Hacker News: ediatedia

New comment by ediatedia in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

ediatedia — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:06:00 +0000

Yeah, this couldn't have really gone any better for the author, opinion piece hitting HN with a link for a course in it.

I understand the need to make a living but hard to take this stuff seriously/sincerely with the, "and buy my course!" angle.

New comment by ediatedia in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

ediatedia — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:47:40 +0000

Ok, I'll bite. I've been coding for almost 25 years so have seen various things come and go, so hopefully have a bit of capital in the bank.

Don't get me wrong, a HTML5 radio button is a beautiful thing, and sometimes React is a hammer and everything is a nail.

However, I think something that OP doesn't mention super explicitly in their post is the codebase they are working on is probably a React codebase. React is a great abstraction for building UIs. I've built a ton of them and the complexity only needs to go above a certain degree until you need a way more descriptive way of explaining your UI based upon other state, instead of trying to wire a load of DOM elements together.

If you are already using the React ecosystem, for things like form validation (again, possible with HTML5 but as soon as the complexity cranks or you can't use the server - you probably need a library), then using something like Radix is a great choice, OP even mentions how although it's not technically a visible radio button that is shipped to the DOM, it acts like one for a11y reasons, and this is due in part because it's very, very easy to write inaccessible HTML. And ShadCN is pre-made components on top of that, and they all work pretty well together.

Nothing is perfect, but even in my "old man yells at cloud" era, I personally don't think this one is worth yelling at the cloud for.

New comment by ediatedia in "Show HN: Titan – JavaScript-first framework that compiles into a Rust server"

ediatedia — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:12:47 +0000

Yeah, this is either an oversight or unnecessarily immature. Either way, not good.

New comment by ediatedia in "A standards-first web framework"

ediatedia — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:23:16 +0000

React has it's problems, but for me one of the most appealing things is doing away with this magic attribute sprinkling that is a maintenance nightmare and just going all in on JSX.

New comment by ediatedia in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

ediatedia — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 09:09:56 +0000

The author seems to wear their support of capitalism "on their sleeve", so acting in their self-interest is endemic. At the risk of sounding bitter, I imagine these problems aren't trendy enough to solve yet, or maybe they just had something akin to blinkers on en route to their hike.

New comment by ediatedia in "Why Britain Drives on the Left"

ediatedia — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:04:11 +0000

I think there would be some appetite but I cannot imagine the short term chaos it would cause. Surely it would cost the country a fortune and also I could see insurance companies driving up the cost of premiums.

CSS and Scalability

ediatedia — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 13:51:30 +0000

Article URL: https://mrmrs.cc/writing/scalable-css/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37146994

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Six months of being an engineering manager

ediatedia — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 08:32:05 +0000

Article URL: https://mikefrancis.dev/blog/6-months-of-being-an-engineering-manager

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27512672

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by ediatedia in "Show HN: Nosh – A Modern RSS Reader"

ediatedia — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 11:32:22 +0000

Oh no! What browser are you using?

Show HN: Nosh – A Modern RSS Reader

ediatedia — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:00:45 +0000

Article URL: https://nosh.rocks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26243470

Points: 9

# Comments: 5

New comment by ediatedia in "Why I Love Tailwind"

ediatedia — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 15:31:09 +0000

Adam Wathan actually wrote about it:

https://adamwathan.me/tailwindcss-from-side-project-byproduc...

I think one of the most powerful things was making a course then giving it away - really goes far to boost your prominence as a developer and building those lists.