Jim Christie

Hey #svelte people, what are your toolchain setups? Between the new TS, OXC, SK3, etc. I feel like there's potential improvements but no clear default yet, and in the meantime svelte-check is using all my cpu...

Do you think I can trust this billing estimate? Don't usually dunk on AI but the banners really make it quite funny

The #BOM $96m website saga would be funny if it weren't so depressing. The comms and reporting is just so vague. This is my favourite so far from www.smh.com.au/politics/fed.... I assume the supercomputer is a new macbook.

Every time may brain sees the word "bookmaker", for a split second I still think: "someone who makes books". And then I remember that's not what it means, and I get annoyed

Fun distraction to finish the day

Related but different, I sometimes have "cicada moments", from when I was sure "circadian" rhythm was spelt "cicadian" rhythm because cicadas are famous for their sleep cycles. I have a PhD. I studied Latin.

Svelte migration update

Can any #svelte people help me out? Am I losing my marbles here with these transitions or is this new behaviour? Transitions are playing when components unmount, even if you specify local svelte.dev/playground/2...

It's svelte 5 migration time and I'm not complaining but I need everyone to tell me it's all going to be ok and also tell me how to initialise/sync mutable state.

Probably won't happen but I'm enjoying the idea that I could earn more from a class action payout from AI companies stealing my book than I got in royalties from book sales. But then I wonder, would I have sold it to them if they'd asked?

Colleague: I want some data from this site but it wants me to do xyz to get it. Is there any way to scrape it? Me: Probably not, they wouldn't just ... oh wait look at this data.json in the network tab

*sigh* git checkout -b fuck-timezones

Hopefully these experts have done more than just listen to @footballweekly.bsky.social for 3 years

As a family our books are very organised, it's just that one of the categories is "James' books"

I'm not sure who thought this was a good idea but @prisma.io just prompted me to fill out a customer satisfaction survey _in the command line_ while generating the schema. Not even a 'Press x to skip'. Really bugged me. Get out of my flow.

Might borrow this line in the future @philipcball.bsky.social

Not usually one to talk political but I'm reading A Tale of Two Cities and this amazing sentence just won't leave my head: "The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance upon Monseigneur."

I recently turned off copliot/codeium and not sure I'll go back. Plus I'm pretty sure I can now refer to my code as "artisanal".

It's always funny until it happens to you...

I was hoping for James Bond or something. I tried some variants. I typed in Jimbo and had no idea what I was looking at...

When all your users are school teachers...

TIL that prisma orm won't generate a type unless it's used in a model. I TIL'd it the hard way.

A question for #svelte users. If we don't use $effect, how do we sync state? I need to do this all the time: 1. Model loaded from the server 2. Need an editable copy to bind to the form inputs 3. Keep an original copy to check for changes 4. Need to update the editable copy if the model updates

I probably won't post much - mainly just here to browse - but just a brief intro: - Lead dev at amp-edmusic.com, a platform for teaching music in the classroom - Interested in all things web tech, ed tech, music, books (sci fi) - Once a historian, even got a book to prove it (978-3-030-22169-0)