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“In the Klein world, moral clarity about abuse is polarizing, and polarization, not abuse, is t…#
“In the Klein world, moral clarity about abuse is polarizing, and polarization, not abuse, is the problem to solve.”
https://www.the-reframe.com/eventually-youre-going-to-have-to-stand-for-something-2/
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“The overhead of getting their tests into a standard test suite had been more than the value fr…#
“The overhead of getting their tests into a standard test suite had been more than the value from contributing them: WPT was about making it easier to do the right thing.”
https://thenewstack.io/how-a-shared-test-suite-fixed-the-webs-biggest-problems/
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“The web platform added features that eliminate entire categories of JavaScript libraries, but …#
“The web platform added features that eliminate entire categories of JavaScript libraries, but the dominant frameworks can’t use those features without causing hydration errors. The stack that was supposed to make development easier now lags behind the platform it’s built on.”
https://alfy.blog/2025/10/04/how-functional-programming-shaped-modern-frontend.html
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“But I also noticed a huge problem: event discovery and documentation. The pitfalls of event-dr…#
“But I also noticed a huge problem: event discovery and documentation. The pitfalls of event-driven architecture were everywhere, and people kept running into the same issues.”
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“The companies I’ve seen succeed were obsessed with code quality, transparent about goals, an…#
“The companies I’ve seen succeed were obsessed with code quality, transparent about goals, and invested deeply in culture. They weren’t afraid to break what didn’t work and try something new.”
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“Despite the jaggle of the chromus, it’s really multi-purpose. And that’s what led me to ar…#
“Despite the jaggle of the chromus, it’s really multi-purpose. And that’s what led me to argyling the pintafore with the quagmire instead of the hoobastank! “
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Very thoughtful presentation. “I am going to argue that irrespective of the merits of our choi…#
Very thoughtful presentation.
“I am going to argue that irrespective of the merits of our choices (which are often real merits), the use of AI always promotes the legible, the quantifiable, at the cost of the illegible. But as teams and systems scale, the illegible—usually the social and the small-p political—tends to dominate the work.”
https://mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dynamics-after-ai/