This is a classic pattern of web applications from the 1990s. Works amazingly well even w/o HTMX
One of the legitimate grievances of SPAs is that they made this pattern less obvious.
Readit Newsnosefurhairdo commented on URL-Driven State in HTMX lorenstew.art/blog/bookma... · Posted by u/lorenstewart
nosefurhairdo commented on URL-Driven State in HTMX lorenstew.art/blog/bookma... · Posted by u/lorenstewart
Doesn't react-router do something like this?
Yep, `useSearchParams()`. At work I built a wrapper to incorporate zod schemas for typesafe search param state. Nuqs is the best for this if your application meets its prerequisites: https://nuqs.47ng.com/
nosefurhairdo commented on The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken tushardadlani.com/the-lev... · Posted by u/tush726
Lots of bold assertions without evidence. Author claims Google's high salaries killed entrepreneurship. Is there any data to back this claim?
Or the idea that democracy can't adapt to social media discourse; not everyone is chronically online. Politicians still respond to public sentiment to similar degree as they always have.
Then there's this:
> AI systems aren't just tools—they're deployed faster than we can develop frameworks for understanding their social implications.
If they aren't just tools, what are they? Why do we need a framework for understanding their social implications?
Post feels like a fever dream of someone who fell asleep to the Navalmanack audiobook.
nosefurhairdo commented on The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade buttondown.com/whatever_j... · Posted by u/LinguaBrowse
This article provides good insight on the boom, but leaves out any insight on the inevitable bust - not on JS per se, but the distinct runtimes.
Deno and Bun seem to be two highly competitive runtimes, each VC backed and positioned against each other, but the fairly tale of multiple winners seems unlikely in a world that favors power laws.
So then, how do others see these ecosystems surviving over the next decade? What are the canaries? And, how interoperable will our code be?
WinterCG is trying to help standardize web APIs to address these concerns. So one strategy when writing server-side js is to stick to standard APIs as much as possible.
If you do want to leverage runtime-specific code you can isolate that code in separate modules, so if you ever do need to migrate off a particular runtime it's easier to identify/replace that code.
Ultimately it's all JavaScript, and since most of these runtimes are open source even if they're abandoned we might see community forks. Though even if your chosen runtime is completely without support, I don't see a migration off being an extremely urgent or difficult task for most projects.
nosefurhairdo commented on It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA jonoalderson.com/conjectu... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
This argument is tired and ignorant. Try building linear.app without a SPA framework. The idea that "Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing," is dubious at best.
Losing some bitcoin is effectively equivalent (over the long term) to distributing it to all other holders (proportionally). So this is fine.
Which is equivalent to deflation, which parent suggests is harmful to bitcoin's viability. In order to claim that "this is fine" you would need to refute the claim that deflation is bad.
nosefurhairdo commented on JavaScript Trademark Update deno.com/blog/deno-v-orac... · Posted by u/thebeardisred
> a screenshot of the Node.js website to show use of the “JavaScript” trademark. As the creator of Node.js, I find that especially offensive.
There is some irony in that Ryan isn’t acknowledging Node.js own trademark in his post, given that he was the person who announced the Node.js trademark.
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/uncategorized/trademark
So he wants Node.js trademark to be acknowledged, but doesn’t acknowledge it himself.
Oracle wants the JavaScript trademark acknowledged, and he doesn’t want to acknowledge that either.
This all seems very silly to me.
Ryan's post explaining the decision to trademark node seems pretty reasonable to me. Does Oracle have a similarly credible justification for maintaining the JavaScript trademark?
nosefurhairdo commented on Higher education is shockingly right-wing drafts.interfluidity.com/... · Posted by u/corimaith
This is not aligned with how most Americans view higher education:
- Democrats have a more positive view of how colleges impact the country
- Democrats have higher confidence that professors act in the public interest
- Republicans are more likely to view higher education as moving in the wrong direction
- Democrats are relatively unconcerned about professors bringing political/social views into the classroom, compared to republicans who are very concerned
Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/08/19/the-gro...
> If "left" and "right" have any meaning at all, "right" describes a worldview under which civilized society depends upon legitimate hierarchy, and a key object of politics is properly defining and protecting that hierarchy.
Hierarchy is a natural consequence of variation in skills, experience, and work ethic. Meanwhile, the author's definition provided for "left" is so squiggly as to be nearly meaningless. It almost sounds like the mythical, non-totalitarian brand of communism that just hasn't quite worked yet:
> "Left", on the other hand, is animated by antipathy to hierarchy, by an egalitarianism of dignity. While left-wing movements recognize that effective institutions must place people in different roles — sometimes hierarchical, sometimes associated with unequal rewards — these are contingent, often problematic, overlays upon a foundational assertion that every human being has equal dignity and equal claim to the fundamental goods of human life.
In other words, "left" has hierarchy, but only begrudgingly, and other than that we're very virtuous.
It's truly difficult to get past this opening argument. If you're going to make a shocking claim (higher ed is right wing), you can't start with such a shaky foundation. What would a non-hierarchical University system even look like? Harvard being more prestigious than my local community college does not make higher education right wing.
nosefurhairdo commented on The UI future is colourful and dimensional flarup.email/p/the-future... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
I'm unconvinced. The article cites Airbnb and "the internet" as evidence:
> After Airbnb showed off their redesign, the internet exploded with soft, dimensional, highly detailed icon sets prompted into existence using generative AI tools.
One company's redesign + random proofs of concept does not indicate a real trend, and the idea that LLMs make designing with dimensionality in mind more accessible is dubious.
Good design requires consistency. High dimensionality makes consistency harder to achieve. LLMs perform better when there are fewer design nuances to consider. Additionally, we can expect LLMs to reinforce existing trends, as they're all trained on what exists today.
> and minimizing sycophancy
Now we're talking about a good feature! Actually one of my biggest annoyances with Cursor (that mostly uses Sonnet).
"You're absolutely right!"
I mean not really Cursor, but ok. I'll be super excited if we can get rid of these sycophancy tokens.