Misc

Discrepancy Between the Parent and the Child Component Here is the exact pattern that gets everyone stuck. You take a prop — like a user’s initial name — and dump…

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When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high: 1GB RAM modern, fast dual core CPU speedy solid state drive with 20+ GB I’m not talking about a cheapo shared…

[copy 19 bytes, back 19][copy 19 bytes, back 19][copy 19 bytes, back 19] Multiply that across a full HTML document with repeated tags, repeated class names, repeated whitespace, and it’s…

If you’ve been building Node.js projects, you’ve probably had an experience like this. The project runs fine on your machine, but when you push it to a server, something breaks….

Every time a user queries an AI search engine for information, they’re trusting a system trained on the internet to behave like an editor. An editor has institutional memory, a…

Press enter or click to view image in full size Engineering expertise lies not in syntax, but in evaluating trade-offs within organization-specific constraints that AI systems cannot access. Image generated…

simonw/pedalican. Clearly I wasn’t paying attention when these were first announced back in May, but today I accidentally activated a “pet” in Codex Desktop – a little animated robot, reminiscent…

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When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it’s also true that the web has changed a lot in…