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James Gulland

@jamesgulland.com

Product Engineer. "Nice to meet you, MAKE NO MISTAKES."

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Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social · 4w ago

To anyone who does not live in Paris but visits the city at regular intervals (as I do), the transformation has been staggering: Paris has been reclaimed from cars. It can be done, and could be done in London too. It is all about political will and taking the risk of being unpopular - for a while.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4w ago

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

James Gulland@jamesgulland.com · last mo.

The 5 Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most off the top of my head: 1. Am I so out of touch? No, it's the children that are wrong. 2. To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems 3. Mind if I tag along... I'm a bit of a crime buff 4. I am so smart. SMRT. 5. Cowabunga, dude.

irishoutsider@irishoutsider.bsky.social · last mo.

The 5 Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most off the top of my head: 1. What a time to be alive 2. Who are you to resist it, eh? 3. I dunno, drug lab? 4. Brownest of the brown liquors 5. Yeah, and then we’d get the chair.

James Gulland@jamesgulland.com · 2mo ago

Nice mental model for React architecture: start with plain props, graduate to compound components, composers/providers, then lifted state - but only when each solves a real problem. Avoid abstractions until they’ve earned their place. backstage.orus.eu/react-compos...

Props, Composers, and Providers: the composition pattern we're converging on | Orus Engineering Blog

Our frontend has grown fast. Along the way we accumulated props drilled several layers deep to reach one leaf, components that fetch data, hold state, and render markup at once, and rows steered by a ...

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sarcastic parrot@monkchips.com · 2mo ago

Rock Against Racism began in 1976 as a reaction to a bunch of racist commentary by Eric Clapton. It's 50 years later and people in tech are still saying similar things. Is it time for a Tech Against Racism movement? We could put on some conferences, some gigs, organise to make it unacceptable.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 3mo ago

The social internet got turned into a giant dopamine farm by a handful of companies who literally hired the same psychologists who design casino floor layouts, and the policy-makers just threw up their hands and said "guess we better ban kids from using the internet then"

jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

social media that's bad for minors is obviously bad for adults too. crazy to me that the move seems to be to just accept that and ban minors rather than regulate the obvious design patterns that were put in there on purpose which make it harmful to its users

Jake Archibald@jakearchibald.com · 3mo ago

I have a vague worry that, as we put more and more computation into CSS, web devs are going to end up with performance issues that are difficult to trace to their source compared to JS solutions. The answer is to surface this in DevTools I guess.

Jamie Magee@jamiemagee.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Turns out "let me just npm install real quick" was a security incident the whole time v12 is making dependency install scripts opt-in. I helped build it. You're welcome/I'm sorry. github.blog/changelog/20...

Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12 - GitHub Changelog

Our next npm major version, v12, introduces security-related default changes to npm install. All these changes are available behind warnings in npm today on 11.16.0 or newer, so you can…

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