me: I need to make a simple web-app for a projectalso me: I need to learn some react basics for a job interview

[jannem@fosstodon.org]

@foone
To keep with the whole "state of software in 2026" aesthetic, you should have the "dark mode" selection highlight be lighter than the background, and the "light mode" highlight be darker. Switch them around when you switch the mode.

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@foone when I'm struggling with CSS I just eat some beans

tailwind really does make it easier

[itgrrl@infosec.exchange]

@foone “a secret n th layout”… ‍️
 
 
 
ETA: I gave up on trying to force the internal italicisation in markdown without a space, soz

[foone@digipres.club]

@gloriouscow pffft

both a reaction to your joke and an impression of the sound it makes

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@foone

This was many years ago but i once worked with this front end dev, guy named Jake. He was a kind of an odd fellow. Real lanky dude, didn't talk much. And normally he wasn't the greatest programmer, a bit sloppy.

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@foone

But when we got into crunch mode and the hours grew longer and longer, it's like the pressure and stress unlocked his potential. Once, in the last 48 hours before a big deadline, I walked in on him surrounded by about a dozen empty cans of Monster, just furiously typing away, muttering to himself. I was about to say something when my boss shot me a stern look and shook his head.

So I stood there. We all just stood there, watching.

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@foone

After a few more minutes of this he slammed down on the enter key, and stood up, stumbling to the corner where he had sleeping bag, and just collapsed on it.

We crowded around his monitor. Unbelievably, he had cleared every outstanding bug.

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@foone

I turned to my boss. "I don't get it. How does he get better the more exhausted he is?"

My boss just looked at me like it was obvious. "Our front end code depends on Jake weary."

[itgrrl@infosec.exchange]

@Pyxaron @foone

[infosec812@foojay.social]

@foone I still cannot understand how #React has gotten so prevalent. I hate using, but I am forced to use it in so many projects.

[ziggythehamster@ruby.social]

@gloriouscow @foone

God damn it.

[j-g00da@donotsta.re]

@foone working with react in the past taught me there are no right ways to do things, only bad and worse.

[foone@digipres.club]

@gloriouscow I'm going to launch you into the sun

[tamber@taur.zone]

@gloriouscow @foone *chef-kiss*

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@foone sol long, it's been fun

[foone@digipres.club]

ewww. not a good sign when you look up a database and one of the first how-to guides they give is how to plug it into your AI

[9pfs@tilde.zone]

@foone what software?

[confusionunknown@pleroma.envs.net]

@foone ew which one was that

[foone@digipres.club]

@9pfs Supabase, the open source Firebase

[9pfs@tilde.zone]

@foone Unfortunate, afaik it used to be a half-decent piece of software.