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New comment by ervine in "The React2Shell Story"

ervine — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:15:16 +0000

So your argument is that instead of explicit class component methods, hooks are implicit based on understanding the react rendering model?

I guess so - but react could also change (and I think did at some point) how their class methods work, how often they're triggered, and when.

I don't understand the stateless comment - hooks are as stateful as you make them, using useState or useContext or any of the other ways of maintaining data between renders.

New comment by ervine in "The React2Shell Story"

ervine — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:36:40 +0000

I think we're just gonna agree to disagree. Cheers.

New comment by ervine in "The React2Shell Story"

ervine — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:02:39 +0000

It wasn't OOP hate, it was hatred of splitting functionality across a number of methods rather than putting it in a single (reusable, sharable!) hook and having your component consume it.

New comment by ervine in "The React2Shell Story"

ervine — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:00:04 +0000

You can write spaghetti with class components, too. Doesn't sound like a hooks issue to me.

New comment by ervine in "The React2Shell Story"

ervine — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:25:57 +0000

I just don't understand this take, every time I hear it I wonder if people just haven't spent the time to adjust their mental model.

Hooks are IMO the best thing that happened to react.

New comment by ervine in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

ervine — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:35:15 +0000

I didn't realize it was moom giving me my "move app to other monitor" hotkey, and moom didn't launch on startup after upgrading to tahoe. I've been using that hotkey for years.

That's when I realized there's no default hotkey for moving an app to an external monitor. That is absolutely wild. (Happy to be wrong)

New comment by ervine in "Maybe the default settings are too high"

ervine — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:21:39 +0000

This is why I love cycling so much.

New comment by ervine in "Archiving Git branches as tags"

ervine — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 22:25:16 +0000

Wonder if it's worth squashing in the branch, merging to main, then immediately reverting.

Now the work is visible in history, branch can be deleted, and anyone in the future can search the ticket number or whatever if your commit messages are useful.

Dunno if it's worth polluting history, just thinking out loud.

New comment by ervine in "`satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)"

ervine — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:46:06 +0000

https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/switch-exhaustiveness-che... if that is something you're not aware of!

New comment by ervine in "`satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)"

ervine — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:08:31 +0000

You can restructure your JS to avoid some crazy verbose TS though, sometimes. I think that's the point they were making. Why be so hostile?

New comment by ervine in "`satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)"

ervine — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:35:10 +0000

On the other hand, would we even be talking about it if it hadn't stuck to its goals?

New comment by ervine in "At the end you use `git bisect`"

ervine — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:00:14 +0000

Honestly it's kind of refreshing to just push files to a server.

New comment by ervine in "At the end you use `git bisect`"

ervine — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 19:01:51 +0000

This feels like a "is a hotdog a sandwich?" situation.

"Is sftp-ing to prod a merge?"

New comment by ervine in "At the end you use `git bisect`"

ervine — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:36:16 +0000

More than one assumption in that sentence, ha!

New comment by ervine in "Just use a button"

ervine — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:11:11 +0000

I guess if it doesn't update the url, it's a button.

If it changes the url, it should be a link. At least that's how I've always done it.

New comment by ervine in "Adding Breadcrumbs to a Rails Application"

ervine — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 10:54:49 +0000

I mean the use of tailwind in the article is not good. Shows a lack of CSS understanding. Why are they applying `text-base` instead of just setting that on the root element? Why are they setting text color on the tag and then overriding it on the inside?

This person would write bad CSS, let's not put the blame on tailwind.

Also so much repetition instead of pulling each breadcrumb link out into a shared component. I understand it's just demo code for an article, but if all code bases end up like this that you've seen, the issue isn't tailwind.

New comment by ervine in "Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability"

ervine — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:30:32 +0000

Watch out, Lee is gonna show up and defend this decision and not respond to any valid criticisms.

New comment by ervine in "Tailwind V4 Is Finally Out"

ervine — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:04:36 +0000

Yes.

New comment by ervine in "Tailwind CSS v4.0"

ervine — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:04:14 +0000

Whether you enjoy utility classes isn't really related at all to what css supports.

New comment by ervine in "How types make hard problems easy"

ervine — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:09:06 +0000

Oh yeah, you have to get into branded types for this I think, which means a parsing step. Fair point.