Brian LeRoux

Definitely. Just look at what training wheels did to professional downhill mountain biking. Or react to web dev for that matter ! 🙂‍↕️

someday all this transpiled gunk will be seen for what it is. what a spectacular waste of time/energy/accessibility tho.

we've known the best way all along; still undefeated by any benchmark anyone can produce

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All too rare mention of progressive enhancement.

Yay, @inesakrap.bsky.social!

It still amazes me how this approach is so often sacrificed due to less conscientious use of fashionable frameworks.

#perfnow

many such examples created a lot of creative workers too; still need a prompt author at least anyways

hard to know but would go to see the canuckistani blues ensemble play at the pub

totally related; idk, maybe its good for music? samplers seemed like a bad thing but llms are maybe the ultimate expression of that concept. they didn't give us the white album but ill communication is up there!

very nice!

its pretty inspiring; i don't want to pollute your own thinking so lmk what you think after you watch!

YouTube video by Sanity mem_brane: AI as Artistic Medium with Bjørn Staal | Everything NYC 2025

wherein @nonfigurativ.bsky.social asks, and perhaps answers:

"what would be like to be inside the mind of an artificial intelligence?"

this talk completely changed my stance on the ai hype today. much interesting nuance in this discussion. worth your time!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7sp...

Still waiting for an actual use case where I need the shadow dom

randomly encountering digital artifacts from friends that have passed is a whole thing 🖤

Yeah but it won't be the oldest still supported LTS which would be the soonest I could realistically start support using it (we deprecate after things leave LTS but being an older open source project most of our users are on older versions of Node)

It'll be a while before it's the minimum LTS supported version by AWS which is the soonest I can use it unfortunately 😔

2012, the fb feed jank ass thumbs up button was a literal script tag with, I shit you not, a literal blocking document.write call to write markup, and bro blames the web

made sense in '16

for my time, starting with the basics of html, and css and only resorting to javascript when absolutely necessary as a progressive enhancement a great starting place for green field.

of course context matters. existing code investments, hiring/training, etc. as always: *measure* and then iterate.

some juicy web perf reading; wild how everyone arrives at the same conclusion with data. bet most devs would say they are data driven and objective…

www.lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanb...

(ht @davatron5000.bsky.social !)

URLPattern is now Baseline Newly available  |  Blog  |  web.dev URLPattern became Baseline Newly available as of September 15, 2025.

this is going to be so useful when it finally lands in node 24 and we can make the same router run front/backend cleanly. combined with view transitions? c'mon!

web.dev/blog/baselin...

(ht @ash.pink for sharing)

I mean, probably? 😅 But my intent was moreso about the usual suspects.

Yeah exactly. But I remain optimistic. Always a market for expertise and all that slop does create opportunities for future remediations.

Nobody likes hearing about logical fallacies but the biggest and most easy to spot one is an appeal to popularity. Smart folks try to avoid those arguments!

My experience has definitely been different. Getting results for web native code with Claude and Kiro. But I know what I want and how to ask for it because I understand the platform. So maybe that's the delta.

If it's a customer requirement: I get it! Gotta pay the bills.

Man I miss tech twitter.

Idk what X discourse is precisely but it sure af ain't that.

Fwiw you could apply this argument very well to web platform too! Lots of component libraries, etc. That said I absolutely ack there is a weird talent incentive mismatch right now so ppl think they "need" react to hire. Personally I think React devs make very capable web devs with the right support.

Hiring?

I don't think I'm spreading any misconceptions. Next etc absolutely do not promote PE. It's massively uncommon if not outright maligned. React community track record on misconceptions speaks for itself !

Fwiw TS works great without a build step. We do it all the time at work w jsdoc.

Fair: do what works for you! I like being close to the platform because it doesn't break and always faster. Transpiled things unfortunately brittle. I don't have time for that.

I am happy with web components. The web is my ecosystem and a vast ecosystem it is. Great for mobile!

certainly it does not when done well but then the question becomes: why use react at all? what does this buy me? for me personally rendering html has never been the hard part. adding a compilation step and non standard syntax to achieve rendering basic html is pretty wild when you think about it.