LinguaBrowse (u/LinguaBrowse)

You don’t see them because social media algorithms works for to improve your doom scrolling time. You’re not allowed to decide who to follow anymore. You have to see that they decide for you. Those people who you want to follow are only valuable for you, not for social media platforms.

LinguaBrowse · 6 days ago

I definitely feel this. We're a far cry from the early days of Facebook where you could just post your thoughts and feelings and real people you'd know and care about would come and interact with you. Now all I see is posts from grifters and politics bots, and it's desperately hard to get my own stuff seen, even as an established account.

I want a new platform.

LinguaBrowse commented on Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk? · Posted by u/LinguaBrowse

alex-moon · 6 days ago

I am kind of surprised no-one has mentioned the obvious: Hacker News. Unless I've misunderstood your question, the bulk of web dev discussion happens in technical posts on personal and business blogs, which are then aggregated right here. It's a big part of why I'm on here.

If you're talking more about chat, the more messy "pair programming" side of web dev, I have always found this happens in actual dev teams who are working on the same product or for the same business. You do absolutely get chat like this at conventions - I have been to DjangoCon and PyCon back in the day and there were enormously useful discussions at those - but devs need to have something in common to talk about. As someone else has said here already, web dev is a far far broader topic than you might think - I have often found speaking to other devs I did not understand what it was they were doing. Alberta Tech did one on this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBSpm2CNuGF/?igsh=NGttZzk5NzB...

LinguaBrowse · 6 days ago

The thing about Hacker News is that it's a real fight for life to get any engagement. Just showing the humble project you're working on doesn't cut it. You need to time your submission just right and impress like you're doing a product launch, otherwise you get no visibility and no comments. Social media shouldn't have to be so exhausting and competitive.

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hollerith · 4 months ago

Nice, but there's no sign of any licensing terms in the github repo (so no one but you has a legal right to use it).

LinguaBrowse · 4 months ago

Oh, drat. Just about to go to bed now, but I’ll sort that out tomorrow. Thanks!

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LinguaBrowse · 4 months ago

I've learned a lot over 10 years as a software engineer and thought it was about time I had a place to write up all this hard-earned knowledge. So I created a docs site, for myself!

I gradually realised that, as a "personal" docs site, it needn't be limited to just software notes. I could write whatever I like on this thing. Why not recipes? Sheet music? Or language study notes? The MDX format makes it easy to express anything I want, the source and output are available from any device, and it all gets indexed for search, so it's quite compelling versus basic solutions like Apple Notes.

So over the last month, I've been filling it out with articles to show the full potential of such a resource. I feel like we could all find a use for a personal docs site!

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serhalp · 6 months ago

> I really, really liked how Cargo did things (e.g. optional dependencies and rigid library structure) and it'd be incredible to have that for the JavaScript ecosystem.

FYI: https://thenewstack.io/vites-creator-on-a-unified-javascript...

LinguaBrowse · 6 months ago

I'm keeping my eye on Void0, yeah! If anyone can live up to such promises, it'll be them.

They'll have a tough job getting sticky ecosystems like React Native to adopt, but hope to see them make a compelling case for their stack.

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Imustaskforhelp · 6 months ago

This is the first time I have ever signed up for a newsletter and I did it without reading the HN comments or the fact that you wrote it or it took so long to write.

I really appreciate such deep dives, though I admittedly knew some of them because I was also obsessed much like you with the edge/ js engine space but still I learned a lot

I really liked reading through the blog. Please, take your time, rest and create such beautiful masterpieces in the future too, I would be waiting for them patiently!

Have a nice day.

LinguaBrowse · 6 months ago

Thank you for the kind words! Glad to get this one out of the way so that I can do some less ambitious articles for a change. But hope to make them good in their own way, too!

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righthand · 6 months ago

I was being sarcastic in my post. I find bragging about Javascript as a flourishing UI language omitting quite a bit about why.

LinguaBrowse · 6 months ago

Eh, writing is hard!