Nathan Power

Programming the webs

[Sinéad O’Sullivan @SineadOS1]

My latest: The Second Star to the Right

On why Ireland does *not* have a housing crisis, but something so much worse.

[Nathan Power @nathanpower78]

RIP Glen Hansard 😞

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.

Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.

Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.

People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.

Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.

He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.

That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.

There is a name for it.

So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.

The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.

And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.

Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.

And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.

Just another joke at our expense.

[Nathan Power @nathanpower78]

@devongovett Some escape hatches for modal focus trap behaviour - for things like site builders where focus trapping should be confined to a frame

[Nathan Power @nathanpower78]

@eircare your app and website require a second-factor to log in, and the login process never sends the SMS. Your support chat requires 4 digits from the account number, which I can only get if I log in, as I have paperless billing. Please sort it out.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Israel’s bombs and starvation tactics in Gaza, along with their ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem and the West Bank have not only placed a whole people on death row, have not only aimed at extinguishing Palestinian life from Palestine – no, they have done something else, something of universal, global significance. They have trashed the idea of Int Law, propelling humanity back to the prewar era where might-was-right even in law.

With the Int Court of Justice ignored, with the Int Criminal Court sanctioned and annulled, it is down to the Global Majority to defend human, political rights – to uphold Int Law. This is what the Gaza Tribunal is doing this week between 23rd and 26th October at Istanbul University. Watch, attend and support the Gaza Tribunal. For humanity’s sake.

https://t.co/RZgpjY0Jiu

[Nathan Power @nathanpower78]

I love street food in Vietnam

[Nathan Power @nathanpower78]

Genuinely one of those makes-everything-better libraries. Only downside is the slight overhead onboarding devs who are unfamiliar with it - more than worth it.

[Jawad Vajeeh @JVajeeh]

@TkDodo @tan_stack Curious to know what other companies uses react query.Or who else uses react query in production🚀 how their experience is.
I am in the process of convincing management at my company to use it we are working on banking app.I feel confident. Just curious about success stories.

[Bill Badbody @Bill_Badbody]

Confusion As Military With Ability To Kill Individual Fighters Via Pager Explosions Spent Previous 11 Months Carpet Bombing Civilians https://t.co/XyGacvBAGC

[Nathan Power @nathanpower78]

@housecor Async client-side filtering of large amounts of rows, off-thread in a worker

[Nathan Power @nathanpower78]

@kyleshevlin Great article. Can relate, we've reluctantly moved away from a composable API for many of the same reasons

[Nathan Power @nathanpower78]

@tannerlinsley Well, browser and CI / local machine, but otherwise yes 100%

[Wayflyer @wayflyerapp]

Our new trend report analyzes the online growth of 7,000 brands across 9 DTC sectors. Some of what we found:

Apparel: Gross Margin Focus
Pets: LTV ⬆️
Food/Bev: DTC shift
Home/Garden: AOV growth
Beauty/Health: Drive purchase frequency
Electronics: LTV ⬇️
Toys/Games: Viral impact

[Nathan Power @nathanpower78]

sm7b sounds best with a clean powerful preamp and source right up close (and not moving much) ime. if you need to be further away and moving around a bit it's not the best choice I think

[kitze 🛠️ tinkerer.club @thekitze]

i think my sm7b with wave xlr is not that good of a combination. I'm not happy with the sound quality.

what would you recommend? should I mess with VST filters and try to improve it? use a scarlett 4i4 instead?

I have an unused dbx 286s around the office but I hate complicated audio...

[Nathan Power @nathanpower78]

@remix_run Back now!

[Nathan Power @nathanpower78]

@remix_run headsup looks like CSS is 404ing for https://t.co/dRzKTjrwGG currently (at least it is for me)?

[Open Web Advocacy @OpenWebAdvocacy]

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[Open Web Advocacy @OpenWebAdvocacy]

We sat down with @JSPartyFM for 2 hours to talk about the history of OWA, the Digital Markets Act, Apple's attempt to kill web apps & the fight for the future of the web! 🎉

Join us for our deepest dive yet:

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[Nathan Power @nathanpower78]

@techsavvytravvy I worked in a team where multiple code styles were allowed, even encouraged, and code style comments in reviews were verboten. I enjoyed it personally. This was in the pre-prettier days.

[Nathan Power @nathanpower78]

Happy Christmas!

Yep fair - not saying that understanding these topics makes one an expert, more that those that exhibited a good understanding of these have tended to be closer to "expert" level in my experience. Agreed on also needing more holistic discussions in the interview

[William Devine @MrBitmonkey]

@nathanpower78 Hey bud, happy Christmas.

That would make you intermediate. To be an expert you would need to have general knowledge of everything else. Same goes for most experts in any subject. Knowing the overall implications which intersect with different knowledge centres.