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  • shasta@lemm.eetoTechTakes@awful.systemsA Rant about Front-end Development
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    6 days ago

    The main reason companies use frontend frameworks is it’s easier to continue development through employee turnover. If your app was written in react or angular you just have to hire someone who knows how those work and they can get up to speed pretty quickly. Modularity also allows for code reuse. It increases maintainability. Labor isbtye major cost of software development, so making things easier and faster to develop and maintain is better from a business perspective than ensuring your app can run on a 15 year old iphone.

    If you wanna go frameworkless, JS-less, or whatever on your personal projects then fine. If you insist on it in a professional team environment, you’re making everyone’s lives more difficult.













  • I think two assumptions to this whole 10k people/day metric cause it to be inaccurate pseudoscience:

    1. It assumes people learn things at random times, causing the distribution to average over 30 years.

    2. It assumes everyone learns a thing by age 30. If you talk to anyone over 80 years old I guarantee they’ll tell you they don’t know everything.

    It’s a sweet sentiment, but it bugs me how people keep quoting this like there’s any truth behind it.




  • Remote access (such as via a phone or computer) and automation. It is nice to be able to do anything you want in your home. For example:

    • Attaching a humidity sensor to a smart switch for the exhaust fan in your bathroom to turn on and off automatically based on humidity level.
    • Have lights change hue based on time of day to assist with your circadian rhythm.
    • Shut off all lights and TVs in the house at 3am.
    • Using a water detector in the laundry room or kitchen to inform you of a water leak by sending a notification to your phone and beeping loudly.

    I personally would not want toilet flushing as a smart feature.