Chris Drifte

PNG is back!

After over two decades, we released a new PNG spec.
www.programmax.net/articles/png...

For a percentage of your profits I will harshly mock all your ideas and any progress you make

Oh man, I've been using this and wondering why the creator sold out with banner ads that completely break the functionality of the page. Gotta remember which link to click next time.

I guess ES2025 didn't manage to incorporate algebraic effects after all...

Watch your thoughts for they become words etc.

Can everyone just agree to click “not accept” on cookie consent from now on please.

And why not have “.” which is randomly prefixed on the cookie domain (only sometimes though). It has no effect on the handling of domain itself, but we should duplicate the cookie key (and let it have different values) just to be sure.

Want to access a cookie set in middleware in a server component in the same request? Guess you’re going to have to redirect (oh hi I’m the browser I assume you wanted that 307 cached so your users could enjoy a nice infinite loop)

Got spaces in that string? Let’s have PHP encode those as + so that JavaScript can’t decode them

Need to sign that hmac cookie? Sorry, NextJS middleware doesn’t support crypto

Ensuring that cookie logic is interoperable between PHP, NextJS middleware, server, and client components, as well as vanilla react and JavaScript is an absolute nightmare.

Gotchas upon gotchas upon gotchas.

Toying with the idea of telling my PO about document.designMode = “on”

Is this too much power for one man?

I used to copy-paste from those comments more often than stack overflow

I think this is a really neat and clean syntax, I’ve not written tests in storybook yet but this makes me interested to try

While you’re at it, let’s switch to noun-adjective order for easier conceptualisation too.

“Dog big black hairy”
Vs
“Big black hairy…”

I really appreciate you sharing this, it filled in a few more gaps in my understanding, thanks

If you ever get back to it, figuring out webpack config is one area where chatGPT excels.

The crux is just defining a loader for each file type you plan to support, which is pretty standard across codebases.

I would love to be in this starter pack please! I’m mostly talking about transforming frontend performance in e-commerce.

If you get frustrated with the “magic” of nextjs, I highly recommend experimenting with building your own react server rendering framework.

All you need is webpack, ReactDOM.renderToString, and a couple of hours.

Probably the most effective activity for understanding why nextjs does what it does.

What about uploading files via ftp and sharing code via email? 😂

My 2025 predictions:

- Globally, things will seem really, really bad
- There will still be opportunities to grow as an individual and contribute to our communities

My goal is to make the second thing more important than the first.

#HappyNewYear

Honestly even when I find a good use for do-while I normally refactor to just while (with an air of slight disappointment) to keep life simple for the next person to come across the code.

AI uses certain words more often than humans (see “delve”) and they have become unconscious markers for us when reading texts.

So if you are using AI to diversify your language, the content definitely does risk coming across as generated unfortunately.

Huh, I honestly hadn’t noticed that… every game I wanted to play has been available so far. But you’re right.

You do you! This was a post about how I am having fun with cloud gaming, not telling anyone else how to do things.

Right now I’ve forked out for the most expensive tier as a Christmas treat, but I’ve played on all 3 tiers quite happily for the last few months.

Don't worry, you're the third person to make this comment!

Let’s imagine you have a laptop, but it can’t play games (underpowered, or it’s a mac).

You could spent $500+ on a console or gaming laptop.

Or, you could spend less than $100 on this setup.

The cost of the laptop is irrelevant, you don’t have to buy something new.

It’s hilarious that multiple people have commented this like it’s some kind of gotcha 😂

I guess if you are nostalgic for younger brother mode