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New comment by jeremy8883 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

jeremy8883 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:06:25 +0000

Finally a haptic trackpad. Unfortunately not having one was a dealbreaker when purchasing my laptop last year, but next upgrade I'll be able to consider them again.

New comment by jeremy8883 in "Just use a button"

jeremy8883 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 04:09:31 +0000

Yes, use the button element for buttons, and a for links.

But this is not a new problem or one "among the react crowd". Anecdotally I'd say it was more prevalent 10 or 15 years ago.

New comment by jeremy8883 in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"

jeremy8883 — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 07:12:21 +0000

the back button does work, if you use any basic routing library. opening in a new tab does work, with any basic routing library...

New comment by jeremy8883 in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"

jeremy8883 — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 07:01:06 +0000

if you're receiving jarring page scrolling, it is not the fault of the spa, it's something else at play. it is not they typical spa experience.

if the back button doesn't work, the site was poorly programmed, since any routing library will handle that for you.

New comment by jeremy8883 in "There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code"

jeremy8883 — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 03:09:10 +0000

Bob himself has mentioned that many of the rules are contradictory to one another. I can't remember what examples he gave. I think it was in his video series.

New comment by jeremy8883 in "No code reviews by default"

jeremy8883 — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 23:13:45 +0000

Yeah, in the past month, I've caught out 2 bugs in a code review. One was a performance degradation due to a function being passed down into a react `useMemo` hook dependency array. The other was that the code was fixing a symptom, but not the cure.

I guess it depends on the quality of the reviewers.

New comment by jeremy8883 in "Automatically Light Up a Sign When Your Webcam Is in Use"

jeremy8883 — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 13:48:12 +0000

Thank you! I couldn't originally figure this out for my "on air" script, so my workaround was to query the existance of the `zoom.us` process every second.

New comment by jeremy8883 in "NestedText, a nice alternative to JSON, YAML, TOML"

jeremy8883 — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 03:34:58 +0000

Apologies, it looks like pre es6, they were unordered objects. But now there are rules that guarantee insertion order.

New comment by jeremy8883 in "NestedText, a nice alternative to JSON, YAML, TOML"

jeremy8883 — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 23:13:29 +0000

Interesting idea to remove number and string types. The downside being that you spend more time writing parsers of the data. But if you had some sort of separate schema that generated all of that for you, it would no longer be such a big deal.

They mention that their key/value pairs are ordered. The downside here is that not all languages (eg. javascript), support them.

I also prefer them to be unordered. The downside with ordered dictionaries, is that you need to always be asking "does sequence matter here?". So it adds an additional thing to think about, more tests need to be written, and certain optimisations can't always be made.

New comment by jeremy8883 in "State of JavaScript 2019"

jeremy8883 — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 12:35:32 +0000

I've never understood that position. Hooks and redux solve completely different problems. Why would the introduction of hooks change anything about using redux?

New comment by jeremy8883 in "Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters"

jeremy8883 — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 09:19:25 +0000

For JavaScript, https://javascriptweekly.com is pretty good.

New comment by jeremy8883 in "Introducing Pebble Time"

jeremy8883 — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 03:56:27 +0000

I do wish the pebble buttons were easier to press.

New comment by jeremy8883 in "Introducing Pebble Time"

jeremy8883 — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:39:33 +0000

> Just swiping and tapping to control is useful than having to fiddle with 4 buttons

What's fiddly about buttons? It's much faster than swiping a couple of times to get to the option you want.