Mastodawn

Refactoring TS polluted JS to normal, clean JS with JSDocs (because type annotations are fine, but TS is completely unnecessary if you use literally any competent code editor, you should not need to transpile "not JS" into JS just because you want type checking) is way more work than it should be.

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Pomax 1d ago

We have fire

Pomax 2d ago

And hopefully tomorrow we can actually use it...

Pomax 3d ago

Looking forward to Matt Mullenweg going nuclear on Cloudflare. I should probably make some popcorn.

Pomax 3d ago

Dear anyone on the Axios side of Axios vs. Fetch: Fetch won, now stop using third party libraries for things JS can already do.

You don't need dependencies for things JS can already do.

Even if that means writing a 10 line utility function. You already have a utils.js/utils.ts, literally because you didn't want to use third party dependencies for what's in that file already.

This toot isn't even about Axios specifically, stop using third party dependencies for things that already work.

Pomax 4d ago

It's 2026, <textarea> still has no fucking way to get the caret position in terms of scroll pixels.

Pomax 4d ago

Doug Wilson 4d ago

Variable Font tech was announced 10 years ago. So where the heck are we right now?!

I’m doing three weeks of interviews starting in April to gather real-world feedback on the state of variable fonts and the future of the technology.

I'm looking for type designers, web designers, and graphic designers for 30-minute conversations. No prep needed, just your honest experience — including critical or skeptical takes.

1/2

Pomax 4d ago

"Will I go blind if I watch someone welding on TV?" is not a question anyone old enough to buy a TV should be asking.

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Pomax 4d ago

If I were a shareholder, I'd demand the exec suite gets fired instead, as they clearly have no fucking idea what their business even is.

Pomax 4d ago

Welp. Hope you weren't looking for a tech job in the US. Oracle just one-upped itself in terms of how bad they can get.