Roman Roelofsen

Making complexity simple 🤓🤷🏼‍♂️

Founder & Managing Partner 🤓, Speaker 🗣️, Author ✍️, Coach 👨‍🏫, WebDev enthusiast 🌐

[Roman Roelofsen @romanroe]

Why the hell aren't the menu items in Copilot and Gemini proper <a> links? I’d like to open the entries with the middle mouse button or Ctrl+click. That’s always been possible in Angular/React and co.! But hey, as long as hydration is in every framework 🤦🏼

[Roman Roelofsen @romanroe]

Mmh... JetBrains increased the prices by 20% 🤯

I love their tools and every developer in my company is using them (they can pick whatever they want!). It's not that the new price is too high. But a 20% increase is a lot.

Maybe I should go back to #vim after 15 years abstinence 🥳

#Python

[Roman Roelofsen @romanroe]

State of #JavaScript 2024: Essentially, all front-end frameworks are either viewed negatively or show a negative trend.

We simply have to accept: Front-end development and building a good UI is hard and changing the framework won't change that and NO, the grass is not always greener on the other side 🤷🏼‍♂️

My advice: Keep the tech stack simple! Use fullstack frameworks like #Django and add some sugar on top with e.g. #htmx and @Alpine_JS. Accept that the web is document-based. #Basecamp and #Hey are good examples for this "UI-style". But sure, go ahead and create the next GMail-UI or Asana-UI if you have the money and resources 😉

[Roman Roelofsen @romanroe]

Very interesting that #htmx (bigskysoftware/htmx), which is backend-agnostic, lives in Pythonia->Djangonia #django and not in e.g. Fronterra.
Does this mean that HTMX is mostly used by Django devs?

https://t.co/aVGRB5RZab

[Roman Roelofsen @romanroe]

2/2 Due to trigger, the rowcount during UPDATE returns 0, hence `https://t.co/QtkZ3fTcpw()` thinks no row was updated and executes an INSERT. This then leads to a primary key violation 🤯🤯🤯

[Roman Roelofsen @romanroe]

1/2 Just finished 10h of debugging a #django and #sqlserver problem. Our customer provided the SQL Server database where all tables have triggers attached. These triggers insert rows themselves (changelog).

[Roman Roelofsen @romanroe]

@mricog 😲

[Roman Roelofsen @romanroe]

@htmx_org Yep, fully agree. Adding complexity over and over again is usually a bad idea.

[Roman Roelofsen @romanroe]

@obryant666 @htmx_org Yes, the example on that site uses 'when' as well.

[Roman Roelofsen @romanroe]

@htmx_org @obryant666 According to https://t.co/jKlb0eFYxJ it's 'where' . Is 'when' a synonym here?

[Roman Roelofsen @romanroe]

"Move fast and break things" - at least they got the second part right #facebookdown https://t.co/4O5Wi3nFv6

[Roman Roelofsen @romanroe]

🤦🏼‍♂️ https://t.co/lwoMbfiMme

[Alex Kantrowitz @Kantrowitz]

These Signal ads are amazing. Facebook banned them for being a little bit too relevant. https://t.co/q9D4VKqPt9

[Roman Roelofsen @romanroe]

@EliranEliassy @joshuamorony This solution is the best we were able to produce: https://t.co/dkSdX7rkDr

But to be honest, I'm not really happy with it :-( This comment sums it up pretty good:

[Roman Roelofsen @romanroe]

@joshuamorony Thanks! Not sure I I like it... 1. Storing every subscription variable is not less work than writing takeUntil(...) 2. Too ease to overlook an observable 3. not "lintable" 4. Keys field isn't typesafe

[Jon Wood @JellybobUK]

I wonder how many of the ~700 people opening issues mentioning a bump from MimeMagic 0.3.5 to 0.3.6 realise they're also relicensing their code from [whatever it previously was] to GPL 2. https://t.co/Jjy1HUjkm7

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Here's Steve Jobs explaining object oriented programming in layman's terms in 1996

😳 State the problem
💎 Explain a concept
📈 Strong claim: 10X better
🤯 Big historical analogy: industrial revolution

Perfect case study for every technical founder pitching their idea🎙

[D. Zuvic @dzuvic]

I finally managed to make a new (small) release of my type extractor: https://t.co/n4yPVG0qpw