Everyone calm down:

It was just a kid trying to hack into a video game company. He accidentally started a war simulation. The US had recently turned over control of its entire nuclear arsenal to an AI because humans resisted launching weapons that would kill millions.

Anyway, the kid accidentally started a war simulation and now the AI wants to nuke everyone. Don’t worry though, as soon as the AI plays itself in tic-tac-toe, it will realize that peace is the only way.

If you aren’t old enough to understand this, you need to catch up on your 80s nerd movies. :)

How about a nice game of chess?

I use vscode with Git Graph. It gives me a clear understanding of everything, allows me to manage branches easily, gives me access to every command I need, and even allows a great diff view between any commits.

Merge conflicts are easy to solve now and I never get lost in the complexity.

I use cli tools for almost everything, but Git Graph and vscode solves git for me. The only command I run in git cli is git clone or git unit.

Everybody makes state management hard.

All you need is a simple layer to make your typed api calls.

export const ApiService = {

  return {
    getSomeStuff: async () => ...,
    postSomething: ...,
    etc,
  };
}

I’ve been using hooks for a year, and they are awesome (once you get used to it). I can write the same component in 1/3 of the code in a functional style.

The debugging story isn’t great if you expect to be able to use breakpoints.

It’s all about putting console.log wherever really.

The beauty comes in the speed of coding, I can move so fast that I always build a mock version of my api layer and can have the entire UI done rapidly.

You can throw in debugging statements (`debugger;`) when some hook doesn't seem to be hitting a breakpoint. Stops things just fine.

Yeah, this is amazing. Works great even on iPhone.

Going to save this one for the next time someone says React is slow.

This worked instantly for me (just like my website, I wonder if they are using Gatsby or something else for static pre-rendering).

Well... You're comparing performance of almost 20 year old computers to your current machine. It takes 3 seconds to start paint. The webpage is 'only' using 85-101MB ram to do nothing.

Remind you that the requirements were: 233MHz CPU + 64MB RAM

Let's say you're running a late 2019 macbook pro 13". That's:

16384MB RAM, and 1400-3900 MHz cpu (x8 threads) with 8MB cache. Which includes branch etc etc.

All that aside, it looks pixel-perfect to me, and it behaves the same afaict :-)

No, I was specifically talking about load time which is instant (compared to the majority of the internet which is not).

Also, as far as hardware is concerned, I am comparing a 14 year gap between a desktop computer of 2001 to a 2015 iPhone 6s - a 5 year old phone that still runs on battery for about 6 hours.

But that has nothing to do with load time and why most websites today can’t load in under 1 second (or even 10 seconds).

I’ve heard many complain about React performance, yet I have seen React with ssr or static rendering perform amazingly well.

My site for example loads as fast as hacker news on first page load, and then faster because of static rendering and pre-fetching, yet it has unlimited interaction.

I imagine if I profiled the performance of this demo, it would be similar.

Open the paint example.. it actually takes a few seconds

Wow, you’re right!

That’s faster than I can remember it loading in real windows xp on a desktop (and that was installed versus downloading additional code for that module).

Impressive!

Funnily enough, you can actually run the real Windows XP in an x86 emulator on a recent iPhone or iPad, and the UI responds acceptably quickly: https://www.cultofmac.com/717191/run-windows-xp-iphone-ipad-...

I hope someone pays attention, because this was fun!

Looks incredible! Will definitely try it out.

This is a hack to play a text adventure in the typescript type system (no runtime at all).

Typescript is awesome!

I built my desktop about 3 months ago after 16 years of using a laptop.

It’s great!

I also had fun researching how to get the best deal ~$2,000.

Nice!

I’m teaching my children to write their school papers in markdown for similar reasons.

I use a github PR to provide feedback.

This is a great idea.