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But we in the know are not a significant slice of the problem pie. The B2B saas spas are. react/angular et al. The ones going for default "paved road" solutions that fall into a pit of mediocrity. Id rather folks uninstall lodash than say "oh wow pnpm got big" and go to npm with worse ci times.

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Yeah exactly 🙄 Id rather consumers of this watcher in B2B SAAS migrate to svelte then pressure pnpm or contribute to pnpm to make it smaller. That'd be a more direct benefit. The E18 effort will continue to pressure down on all packages. And us in the know will choose newer lighter ESM packages

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In fact - compared to *my* bloated react spas!! 💀

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And there are >10 billion downloads total per week (from snyk assessment in 2019) It's not nothing, I agree, total co tooling setup and images used in CI trimmed down eases all of what you said. But what share of global bandwidth and storage is pnpm compared to bloated react spas?

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Still cheaper than UK ILR fee btw. BBC hates context 😏

Fees for permanent residency in Japan are 20x higher; it is £955 now.

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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 30/09/2026

Their checkout is bigger, and they cache. Its not nothing sure, but in context it feels like pre-opt/distraction.

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In b4 the lovable URL for their "app"

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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 30/09/2026

But we don't ship pnpm to end customers...???

Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 29/09/2026

Theoretically that commenter has depression. Or isn't a software engineer.

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 28/09/2026

Just published github.com/unjs/oxbox 🐂 🛠️ A tiny, portable JS library for parsing and transforming JS/TS/JSX, powered by oxc. ⚡ Optimized wasm build in a single JS chunk 🪞 Same API as oxc-parser + oxc-transform 🤝 Works in browsers and Node.js 💾 Fits on a floppy disk

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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 26/09/2026

This reads as a bit of nonsense to me; what specific questions from the questioners do you find lacking in rigour or imperative? In theory I agree, but it's actually quite difficult for me to think of questions I give a damn about that fall into this category of flocking. But I'm already filtering

Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 23/09/2026

Many such cases in typographic glyphs too! Although maybe less applicable for something intended to be truly centered here (???), but idk. Also, is that consistent in every browser?

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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 23/09/2026

Grab a game from Ancient Robot Games in Leith!

I think I'm off rails now, presuming measures being applied to llm output and such.

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And often these theorycraftings are actively harmful or hold us back from understanding.

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It's just nonsense. Is it a measure of cognition? No you can't say that. You can't even say it is a measure of intelligence. You can measure outcomes and performance. But theorycrafting about it is just useless. We keep repeating it too (humours/eugenics/alchemy/astrology)

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it feels clunky. as one other person suggested, if a file format can stream/progressively load by virtue of how its data is laid out, I'd just what browsers+img tag to know that. I'm usually using frameworks that will just spit out the right raw <img> tag anyway (Astro image, for example).

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For the OG/preview section Interactions 🫣👀👀🫣 Animations 🎇🎆 Actually preview selection 📖 BIG SWINGS!!

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No the CTA btn is using colour, typography, spacing, and decades of UI saying "CLICK ME IM THE IMPORTANT ONE" so it should be de-emphasized / clarified. I see og image as decorative, not a btn to click. I see a btn as a btn to click.

Main CTA should be the article (bright btn), publication is definitely emphasized as secondary action.

Given its history I'd have enough evidence to argue it's not just wrong and simplistic, it's malicious. Why are we ranking each other? Ranking children? Making the number go up? 404 No good reasons found!

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This is definitionally specious. If we don't understand we can't even define, let alone quantify. See recent work on the idea of analogy computation in brain waves. _recent_!! We know nothing about the brain nor mind. "It's not magic" is true but useless. What is it then? Might as well be magic!

Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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And the notion of "intelligence" as something that can be quantified and tested is one that comes out of eugenics. So it's not a surprise to see the AI bros go all in on eugenics too - it's built into the ideas they're committed to. A good book on the history of how we think about the brain:

hachettebookgroup.com

The Idea of the Brain

A powerful examination of what we think we know about the brain and why — despite technological advances — the workings of our most essential organ remain a mystery.

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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 21/09/2026

you sir, blaspheme Holy C - the only true non self hosted option for every use case, clearly ;p

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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 21/09/2026

not for contribution, performance is not the most important metric. Go is such a huge win for TS because it balances ease of contribution (web people can read, parse, and write Go code) and performance (10x!) Trying to contribute to a rust project...let alone read it! xD is like Effect+++

Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 21/09/2026

Where do we open a PR to change it to "View Article" that does the expected think, and then the little left "by @..." links to the publication. Because that make 1000% more sense.

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Guido X Jansen @gui.do · 19/09/2026

It keeps confusing me that the main call to action in these cards (the button) does NOT go to the article but to the main website Is it just me that finds this weird...? The main visual CTA for a card about an article should go to that article no...?

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

can we please all collectively stop saying that "ai is just a tool" it is a meaningless & oft-repeated phrase that justifies nothing & helps no one ai is an industry led by psychos, ai is chatbots, ai is agents, ai is data centers, ai is shitty features in software that doesn't need it

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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 19/09/2026

Being a computer scientist who only has positive things about LLMs right now seems shallow at best, likely ignorant & privileged, or outright malicious/compromised at worst. Even the original authors of current tools, architecture, models, and harnesses criticize. Often. Deeply.

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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 19/09/2026

Which version? I thought porffor was a js compiler not golang?