the username. Sometimes they'll even pick a field far away in the DOM like your chatbox input to autofill with the username.

Note that this behavior is defined as part of the `autocomplete` standard. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastr...

> an input element whose type attribute is in the Text state that is followed by an input element whose type attribute is in the Password state

> New autofill field name: "username"

The intent isn't to pick a field far away in the DOM, though, so any autofill implementation doing that isn't being restrictive enough.

Cldfireon Porting a 100% local app to the web

I've been a very happy user of Actual for almost two years now; kudos to jlongster for the fantastic product and wonderful support!

Cldfireon Colleges face student lawsuits seeking refunds after coronavirus closures

I would love the option to be able to skip a semester or two of college, but unfortunately if I made that choice I'd lose all of my scholarships and it would end up costing me more than whatever I'd make in the meantime :(

Cldfireon Deno 1.0

Servo is an experimental project designed to build and test components that can be integrated into Firefox. It relies on Gecko for JS.

Cldfireon A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier

I share this view myself, neat to see someone else feels the same way.

I'm a CS student and I've been working at a Panera for about a year now. I love my particular store and the work environment is great; I genuinely look forward to going to work every day. I'll miss my coworkers when I have to quit soon to start my programming career.

That being said, I understand why those jobs could never realistically pay anything near what a good software dev job can. If you could make the same amount of money working a job like that, why would anyone put in the effort to get stressed out as a programmer? It wouldn't make sense.

The solution is to fix dev jobs so they're more balanced and less stressful :)