I agree with the author - I'm sick of hearing the cliches from people who prefer 'dark mode'. But I remember long before there was 'light mode' and 'dark mode' there were themes based on a spectrum of hues and values - actual colors. Why not bring that back? "Light mode" can be way more bearable if it's not pure #ffffff. I dislike the invented dichotomy of light and dark anyway, there's an entire spectrum that designers can use, and I think apps in general would look way better if they took advantage of that.
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moth-fuzz commented on CSS's problems are Tailwind's problems colton.dev/blog/tailwind-... · Posted by u/coltonv
Been using Tailwind since starting my job 5 years ago where we have a ton of webapps standardized on Angular+Tailwind, and you may have to hop into a webapp you've never heard of before to fix a bug. Couldn't be happier with how much easier it is to build and maintain compared to traditional CSS.
Many many words I've read trying to convince me why I shouldn't be having a good time using it, yet here I am more productive than ever thanks to it. Less experienced devs are by default funnelled into writing code that's easy to understand, only looking at one file, as opposed to people trying to do cute tricks where styles could be coming from anywhere in the project. It's SO much easier when the styles are on the component I'm looking at and I don't have to cross-reference between files. Plus people sticking to increments of 0.25rem instead of everyone using their own preferred units is huge.
When you work at a big company you can't expect everyone will write nice CSS. But Tailwind plays a huge part in making sure everyone writes something that's much more easier for the next person who has to read it.
You'd also be more productive and have less unknowns and potentially less decision paralysis if, say, everyone started using excel hooked up to a database instead of writing their own bespoke CRUD app, but alas, those aren't the reasons one asks programmers to program.
I love Crystal but I’m surprised at how nothing the WASM story is this late in the game. I’d love to run Crystal directly in the browser, especially given how web-focused they seem to be.
Also, windows support has been more or less “done” for a couple of years now, is the “preview” tag still necessary?
moth-fuzz commented on Some programming language ideas jerf.org/iri/post/2025/pr... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Regarding the 'Modular Monoliths' bit, I wholeheartedly agree. I always found it kind of disappointing that while we're told in our OOP classes that using interfaces increases modularity and cohesion and decreases coupling, in reality in most programming languages you're relying on the nominal type of said interface regardless. All libraries have to use a common interface at the source code level, which is obscenely rare. For interfaces to truly live up to what they're describing, they merely ought to be structural (or whatever the equivalent to functions is that structural typing is to data).
Edit, since I remembered Go has this behaviour: I think Go's auto-interfaces I think are easily one of its biggest selling points.
I'm of two minds when I see comments complaining about header files. Practically speaking, I think "have the preprocessor copy & paste source files together" is a bit of a hackjob, but, conceptually speaking, having your interface and implementation separate is ultimately a good thing.
The problem of course lies not with header files, but C++ the language, as all public fields and private fields must be specified in the class declaration so that the compiler knows the memory layout. It's kind of useless in that sense. You can move private methods out to a separate source file, but, you don't gain much in doing so, at least in terms of strict encapsulation. And of course, if you use templates at all, you can no longer even do that. Which is its own can of worms.
Unfortunately, none of these problems are problems that modules solve. Implementations very much disagree on interfaces vs implementations, precompiled vs simply included, etc etc. In my own usage of modules I've just found it to be header files with different syntax. Any API implemented via modules is still very leaky - it's hard to just import a module and know what's truly fair for application usage or not. You still ultimately have to rely on documentation for usage details.
At the end of the day I don't really care how the implementation puts together a particular feature, I care about how it affects the semantics and usability of the language. And modules do not really differ in proper usage from headers, even though the whole backend had to be changed, the frontend ends up being the same. So it's net nothing.
All said and done, when it comes to defining library APIs, I prefer C. No public/private, you just have some data laid out a particular way, and some functions to operate on it. The header file is essentially just a symbol table for the binary code - and said code can be a .c file or a .o file or even a .a or .lib or .dll or whatever - C doesn't care. Raw functionality, raw usability. No hoops.
The idea that arrays of structs are inherently more cache friendly and thus data-oriented-er is a bit reductive of the whole practice of data-oriented code. The point is to optimize data layout for access patterns. Putting fields of a struct into their own arrays is only actually an optimization if you're only accessing that field in-bulk. And if so, why is it even in a struct in the first place? If you use all fields of a struct in your algorithm, then an array of structs is the optimal way.
All the same is true for enums.
moth-fuzz commented on Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough swapnilchauhan.com/blog/p... · Posted by u/swapxstar
I have a problem with how procrastination and perfectionism, this sense of being 'not good enough', is almost universally phrased as not being good enough for others. For caring too much about others' opinions. And that the solution is to just Do Art For Yourself :tm:.
I've tried that. I've tried shunting out everyone else's opinions. But then of course, if you lock me in a room with me, myself, and I, you now have 3 of my biggest critics all in the same room.
I don't really care what others think, never really did, and none of these anti-procrastination or anti-perfectionism pieces help when it's my own standards that I'm not meeting.
moth-fuzz commented on Foyle: You build it, AI should run it future.mozilla.org/builde... · Posted by u/sourishkrout
i laughed out loud when i saw this page https://foyle.io/docs/getting-started/k8s/
>Prerequisites: VSCode & RunMe
>Foyle relies on VSCode and RunMe.dev to provide the frontend.
Well that’s a lot to take in, especially from a Mozilla project.
moth-fuzz commented on Guide to implementing 2D platformers (2012) higherorderfun.com/blog/2... · Posted by u/vvoruganti
I’ve implemented platformer collision dozens of times now and the only way I’ve found it to be genuinely smooth is to do it one pixel at a time, just like the author suggests.
But something always bugs me about that - we know the closest edge of the closest obstacle, we know the vector of the player’s motion, by all accounts we should be able to calculate the point of contact in one go without doing any substeps.
And yet, doing it in one pass always seems to result in a myriad of edge cases (literal!) that break the whole thing, unless you do heavy preprocessing, converting your tiles to a graph of lined surfaces, etc etc.
I think ultimately pink washing Israeli war crimes and colonisation with appeals to open lesbianism on the streets of Tel Aviv is a dead end. The point is in the end that human rights are inalienable and not transactional. You don't get to treat the Sudanese worse because they're crap on gay rights and nor should we give Israelis an easier time because they're better on gay rights. How many gay marriages in Tel Aviv does it take to cancel out an ethnic cleansing in the West Bank? It's just stupid.
This is directed more at the above comment than yours, but, do note that gay marriage is in fact not legal in Israel, nor is inter-faith marriage.