Simon Ihmig
simonihmig.bsky.social
Simon Ihmig
@simonihmig.bsky.social
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Software Engineer @crowdstrike.com. Here for all things tech, Ember.js, politics, climate change & renewables.
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Been a while since my last blog post, so I thought I'll write this one on the open source project I spent a fair amount of time on over the last year.

Are you building web applications and want to deliver responsive images in an easy and efficient way? Then give this a read ๐Ÿ‘‡
dev.to/simonihmig/i...
Image delivery for modern web applications: Introducing ResponsiveImage
In the landscape of web development, images are often both a crucial visual element and a significant...
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New major release of responsive-image.dev is out!
โš› image component for @react.dev
โฑ๏ธ supports the @fastly.com IO image CDN
๐ŸŒ supports auto-negotiation of image format by CDNs
โœจ refactored LQIP (Thumb/BlurHash) simplifying runtime image components

Shoutout to William Killerud for most of these! ๐Ÿš€
ResponsiveImage - the JavaScript library for responsive images.
Responsive images made easy. Supporting multiple frameworks, WebP, AVIF, placeholders (LQIP), Image CDNs and much more.
responsive-image.dev
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Render responsive images in your Svelte app with this library by @simonihmig.bsky.social ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธโšก๏ธ - madewithsvelte.com/responsive-i...
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I just released Embroider@v4 from the @mainmatter.com team dinner using release-plan

This is the start of the @vite.dev era of @emberjs.com ๐ŸŽ‰
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ChatGPT is savage. omg
And how you compose the two worlds together is a legit framework design choice.

I can't see why JS-in-HTML should be semantically or logically better than HTML-in-JS tbh.
All of Svelte is a superset of HTML, or just the templating part? I would say the latter? I am all for the template to be a superset of HTML (don't like JSX), but you need JS at least to glue things together. Most likely your app will host way more JS than HTML though.
Interesting to see that us coming from a similar/same background, we also stumble over the same issues! ๐Ÿ˜…

Nice write-up!
That wasn't my point though. Yes, you can define features like runes in tests, except for the most basic feature: components.

You can't invoke the component under test in the way you would normally do. Also can't define components locally in your test to pass to higher order components.
Not trying to hate on Svelte, I like it quite a bit!

But I do feel they got this template vs. JS thing backwards.
In Ember tests, you invoke the component just the same way as you do anywhere else. Because you can have