Tom Hicks 🫀

“I turn data into more data and eventually into rectangles”

[Tom Hicks 🫀 @Hicksyfern]

We recently stopped using React to render map elements in @Felt

Not only does this make Felt faster than ever, but it also makes it look even better and cleans up our code.

Why did we do this, and how did we manage such a big change?

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@tenebra99 @WaitingForPerot Yes, I'm good thanks! And good news on my son as I know you know a bit about him.

his CRT-D device has narrowed his QRS to the point that he doesn't need it anymore - just has the defib function on now - no pacing, no resync, meds coming down...

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@HenryPaul1999 @benonwine It is. That's why you can see it.

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@WaitingForPerot @AntrimHill just come to laugh at naomi wolf, and I can't believe this tired old lie is still being used by people. it's been debunked for...3? 4 years now?

congratulations on your energy

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@Djevans71 @ShaunLintern @wesstreeting that's literally what RFK did for 5 months with a promise to figure it out once and for all and his answer is... something that is demonstrably untrue.

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@GBates76034889 @ShaunLintern @W12Newman @wesstreeting kids are alive

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@Dr_XYZ @ShaunLintern @wesstreeting you can go check his claims

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@Jason0850632788 @ShaunLintern @wesstreeting cool story

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@Djevans71 @ShaunLintern @wesstreeting saying things that scientists and doctors say at appropriate times?

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@JohnBaldLangLit @ShaunLintern @wesstreeting yes john it's called science

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@matiasbaldanza @mrousavy but also if you're getting errors caught in CI that could have been caught in literal seconds before you committed it, you should probably consider whether there's a better way!

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@matiasbaldanza @mrousavy like everyone's mind has been totally rotted by this notion that the hooks are part of the repo, therefore hooks bad.

i just have my own script that runs, others in the team have different ones, some don't run any and that's fine.

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@GrumpyOldDoc what the fuck did I just watch?

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@matiasbaldanza @mrousavy Yes let's wait 20 minutes to get a result back that I could have in...checks notes...5 seconds.

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@karololszacki @isaac_ts_way @eevee9x @mrousavy Our TypeScript linting runs in 0.6seconds on hundreds of thousands of lines of code.

What on earth are you doing?

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@mrousavy @LaughinOutLoudr @isaac_ts_way you know commit hooks exist as a thing without them being required by the repo?

I run my own set of commit hooks. Some coworkers have theirs. Some have none.

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@isaac_ts_way @mrousavy Please for the love of Zeus can we drop the notion that commit hooks equals them being forcibly run by anyone who checks out the repo?

Also, removing things that other people might rely on without asking is a moronic thing to do.

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@kenwheeler GPT-3 was fine, actually

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We were very fortunate that he survived, as he received zero care for it in the UK. It was by pure chance that we moved to Spain where we took him to the doctor for something unrelated that it was discovered. They would have never found it in the UK, and he 100% would have died.

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@PhilippaPr just seen your article on Jess's rule and wanted to say it would have helped my son who also received a bunch of "he's fine all kids are different" responses, who turned out to have a life-threatening (90% die within a year) heart problem when he was a baby.