Kevin Jonson

Senior Front End(ish) Dev @redfin. Designer Emeritus, Drinker of Beer, Hiker of Mountains, Rider of Bikes, Critic of all things.

[Mark Dalgleish @markdalgleish]

Being vaccinated does NOT mean you can put CSS in your JavaScript. PLEASE continue to keep your concerns separated.

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#NYESEATTLE

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@dan_abramov My first read was in Klingon as well, that’s awesome!

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@altonbrown After seeing you upend your pantry on a quest for guacamole ingredients, I demand a further run down of the things in there! I saw a bag of @TatesBakeShop cookies which makes us pantry buddies for at least a day.

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If the @Tesla #Cybertruck was pulling the #Megapack trailer, how far could it drive? @elonmusk

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@brutella Huge upgrade, thanks for continuing to work on the app. Looks great!

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#typescript #schema #reactjs

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@markdalgleish Sure, but those other features are using far less power, resources, are built for the environment they're in, and are stable. Why would you want to get rid of that?

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@stubbornella Keep the presentational stuff out of HTML and keep it semantic.

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I expected to be fighting robots in the future, but not over phone calls.

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Safeco Insurance doesn't allow you to change your email address because they use it as the primary ID on your account. Thats absurd. #badux #lockedout @Safecoinsurance

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@mjujou I totally agree with you.

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Planning a road trip to Montana and staying off the beaten path. @furkot is an amazing tool to get stops in order. #roadtrip #2laneroadsonly

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@dan_abramov Perhaps you could use it to your advantage! Have an alarm clock that starts your day off with twitter quotes: "React is too slow!" "Angular is far superior to React" "The React team at Facebook never listens to me and I need a bug fixed!" You'll get right up!

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@oleg008 To be clear, I acknowledge the various ways to serve/bootstrap a modern web app, I'm specifically looking at / talking about SSR with client JS reattachment.

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I find CSS in JS rather frustrating for a number of reasons. However, my personal preferences for code style and dev workflow are largely irrelevant when you look at https://t.co/bT88dNDIrH

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@oleg008 Lack of styles for your app should block first render! You certainly don't want a FOUC (flash of un-styled content!) HTTP/2 server push for stylesheets removes the chained request lag, and is nearly identical to a style block in the head (and its now cached)

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@oleg008 Yep, there are a huge number of things happening between a request being received and the client getting their first contentful paint. A couple millis here and some there do all add up though. Perf is a discipline that isn't to be superseded by dev annoyance with a language.

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@bterlson @angular @code @babeljs I have a hard time stomaching some of the @typescriptlang syntax without a light at the end of the tunnel that it may be on its way to a true widely adopted standard that doesn't require a transpilation step. Note: we'll still most likely optimize it out of prod builds anyway.

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@bterlson I'm neck deep in an interesting debate about static typing in JS. Is there is no TC39 / ECMAScript proposal or discussion about adding type definitions to the language specification? Seem to somewhat fit with default function parameters which made it.

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@bterlson @angular @code Generally, I look to @babeljs to transpile modern standardized (or late stage proposal) syntax to code that runs on our supported browsers and platforms, with the hope of someday being able to turn off the transform. (JSX is a notable exception).