🦋 Alex Rickabaugh

Programmer, Sailor, Photographer, Engtrovert

[🦋 Alex Rickabaugh @synalx]

@RyanCarniato @mitsuhiko After lots of experience debugging deep bugs with zone.js, I’m incredibly wary of it. It might be useful for logging and other ancillary uses but automatically propagating contexts have a lot of subtle edge cases that can lead to really unexpected behaviors.

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@m_stefanczyk I’m convinced 😇

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@ryanflorence The same idea of directives in Angular - composable behaviors on an element.

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@niklas_wortmann A mix of both. Often I start with an incomplete spec / outline, iterate + refine, and then have the agent extract out the spec from the final implementation.

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Good UI design principle in general: treat long-form user input as sacred. Auto-save it. Ask before navigating in ways that would destroy it. They put their time and effort into interacting with your app - respect that.

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My #1 gripe with AI right now: vibe-coded interfaces that spontaneously erase paragraphs of a carefully written prompt because you accidentally press the up arrow one too many times.

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@Mklint66Mike @TheHumanSpoon @offgriddesigner By contrast, Artemis pulls about 4 Gs on re-entry, which is lower than some rollercoasters (though a lot more sustained)

[VoidZero @voidzerodev]

Introducing the Oxc Angular Compiler ✨
Up to 20x faster @angular builds.

◆ 6.4x faster than Angular CLI
◆ 20.7x faster than Webpack
◆ First-class @vite_js plugin with full HMR
◆ Built on Rust with @OxcProject
◆ Tested on Bitwarden's code base
◆ Not another slop fork

While this is experiment, the Angular team is looking into an Oxc integration.

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@ManfredSteyer Claude write boilerplate but Claude not talk boilerplate.

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@andrewneel @davepl1968 As a taxpayer, I wish they had. I want the people doing the science to feel inspired by their workplace.

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Me to my friend: "it's called 'vibe science', or a 'vibe paper'"

Her: "... a vapor?"

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If you've ever taken one of his workshops, you know @ManfredSteyer is an authority on clean, maintainable, scalable Angular architecture.

Congrats on the publication!

[Manfred Steyer @ManfredSteyer]

🚨 It’s finally out.

📘 Modern Angular: Architecture, Concepts & Implementation

A practical guide to:
✅ structuring large Angular applications
✅ applying Signals, Signal Forms & SignalStore
✅ Vitest and further advanced topics

👇 Link in first reply

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@Therealdashtaco @philly2hoboken @playrust Duh. It's "Aim Down Shield", of course.

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@fredrivett @Steve8708 @noahzweben Typical beginner CSS mistake. They forgot to set `gravity: 0`. The default is 9.8 and causes floating UI elements to be pulled downwards.

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@_newtonjob ban_lifts_at

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@RustylootGG @playrust It's a tossup between Terrain Deformation and Nexus.

[Manfred Steyer @ManfredSteyer]

It's fantastic to see how much effort the @angular team puts into being both backward- and forward-compatible when introducing new features.

With this, custom controls written for Signal Forms can also be used with Reactive Forms and Template-driven Forms. It just works™️

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@radokirov I had to correct mine writing Rust the other day because it kept using unsafe {} to get references it wasn’t supposed to have. It’s very _very_ good at subverting the type system.

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@NotSoSmolBirb @OnDisasters I had the same initial reaction - like whoa, those control inputs are so extreme compared to the gentle reaction by that giant...

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@sciencegirl Widget Workshop. Tickled my brain in just the right way and kick started my engineering arc.