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Sam 💛

@samhh.com

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Human of a few decades. Loves animals and functional programming and pastel colours. https://samhh.com https://sr.ht/~samhh https://github.com/samhh

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 5h

This is going to sound random but once you start spotting these platitudes you can’t stop. Another until recently was prefacing criticism of Musk with “he’s a genius, but”.

Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 5h

Noticing that apologetics for ML/AI getting stuff wrong because a human conceivably might in a similar way is common. Next step out of the hype bubble will be to stop comparing the two because only one of these two actually “thinks”, and any overlap is coincidental.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 2d

Dan Abramov (Bluesky, blog) is great for understanding the value of RSCs.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 2d

They gave a talk about this (incl/ signals) last week at React Conf.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 3d

It’s also weird to be doing it on Android. You should really be tailoring your app to each platform’s norms.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 3d

We use Rsbuild, with a warm cache performance shouldn’t be too badly affected.

Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 3d

That moment when you’re frustrated and convinced there’s a bug in a library you’re using so you create a reduced test case, and… it’s working perfectly 🤨

Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 5d

Hmm, you can’t toggle multiple items at once even on a fast connection.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 7d

Muting is hard for some terms without false positives e.g. ICE.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 11d

Handled automatically by Rsbuild’s Babel plugin.

Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 11d

Babel caching has mostly eliminated the slowdown for me in practice.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 11d

Would like a BCC feature on GitHub for subscribing/notifying colleagues of issues I've raised or found that relate to something we've been pairing on.

I wonder, if the world used @tangled.org, if there'd be a cute way to piggyback on ATProto for niche extras like this.

Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 18d

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 26d

Is there any indication when @rspack.dev/Rsbuild might get RSC support? Notably absent from rsc.krasimirtsonev.com, the React Router docs suggest either Vite or Parcel instead, and of course alternatively there's Next's Turbopack.

React Server Components support

Can I use React Server Components (RSCs) today. A project that shows the support of RSCs across the frameworks and libraries.

rsc.krasimirtsonev.com

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 27d

Speaking from experience on both counts. At least Neovim was fun!

Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 28d

Ha, just speaking from my own experience. I’ve done the whole Neovim/Helix Arch/NixOS thing. I didn’t realise at the time what a time and energy sink it was. But it was fun!

Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 29d

The broadly false promise of LLM productivity gains in software engineering reminds me of going deep on something like Vim. It feels more productive than it actually is.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · Sep 20

You’ll still have to interact with foreign data and third party libraries come with a cost.

Sam 💛 @samhh.com · Sep 20

I do! For over four years now. 🙂

Sam 💛 @samhh.com · Sep 20

Next uses canary React… so maybe we could now? @oliverjash.me

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · Sep 20

I long for 20/20 interruptions.

Sam 💛 @samhh.com · Sep 20

The @nextjs.org docs would actually benefit from this. Pretty often I search for something, choose poorly, and then have to type the query in again.

Sam 💛 @samhh.com · Sep 20

Finally reading about React’s Activity API and it’s very promising. The docs do make me long for a stronger intuition for useEffect vs useLayoutEffect though.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · Sep 20

My Thread network issues have largely resolved since enabling IGMP Snooping. Some people will tell you to do the opposite. 🤷

Sam 💛 @samhh.com · Sep 20

AirPods Pro 3 fit my ears much better, I can finally shake my head (or merely grin) without them falling out! YMMV.