Hacker News: WiseWeasel

New comment by WiseWeasel in "React vs. Backbone in 2025"

WiseWeasel — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 15:41:09 +0000

React/JSX reads better than other framework templating because

  1. It's easy to differentiate the composed DOM from JS logic, since any logic is expressed in JS rather than mixed into the JSX DOM.
  2. JSX maps directly to the JSDOM API.

If you know vanilla JS, JSX is a low overhead abstraction.

New comment by WiseWeasel in "After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL"

WiseWeasel — Thu, 30 May 2024 14:08:34 +0000

Except it only has a query-based cache, rather than a normalized cache by type name and ID. This means a deeply nested component running a mutation to update an entity can’t update the state of a component a few levels up purely with the response to that mutation, it instead needs to invalidate the cache and cause the parent to requery, much less performant.

New comment by WiseWeasel in "Lambda on hard mode: serverless HTTP in Rust"

WiseWeasel — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 20:39:18 +0000

You can migrate a Django project between serverless and self-hosted https://dev.to/vaddimart/deploy-django-app-on-aws-lambda-usi...

New comment by WiseWeasel in "Scientists report asymmetry between heating and cooling"

WiseWeasel — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 06:36:47 +0000

The upper limit would be magnetic force or materials required for containment in order to further energize.

New comment by WiseWeasel in "Show HN: Tool to calculate how much milk is needed to make an amount of cheese"

WiseWeasel — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 04:31:47 +0000

Very handy tool!

An improvement might be to make milk type the first choice, and limit the cheese options based on milk type selection. Or maybe just combine both into a single selection with milk type option groups.

New comment by WiseWeasel in "OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns"

WiseWeasel — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:10:41 +0000

I feel like that's giving them too much credit; this is more of a flukuisition. Being in the right place at the right time when your acquisition target implodes.

New comment by WiseWeasel in "Toyota Takes Aim at EVs with Ammonia Engine"

WiseWeasel — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:26:38 +0000

Less annoying source:

https://www.motortrend.com/news/china-gac-ammonia-powered-in...

New comment by WiseWeasel in "Why Tailwind CSS Won"

WiseWeasel — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:08:39 +0000

Well obviously you should know better than to listen to what people say on Twitter, since it's dead.

New comment by WiseWeasel in "Some alloys don't change size when heated – recent work on why"

WiseWeasel — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 00:28:40 +0000

My takeaway was that it might allow for “magnetic refrigeration”; two words I don’t think I’ve ever seen together so elegantly summarize the concept.

New comment by WiseWeasel in "SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years"

WiseWeasel — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 14:49:26 +0000

Bland in a flavor complexity sense, and malty as in too sweet. I guess a better way to say it is too sweet for its sourness/bitterness.

New comment by WiseWeasel in "SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years"

WiseWeasel — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 14:13:56 +0000

I guess Sierra Nevada was a big influence early on, and since then I’ve come to appreciate a large variety, from more hoppy offerings from the likes of Russian River, Lagunitas, Stone and recently Almanac, to lagers from Pacifico and Dos Equis, several prominent Belgian brands, and some local sours. I enjoy a wide variety, but always thought of Anchor Steam as bland, malty, and mediocre, on the same low level as Fat Tire, to name a comparable brand.

That said, I’ve only had it bottled, never on tap.

New comment by WiseWeasel in "SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years"

WiseWeasel — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 13:53:58 +0000

A shame they weren’t able to adapt to modern beer tastes. As long as I can remember, I've thought of them as the mediocre beer I’ll begrudgingly drink only if all other options are exhausted.

New comment by WiseWeasel in "Twitter now requires login to browse tweets"

WiseWeasel — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:46:56 +0000

Tweet links should be banned on HN due to this behavior.

New comment by WiseWeasel in "React is holding me hostage"

WiseWeasel — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 01:56:23 +0000

You can often use route params or location hash for communicating state sideways if shared context is overkill, with the benefit of making the state bookmarkable or accessible in the history.

New comment by WiseWeasel in "Cannabis is legal in most US states but federal laws block businesses from banks"

WiseWeasel — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 17:33:06 +0000

Here's some coverage of the latest bipartisan failure of the senate to get this passed:

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3782514-marijuana-advocat...

New comment by WiseWeasel in "CPSC calls for full recall of all Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboards"

WiseWeasel — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:48:38 +0000

Biking a given distance is significantly more energy efficient than walking thanks to the wheels maintaining your momentum and decreasing friction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport

New comment by WiseWeasel in "macOS now scans for malware whenever it gets a chance"

WiseWeasel — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 03:36:24 +0000

Or its darker sister app, Xecutioner

New comment by WiseWeasel in "A Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire"

WiseWeasel — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 20:30:09 +0000

1 bit color encoding is black and white (represented by 0 or 1). 8 bits can encode 256 colors (2^8).

New comment by WiseWeasel in "Ordering CSS Declarations"

WiseWeasel — Fri, 06 May 2022 00:06:09 +0000

I like using utility classes and single-concern components for pretty much everything, so selectors don’t have enough styles for it to matter.

New comment by WiseWeasel in "The bottom is dropping out of Netflix"

WiseWeasel — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 22:46:34 +0000

Tapas 4 life!