Simen Brekken

Freelance Frontend Engineer

[Simen Brekken @simenbrekken]

Git still confuses me after decades of trying to understand it well enough to be productive.

@gitbutler brings a revolutionary take on version control, especially for working on multiple things simultaneously.

https://t.co/AouKCWxoj2

[Simen Brekken @simenbrekken]

@alex_langenfeld To make matters in the tool space even more confusing, there's another SPR which also deals with stacked diffs: https://t.co/vFOk85yBoY

[Simen Brekken @simenbrekken]

After working with React hooks for a few years, I have come to appreciate their intricacies. However, they are a terrible pattern for less experienced developers.

Ensuring and synchronizing referential equality using useRef with useCallback is a new level of syntactic hell.

[Ben Tossell @bentossell]

All the best examples of ChatGPT, from OpenAI:

[isaacs @izs]

A better word for what we commonly call "capitalism" would be "capitalocracy". It's not "the idea that people own property and can trade it" which is the problem. It's "rule by those who accumulate the most capital, and rights granted in proportion to holdings" that is so toxic.

[Simen Brekken @simenbrekken]

@einarwh Indeed, one of my favourite parts working with GraphQL is the notion of keeping IDs, cursors and other information opaque in the eyes of URL consumers.

[Simen Brekken @simenbrekken]

@benmvp That difference is subtle but painful when dealing with complex interfaces. I’ve been defaulting to type aliases for a while but this proves interfaces come with fewer surprises. Thanks!

[Simen Brekken @simenbrekken]

@samelawrence @Cypress_io I was more thinking of contributing a separate filter button with an accompanying dialog that showed filter options. My "plug-in" is terrible enough as it is!

[Simen Brekken @simenbrekken]

@samelawrence Glad to be able to help! I thought about it some more after implementing the solution and some kind of persistent filter in the runner sidebar would perhaps be a nice solution. E.g being able to only show clicks, omit page load events etc.

[Simen Brekken @simenbrekken]

@fosseng Amoi har 🥳

[Andreas Refsgaard @AndreasRef]

New project with Matt Visco: Behind the Paywall

Behind the Paywall is an art experiment that dreams up the unseen content of articles hidden behind paywalls.
More info at https://t.co/AwR0MIs3LK or https://t.co/rSb3fou37M

[Jamie Kyle is on 🦋 @buildsghost]

I think if you make it a rule to always use attributes instead of classes to apply CSS to element states (not variants), you’ll force yourself to make your app more accessible (Similar to React Testing Library)

If you’re using CSS-in-JS this also helps create more static styles

[Simen Brekken @simenbrekken]

@_developit So, icon fonts are hot again?

[Simen Brekken @simenbrekken]

@fosseng I was constantly doing option+space mistakes and ended up creating a custom keyboard layout using Ukelele that turns option+space into a regular space as well as ` and ^ without needing to hold option. Hollar if you want it! :)

[Simen Brekken @simenbrekken]

@andersholm1 Prosjektleder kommer inn på ledermøte med to runder tromlet tøy i en balje og begynner å brette.

[Simen Brekken @simenbrekken]

@andersholm1 Pysjkledde står forvillet i teams møte på dansegulvet til Villa

[Rachel Tobac @RachelTobac]

2 years ago on stage I was asked “when will Deepfake video/audio impact trust & be believable in social engineering?” My response then was that we were 2 years away from undetectable Deepfakes. I wish my prediction then was wrong. We need synthetic media detection + labels ASAP.

[Simen Brekken @simenbrekken]

@buildsghost Hear! Hear! Just spent a few hours yesterday wrangling with Storybook's Webpack configuration override mess just to enable nullish coalescing for a single untranspiled library we were depending on.

[Simen Brekken @simenbrekken]

@fosseng "I'm afraid I can't accept your call Dave"