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vbg | 4 years ago | on: React Router 6

I still feel resentful about how earlier versions of react router had massive breaking changes effectively completely changing it, provided no documentation and no help at all even understanding the new thing let alone explaining how to upgrade.

To be fair I believe I once read they now don’t do that but it was truly scarring to naively update to the newest version thinking my app would need a few tweaks to get going again, when in fact big chunks needed rewriting, with zero help from the developers.

vbg | 4 years ago | on: Angular 13

Months choosing routing?

If so then they have bigger problems.

vbg | 4 years ago | on: Oh Great They’re Putting Guns on Robodogs Now

“ eventually it became clear that the foremost concern of these plutocrats was maintaining control over a security force which would protect their estates from the rabble in a post-apocalyptic world where money might not mean anything.”

Great basis for a computer game or sci fi book. “Battle your way through waves of robot sentries and guardians to make it to the inner sanctum of the billionaires. What do you find when you get to the end? A skeleton on a throne of gold monitoring his robotic defenses against humanity.

Maybe we should trick all the billionaires into thinking there’s a nuclear war so they scurry into their bunkers never to come out again.

vbg | 4 years ago | on: Async Ruby

Whether or not a software project succeeds is substantially influenced by politics.

When I read your post a strong anti python 3 feeling is conveyed.

It may well be that it’s impossible to upgrade such a company/code base when the engineers have such a negative attitude.

The barrier was perhaps not technical but about the attitude of the people.

There were lots of python 2 developers who were rabidly anti python 3. Some of the most well known python developers were aggressively very publicly anti python 3. Imagine a python 3 upgrade project with that attitude prevailing. No chance of success.

Today python 3 is more popular than ever before and is arguably the most popular language in the world after javascript. Lots of people love python 3.

vbg | 4 years ago | on: The metaverse is bullshit

The metaverse for me is minecraft roblox reddit any multiplayer computer game.

Even hacker news.

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