nettlin | 28 days ago | on: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
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nettlin | 3 months ago | on: We found that the fix to address the DoS vulnerability in React was incomplete
> The patches published earlier are vulnerable.
> If you already updated for the Critical Security Vulnerability last week, you will need to update again.
> If you updated to 19.0.2, 19.1.3, and 19.2.2, these are incomplete and you will need to update again.
https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/11/denial-of-service-and-sour...
nettlin | 4 months ago | on: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
> The Amazon retail site seems available, but I’m curious if it’s even using native AWS or is still on the old internal compute platform.
Some parts of amazon.com seem to be affected by the outage (e.g. product search: https://x.com/wongmjane/status/1980318933925392719)
nettlin | 5 months ago | on: Did you read the quarter-million-line license for your Slack app?
This file does not contain the terms of service of Slack. Rather, it contains the software licenses of third-party code that is embedded in Chromium, which in turn is embedded in the Slack app. Every dependency has its own license, which is why the file is so big (800× Apache-2.0, 237× MIT, 59× LGPL, and so on).
nettlin | 6 months ago | on: The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19668161
I found it surprising that the slide in the article uses Calibri, a typeface that wasn’t publicly available at the time. The original discussion confirms that the slide in the article is a recreation of the original one:
> The slide in the article has the same text, but is a recreation of the original (The Calibri typeface used wasn't part of PowerPoint until 2007).
> The original slide can be seen in the full report linked in the article:
nettlin | 7 months ago | on: Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus
When using Tailwind you’re likely to use something like React components, so your actual code is more likely to look like:
<Menu>
<MenuButton>Dropdown button</MenuItems>
<MenuItems>…</MenuItems>
</Menu>
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> The car wash is only 50 meters from my house. I want to get my car washed. The car is at my house currently. Should I walk there or drive?
> Walk. > > At 50 meters, walking is faster than the full “start car → pull out → reposition → park” cycle, avoids cold-start wear, and you won’t risk arriving with dusty brakes/tires or water streaks from immediately driving afterward. Drive only if you can’t comfortably walk (mobility, heavy weather, you need to bring bulky items), or if the car wash explicitly requires you to drive it into a queue/track.