participating in the JavaScript ecosystem continues to feel like living in a house that’s on fire and all of your roommates are just buying their own fire extinguishers and pretending that it’s just a temporary bout of really hot weather
Also posted to Bluesky.
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"What on earth is going on here?"
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"Fair enough."mmmmm steamed hams
*buying their own handheld misting fans and saying yeah, this seems sufficient
my indoor turkey frying pot shouldn’t be a problem
What do you mean, "thaw"?
in this house we ship fast and think about consequences later
@zachleat And one guy, Kevin, who is being funded by Big Matchstick to stuff ether-soaked rags into various nooks and crannies.
@sleet01 I’m so tired of Big Matchstick! Everyone should move to Big Flint and Steel, they only do half of the lobbying and sabotage of Big Matchstick
Curious how you identify the JavaScript community here
Any more specific and folks get mad so that’s all I’ll say 🫣
All I’ll say is Shai Hulud!!!
*storming off into battle*I mean 11ty is JavaScript though, right?
allegedly 😅
@zachleat I should pick up my "no dependency static site generator project" again ☺️
@zachleat I think I finally understand what “blazing fast” means
@sstephenson …oh no
@sstephenson @zachleat "straight to hell"
@heydon @sstephenson as long as the road is paved well, should be fine
@zachleat @heydon @sstephenson NPM stands for Nicely Paved Motorways, right?!
@zachleat @heydon @sstephenson I spent the past few months building a web component that adds interactivity to pages as a way to get out of the burning house. Would love to send y'all a link to check it out if you're interested. (and, i'd welcome any feedback :blobfoxheadphones: )
You guys are buying fire extinguishers?
@zachleat Like it or not, being on fire is here to stay
Haha but don’t install any new packages. Or publish them either 👀
and definitely don’t install any new packages that were just published!!