Harry Horton

Contract software engineer (+Toptal): ♥️ all things Typescript, aspiring 🧙‍♂️, recovering cowboy coder, senior yak shaver, bugs are my own.

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In the real end, there is nothing left but custom code and tears.

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All component libraries are wrong, but some are useful #javascript

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While they’re always great to get going with, the deeper I get into a project, the more I start replacing things, reading their source code, and creating workarounds. In the end, there is only the theming, layout, and icon systems.

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"Oh boy, here I go rewriting everything again"

Why are we like this? #programming

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@googlechrome @ChromiumDev The update seems to reflect how zIndex handling SHOULD work, as far as I have time to tell, but it was a change that resulted in a production bug.

Sounds like solving bugs to discover more bugs 😅... which eventually ends, right?... right?

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@googlechrome @ChromiumDev

Chrome 119 -> 120 appears to change how zIndexes are handled. An arguably poor zIndex solution where the children had zIndexes set, but a parent did not ended up being split by outside element with another zIndex.

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@AdamRackis I’m not embarrassed by my enlightenment.

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Hey @keepersecurity

Really annoying that your desktop app grabs some really common shortcuts for other tools, and doesn't allow you to just disable the use of shortcuts... I'm trying to code and navigate the browser and have to discover your desktop app is interfering.

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My food is officially room temperature @netflix 😢

#LoveisBlind #LOVEISBLINDreunion

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People saying they’re canceling Netflix over this #LoveisBlind

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Pay us more money and we’ll spend it on making things better!

#LoveIsBlindLIVE #loveisblind #LOVEISBLINDreunion

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If you convert your popular NPM package from CommonJS to ESM, and don't provide fallbacks, then FUCK YOU. There are too many varied situations to be a fucking purist.

#typescript #javascript #NodeJS

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Designers: "Let's use a component library!"

Devs: 🙌

Designers: "We're going to make a few modifications, but make a design system in Figma!"

Devs: 👍

Designers: "We're going to totally ignore the existing component library and tokens and do what we want!"

Devs: 😱😭🔫

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PHP is pronounced FFFP.

It's a reference to it being like a fart.

#programming

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Programming is just solving problems with more problems.

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🖕whoeveer debugs this #programming

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"Social polition: How your opinions are turning the world into shit"

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Glancing at @Kurz_Gesagt thumbnails recently feels like:

"Why you became a disappointment to yourself and others"

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"The origin of consciousness - why you're unaware of being unlovable"