No, it's okay. Don't expose vital parts of the API of your JavaScript library to people trying to use it in the browser (the only place where JavaScript should ever be used). It's fine. Your software can only be partially functional to developers writing code for browsers. It's fine.
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mastodon 4.7.3Professional PHP web dev since 2007. I don't follow accounts that post about politricks too much.
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Anyone else noticing an increase in the number of emails from scammers wanting to set up that "relationship" where you apply for jobs but their team actually does them? You know, "I came across your GitHub profile" ones. What's the name for that racket…
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@cautionbug Okay, I think I get it. Certainly it would be nice to do things like the "checkbox hack" without actually having to put checkboxes in the DOM. Hopefully we get that some day.
Oh God, we're about to see an endless bounty of idiots using JavaScript to lay out text like in a magazine, aren't we
And then in ten years the pendulum will swing back and laying out text instantly with just CSS in a single column with no image cut-outs will become fashionable again, with some trendy-sounding name, but most people will still be using JavaScript for something you should never ever *ever* use JavaScript for and it won't entirely catch on
I hate the modern web.
Everyone in the FOSS space is an antiestablishment gangsta until the government tells them to insert age verification APIs into their operating systems
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One concern I have is that the points have X/Y int coords rather than lat/lng coords (as the "map" is actually basically just a large flat image and not actually the planet Earth) but I think I'd have to store them as lat/lng rather than converting them before they get loaded into MapLibre. Conversion between X/Y and lat/lng and back again would probably be "lossy"/end up giving different numbers if repeated so I'd really prefer to just store it as only (or also) X/Y. Hmm.
Finally trying to knuckle down and build a test project with Laravel and the tutorial I'm using keeps using words like "magic" and "superpowers" and I'm hating the world
I remember Laravel having problems like this in its early years too and it looks like it didn't go away as the project has aged and matured. Or, rather, failed to mature, at least in this way.
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@mitchellh To be fair, "fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator" is a lot easier to understand and has broader appeal than "source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files." I have a terminal emulator open pretty much 100% of the time my computer is turned on, but I don't think I've ever needed to codify an API in a config file (or maybe I have but just didn't know that I needed it).
Sometimes I get frustrated with some piece of code and wonder why other people can go so much further than me. It takes conscious effort at those times to remind myself that, after nearly 20 years of doing this professionally, I'm actually probably in the top 20% of the world at this crap at least.
(If only my income reflected that lol)
Recently got to experience the gut-wrenching, ancient mystical horror that is a long-time existing client saying "So I've been playing with this Claude Code thing recently, and--"
I hate my house and I hate where I live. In my fantasies I have a nice camper van - big enough to live in by myself, small enough to drive comfortably - and it's got a big fat solar panel on the top and a big computer desk on the inside so I can still get my work done, and if I don't like where I am right now, I just go somewhere else. One of those "I won't tell anyone if I win the lottery but there will be signs" sorts of things.
Dear Java, I'm sorry that we all spent the last 30 years hating on you while at the same time reinventing you in new languages and adapting old languages to match your behavior. You are the Cassandra of programming languages.
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@afilina I can only presume people willing to put their own name on the work of someone else, sight unseen, doesn't have much of a name that they want to protect in the first place.
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@cautionbug I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying you dislike CSS, or you dislike the way it's being used (such as how Bootstrap and Tailwind encourage basically thinly-veiled inline CSS)?
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@cautionbug So you would agree that the *tools* to build sensible web designs without JS are already there, right? So then why do you feel we need another standard to replace CSS?
Okay, so it's not Claude Code she's using, but just… Claude, a browser-based chat thing. I forget they're different products sometimes. But this means there's no way she can get her "work" to me but these huge ZIP archives of files - it can't interact with Git repos. I'm at a loss to come up with how we can make a workable workflow here because every iteration of changes is going to take forever and the stuff she's sent so far doesn't even work with the site so far. Anyone else dealt with this?
AWS is still the king of "make things ten times harder than they need to be and rarely offer sufficient explanation when something goes wrong" but Cloudflare is encroaching.
The AI/LLM field is interesting in that it seems to be so complex that even experts in the field can only speak of it euphemistically - two people will say things like "it decided" or "it reasoned" to each other even when they both know it is incapable of deciding or reasoning. I can't think of any other fields where experts will speak so loosely and imprecisely about what is actually being done.
Yeah so I might have a huge opening for more client work in the near future. I've got nearly 2 decades of professional experience writing PHP as a human, and I can also do client-side JS and databases and sysadmin and so on, but I don't live in California and my rates are relatively affordable. Hit me up if you have some work that needs doing.
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Bruh, are we talking about the same Rust community? The one causing all sorts of problems because it has such an overinflated image of both its language's capabilities and its own talents that it's insisting in rewriting Linux coreutils in Rust and causing breakage and security issues as a result? How healthy is that?
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