What is react.js? – Heydon Pickering

React is useful for making complex interfaces like Facebook’s or for making otherwise simple interfaces, and their underlying codebases, complex like Facebook’s. Rendering the text “hello world” without React requires one text editor and exactly 11 bytes of code. Doing the same with React, via the popular “create-react-app” command line interface, requires over 200MB of Node modules. The continual maintenance and expert calibration needed to run a React application has created a thriving job market. (…) Continuously evaluating which parts of your entirely JavaScript-driven interface need to be updated is not necessary, even in theory, when your interface is not made entirely out of f**king JavaScript. You know which f**king bits need updating because they’re the few bits that actually f**king use JavaScript.

#heydonPickering #react #Video #webbedBriefs #Webdev

https://webrocker.de/?p=29258

I thought this #UX #AntiPattern has already died, but some unfortunate websites still use this nonsense input styling where inputs look like links and the labels look like placeholders and things animating around for no good reason, but ... yeah ... still some left ...

If someone wants to know why this is wrong, give this #WebbedBriefs a view:

https://briefs.video/videos/what-happened-to-text-inputs/

What's the Deal With Large Language Models?

"By tokenizing and building a map of all our semi-literate memes and shitposts, #LLMs can, when prompted, produce language that sounds like one of us, like a dickhead."

@heydon #WebbedBriefs
https://briefs.video/videos/whats-the-deal-with-large-language-models/

New #WebbedBriefs video by @heydon is out, this time about #AccessibilityOverlays

Very accurate and I would be surprised if he doesn't get sued for this *

https://briefs.video/videos/what-are-accessibility-overlays/

* I don't want him to get sued for this 🤗

#a11y #accessibility #disability

So @laura spent all day yesterday adding a transcript, captions, and links to the sites we mentioned, etc., to the recording of our Small is Beautiful live stream with @heydon and @gabek (as she always does the day after the steam).

Watch/read at https://small-tech.org/videos/small-is-beautiful-10/

#accessibility #a11y #SmallTech #SmallWeb #Owncast #WebbedBriefs #SmallsBeautiful

Join us live in half an hour for this month’s Small is Beautiful.

Topic: Independent and ethical video and streaming with Small Tech.

Special guests:

- @gabek (Owncast)
- @heydon (Webbed Briefs)

With a first glimpse at setting up and streaming to an Owncast server in under a minute using something we’re working on…

https://small-tech.org/small-is-beautiful

(Grab your webcam & headphones if you want to not just watch but join us in the studio.)

#SmallIsBeautiful #SmallTech #SmallWeb #Owncast #WebbedBriefs

Do we need Big Tech to stream video? Our two guests don’t think so…

Laura and I will be talking to Gabe of Owncast (@gabek) and Heydon of Webbed Briefs (@heydon) on today’s Small Is Beautiful.

(And I will attempt to setup and stream to an Owncast server live in under a minute using the Small Web host we’re creating called Basil.)

Watch live at 5PM Irish time:

https://small-tech.org/small-is-beautiful

(Have your cam ready if you want to join in.)

#SmallIsBeautiful #SmallTech #SmallWeb #owncast #WebbedBriefs