Matti Bar-Zeev

YouTube video by GOTO Conferences Beyond the Hype: A Realistic Look at Large Language Models • Jodie Burchell • GOTO 2024

This (great) talk sorted out quite a few things for me, around #LLM's and the #ai hype -

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Elegant Hybrid TS project’s build Oh BTW, This post was 100% human written with no AI assistance whatsoever. All typos and bad grammar...

"Elegant Hybrid TS project’s build" by Matti Bar-Zeev

Oh BTW, this post was 100% human written with no AI assistance whatsoever. All typos and bad grammar are my own. Enjoy :)

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#WebDev #typescript

Ever wondered why we scroll vertically on wide screens?
Why is reading an article not horizontally read, like in the newspaper? 🤔

#ux #webdev

YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering The 10 COMMANDMENTS Of Continuous Integration (CI)

Yes. That.

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#chrome "overrides" is, for me, one of the best tools available on the devtools.
Saves so much time! 💪
I find it surprising that not many are using it

"AI learns from existing data, meaning it might reinforce trends rather than push boundaries, leading to a loss of diverse and groundbreaking ideas."

-- ChatGPT

So Carmack, being the genius that he is, sucked out all the fun of making games from id software. Even the music was shut off when he arrived at the offices and they worked in silence, according to romero.
What an a-hole.

TIL that while I thought Quake was the pinnacle for John Romero and Id software, the reality was far from it. Also didn't know that Romero was also behind another one of my favorite games - Deus Ex.

Some days you just gotta play Kirk Hammett licks. Yesterday was such a day for me -

John Carmack is a software engineering god.

Carry on.

Just saw a talk about testing TS types using Vitest.
Does it get more "testing impl details" than this?

@bsky.app is really great, but you gotta implement the "Start from where you left off" feed feature. Please.

#ux

Mocking is considered a unit test code-smell. Sometimes you have no choice but to use it, but should keep it as minimum as possible and certainly not mock anything which has a direct effect on the code you're testing.

No surprise there...

React's harsh reality: A Must-Read Insight by Alex Russell I’ve just come across what might be the most insightful article I’ve read in ages. Titled “If Not...

I’ve just come across what might be the most insightful article I’ve read in ages.

React's harsh reality: A Must-Read Insight by Alex Russell.

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#react #webdev @infrequently.org

We are men of action. Lies do not become us. -- Westley

Can you recommend any excellent #webdev online courses? #blackfriday special offers are a bonus ;)
Thanks!

I've built the TodoMVC app with HTMX and lived to tell the story In this post, I’ll walk you through my experiences building the TodoMVC app using HTMX. I'll cover...

There's a different architectural approach to building an #htmx app. At a time when #frontend #webdev has become increasingly complex, this feels calming 😌. Check it out -

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"Why web tech is like this" - Great scan of the past, not too sure about the future direction though. As he said, the community is pushing back on current solutions complexity -

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How did the word "shards" find its place in software and some insights on human behavior -

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I've built the TodoMVC app with HTMX and lived to tell the story In this post, I’ll walk you through my experiences building the TodoMVC app using HTMX. I'll cover...

Just built the classic #TodoMVC app using #HTMX - no JavaScript frameworks, just simpler, more efficient interactivity! Here’s what I learned about bringing back the simplicity in web dev.

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#WebDevelopment #JavaScriptAlternatives #FrontEnd #Coding