Most of the time they're used for a quick visual confirmation that "your operation went right"
The information that the user did something "right" should be responsive next to where the user initiated the action- not in a random corner.
Readit Newsjmercouris commented on Building a Toast Component emilkowal.ski/ui/building... · Posted by u/FragrantRiver
jmercouris commented on Building a Toast Component emilkowal.ski/ui/building... · Posted by u/FragrantRiver
Toasts are a great way to lose information. They are a terrible design and should not be used. They distract the user, are not dense with information, and provide no value. If a message is important enough for the user to read, it should be a dialog box.
jmercouris commented on I see a future in jj steveklabnik.com/writing/... · Posted by u/steveklabnik
After reading the article, the technical merits of `jj` are completely unclear.
jmercouris commented on I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself skeptrune.com/posts/doing... · Posted by u/skeptrune
Code will tell you what but not the why. It also doesn’t always tell you the intent.
Good commit logs or comments may tell you why
jmercouris commented on Show HN: I built a tool to solve window management aboveaverageuser.com/smar... · Posted by u/atommachinist
Cool idea, what model does it use to predict my next window?
jmercouris commented on EU to ban carry-on baggage fees bbc.com/travel/article/20... · Posted by u/kelnos
Doesn't this mean that they'll just include the fees in the price for everyone?
Yes, in practice this increases price transparency. Imagine everything could be monetized. They could charge for access to the bathroom, or water. What is the minimum expectation of what is included in the price of a ticket?
jmercouris commented on Silicon Valley wants to help me make a superbaby sfstandard.com/2025/06/01... · Posted by u/user72343432754
> If I could spare my future children from MS, schizophrenia, Downs, Huntington's, Alzheimer's, etc., I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I'm sure any reasonable person would agree; the more poignant question is whether you are sparing your future children or destroying some future children in favor of others. The former is something I hope any reasonable person would agree with; the latter is tantamount to eugenics.
Destroying future children in favor of other future children? Any decision we make does this. Every child is an XOR.
jmercouris commented on Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s core77.com/posts/136773/R... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
You've not come across hub gears on bikes before, have you? They were pretty much the standard before derailleur gears became popular, and modern ones can have up to 7 speeds.
I meant the whole design. The hub gear is no different than on any other bicycle and can be reliable.
jmercouris commented on Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s core77.com/posts/136773/R... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
This design is unstable and expensive to produce with a complicated in wheel transmission. It is novel, but almost certainly more expensive and less reliable than existing designs.
jmercouris commented on Show HN: Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua mrcjkb.dev/posts/2025-04-... · Posted by u/mrcjkb
Execution env is the achille's heel of scripting languages. Personally I don't use Neovim, but had a feeling its adoption would spur development in this area for Lua. Bryan Cantrill called Javascript "LISP in C's clothes". In some ways I feel like Lua is the opposite, and love it for those reasons (disclaimer: never had to use it at work).
Javascript is Lisp in C's clothes? On what basis? Also what does Lua have to do with Lisp? It has no Lisp syntax whatsoever.