Peter Reeves

A cat wearing a yellow helmet and standing atop an electric unicycle, looking at a rain cloud and screaming "Why is it always raining?"

What is it about threejs itself and related projects that makes them all just JS with no TypeScript definitions? I really want the culture around threejs to embrace TypeScript already. I'm not thrilled about building 3D web apps with no type safety at all.

Asynchronous Svelte · sveltejs svelte · Discussion #15845 This is a long document; get yourself a cup of tea. tl;dr You can now use the await keyword in Svelte — in your <script>, inside $derived expressions, and in your markup — by installing the async b...

github.com/sveltejs/sve... the section "Async SSR" under "Future Work" talks about it a bit.

My understanding is that this is a temporary limitation that will get lifted when they add SSR to remote functions.

Just hit a fucking CORS issue because `fetch` behaves differently to `XMLHttpRequest`. The web is the most blursed platform ever.

My girlfriend and I are also looking to buy a our first place later this year somewhere in Sydney. I am not looking forward to the amount of paperwork and other nonsense 😅

Unfortunately as an Australian I'm legally required to own a pair of thongs (Flip Flops) despite my hatred for them.

Signals really do feel like a game changer, they're so predictable and flexible. It's no wonder they're what everyone is moving to.

If I ever had to go back to vanilla for whatever reason, I'd still be pulling in a signals library for sanity reasons.

Frameworks (svelte in my case) eventually ended up being the ladder out of that craziness. Yes you have to shift mindset a bit, but the power is worth it.

Especially with modern frameworks using signals, it so easy now to just mutate a field and know that the UI will update correctly every time.

I used to use vanilla JS for all my projects years ago, but every single one eventually devolved into a pile of spaghetti. Most click events would call several gigantic "update" functions in the hope of getting the UI into the right state.

In particular the type safety around `<slot name="..."></slot>` is just so much better when it's replaced with a function. I get better autocomplete with TypeScript, and I can actually get errors if I've missed a snippet that the wrapper expects.

I've updated a Svelte codebase to v5 recently, and snippets are much better than the old <slot> stuff. Passing data from the wrapper to the inner content is so much better with snippets, especially when dealing with multiple slots.

100% this. I wish the Windows start menu did everything EXCEPT for search the web. I just want to be able to bash out a program/command name and hit enter. If I want to search the web, I'll use a web browser. Why the fuck would I want to search from the start menu?

Is it possible to have pnpm run multiple tasks (e.g. multiple dev servers) with one command? It's the main thing I'm currently using TurboRepo (with npm) for, but TurboRepo feels a bit heavy for my usecases, and I'm curious if there's a simpler setup.

Just hit a fun scenario where prettier removes parenthesis from an expression, but oxlint with the "fix" flag adds them back in (which in my opinion, is the correct choice).

I can't wait for the oxc formatter to come out so I can rip out prettier from my projects.

I love how well all the colours match

Hrm, though I now see the "duplicate CSS" issue in my test project. Well, it's still a useful thing to know.

To answer your question @shivan.xyz, I was just doing `import "./styles.css"` at the top of my script tags (and just choosing long CSS class names to avoid collisions), but I'll be using `@import "./styles.css"` in the style blocks from now on.

Holy crap that's amazing, I did not know `@import` did that! How did you find out about that? I can't see any mention of that functionality in the docs.

If it's small, repeat myself. If it's large, import a CSS file.

What's changed since the initial proposal?

Valid HTML files are also valid Svelte files, just like in Astro.

Lenny from The Simpsons placing a "0" on a sign reading "Days without UTF-8 issue in Excel"

Me right now

I can't believe we're in this era where React, Svelte, Solid, and other frameworks are all investing heavily in new ways to stream data, but you can't get any of them to display a progress bar because JS has API holes you could fly the fucking moon through.

Yeah, nullish coalescing is neat, but I could work around that if it wasn't in the language.

I can't work around functionality that used to exist in `XMLHttpRequest` but doesn't exist now (because things rightfully use `Request` & `Response`, and `XMLHttpRequest` doesn't exist in node anyway)

I wish they'd stop spending so much effort on adding more syntax sugar and such to JavaScript and just fix up some of the existing API stuff first.

I shouldn't have to NPM install a fucking package to just send a fucking HTTP request and get fucking progress events.

Am I the only web dev that cares about this?!

Another day, another "why the fuck does `fetch` STILL not have progress events?!" occurrence that derails my project and makes me lose all momentum. Please for the love of god: browsers, Node, Deno, whoever. Just add download AND upload progress events to fetch. How did you release it in this state?

For big projects? Absolutely.

It's looking good, but you haven't checked that `typeof id === "number"` and such for all the fields though.

You might be better off using something like Zod:
zod.dev

Ahh, upon re-reading your post I see you're talking about the React Compiler. Ignore my above post 😅