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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • You don’t get change, real change, without a following. Even if it’s “for show” this is getting a lot of attention. The Republican base is probably not going to come around until they actual lose their jobs or see businesses they care about shuttered, if even that gets them out of their trance, but the people that think this is just a repeat of Trump’s first term need to get hammered with all the bullshit that’s going on. Day to day I really wouldn’t know that anything sinister is happening in DC. By the time it finally comes around the DOE might already be repurposed as a Tesla factory or the CDC turned into a reform center for wayward youths and totally not a front for sex trafficking.





  • I’d say it’s the tooling that sucks more than anything. I’ve had installations fail because of bad caches (and resolved it by doing things NPM advised me not to do), installations that take forever and seem stuck on one dependency, conflicts with ES and Common modules, node_modules folders that dwarf other folders in size, nobody makes proper use of devDependencies, some odd dependencies on Java or Python, and so on. I think the ease of learning JS has done it a disservice as you get millions of devs contributing but not all are trained as devs or computer scientists and you get a flood of libraries that all do the same thing and often even reproduce built-in functionality.

    I really do enjoy coding in it more than any other language but when it comes time to run or build is when my rage kicks in.

    Wait… what were we talking about? Oh, yeah.

    Shitty web apps aren’t really the fault of the underlying tech. This is a problem of design and I don’t think the programming language really has much of an effect on the usability.