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Node.js anthropologist.

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arxpoetica··on UEFI Bindings for JavaScript
Interesting to see how many things Gary got wrong.
arxpoetica··on Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol
Can you give an indication of what "next iteration" means in terms of timeline (even just ballpark)?
arxpoetica··on Tenets
Svelte does not make any opinions about HTML attributes or tags, unlike JSX which contorts language standards such as `className` or disallowing style="..." without JS in CSS.
arxpoetica··on Tenets
> The web matters

nuff said

arxpoetica··on Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
Valid point I hadn't considered. Maybe the day isn't as soon as we think—perhaps both will exist...

...until we have speech muffler envelopes built into our devices.

arxpoetica··on Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
There will come a day (with the advent of AI speech recognition) where keyboards will be obsolete.

That day is sooner than we think.

arxpoetica··on The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
We may well look back on these lawsuits and laugh.

AI will likely steamroll current copyright considerations. If we live in a world where anything can be generated at whim, copyright considerations will seem less and less relevant or even possible.

Wishful thinking, but maybe we'll all turn away from obsession with ownership, and instead turn to feeding the poor, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and afflicted.

arxpoetica··on "Et Tu, Ilya?"
How often do you think about the Roman Empire[1]?

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-roman-empire-tiktok-trend-w...

arxpoetica··on Prophetic Perfect Tense
"The article was read, and lo, the examples clarified nothing! Names of protagonists were unknown, prophets recognized by only one. The main body of the text illuminated not the tense's usage. A synthetic, kitchen-sink example was sorely missed and yet never appeared."
arxpoetica··on Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can’t agree on Tailwind
tl;dr: noobs often like tailwind; veterans often dislike it. Both are right and both are wrong. Context is everything. Tailwind serves a function, but it will never fully replace native CSS APIs. "Can't we all just get along."
arxpoetica··on Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can’t agree on Tailwind
The default REM scaling is one of my main gripes about Tailwind.
arxpoetica··on An Internet Canvas
I had an epiphany recently that as the tooling for WASM matures, we'll likely return to a visual programming model. I know Microsoft has doubled down on this front (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blaz...) but I'm ideally this is still a universe of HTML/JS/CSS that's easy to pick apart under the surface.

This Internet Canvas seems like a step in that direction.

arxpoetica··on Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?
Move to Utah.

Lots of software growth, but much of that is hardware related.

arxpoetica··on This Word Does Not Exist
Many of these words ought to exist, ha. (As in, this is fun and clever.)
arxpoetica··on How and why we acquired our .com domain
Lucked out and got the domain I want: https://www.cinemodal.com/
arxpoetica··on Boustrophedon
Philo Farnsworth, an early television Pioneer, drew from this idea.

> A farm boy, his inspiration for scanning an image as a series of lines came from the back-and-forth motion used to plow a field.[1]

[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Philo_Farnsworth

arxpoetica··on Clean front end architecture with SvelteKit
For anyone wishing for a VS Code fix, comment on this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/41909#issuecommen...
arxpoetica··on Show HN: Generate startup ideas based on HN comments
> Create an AI-powered platform that helps users discover and curate the most relevant and interesting articles from Hacker News and other tech news sources, with a focus on personalized recommendations based on user preferences and behavior. The platform should also allow users to rate and categorize articles, and provide a social element for sharing and discussing articles with other users.
arxpoetica··on SvelteKit 1.0
You can start here: https://learn.svelte.dev/tutorial/welcome-to-svelte
arxpoetica··on SvelteKit 1.0
Unlike React/JSX, Svelte uses ASTs that adhere to HTML, JavaScript, and CSS (non-JSX) format. Yes, there is a minimal Svelte-only API footprint, but the native AST parsers means that parsing is much more respectful of correct code validation, versus JSX's own idiomatic set of ThingsYouCannotDo™.
arxpoetica··on SvelteKit 1.0
SvelteKit is nothing new. It's been kicking around for 2+ years with tons of user satisfaction (and 3 years prior to that under another name), but this is the first major/stable release.

  - https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-web-frameworks
  - https://2021.stateofjs.com/en-US/libraries/front-end-frameworks/
  - https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1589675637195042817
arxpoetica··on SvelteKit 1.0
The Sapper is dead! Long live the SvelteKit!
arxpoetica··on Help pick a syntax for CSS nesting
I hate it. I hate it all.

I voted for `@nest all` because I don't think it's a feature I will EVER use, so I wanted it to be dumb obvious that someone is using it by explicitly putting @nest in the code. That way if I encounter it in the wild, I'll be less likely to confuse it with SCSS nesting, for example.

arxpoetica··on Svelte Summit – 4th annual Svelte virtual conference happening today
Some sick beats from Summit: https://soundcloud.com/officialfractal/sets/svelte-summit/s-... by Fractal
arxpoetica··on Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
> Inexperienced developers will write bad code with or without powerful tools like Svelte stores. I don't think a framework is meant to replace experience, guidance, and coaching.

This is the gist of the whole comment. The person posting is not complaining about a bad Svelte experience, they're complaining about bad programming practices.

arxpoetica··on Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
> Special syntax for reactivity is not javascript

That's because there is no syntax for reactivity in JavaScript, period.

arxpoetica··on Benjamin Button Reviews The New MacBook Pro (2016)
It's real: https://web.archive.org/web/20161103093653/https://blog.pinb...
arxpoetica··on Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
You absolutely 100% do not have to use Svelte Kit.

Svelte Kit is just the equivalent of (an opinionated) Next.js, Gatsyby, or Nuxt.js framework. Those frameworks are also incredibly opinionated on purpose.

arxpoetica··on Elder.js – An Opinionated, SEO Focused, Svelte Framework
https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/issues/1390
arxpoetica··on Comparing Svelte and React
FWIW, Svelte has a very easy learning curve.
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