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Matija Marohnić

@silvenon.com

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React frontend developer and various tooling nerd.

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Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 1d

And you nailed it 💯

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 2d

Oh honey, no, I don't care about the look, I just need better features.

Welcome to the new Meetup!

All the same features, with a fresh new look. Enjoy a vibrant new visual identity, streamlined design, and faster browsing.

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 3d

Rooting for you! All my fingers and toes: 🤞

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 3d

Ah yes, my plane to AMS has been delayed by like 2h, but I went many days ahead of time. I hope you get there in time and all. No stress, only fun!

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 6d

Eh, didn’t manage to fully get rid of them, some of them were either flaky or caused by running some tests in a particular order…

Vitest Browser Mode saved me because I didn’t have to care anymore, but I’m testing web apps.

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 6d

Yup, no Node.js, no act(). Vitest Browser Mode is superior to unit tests for frontend anyway.

But library authors need to make sure their library is isomorphic and doesn’t cause act() warnings in unit tests, so we should not assume the goal here 🤷‍♂️

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 6d

But then again, there isn’t any ambiguity in that formatting, so I understand the choice that parens are deemed superfluous.

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 6d

Certainly not my cup of tea either…

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 6d

I see… that’s disappointing, but not surprising. There’s a growing mentality of “tools first, ask questions later”.

But are there many vanilla frontend TS apps out there? Off the top of my head seems like I would use it mostly for demos and interviews.

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 6d

I only updated yesterday so I didn’t noticed rollbacks.

But, like, Journal made it to macOS, which I really wanted, yet no mention of that AFAIK. Weird priorities, man…

But I get about the design language, it’s indeed a specific look that can be called something.

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 6d

I don’t think AI is good for minimal examples, it’s not trained on such data because nobody codes like that.

When using LLMs directly you can cherry pick, but here I think that Bolt wanted to show you something “finished”, so it might not be very indicative of the state of frontend.

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 6d

Does anybody find it weird that "liquid glass" has been presented almost as a flagship feature?

I remember design overhauls as always being considered nice-to-haves, means to an end, but not features.

I wonder what makes this one so different, I don't see it yet. I notice animations much more.

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 7d

Thanks, I hate it.

It's invisible — I was looking for it so that I could close it, it took me a while.

macOS clock icon before and after

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 7d

The transcript below is ChatGPT trying to answer my prompt via voice conversation using my speakers as output.

But ChatGPT keeps interrupting itself because it hears its own output, thinking that I said something. Pieces of output becoming its input, which is a long-standing bug.

a conversation with ChatGPT with short prompts and answers

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 9d

It’s so full of itself

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 10d

Excellent 💯

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 11d

Well put. Microsoft has also released Playwright… Times have changed.

But I'm bummed out about GitHub a bit because, unlike other products on that list, Microsoft didn't always own GitHub, and it isn't seem to be improving much and it's gaining clutter.

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 11d

It's empowering to give AI a failing test because then iteration is no longer on you.

AI: I'll try to fix the problem, let's run the test…
AI: I used the API that doesn't exist, let me try to use the correct API…
AI: that API doesn't exist either, I'll search the docs…

Me: yeah maybe you should

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 12d

Is it because Charlie Kirk is in the feed of your music app? 😄

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 12d

I thought you played the episode a bit because she’s muted. But yeah, that would be very out of character for you 😄

I don’t know who she is either, I just wanted to play something during cleaning my apartment that sounded remotely interesting, but it was a mistake.

Back to your OP, why “fuck off”?

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 12d

Spotify’s home page is illegible to me, but then again as I recall so is YouTube Music… I use mainly Spotify because of daily mixes, and occasionally YouTube Music.

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 12d

I tried listening to Candace today, very highly ranked, but I had to turn her off, super weird content.

What are you objecting to here exactly? Mixing podcasts with music or something else?

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 13d

I need one of them steel lap guitars: youtu.be/Z5X4Q6jFtHg?...

And then I also need to learn how to play them, but damn, that's totally my jam.

Dan Tyminski : The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn

YouTube video by thefilmprojector

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 13d

Yes Fly.io. Sure! Thanks for offering, I'll see what I can figure out with AI first, then we can agree on a call next week after I fail?

Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 14d

Oops, I think I added the schema to my configuration:

"$schema": "http://json.schemastore.org/tsconfig",

That might've helped 😜