@theo Otherwise it's a trick question because some people assume the implication and some don't
But "no" is an obvious and a normal answer in that situation
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@theo It's like a room where you're asked "do you want to die" with options "no" and "maybe", the maybe implying that if enough people are unsure, you won't die
If the thought experiment means not everyone can answer "no" even if they want to, then I believe humanity picks blue
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If >50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives
Red button pressers always survive, but they’ll get a “red button presser” badge on their Twitter profile.
What do you press?
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@jaffathecake Awesome! Browsers are finally doing all the things we wish they did
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I've been having fun making these & I'm really happy that people are enjoying them.
They're assembled, composited, and encoded in the browser. I love how much you can do with the modern web platform.
x.com/FirefoxWebDevs…
Firefox for Web Developers@FirefoxWebDevs
CSS's light-dark() now accepts images, making it simpler to define alternate values for a dark color scheme. Here's how it works:
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@davepl1968 Nash equilibrium is when there's an action that guarantees benefit for one at the expense of others, but collaboration would lead to a better overall benefit
Here, clear benefit for one does not come at the expense to others. Everyone can pick the same safe outcome
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I think this is an example of a Nash equillibrium.
Everyone pressing red is the equilibrium. If rational people realize this, nearly everyone (or everyone) will press red.
Then:
It's effectively 100% red → no majority blue → only reds survive.
Result: Everyone lives, with zero risk.
Vote Quimby!
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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Seeing a manual live-coding talk at @ReactMiamiConf brings tears to my eyes
A reminder of the lost art of actually writing code
Oh how I miss it
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@housecor ...but suffixes are even better now that I think of it.
Folders allowed to co-locate arbitrary helper files like utils.ts or persistence.ts that are relevant to the component
Somehow it never occurred to me to just do Button.utils.ts
I'd do this in my next project
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@housecor I used to like folders for components, e.g. /Button/{Button.tsx,styles.css,index.ts}
Index file used only for re-exporting. This way, you work in a Button.tsx file, but import from /components/Button, rather than /components/Button/Button
Seemed like best of both worlds, but
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Quick tip - you can just use good file names so that you don't have to reconfigure your editor
I avoid repeated filenames by:
- Not using barrels (generally useless anyway).
- Avoiding frameworks that require me to repeat filenames
matthew scullino@scullx
@housecor Quick tip - you can add settings to your vscode so that the file names then appear as {parent directory}/index.ts in your editor
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@ryanflorence Clean at first glance keeps beating practical in the long run
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Why do product designers think "Hide all UI chrome on scroll and then scroll back up a little to reveal the navigation UI" is good?
This trend just keeps going, am I the only one who dislikes it?
There are so many vertical pixels, you can leave the tabs on screen I promise
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LLMs are bad at math.
They’re bad at orchestration.
But they’re really good at writing TypeScript.
So we gave them a runtime.
Code Mode in TanStack AI lets the model write & execute TS instead of chaining tools.
🧠 1 call instead of N
⚡ parallel execution
📉 fewer tokens
✔︎ correct results
This changes how you build AI apps.
Blog ↓
tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-…
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Another practical example of Cheng Lou's pretext: subtitles that never cover the video.
You can have balanced text at the user's preferred font size and guarantee to fit it into the letterbox bar of a widescreen movie.
Cheng Lou@_chenglou
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
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Everyone's building crazy stuff with Pretext, here's something boring - a web-based newspaper layout engine. Justified text that flows across columns to the pixel. Basically InDesign but in the browser. Multi-Page, template based allowing variable newspaper layouts.
Cheng Lou@_chenglou
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
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@daniel_mac8 I dont know, the gap between what I have in mind and what the model has in mind is a source of creativity. I don't want the model to be limited by my understanding, I want it to act as another person on a team who brings their own perspective
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My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
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@jessfraz Making everyone write inline styles is the goal
There's nothing wrong with inline styles except for the fact that they are limited in features
Tailwind removes the limits
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I really don't understand tailwind, all it did is make everyone inline styles & everything becomes bifurcated inlined styles. It's full blown anarchy there's nothing blocking people from doing shit thats gross in one place, I have to write eslint rules to not descend into chaos.
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110-year-old Turkish grandma shares her secret to a long life:
"i never once used Microsoft Teams"
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@stolinski Easily solvable. Become worse at stuff that you're good at by not practicing it
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It's crazy how AI is really good at the stuff I don't know anything about and total dog shit at the stuff I do.
Scott Tolinski - Syntax.fm@stolinski
I'm getting to the grumpy point where I don't want it to do any css at all
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