Noah Chase

Collecting Silver Bullets

[Noah Chase @nchase]

I'm not against tools like Copilot, but I wonder if they might make it harder for less-experienced folks to get their sea legs.

Fine: outsource your code-writing, if you must – but don't outsource your thinking!

[Noah Chase @nchase]

additional context: I have bounced back-and-forth between coc.vim and ALE for a few years now. I have enjoyed them both, but I’ve been back on ALE for at least 9 months because it’s very flexible and doesn’t cause my CPU to cook my lap on large TS codebases (sorry, coc)

[Noah Chase @nchase]

I spent ~40 min setting up neovim 0.5’s built-in LSP support for typescript.

it works – but you need to write a ton of code/config to support it, and the final result isn’t good, just yet.

that said: this is very exciting! I can’t wait to see what gets built on top of it.

[Noah Chase @nchase]

@Monodraw any possibility of Monodraw for iPad in the future?

[Noah Chase @nchase]

@rossfishkind just for the hackathon 😄 returning it today

[Noah Chase @nchase]

the M1 is amazing. I did all of the things I'd normally do, and then some, with impressive speed and very infrequent heat.

a new 15-inch MBP can’t come soon enough!

[Noah Chase @nchase]

@ryanflorence but also my display on a 16-inch 2020 MBP purchased in the last ~30 days does a weird flickering thing when I use a popular WebGL app. so I don’t really know if it’s all better.

[Noah Chase @nchase]

@ryanflorence yes, 2020 seems better so far. my 2018 one was burning hot like your 2019 model, then it suddenly died. it made it roughly 21 months before it died. I did not buy AppleCare – every other past experience with Apple hardware led me to believe that it would last for a long time.

[Noah Chase @nchase]

@twisterghost yep. this was very good

[Noah Chase @nchase]

@twisterghost @asolove last time I used flash was to make an interactive DMX bobblehead well over ten yr ago. In some sense I’m still trying to make that bobblehead. Maybe I should make a DMX bobblehead–but on the web.

now I’m wondering if any of my ActionScript 3 books are still at my parents’ house.

[Noah Chase @nchase]

My most frustrating hobbies, by far, all orbit Web Audio and its cross-browser issues. I’ve dealt with a lot of uneven cross-browser stuff on the web, and Web Audio beats all of that by a mile.

But you know what? I’m addicted to it because it’s also _really_ fun. #webaudio

[Noah Chase @nchase]

@twisterghost @asolove the firs Web Audio bug I filed or contributed some info to was like 4 years ago. My first (and only) WebKit patch for a Web Audio bug was (maybe?) 3 years ago. Nothing huge but it was like “is this really the state of things?” it has improved since, but it’s still hard and weird.

[Noah Chase @nchase]

neovim + coc is way better though

[Noah Chase @nchase]

neovim + ale = 😍 for fast linting, type-checking, and syntax correction.

[Noah Chase @nchase]

@asolove unbelievable

[Noah Chase @nchase]

@asolove sprinkle a little Joseph Campbell-style monomyth on it and baby, you've got a stew going

[Noah Chase @nchase]

@asolove yeah! I was hoping my macbook would last until the ARM macbooks landed. 😢

[Noah Chase @nchase]

in a sense, I'm thrilled that my 2018 MacBook Pro died after 21 months. (it was easily the worst piece of Apple hardware I have ever owned)

but why would it just die after 21 months? Apple was really losing its way a few years ago; seems much better now.