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  1. Feb 2026
    1. Yup. When I was in college, they assigned everyone with a task to design and develop a website for a local business founded by the elderly and for the elderly. Worked super hard (was just getting into web design and dev) and created, what I and my friends thought, was a beautiful site form scratch. I thought I had a good shot at winning but they ended up picking a website that was covered in one color and used a very basic free pre-built bootstrap theme. It even had a little footer that said ‘theme from xyz’ at the bottom of the page when they presented it to the client. Old people and their taste can be surprising.

      The complainants' comments here are pure occupational psychosis.

      See also: déformation professionnelle.

  2. Dec 2025
  3. Oct 2023
    1. code leveraging Buffer-specific methods needs polyfilling, preventing many valuable packages from being browser-compatible

      ... so don't rely on it.

      If the methods are helpful then reimplement them (as a library, even) and use that in your code. When passing data to code that you don't control, use the underlying ArrayBuffer instance.

      The very mention of polyfilling here represents a fundamental misapprehension about how to structure a codebase and decide which abstractions to rely on and which ones not to...

      cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_psychosis

  4. Jan 2023