Will Willems @ 🇳🇱

Dev & Maker | Designer, kinda | VIEW, mindfulness, kitesurfing & running.

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

@rrhoover Every year of your life should be the best one. Exceptions are allowed but should be rare.

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

@yelkhayami @advany How did this end up going for you?

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

@adriaandotcom @Erwin_AI I'm using V3 composition API with setup scripts, async handled by Suspense, no Vuex just vanilla reactive data stores, and it seems to do great. At that point, it's probably so close to vanilla JS that it takes that as a guideline.

[mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 @mattparlmer]

What’s the probability of having breast cancer given a positive test result?

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

@realGeorgeHotz @SpeedAmbassador @ac_crypto @exolabs @__tinygrad__ @Oriflamme87 There is nothing "anti-fragile" about an unpredictable business environment that does not have a free market/lvl playing field.

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

@realGeorgeHotz @SpeedAmbassador @ac_crypto @exolabs @__tinygrad__ @Oriflamme87 Preferring unknown rules/hazards you're never told about to clearly defined ones you dislike is such a strategic blunder. Rights don't exist for you if they don't apply to you as part of a bigger group. Ask Naomi Wu who got thrown in the back of a van for being an OS advocate.

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

@gvrizzo My fav Vultures 2 track 😉 https://t.co/IuluwWJTsZ

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

@yelkhayami @nielsgeo @IronBrands16 fixed it a bit

[Courtland Allen @csallen]

How to be a demagogue on X:

1. Identify a popular fear among your followers.

2. Cherry-pick recent events that validate that fear. (always possible bc there are 8 billion ppl on earth)

3. Exaggerate details that play into fears, omit inconvenient facts, and trust followers not to fact-check.

4. Claim it's a trend that will continue until we're all cooked unless your side wins.

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

@marckohlbrugge "coding at the speed of thought" is much more accurate as well. Explains why some projects experience the 3x/10x speedup and for some it's just dumb/useless. Working on some technical JS right now, and using cursor mostly just results in it ping-pong-ing between 2 failure modes.

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

I need to display >1 samples per pixel and figured I could just render the tallest peak, others would fall below it anyway

Turns out this looks "accurate", yet unintuitive. Apparently, this is where you use a root-mean-square, which calculates the signals' average energy instead

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

Sneak peek at a new waveform renderer I'm building for an upcoming product. Lows are red, highs are blue. Playback using WebAudio, vis with WebGL2. Learning WGL has been fun, but damn graphics programming is a whole different beast.

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

@levelsio It's way smaller than it looks on the pic, credit card sized.

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

@levelsio I used to use a ridiculously tiny phone for this reason. Using this for a long time WILL FUCK UP YOUR EPL tendon. Legit take care

https://t.co/LdhXBeHqJO

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

@thepatwalls I'm using the Palm Phone, I love it precisely because of this

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

@nielsgeo @adriaandotcom I've got these, they are pretty good, but their Dutch branch is horribly mismanaged. If you can buy in another country, do it. I also would recommend the 15 for non-professional use or just to try out the whole range and see which you like (you can swap out the filters in < 1m).

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

@levelsio @vueling Good luck, had the same thing happen with Vueling. Reaching out has absolutely 0 point (it's kinda funny having them angrily tell you it is for sure in place X when you can see yourself it is in Y). It did eventually end up 2 weeks later at the address I provided.

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

My YT feed now is 30% clickbait-face thumbnail + “THE NEW REACT META JUST DROPPED AND IT IS INSANE”

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

I’ve been dipping my toes into React (coming from Vue) and holy fuck. It has some super cool features but the whole ecosystem is *insane* with React influencers, lots of competing solutions that lose/gain ground with every React update, X/GitHub fights

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

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[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

Freaking finally putting the final touches to an analog mixer mod kit 😮‍💨 (still some cutouts missing as you can see)

[Will Willems @ 🇳🇱 @wll3mx]

Pausing any and all work during end of year holiday but it's coming along nicely

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

I think a harm of online activism is the "THIS IS ACTUALLY EASY" argument.

I've seen lots of folks indicate that a single billionaire could solve homelessness, or that there are 30x more houses than homeless people so we could just give them all houses.

These words are fantastic for activating people, but they are also lies.

The US government currently spends around 50B per year keeping people housed. States, of course, have their own budgets. If Bill Gates spent the same amount of money the US does just to keep people housed, he would be out of money in 3 years. I think that would be a great use of his money, but it would not be a permanent solution.

The statistics about there being more houses than homeless are just...fake. They rely on looking at extremely low estimates of homelessness (which are never used in any other context) and include normal vacancy rates (an apartment is counted as vacant even if it's only vacant for a month while the landlord is finding a new tenant.) In a country with 150,000,000 housing units, a 2% vacancy rate is three million units, which, yes, is greater than the homeless population. But a 2% vacancy rate is extremely low (and bad, because it means there's fewer available units than there are people looking to move, which drives the price of rent higher.)

Housing should not be an option in this country. It should be something we spend tons of money on. It should be a priority for every leader and every citizen. it should also be interfaced with in real, complex ways. And it should be remembered that the main way we solve the problem is BUILDING MORE HOUSING, which I find a whole lot of my peers in seemingly progressive spaces ARE ACTUALLY OPPOSED TO.

Sometimes they are opposed to it because they've heard stats that the problem is simple and could be solved very easily if only we would just decide to solve it, which is DOING REAL DAMAGE.

By telling the simplest version of the story, you can get people riled up, but what do you do with that once they're riled up if they were riled up by lies?

There are only two paths:

1. Tell them the truth...that everything they've been told is actually a lie and that the problem is actually hard. And, because the problem is both big and hard, tons of people are working very hard on it, and they should be grateful for (or even become) one of those people.

2. Keep lying until they are convinced that the problem does not exist because it is hard, it exists because people are evil.

Or, I guess, #3, people could just be angry and sad all the time, which is also not great for affecting real change.

I dunno...I'm aware that people aren't doing this because they want to create a problem, and often they believe the fake stats they are quoting, but I do not think it is doing more good than harm, and I would like to see folks doing less of it.

One thing that definitely does more good than harm is actually connecting to the complexity of an issue that is important to you. Do that...and see that there are many people working hard.

We do not have any big, easy problems. If we did, they'd be solved. I'm sorry, it's a bummer, but here we are.