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fold_lefton A few interesting modern pixel fonts

Came here to say the same, I actually like Departure so much I use it as my coding and Terminal font. I'll definitely be trying out the fonts in the original post.

fold_lefton Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

Honest question, how many of the leaks and crashes can be attributed to zig the language vs possibly (maybe, we don't know) a loosey-goosey, slot machine approach to development heavily reliant on AI? Will the inherent leaks and crashes be fixed, purely by dint of porting to Rust?

fold_lefton Show HN: Tips to stay safe from NPM supply chain attacks

I created https://github.com/JamieMason/shrinkpack in 2015 to try and help with this problem, by creating an offline mirror of decompressed tarballs from the npm registry that you'd check into your repository.

I thought it might have some merit at the time, but it never really took off as an idea.

fold_lefton Svelte 5 Released

I agree, that's a really nice feature of Svelte. It can be done in .astro files from https://astro.build/ too but Svelte is the first place I saw it done, like you say, it's very nice to work that way.

fold_lefton Svelte 5 Released

I'm curious what users of Svelte think about https://qwik.dev, have many of you been tempted by it? There are a lot of similarities and both are great at keeping file sizes down with a great DX.

fold_lefton Lit: Simple, fast web components

I'm not saying for one moment that it matters but one thing I was really surprised to learn was that lit (16.6kb) is actually larger than preact (11kB). With it taking advantage of Web Standards so well, I expected it would have a big advantage to be much smaller.

fold_lefton Neovim Conf 2022

The name...

fold_lefton Blurhash: A compact representation of a placeholder for an image

I had a go at doing this in Rust some time ago https://github.com/JamieMason/blurhash-to-css and there is also https://plaiceholder.co/.

fold_lefton Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal

Elite like a Janitor? because only he can open the Office in the morning?

fold_lefton Return to Monkey Island, Coming 2022

Ahoy there Fancy Pants!

I've absolutely loved this series of games ever since I first played them as a kid in the 90s. I didn't think we'd ever see another MI Game with Ron Gilbert involved so for me this is wonderful news, I really can't wait for this to come out.

fold_lefton The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices

Is there a safety net? (Honest question from a European)

fold_lefton Google Analytics 4

Are there any competitors out there that can import historical data from Google Analytics? I've not checked, can you even export your historical data from GA?

fold_lefton Show HN: OneModel – Diagramming tailor-made for Software Engineers

Kudos, it looks excellent

fold_lefton Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps

Using a lockfile and checking in your dependency tarballs [1] can help insulate you from these problems until you're ready to face them.

I created shrinkpack before left-pad and thankfully it meant that we were unaffected.

A lot of developers, understandably, baulk at checking in dependencies, but there is a concrete benefit in being able to continue uninterrupted during outages.

[1] https://github.com/JamieMason/shrinkpack

fold_lefton What NPM should do to stop a new colors attack

Checking in your dependencies with https://github.com/JamieMason/shrinkpack can help insulate you from these problems until you're ready to face them. I created this before left-pad and thankfully meant that we were unaffected.

A lot of developers, understandably, baulk at checking in dependencies, but there is a concrete benefit in being able to continue uninterrupted during outages.

fold_lefton Diego Maradona has died

This is joyous, Maradona: Life is Life https://youtu.be/4vashrNoXTE

fold_lefton Next.js 10

https://github.com/LukasBombach/next-super-performance adds partial hydration to next. I was tempted by this some time ago, but ended up leaving it due to concern about straying too far off-piste from next itself.

fold_lefton Most Technical Debt Is Just Bullshit

I recently heard someone say this, which I thought was interesting:

> Technical Debt is the result of a weak definition of done

fold_lefton Laws of UX

Some of you might also be interested in The Laws Of Simplicity by John Maeda

http://lawsofsimplicity.com/

fold_lefton Tour of Rust

I was caught out by the 2nd one too, I hit "English" expecting to be taken to the English version of the start of the Tour.

fold_lefton Mastering Jq: Part 1

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

fold_lefton First photo of HS2 tunnel boring machines

> On [public ownership of] our railway, the East Coast line was run in public ownership from 2009 to 2014. It had 91% customer satisfaction and returned £1 billion to the Treasury. (Today, half of our rail services are run by foreign state owned companies.)

https://weownit.org.uk/why-public-ownership/successful-examp...

fold_lefton Spleeter – Music Source-Separation Engine

Once you have obtained just the Guitar from a track, are there any tools out there which can work out the Tablature (eg. https://www.ultimate-guitar.com//top/tabs) so you can play along?

fold_lefton Diagram as Code

> from diagrams import Diagram

Slightly off-topic, but I wish JavaScript's import syntax was designed to be this way around, for better autocomplete in your editor.

fold_lefton Next stop, hydrogen-powered trains

> In 2016, Germany unveiled the Coradia iLint, the world’s first hydrogen-powered train, which can run for 600 miles on a single tank of fuel – on par with the distances that traditional trains achieve on a tank of diesel

> The train’s hydrogen power system produces sufficient power to take the train 50 to 75 miles. The train, called Hydroflex, is the UK’s first to be powered by hydrogen

The iLint seems to be much further advanced. In this Industry, what does a Team in the Hydroflex's position normally do next in this position?

fold_lefton Show HN: Build your own Vim emulation for VS Code

I also had problems, mostly around multiple cursors, and found the less popular amvim to be much better. I have not run into any problems with it so far, hopefully this will work for you too

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=auiworks...

fold_lefton Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps

I love the sound of this, do you have a link to any examples?

fold_lefton Goodbye, Clean Code

It would be a shame if this article about specifically DRY created negative sentiment towards the Clean Code Book as a whole – which is full of great advice, not only related to duplication, and a worthwhile read.