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- Sorry, no, you seem to have misunderstood that I'm disagreeing with you. Modern SSR is not just a return to the same old thing.
- This is where I think Astro shines, with its "islands of interactivity" approach. Keep things as simple as reasonably possible, and provide an idiomatic, first-class mechanism for supporting more complexity where appropriate.
- Thanks for this! A brilliant insight, which I don't think I ever encountered before.
- Hmm, I've been doing webdev for a living since 1998, intimately familiar w/ the complete history and modern practices, and I respectful disagree. Pretty sure it's a good thing we're not all forced to do things the same way. And the new SSR with CSR capabilities is not at all the same as the old SSR. You're right that auth is kind of a hot mess though.
- Yeah, checklists are great. Further, they're even precursors to automation.
- Yes, this, 100%. Take your pick: "Haste makes waste", "Measure twice, cut once", "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast", etc.
- 4.2% for bots? Wat. No way. In 2012 it was easily 50%. In the era of GenAI scraping it's surely only gone up.
- I share your preference. (I also mourn the loss of the word "vibe" for other contexts.) In this case there were apparently hundreds of commit messages stating "generated by Claude Code". I feel like there's a missing set of descriptors -- something similar to Creative Commons with its now-familiar labels like "CC-BY-SA" -- that could be used to indicate the relative degree of human involvement. Full-on "AI-YOLO-Paperclips" at one extreme could be distinguished from "AI-IDE-TA" for typeahead / fancy autocomplete at the other. Simon, you're in a fantastic position to champion some kind of basic system like this. If you run w/ this idea, please give me a shout-out. :)
- Thanks for sharing. This kind of "color" isn't always easy to ascertain, but (for me, at least) it plays a part in vendor selection.
- Thanks for replying. Agreed on shelf life, but IME at least some of the egghead materials, at the time of publication, have been worthwhile to me. But that experience (5+ years ago) is quite possibly out of date.
- Agreed! (That's why I mentioned it in the context of TFA.) Thanks for replying tho
- (meta: genuinely curious why my observation was downvoted. I may take a further karma hit for mentioning it but worth it if it elicits a meaningful response. what gives?)
- This same week, Egghead (https://egghead.io) started offering $500 lifetime access to everything they ever made or will make. There's definitely some excellent material in their catalog. But the signals sure seem to point toward the decline of centralized human-created coursework.
- Thanks for referencing Helium -- it looks great!
- Personally, I quite liked GitLab CI when I used it circa 2021-23. Just now I did a quick search and found this article^1 suggesting (even before this GH pricing change) Gitlab CI may be a better choice than Github Actions.
1. https://medium.com/@the_atomic_architect/github-vs-gitlab-20...
- wary (cautious or skeptical), not weary (tired)
- Agreed. I've been on HN for 15 years, and IME maybe 90% of the value has come directly from comments (another 5% from links in commenters' profiles, and 5% from TFAs).
- Yeah, TIMTOWTDI, different strokes, etc... and I'm not claiming there's "one true way". I was just reacting (almost viscerally) to the idea of deliberately maintaining diffs in a stateful local env, which feels like it's begging for "works on my machine" issues. My instinct to avoid that, on principle, extends beyond project source code to "fiddly" local dev environments, seeking things like devcontainers, fully-reproducible builds for CI, etc.
Unfortunately, whether it's a deadly drug or a deadly disease, these casual references are unlikely to drop from public discourse anytime soon. And I personally would rather live in a world where insensitive or potentially-triggering language is gently discouraged, than one where the pendulum swings too far the other way towards censorship or radical left woke cancel culture. Words can be unintentionally callous without being "micro-aggressions". (And I say that as a liberal progressive.)
Thanks for posting in a personal and persuasive manner, instead of anger. Yours is the more effective approach anyway.