matejcik @matejcik@octodon.social

could be? but like, jsx goes way beyond interpolation. and njsx on the other hand doesn't need it.
"html compatibility" isn't even an argument, jsx looks similar but isn't even actually a subset. ISTM someone somewhere just likes writing <tags>

I don't understand how JSX came to be.
What sort of person, when faced with a task to generate html from javascript, thought: sure, the best way to do that is include <tags> in the source and precompile them into function calls??

I can sort of understand that React Native simply inherited this very questionable decision.

But why didn't they create njsx in the first place? Guess we'll never know.
https://github.com/uqbar-project/njsx

I mean.
It's actually sort of nice that the capitalist machine is subsidizing small web creators

but. well.

Once again I had a glimpse into the warped universe of people who do web ads. DRM for HTML was mentioned, and also something about breaking non-mainstream browsers on purpose.

I think that we can all agree that nothing good comes out of web advertising.
I wish the whole industry would FUCKING FINALLY realize that the think they do isn't actually working, crawl off and die.

(* in the meantime.) (also 4/4 </thread>)

In conclusion, the world is stupid, and The Notch has turned into a proxy for some vague notion of style, status and quality. I'm kind of happy that everyone is copying Apple, because that means that the distinctiveness will soon be lost.
But in the mean, we get an assload of notches.

And as much as I disliked Samsung's design in the past, I'm happy that S9 is not notched.

What makes this interesting is that these two things are true:
- Apple could make, I don't know, a phone with a tiny antenna sticking out of it for purely aesthetic reasons, and it would become a status symbol anyway, people would want it and manufacturers would copy the antenna.
- But a big part of Apple's success is that it *doesn't do* stunts like that. In addition to a distinct looking status-symboly phone, you also know that you're getting a very good phone. (3/n)

The funny thing is that The Notch is most likely not a deliberate design choice, it's a choice driven by hardware requirements. Nobody would applaud Huawei for P20 if it didn't copy ipX, they'd rightly call it stupid.

Also, while I do believe that ipX is a very good phone, I don't believe it's so good that it could stand fully on its own. Big part of its success is simply through the virtue of being Apple's flagship. That is what makes it a status symbol in any case. (2/n)

thoughts about The Notch
(the one on iPhone X, not the minecraft guy)

ipX looks worse (imo) and has much less "edge to edge"y display than Samsung S8/9.
Not to speak about Essential PH1, which, in terms of design, simply blows ipX not only out of the water but all the way out of the local gravity well.
(unfortunately PH1 is not a very good phone otherwise. but man, the design is awesome.)

But, The Notch is distinct and ipX is a status symbol. So everyone is copying The Notch. (1/n)

from twitter https://twitter.com/ericflo/status/967212588319698944

"""
Today I had an epiphany, that decentralization is not what I care about. Permissionless innovation is. Everything requires permission now, from Google, Apple, or Facebook. THAT is the issue. Decentralization is a means to achieve the end of permissionless innovation.
"""
so important that i had to copy-paste it out of its silo

in other news, I tried out the socialfixer extension for fb.
It quickly became clear just how atrociously bad the fb timeline is at presenting information. Not even talking about the Algorithm, just the way things are displayed. Enormous amount of screen space is wasted on meaningless "preview pictures", for instance.

I might reskin Facebook and it will turn into a better tool just by that.

so facebook has announced a dating feature.
hmm
iii wonder what my left-leaning, feminist-heavy twitter has to say about that....

👏F👏U👏C👏K👏S👏C👏A👏L👏E👏
fuck global reach, fuck engagement, fuck popularity! fuck pandering to the lowest common denominator.
global scale makes things bad.
in this fucking world if you don't go global you might as well not try, but when you do, it makes your service actively worse.
👏FUCK👏THAT👏NOISE👏

FB should not *have* the data in the first place, of course. That's the actual solution. But it's a centralized platform and as such has a gigantic advantage in incentivizing people to use it.

and as such, it's damned if it does, damned if it doesn't (open up the platform API)

practically speaking, at this scale, there actually isn't much FB could have done

scale makes things bad

what gets me about the Facebook/CA brouhaha is that ... like ... people talk about privacy and permissions and shit, but OTOH people also *want* to give full access to "show me your profile and I'll tell you which HP house you are"
yes, including the fucking private messages
and also, without the message permission I'm forced to use messenger app?
so like on the one hand FB should not give out my data, but on the other, it shouldn't hoard them either?

@brainblasted this time it's spotify, so probably you can't. but thanks anyway

gah i hate that thing where you complain about a bug in some proprietary thing, and they send you off to L1 customer support, which proceeds to tell you that maybe a reinstall will solve the problem.

I mean i get why this happens, and at times the L1 support actually helps.
But pretty please give me an issue tracker.
Or better, put your shit up on github and let me make a PR.