Now, I'm looking for that experience again, I'd like a fat book on some new topic - could be web adjacent or something more obliquely related to programming. For context, I've just started running a Linux homelab and I'm finding gaps in my bash and sysadmin knowledge, I've also recently started dabbling with audio DSP in Rust - those might be good areas for suggestions - but I'm happy to hear any random recommendations!

Let this thread to be a space for both recommendations (preferably modern-ish editions) and publications that were pivotal for you in work and life.

One of the main reasons for posting is I'm seeing more and more content move online, but paging through digital books / websites and/or watching YouTube videos is just not the same as flipping through a good book for me.

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I was wondering if PenPot (https://penpot.app) might be sitting pretty in this new agentic era, considering that they took the direction of designs being actual markup, unlike the canvas approach in fig - if that’s even something that interests them.

Anyway nvim and helix are both amazing and terminal editors are both cool and sexy, so why wouldn’t you? ;)

React cannot iterate as quickly as other, smaller frameworks because of its size, but I guess that could also be seen as a positive thing. Even so, things like the React compiler are clawing back performance, taking cues from Solid, Svelte et al and these frameworks become more alike all the time.

For me the choice comes down to how I reason about the code I write. As others have pointed out, React feels closer to metal than Svelte - I find it easier to reason about because there's less magic going on behind the scenes. I really want to like Svelte, but I just can't click with it at all and I find the documentation lacking in deep, 'under the hood' detail.

On the flipside, I find Solid's docs to be superb - in depth articles on their reasoning, differences to React, etc [1][2]

On the whole, though, I find all these frameworks to be pretty good and what you can build is unlikely to be hamstrung by your choice in any way; though of course, React has a huge community behind it that you can't ignore. For hobby projects, try them all out - I had not worked with Vue 3 at all until recently, I just picked it up to try making a drum machine with the lovely Elementary [3] DSP library and I am really enjoying it! I hope we continue to see lots of development of all these frameworks and new ones pop up, because it's very clear to see how they all feed off one another, and that's good for everyone.

Shout out to Alpine.js [4] which flunks those benchmarks every time but remains my go-to for sprinkling reactivity in 'regular' websites.

[0] https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/ [1] https://docs.solidjs.com/concepts/intro-to-reactivity [2] https://docs.solidjs.com/advanced-concepts/fine-grained-reac... [3] https://www.elementary.audio/ [4] https://alpinejs.dev/

Their Privacy Policy says no telemetry, but then they have a section on those connections made at startup which apparently are "necessary for the proper functioning of the browser and are not used for tracking or profiling purposes"... they then go on to say "can be disabled through the browser flags (about:config)"

Does that mean the browser will no longer function correctly?

Among the connections made (according to the report) are x.com, google.com (plus a bunch of other google domains). reddit.com and notion.com, discordapp.com, cloudflareinsights.com