The Coding Pole

Why browsers can’t just focus on being good browsers and just that? Whenever I think I’ve found a nice one with useful UI features they go crazy. @arcbrowser.bsky.social - AI browser we are now!!! @vivaldi.com - “We’re gonna nag you with browser being your whole behemoth with mail and calendar”

React app but forcefully written in MVC way What monstrosity have i inherited?

Using #neovim has a certain curve of bloating config Setup is rapidly growing with all those useful plugins, but then, with time it shrinks. You wind out all useful motions and Ex-commands that you start using fluently and setup gets tidies, slimmer and many plugins are replaced with arcane mappings

You can’t call yourself Front End or even Full Stack Developer if you don’t have a solid grasp of CSS, semantics and accessibility If you are not comfortable with what for example @kevinpowell.co is showing in his channel, you need to catch up FE is much more than JS, a framework and tailwind

Currying in JS with arrow functions is cool, but I often find myself temporarily adding brackets or doing a regular block with explicit return, so I can visualise it better in my head. Once it’s done and all is working, I go back to regular … a => b => c => …

Wish I stumbled upon this game when I was learning how to use #neovim effectively. So much fun vim-adventures.com

I’ve just spent 45 minutes going back and forth, debugging, swearing, and questioning all my life because my event handlers, which I quickly hacked to test something, had not been logging anything to the console… #impostorSyndrome #debugging #webDev #browser #console

Just learned that SVN is still maintained and released. #versionControl #svn

How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility: "For anyone who’s ever said 'we need to make this accessible,' and been told, 'We’ll do that later.' If you still want to drive change, this is for you." #a11y stephaniewalter.design/blog/how-to-...

Good move! It should be a default everywhere

Ellipsis (… literally three dots) in Python is such an underrated feature. Feels so natural to use it as a valid placeholder Much better than leaving comments in most cases when you just scaffold some code #Python #Py

This history is a bit longer than I thought Fascinating!!!