Carl Vitullo
@vcarl.com
Solopreneur just vibing, posts are probably bullshit. Community lead at Reactiflux (https://reactiflux.com), the largest chat community of React professionals. Check out This Month in React (https://open.spotify.com/show/4g3Le83YfsMeI8Fq3cpPeH).
This is true but in most cases I don't want to rely on an implied execution order, I want to author files as totally isolated units of code with any assumptions encoded explicitly. So since I'm working from that assumption I'm okay having tools reorder imports
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is true but in most cases I don't want to rely on an implied execution order, I want to author files as totally isolated units of code with any assumptions encoded explicitly. So since I'm working from that assumption I'm okay having tools reorder imports
Yeah I said something about this in the last @tmir.reactiflux.com episode. Clearly indicating what context code runs in is a tough problem to solve, I'm not a huge fan of the use of directive, but there isn't really a clear alternative atm www.reactiflux.com/transcripts/...
![Carl: As I'm trying to think about how you might solve problems of caching and runtime things without directives. And I'm thinking about, you know, my experiences using like CloudFlare workers or other runtimes where it's not a traditional process scope. And I don't know, I guess like it is a really challenging question of like, how do you signal to a developer that the file they're editing runs in a certain type of context? [00:51:27]
And I guess I understand why directives are an appealing thing to reach for, but man, just the state we're in right now is really a lot. I found the Next.JS docs page with directives and it lists 'use cache', 'use client', 'use server', and then two sub variants of 'use cache'. And that's not all of 'em that, so there's missing ones here and. [00:51:56]
I don't know. When you start getting into like many different contexts, just naming them at the top of the file doesn't really seem like enough for me. I don't know. And then like the implication for that code can import other code that will not have it flagged what context it's running in via a directive at the top of the file. [00:52:20]
And I don't know. It's a tough problem. It's a weird unanswered question in the industry, like not even the ecosystem, but like the industry. How do you flag code that might run on your browser, a real server, serverless environment, and yeah, I don't know. It's a challenge. [00:52:40]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vj54op7mobr3edx24yn6uax4/bafkreicc76g7w7tqjujjve674rvffratpk222dc46zzipffl2jraje36lm@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Yeah I said something about this in the last @tmir.reactiflux.com episode. Clearly indicating what context code runs in is a tough problem to solve, I'm not a huge fan of the use of directive, but there isn't really a clear alternative atm www.reactiflux.com/transcripts/...
Shared it out to a couple spaces I trust to have good people 💁
October 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Shared it out to a couple spaces I trust to have good people 💁
(which is a legitimate point in security for people engaging in illegal activities, with the caveat that the law can be weaponized against moral actions. but they can choose to provide information at any time, so you have to decide if they'll protect _your_ illegal activities)
October 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
(which is a legitimate point in security for people engaging in illegal activities, with the caveat that the law can be weaponized against moral actions. but they can choose to provide information at any time, so you have to decide if they'll protect _your_ illegal activities)
Telegram actively misleads as to its security capabilities -- it has e2e in DMs, to my understanding, but you have to enable it. Open-membership groups are totally unsecured. Their "security" is that they reject all requests from investigators and governments
October 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Telegram actively misleads as to its security capabilities -- it has e2e in DMs, to my understanding, but you have to enable it. Open-membership groups are totally unsecured. Their "security" is that they reject all requests from investigators and governments
Afaik WhatsApp has the next best claim, with e2e encryption pretty consistently throughout the app (I'm unsure of "communities" or group texts), but do you trust it not to be building a social graph of you you interact with?
October 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Afaik WhatsApp has the next best claim, with e2e encryption pretty consistently throughout the app (I'm unsure of "communities" or group texts), but do you trust it not to be building a social graph of you you interact with?
Yeah, it's also a way to juice demand for an otherwise stagnant product. Potato chips and Oreos need new flavors to get people to think about them again
October 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Yeah, it's also a way to juice demand for an otherwise stagnant product. Potato chips and Oreos need new flavors to get people to think about them again
Maybe I'll write something about navigating adulthood without him. He died when I was 16
October 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Maybe I'll write something about navigating adulthood without him. He died when I was 16