Thomas Burette

Ain't javascript fun?

I was curious what the "React Router v7 ↗" option in the create-vite CLIis. It turns out that it does a : npm create react-router@latest. In clear : it does not create a vite project but a react-router (Remix) project instead. I think it's so nice of @vite.dev to redirect to a competing project.

I discovered Object.groupBy(). But why is it attached to Object and not Array. @philna.sh's blog (philna.sh/blog/2023/09...) pointed me to part of the answer. Creating anArray.groupBy() would break sites using various libraries that monkey-patch Array.prototype.groupBy But why not Array.groupBy() ?

After all it takes an Array as input. Re-reading the doc, it's clear why it is attached on Object. It works not just on arrays but on any iterable (developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...) My second question is, why does it return a (null prototype) object acting as a map instead of map?

I'm looking at fully featured linux backup solutions (snapshots, deduplication,..) for my laptop and move away from "occasionally moving files in my home directory to Google Drive". The tools I've looked at are : rsnapshot, kopia, BorgBackup, restic, Bupstash. I think I'm gonna go with BorgBackup.

I'm gonna store the backup on a VPS I have. The pluses of BorgBackup: + 10+ years project, still updated + fully featured (including deduplication) + GUI option possible + memory efficient (I have a tiny VPS)