Brad Christensen 🦋

@saycheeselouise and I discussing whether to go swimming or spa at the motel we're staying at: Louise: I'll do whatever you want to do Me, suggestively: where would you draw the line? Louise: Bitcoin

@mattpocockuk I feel like I'm faster with TS even when I'm working on my own on the smallest of projects. Type inference is so good that I barely have to think about types most of the time 😌

There's an anti-TypeScript post floating around with lots of the typical criticisms: - "Makes devs too slow" - "Only good for MASSIVE projects" - "Too much boilerplate" Let's bring a bit of positivity. What do you like about TS?

@eilishsilie It does struggle a bit in the winter on damp grass so I'd recommend a gruntier version if your lawn is any bigger than ours

@eilishsilie We have the smallest battery powered Ryobi lawnmower you can get and it works great for our tiny backyard! It's quite cheap/plasticky looking but also really small and light so no real complaints

@cutaway_cafe @RusselNorman @jacktame I'm not gonna lie, after clicking around on that website for a bit there were a lot more red flags that caused me to dismiss the article than just its URL. If it has any credibility it will find its way to a more reputable outlet I'm sure 😊

@BradC @RusselNorman @jacktame And there it is. Denial based on … what? Some of the most important discoveries have been bootstrapped by amateurs. Data is data, disprove it but don’t dismiss it because of the box it’s in

Interesting interview by @jacktame with the Govt's Climate Greenwashing Minister, Poor Simon Watts. Jack's final question: "It’s 2024, last year was the hottest year on record, climate scientists say this year is likely to be even hotter, your government has scrapped the ban on oil and gas exploration, you have tanked the electric vehicle market overnight, you’ve delayed emissions pricing yet again for our biggest emitting industry [agribusiness], you’ve taken money from the climate fund to pay for tax cuts, your [just released Emissions Reduction] Plan fails to get us to our 2035 or 2050 targets, and despite promises to save us money, it is 0.01% cheaper for households [than the previous Plan which did meet those targets], why should anyone seriously believe you are serious about climate change?" The correct answer is that no-one does but Poor Simon has to pretend. tvnz.co.nz/shows/q-and-a/…

@cutaway_cafe @RusselNorman @jacktame Ah yes, I too get all my trusted news from theoutdoorphonestore.com

@RusselNorman @jacktame We keep making claims “hottest year/month/etc on record”. Two things: the records really don’t go back far, and I don’t trust NIWA to be honest. For example - theoutdoorphonestore.com/175622/niwa-te…

@brillout @RelevantElement Hits the right notes for me 🫡

@BradC @RelevantElement How about: > **The frontend framework for modular architecture and flexibility** > > Vike powers a wide range of use cases, from simple websites to complex and mission-critical enterprise applications. It doesn't say the word foundation but I think it sounds like it.

To those who don't like it: why? We're seriously considering it as a new tagline, while keeping the current one in a second line. > Vike > > The modular frontend framework. > > Flexible, lean, sturdy, community-driven, dependable, fast.

@brillout @RelevantElement As an existing user that one just stood out for me - foundation feels more accurate & descriptive than framework. Although from a non-user perspective I wonder whether it'd be confusing if you were expecting to see the word framework in there somewhere! 😅 Naming is hard...

@RelevantElement I like 4. and the last one; I wonder whether they can be expressed more succinctly. (I feel like the other ones are too vague.) Another idea: "A modular foundation for you app". (Maybe we can use it as sentence somewhere on the landing page and/or "Why Vike" page.)

@mattpocockuk I don't understand this take - pre-commit hooks aren't distributed with the repo automatically (are they?) so they need to be installed somehow, making them inherently opt-in? Is it the likes of husky (install hooks on npm install) that you're against?

We're talking about pre-commit hooks? Nice. I hate them. You should take as much compute time off your engineers as possible and put it on CI.

@tompahoward @mattpocockuk In GitHub you can configure your repo to require branches to be up to date with main before a PR is allowed to be merged

@mattpocockuk I agree with most of what is here, except for the feature branch. Under normal circumstances, feature branches and PRs are not safe

If you're working in a team and your dev workflow doesn't look like this, tell me: (note the absence of pre-commit hooks)

@mattpocockuk An observation from our experience is that tools always seem to have a strong focus on building _everything at once_ and the escape hatches to skip things feel like an afterthought

@mattpocockuk I've been using the project references option + a tool to keep tsconfigs synced with package.jsons for some time, but we skip the root-level tsconfig - our use case is to build a service/app as-needed but with all relevant library dependencies tsc'd automatically

Trying to write an exhaustive pro's/cons list for three different approaches to TS monorepos. But slowly realising that they're all kind of bad in different ways. gist.github.com/mattpocock/dd8…

@mattpocockuk I was hoping you were going to explain why this is! Do you think it's because with querySelector you could technically limit it to a particular kind of tag, which would give you some assurance that the type wouldn't change at runtime?

Ever wondered why you can pass types to some functions, but not to others? Here's a little preview of a small section of my book. PR's welcome! github.com/total-typescri…

@CrisisCloud Yeah I'd heard the same thing! I didn't realise they sold so fast until I had a look recently too. Hot demand 🔥 We have a 2017 Leaf, which I still love, although has about half the range of the Kona so I'm sometimes tempted by the idea of an upgrade 👀

@BradC Yea 😂 especially at the moment god it’s so hot. Thanks! Alex did heaps of research and these are all coming off lease so there’s a few around but they sell FAST. This was 4th time lucky at getting one but it turned out to be the best one (except for the aircon)

Me: *buys EV* The government: yea so it’s going to be more expensive to run that than a petrol car…

@CrisisCloud Haha well you definitely want that to be working. Great choice - the range of the Kona is insane and it'll be worth the wait!

@BradC Oh yea! A long range Hyundai Kona. We don’t have it yet though because the aircon was broken so in the purchase agreement the condition of us buying it is that they fix it. It’s been a bit more complicated that the dealer thought so we might be waiting a bit, which is fine.

@CrisisCloud 💯! May I ask what'd you get? 🤓

@BradC That’s good to know lol. I assume it’ll be way more convenient not going to the petrol station. We’re getting a proper charger installed at home

Gonna join the EV club soon hopefully

@eilishsilie The RGB really sets it off 🤌🔥

@KiwiEV Is this Te Kuiti? If so, highly recommend the new Z one just down the road! Super annoying though.

@SachaCoburn @saycheeselouise Just checked the Microsoft docs and I see they are recommending Parallels these days too, so sounds like that's the way to go (regardless of how old the MacBook is, I'm sure that will be the best/easiest experience)

@SachaCoburn @saycheeselouise I have heard Parallels is very good so would probably recommend that! I've used Bootcamp to dual-boot Windows, which works great, but my MacBook is 12 years old, and I'm not sure that's an option on the new Macs with M1/M2 CPUs anymore 😅

Techie Twitter HELP! My daughter needs to download Windows onto her MacBook Air so she can do her part time admin job over summer - to use MYOB software. Are there fishhooks we should know about? Is this a good idea? Do-able?