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Free societies don’t have lockdowns. Prisons do. One would think that the government would come up with a better term, if only out of self interest.

But then perhaps that’s the point.

Hotwire is definitely more progressive enhancement friendly (although htmx has he-boost).

htmx is an attempt to complete html as a hypertext and, as such has a different approach to html-oriented development. Generally I would expect htmx to cover more functionality in a pure hypertext and Hotwire to “just work” more often.

Setting aside whether or not this situation is good, the author clearly thinks it is not, or even accurately describes the situation, the answer to this sort of question can be found in this excerpt from "Skin In The Game" by Nassim Taleb:

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

It's very fast to first real web app request (not just a hello world response) and many of the concepts will translate to another platform.

The problem is that for the boomers, taking on lots of debt has worked out smashingly as they levered into a booming (in part due to that leverage) economy. But now we've reached the conclusion of that leveraged boom, and there is no more room to cut interest rates or increase the amount of interest as a percentage of monthly income. Prices can't fall because that would be deflationary and wreck the banks first and foremost through defaults, and everyone else after that.

There is no way out and we have to wait until compound interest, even at these minuscule rates, sparks the default wave that triggers the great deflation, or until the lack of family formation eventually destroys the economies ability to meet the periodic interest payments.

In the meantime, enjoy the ride and try to be nice.

This comment falls directly into the "things never change" fallacy.

This fallacy can be applied whenever anyone complains about any change anywhere. Picking one sample piece of anecdotal data from another period that can roughly be lined up with some other vague impressions of today does not refute the claim.

I have no strong opinion on overtourism or the effects on it by social media, but I'm willing to listen to people who discuss it without dismissing them.

QE got swallowed up to make the large creditors whole and it ended up being a massive wealth transfer to them, so you see elite real estate, art, etc. being bid up while the rest of the economy flounders around aimlessly

thus always to debtors

this makes no sense at all: whether or not there is a fermi paradox absolutely depends on the parameters "we can argue about"

keyboard is obviously far better than the macbook, and the screen is matte

you can get 32GB of memory

it's a great rig, i am just unreasonable about wanting a single cable for lappy (which apple introduced two decades ago, btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Display_Connector)

i recently bought the system76 galago pro:

https://system76.com/laptops/galago

unfortunately I can't drive power and data over the USB-C port, so I'm going to return it

otherwise it is great

- a strong API between components

- network calls

The former is a very good idea that should be implemented widely in most code bases, especially as they mature, using techniques like modules and interfaces.

The latter is incredibly powerful in some cases but comes at a huge cost in system complexity, performance and comprehensibility. It should be used sparingly.

as w/ pjax or turbolinks, barbajs is a fine library, but it isn't trying to create HTML++ and there isn't much REST-ful theory behind it

i'm sure it's good for a lot of stuff though

you can click on the code tabs and see what's going on, and it should be easy enough to map to whatever backend technology you are using

It isn't right for everything, but it works well for me w/ a rails back end and there are some good theoretical reasons for using HTML if you like REST/HATEOAS. I linked a few articles up thread you can read if you are interested.

I typically split my externally facing JSON API out from the main application (which uses HTML/intercooler) because the use cases are typically so different: the JSON API needs to be general and abstract whereas the web application UI has a lot of fiddly little specific data needs that are better implemented on the back end, where you have full access to the domain model and a proper query language.

as usual, a lot of negative comments from HN on the approach (which is admittedly against the grain) but I've used it for a relatively large and successful web app (rails back end) and it has worked out well compared to the SPA architectures I've had to deal with

i think the philosophical roots in REST/HATEOAS are worth considering, if you are open minded:

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht...