Nick Ribal

Open source, Linux, Web, front-end is what I love and am lucky to be doing for a living as consultant, architect and developer. Vegan, atheist, pacifist.

[Nick Ribal @nickribal]

1. Generic type arguments deserve descriptive names instead of the <T, K, P> bullshit!
2. Type inference is @typescript's most underrated feature and isn't used nearly enough.
3. Thanks to #2, usually, it is enough to only type a function's arguments - and nothing else.

[Joe Previte @jsjoeio]

Please quote tweet this with your most controversial typescript opinion, I love controversial typescript opinions

[Nick Ribal @nickribal]

@dhh Thank you for caring about and promoting what matters: tech. We needed this sort of awakening for a long time now.

I'm saying this as a veteran fedora user who never tried Omarchy and a web developer who hates frameworks like RoR.

What you're doing for Linux is right.

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

In honor of Pride month, here’s a list of countries in the Middle East that recognize same sex marriage:

1. Israel

[Nick Ribal @nickribal]

@AliGrids @MayaShavin @sorenblank That's tailwind, not CSS. I mean, it was never a problem before tailwind and it isn't now either.

[Nick Ribal @nickribal]

@GoddessOSarcasm אין יותר עיתוי "טוב" לבקר בארץ. פעם היה כזה, היום לא קיים.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

In less than 130 seconds, Donald Trump exposed how the entire Palestinian society is praising Jewish deaths and teaching their children to hate and murder.

This must go viral. The world must see this.

https://t.co/Ia9mBxd7kP

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

‘Anti-racists’ will rewrite the definition of intifada to pretend it doesn’t mean killing Jews, whilst rewriting the definition of genocide to mean Jews fighting a war we didn’t start to prevent our own genocide also simultaneously diminishing the genocide we already suffered from.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

Spain or Egypt?

Both were conquered by Islamic armies. Both were centers of rich, pre-Islamic civilization. But only one reclaimed its soul.

For nearly 800 years, Spain lived under Islamic rule. But the Spanish people never accepted it as final.

Through centuries of resistance, revolts, and the unrelenting Reconquista, Spain eventually drove out the occupiers. Spain reclaimed its civilizational integrity.

Today, Spain is a Western, secular, democratic state. The Spanish language, Christian heritage, and European identity were not erased. 

Egypt, on the other hand, the cradle of one of humanity’s oldest civilizations, a land of pharaohs, hieroglyphs, libraries, and monotheism before Islam ever appeared, was invaded in the 7th century.

The Coptic Christian majority had no organized defense. The result was that Islam absorbed Egypt’s identity. Arabic replaced Coptic. Mosques replaced temples and churches. 

Over generations, the Egyptian mind was colonized spiritually and linguistically, until the population no longer remembered what it had lost.

Today, Egypt is an Islamic republic. Less than 10% of Egyptians remain Christian, persecuted in the land where their faith once thrived.

Unlike Spain, Egypt didn’t fight for its cultural survival. It adapted, assimilated, and submitted.

This is more than a history lesson. It’s a mirror held up to the West today.

In the face of Islamic expansionism, not by sword, but through ideological power, mass migration, legal agitation, and cultural intimidation, Western nations must decide:

Will you be Spain or Egypt?

[Nick Ribal @nickribal]

Nobody could have ever foreseen anything of this sort, right?

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

One of the funnier headlines of the last few years.

[Nick Ribal @nickribal]

Excellent post - highly recommended reading!

[Motion @motiondotdev]

Animating layout isn't always bad. Global CSS variables are a performance killer. Hardware accelerated blurs can crash sites.

Surprised? We go into all this and more, in the first Web Animation Performance Tier List: https://t.co/SqBbeA5rDc

[Nick Ribal @nickribal]

@dshukertjr @nickytonline Hi! Is this real remote or "US only remote"?

[Nick Ribal @nickribal]

@adebola_io @jaffathecake https://t.co/WoxxK2ouuX and https://t.co/wpzyFcniTa

[Rob Palmer @robpalmer2]

@WebReflection @jaffathecake @webkit JSC folk have talked about having a plan to address this, but I don't know the current status.

[Nick Ribal @nickribal]

@jamesmishra @jaffathecake Top level response

[Nick Ribal @nickribal]

@wmertens @jaffathecake Because they don't give half a shit about the web, since it competes directly with their app store, which is worth billions.

If it was up to apple, they'd kill the web. But that's too obvious, so they do the next worst thing: crippling the web, claiming it is "for security". 🤡

[Dor Shinar @DorShinar]

Next.js in a few years

[Nick Ribal @nickribal]

Finally, people admit and say out loud that next.js is garbage. All frameworks are, but next especially. Kill it with fire.

[Shayan @ImSh4yy]

This is a very good read.

https://t.co/YeBHXnEyZQ

[Nick Ribal @nickribal]

@EllaTravelsLove @UNRWA @UN That's just on brand and consistent with the rest of their "work".

[Nick Ribal @nickribal]

@fernandorojo @jaredpalmer @github Or at the very least make the damn setting persist!

[Nick Ribal @nickribal]

@akoskm I use the free co-pilot, which completes code according to my own style, which I find more useful that not. Rarely, I'll use AI to do something I'm clueless at, such as generating a RegEx. This is actually useful and saves time. Beyond that, the SNR is not good in my experience.

[Nick Ribal @nickribal]

Tell me again how great "AI" is. I'll stick to using my brain instead of taking part in this dystopian "future".

[Akos @akoskm]

This is hard to admit, but I’ll start:

I delegated thinking to agents.

It worked most of the time. But what was the cost?

• No motivation (if bugs were in front of me, I’d rather prompt).
• Lack of focus.
• Lack of curiosity to understand how things work.

Don’t do it.

[Nick Ribal @nickribal]

@akoskm I use AI very lightly.