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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Skipping React hydration… so, only rendering on the server? BBC just re-invented server-side rendering, bravo 👏😆

    I say this as an 8-year React developer. Damn, our industry really drank the kool-aid on on this one. Of course, plenty of people have been saying that React for static content like this has always been a misapplication of the tool, I’ve been reading opinions like that the entire time I’ve been working with it.

    I’m glad BBC is doing this, though. Legitimate kudos to them for recognizing the issue and working towards fixing it. I actually think there are some great benefits that React has given us:

    • A universal component interface for all JavaScript-targeting languages
    • An enormous ecosystem of components
    • Popularization of the “component model”, which has spread to basically every other language that is used to render user interfaces (the mental model is just that much better)
    • A quickly-evolving (React is arguably on its third major paradigm shift) testbed for what works best for UI development

    I would be happy if React was supplanted in the near future, but I also have some fondness for it. I know I’m way off topic on this post, just felt like talking about React.



  • I feel like most of the most of the people here didn’t read the article or watch the video. If you’re asking “why would anyone need this”, the article touches on it:

    One of Lenovo’s big ideas is that the form factor could be useful for digital artists, helping them to see the world behind the laptop’s screen while sketching it on the lower half of the laptop where the keyboard is[…]

    Also, it’s a prototype, yet people are responding as if this is a product that Lenovo is launching. Even if transparent screens do become a popular but useless fad, that wouldn’t nullify the value of this prototype. Trying shit is fun, especially if it’s something we’ve been imagining in sci-fi for years!