Jim Simon

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Staff Software Engineer (Web Platform Team) @ Reddit - Posts/Opinions are my own...

[Jim Simon @jimsimon_]

I'm no longer using X - find me over at 🦋! Link is in my bio!

[Jim Simon @jimsimon_]

@andrewtlloyd @empresssiive @ayeejuju Joe Louis Arena had them until they tore down the place 5 or so years ago. They sold a bunch of them at auction afterwards too.

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@n3liason @atlanticesque You are generally correct. Few machines actually reduce the time (as in clock on a wall) it takes to complete the task. They save effort for sure though. Microwaves are the common counter example to this. They actually do save time as well as effort.

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@levelsio "... 30-year million dollar loan ..."

People like to joke about the Midwest being a bunch of "fly-over" states, but it's still the best place to find an affordable house and many of the major cities have the same diversity of amenities as the coastal states/cities.

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@cory_laviska It's a group of toggle buttons. So I'd call it a ToggleButtonGroup and the elements inside of it would be ToggleButton components.

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@DisneyKid1955 @MrHankSalmonsJr @RpsAgainstTrump Do you realize this is exactly what Putin did? Russia has a similar term limit law. Putin Served 2 terms and hit the term limit, had his VP serve a term as president while he served as VP, then elected himself again to a third term. Do you really want us to copy Putin?

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Except react-dom is actually ~58 kB gzip'd... (compared to Lit at ~6 kB)

[Adam Rackis @AdamRackis]

If only the anti-react bundle size fanatics hadn’t all gone to Mastodon

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Or use this link to jump there right away: https://t.co/owTBeC9dzX

[Jim Simon @jimsimon_]

I'm no longer using X - find me over at 🦋! Link is in my bio!

[Jim Simon @jimsimon_]

Hey folks, just a heads-up that you can also find me over at 🦋. Link is in my bio if you want to hit me with a follow over there as well. I'll probably start posting there more often going forward.

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@artem_zin @AdamRackis Perhaps Trump should say what you said instead of depicting an image of one of his political opponents being shot to a rabid base that will misinterpret and attempt to act on it at best, and take it as instructions from their "commander-in-chief" at worst.

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@justinfagnani https://t.co/1pKEWcg5Bv helps prevent this on the consumer side. I can see how this would be annoying from the maintainer side if people are opening issues due to their own incomplete dependency list.

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@justinfagnani @passle_ A lot of native web advocates went there when Elon took over and never came back.

[Jim Simon @jimsimon_]

This is huge! A coworker and I were just discussing using a custom import attribute for some internal framework stuff at Reddit. I'm super excited to see these hit stage 4.

[Rob Palmer @robpalmer2]

ECMAScript excitement 😉

Congrats to @NicoloRibaudo on advancing both Import Attributes & JSON Modules to Stage 4 at @TC39 today 🎉

It introduces the `with` keyword for imports. Chrome successfully unshipped the `assert` keyword 👍

https://t.co/JUjesaxSYd

[Jim Simon @jimsimon_]

This is an absolutely terrible idea. The barrier to entry for JS is already way too high and this is just going to make it worse. We should be doing what we can to reduce our reliance on build tools, not increase it.

[NullVoxPopuli @nullvoxpopuli]

Build tooling required?

RIP Vanilla JS

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@feedyurhed @techsavvytravvy @StanleyMasinde_ Yes, that's how it works in JS. In C# you can preserve the original stack trace by calling "throw" without specifying the exception (limited to a catch block IIRC).

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@feedyurhed @techsavvytravvy @StanleyMasinde_ The stack is preserved as long as you rethrow the original error. The bigger issue here is the unnecessary try-catch will likely cause V8 to deoptimize this function. If this function is in a hot path, then it could be a performance issue.

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@dmitriid @vcarl_ @claviska Old Reddit uses an entirely different backend architecture that is way more peformant at the cost of stability and scalability.

I'm on the frontend perf team. We're responsible for only a small subset of what happens when a page is rendered. We still need to do better though.

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@dmitriid @vcarl_ @claviska It's a bunch of little to medium issues that have piled up over time. Assets are one factor, legacy backend architecture is another, delivery architecture is yet another, and there's more. I've been purposefully vague in this thread as I'm not clear how much I can share.

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@dmitriid @vcarl_ @claviska All of this is to say that we're definitely aware of the problems. I'm hopeful you'll see some big improvements over the next year as we work through them. I appreciate the feedback and good natured discussion!