Alex Sullivan

Mobile app development. Lots of Android. I write some books. I've been known to play some video games. Sometimes I read. That sort of thing.

[Alex Sullivan @alexsullivan444]

@Noahpinion @sailaunderscore Why do you engage with this? Like, why spread this? You're just spreading the muck.

[Alex Sullivan @alexsullivan444]

@raamcosta Did a very quick and lazy google - do you have a link to their reasoning for not having union types? We kinda already have them with some extra boilerplate (wrapping them in a sealed class or interface)

[Alex Sullivan @alexsullivan444]

@donnfelker I'm finding that I use an agent, it gets me 80% of the way there, then the amount of time I spent to get the last 20% leaves me taking longer than I would've on my own.

I also find I'm much less familiar with the code then fi I wrote it myself.

How do you work around that?

[German Velasco @germsvel]

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[Alex Sullivan @alexsullivan444]

@Zhuinden @codinginflow Good to see that they've dropped that bit of censorship. Censoring the word cisgender is wild. They do still censor links to to other platforms. They manually slow down some links as well which is wild. I still maintain that its fundamentally more limited now than before.

[Alex Sullivan @alexsullivan444]

@Zhuinden @codinginflow I don't know about less filtered. Can you say "c1sg3nd3r" (actually spelt out) or is that still blocked site wide?

[Alex Sullivan @alexsullivan444]

@PhilWalkable @Noahpinion We have a decent number of bus only lanes in Boston. It's....something, but I don't think it's all that close to a properly functioning subway.

[Alex Sullivan @alexsullivan444]

@PattyFromTexas @Gi_Saudi Just like... obviously a planted positive sentiment bot. It's interesting that they're always verified.

[Alex Sullivan @alexsullivan444]

@madona_wambua @Zhuinden But if this is a top level composable what do you break it down into? Like, do you just _not_ hoist the state up to this level? You can have a million sub composables but if the idea is to keep them pure and hoist the state up...

[Alex Sullivan @alexsullivan444]

@softwarejameson Primarily because it's a lot of boilerplate to write for each component if you have dozens of components that can come in and out at any given time. For a mobile app you just need one view model for each page so it fits the UX a bit more.

[Alex Sullivan @alexsullivan444]

@softwarejameson I think mobile apps are much more "page" focused. Like an Activity and a ViewController are very discrete chunks, whereas in a SPA there's pages but there's much more component focus with individual things coming and going. View models lend themselves better to pages IMO.

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We have a brand new website!

Stay tuned for some new features.

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[Alex Sullivan @alexsullivan444]

@Noahpinion For the last graph, why is only the US separated by race? Doesn't that feel disingenuous?

[Alex Sullivan @alexsullivan444]

@nsthorat Do you specifically like critique or the combination of critique, the mono repo (easy to go to previous CL), and the presubmit system? I think its the combination that's so powerful

[Alex Sullivan @alexsullivan444]

@_cartick @nsthorat I think to recreate what's so amazing about blaze you need the monorepo and the unified approach to supporting a set number if frameworks. So I imagine it's hard to externalize that

[Alex Sullivan @alexsullivan444]

@ChadMoran @softwarejameson That does make sense. I'm very wary of any effort to force developers away from luxury units (not saying you're pushing for that) because it seems like it usually just stops them from building all together.

[Alex Sullivan @alexsullivan444]

@softwarejameson The fact that Sam Francisco, the tech capitol of the world, isn't the same density as like Singapore is crazy. A huge policy failure.

[Alex Sullivan @alexsullivan444]

@ChadMoran @softwarejameson I don't think it really matters - I think all that really matters is quantity of housing units. If all developers want to build is luxury housing fine; an extra 50k units of housing will impact prices even if they're all luxury.