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No disrespect to its creator and maintainer! it's probably a fantastic library and undoubtedly took a lot of effort to build! I suspect it's a race to the bottom as the project reputation and traffic will ultimately suffer. Who said there's no money in open source? (/sarcasm)

date-fns - Open Collective Modern JavaScript date utility library

Here's what interesting: the project has collected $385,082 to date in contributions. And continues to collect about $10k / month. The project itself hasn't had any updates since September last year, a single maintainer. That's quite passive income!

opencollective.com/date-fns#cat...

date-fns - Open Collective Modern JavaScript date utility library

This piqued my curiosity... so I looked up the project and found the sponsor page on Open Collective. Nothing unusual for an OSS project, you can buy a bronze sponsorship for $50/month and that will earn you a "spot" on their website.

opencollective.com/date-fns

A colleague of mine noticed something strange: date-fns (date-fns.org ) which is a fairly popular Open Source JavaScript library has an unusual amount of, dare I say "shady" sponsors on their website. My first thought was that the website/project had been exploited somehow?

Not for me. Probably due to project size / complexity in types. How long does it take to run tsc —noEmit in terminal?

1997 För 15 år sen SV YouTube video by Hästens Beds

This Swedish TV Commercial from 1997 has been stuck in my head since childhood, it even hits harder today in the age of planned obsolescence. I still occasionally think about buying a "Hästens" bed to this day :D
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjVA...

Remember folks: Stay calm and git commit

Robin Weser - Inline Styles on Steroids YouTube video by React Karlsruhe

Nice talk on inline-styles w/ CSS Hooks by @robinweser.com and why it might someday replace the need for Tailwind et. al :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dS5...

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After further research I ran across wordpress.org/gutenberg/ which IMHO solves this pretty neatly with all sorts of inline formatting. They toggle a background color as a visual cue to show whether you're inside or outside the block.

editor/packages/prosemirror-codemark at main · curvenote/editor An interactive scientific editor built with ProseMirror, React and Redux - by Curvenote. - curvenote/editor

@row1.ca github.com/curvenote/ed...

This is an amazing write-up (and solution) on something that has bugged me A LOT over the years 😅

Just wondering whether the same concept could be applied to bold, italic, links etc and not just inline code blocks?

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Another interesting contender in this space is leap.new

Seems like the ”.new” domains is a common theme already.

Well done! I only had the stamina to complete 10 days this year :D

But it was my first time using OCaml so pretty happy about it!

Found it, so I guess it's called Code Lens :)

advent-of-code/2024/ocaml at main · danielstocks/advent-of-code :santa:🎄Yeehaaaaaa. Contribute to danielstocks/advent-of-code development by creating an account on GitHub.

It is indeed!

github.com/danielstocks...

Ah! What is it called?

OCaml vscode plugin

Just gave the OCaml VSCode plugin a try (I've been using NeoVim + LSP integration previously) and one cool detail I haven't seen elsewhere is making the inferred types visible w/o having to hover or place your cursor to reveal the type. Pretty neat!

I always imagined ”Digg” built on aproto could be a thing. Maybe someone made it already? A simple bookmark feed with categorization and upvotes.

Getting a lot of errors for Claude Sonnet 4 (Cursor) and Gemini Pro. Nooooo I'm going to have to use my brain again and write 100% of my code like a caveman from December 2024.

Best #hackernews comment from #GCP outage yesterday (also affecting various AI services)!

It's kind of scary to think how quickly we become dependent on these tools... although one could argue it's been a very long time since anyone was truly self-sufficient in this day and age.

I don't know if I dreamt this or if it's actually a thing but I cant find any references to it now: I saw a proposal for a new DOM API that can set innerHTML but do diffing like virtual DOM so that I can naively update an entire document but only re-painting the stuff that actually changed?

When the pendulum swings back.. it swings back hard 😂

I still love Virtual DOM. I’ve been using the Preact ”no build tools route” for a few client-side heavy side-projects lately.

I've been a bit silent here recently mostly due to being on parental leave! But now I'm back, and with a brand new 2025 profile pic! yeah!

CSS Hooks Hooks add CSS features to native inline styles, with no build steps and minimal runtime.

Are you like me? "kind of" like lots of things about Tailwind CSS: No build step, co-locating style with markup etc, but absolutely hate the idea of having to write utility class names instead of writing actual CSS, check out css-hooks.com if you haven't already. A very novel and clever idea!

Yeehaa!

Nice! Amazing, thank you ❤️

Me finding some time to do OCaml during the day.

Yep! which generally makes type inference much more powerful in OCaml, I rarely need to type annotate anything.

Tbh after a while I’m getting used to it so no big issue just something that threw me off as a beginner trying to figure out compiler errors :)

Giving the function a type signature just moves the error to the topmost level of that function, so not same as TS?