Learn x in y is always my goto: https://learnxinyminutes.com/lua/

Frontend churn has chilled out so much over the last few years. The default webapp stack today has been the same for 5 years now, next.js (9yo) react (12yo) tailwind (8yo) postgres (36yo). I'm not endorsing this stack, it just seems to be the norm now.

Compare that to what we had in the late 00's and early 10's we went through prototype -> mootools -> jquery -> backbone -> angularjs -> ember -> react, all in about 6 years. Thats a new recommended framework every year. If you want to complain about fads and churn, hop on over to AI development, they have plenty.

I remember that. To be honest it was exhausting. Fun, but exhausting. It’s nice now to have found a stack that is “just fine” for most things.

have you tried lazyjj? I was thinking about giving it a go.

No because reading its GitHub it doesn't seem better than magit.

jjui is definitely the best contender ive seen for a jujutsu ui. although, with the ergonomics of jj, and a decent merge editor setup like meld, i haven't really needed a ui at all

I've been fighting the git CLI for over a decade and I've recently picked up lazygit so I can relate to this post. A good TUI has made git a joy to use and when I did try to pick up jj last year it seems like too much learning for too little gain.

I think git will be "good enough" version control for many years to come.

HOCON is so overlooked but an almost ideal config language in my eyes. The only element I'm not 100% on is unquoted string values (the norway problem but not quite as bad since there isn't no/yes booleans), but even thats not too bad.

A passkey import/export standard is in the works. Once I know I can backup everything in a keepass database I'll be much happier.

True. Still, the difference is that with passwords, no one can stop you from "exporting" it. With passkeys, it could be changed, and the power for that lies in the hands of only a few vendors. It's still a bit concerning if they replace passwords forcefully.

Very similar to the koka language. I hope these effect systems become mainstream.

I'm pretty confident they will become a common feature in functional languages. Unison, Roc, EYG also have some version.

Then we just need to wait for the functional languages to become mainstream.

A quick comparison of the two languages would be interesting, in case anyone has experience with both.

Good: `mise prune --yes`

Mise tracks config files to make sure it doesn't delete used versions: `mise config ls --tracked-configs`

I got excited when I saw the title, thinking it was local-first software advocacy. But I guess if local-first software advocacy gets me excited, then maybe I should turn off the screen and touch some grass.

Mise has a very similar feature with its shebangs: https://mise.jdx.dev/tips-and-tricks.html#shebang

    #!/usr/bin/env -S mise x xh jq fzf gum -- bash
    todo=$(xh 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos' | jq '.[].title' | fzf)
    gum style --border double --padding 1 "$todo"

It makes throwing together a bash scripts with dependencies very enjoyable