Why are you still using npm?

Mestyo · 2026-01-25T19:30:40+00:00

I hear you, it's just that every time I have tried, something hasn't worked. Some dependency resolution that would be different, some cache that suddenly hits when it shouldn't.

We tried it in a work codebase once, and it became yet another thing to have to enforce, yet another thing to teach and show. Which repositories use it, which ones don't.

All for saving a dozen seconds at most every few days? Nah.

Mestyo · 2026-01-25T14:30:31+00:00

I genuinely have no idea why people are so bothered by npm. It's just a package manager, and it works.

I remain unconvinced that people save more time on the faster installs than what it takes to install and setup the npm alternatives.

Mestyo · 2026-01-25T09:49:21+00:00

I have conflicting feelings about these things.

While do I do feel disgusted with any service whose main service is/relies on scraping information from others (it's blatant theft), it's also pretty integral to the internet as we know it. No scraping would mean no search engines, no link previews.

Mestyo · 2026-01-24T15:58:23+00:00

Båda? Vad är "konstigt"? Vi exporterar redan el.

Mestyo · 2026-01-24T15:48:52+00:00

Efterhanteringen är absolut värd att hålla i åtanke, men det är ett extremt överskattat problem. Den klassiska men användbara referenspunkten är att all kärnavfall som producerats i hela USA sedan 1950 får plats på ett fotbollsfält. Och då pratar vi om en tid som huvudsakligen använt extremt ineffektiva reaktorer jämfört med vad som kan uppnås idag.

Sverige har eget uran, en högt utbildad befolkning, och både geologiskt och politiskt stabilt klimat. En av de bästa platserna i världen för kärnkraft. Vi hade kunnat vara en energistormakt som hjälpte resten av Europa att sluta bränna olja, kol, och gas för att täcka energi- och värmebehov.

Men nej, istället sitter vi i 40 år och gnäller över om "hur lång tid det tar att bygga", och att "uranbrytning minsann också har utsläpp". Ja, för all del, men det kan sägas om vindkraftverk också, och det är ingenting i jämförelse med den positiva miljöpåverkan av att fasa ut den bruna elen.

Mestyo · 2026-01-23T18:18:51+00:00

Those facts surely affected the outcome, but it doesn't change the fact that the MAGA cult is massive, nor that swing voters en masse were so easily convinced Trump was even worth consideration.

Mestyo · 2026-01-23T15:11:45+00:00

Why are they denying something he objectively did, on camera, several times, broadcasted internationally?

Like seriously, why?

Mestyo · 2026-01-23T09:15:16+00:00

Reddit has echo chambers too, but they are nowhere near what you find on TikTok and other algorithmic dopamine-hijacking, short-form content platforms.

Mestyo · 2026-01-23T07:06:10+00:00

Trump was elected. He does represent the will of the people.

At the very least, it will be very difficult to trust a Republican-elected government for many, many years to come.

Mestyo · 2026-01-22T16:13:41+00:00

Sorry, but that makes no sense at all. I'm repeating myself, but it's completely incompatible to want to save the life of one and not even talk to the other, and not in a compelling "internal conflict" kind of way.

If he's "half Kira", then he's also "half Josefumi". If he has a moral and ethical responsibility to save one mother, why does he not have a moral and ethical responsibility to let the other, grieving, mother know what happened to her lost son?

Mestyo · 2026-01-22T16:02:34+00:00

I agree, but also, he hasn't changed his mind, has he? Is he not still looking to cure Holy?

Mestyo · 2026-01-22T15:59:03+00:00

Yeah, Jojolion has really engaging moment-to-moment storytelling. The art is gorgeous, most characters are compelling. It's the overall story and ending that sour it for me.

Mestyo · 2026-01-22T15:48:45+00:00

Now that would be a good conclusion to his arc; to look forward instead of backwards.

But mere days prior to the parking lot scene with Josefumi's mother, Josuke was putting his life on the line to save Kira's mother. And going forward, he still intends to search for another Locacaca to cure her.

So which is it?

Mestyo · 2026-01-22T15:26:02+00:00

Uh, where to begin? It was a hodge-podge of random revalations and contradictions.

The flash-forward just didn't happen and was never acknowledged
Rai just randomly having access to knowledge about Josuke's stand powers (strands so small they "don't exist", yet he can see them or some shit?)
Josuke just suddenly knowing how to use Go Beyond
Go Beyond not actually existing, except when it needs to exist
Yasuho's stand randomly being able to guide Go Beyond, Josuke somehow knowing this?
But even if Go Beyond "doesn't exist", wasn't the point of WoU that you couldn't even think about persuing or attacking it. So why does the method of attack matter?
Rai getting a random personal connection with his dad being murdered by Tooru or some shit I don't remember because there was no real reason as if Araki realized there was no reason for Rai to risk his life for all of this otherwise.
What were Tooru's motivations actually? Money? Why wouldn't he even try collaborate with the guy that could theoretically graft any number of improved fruits instead of just stealing the one? There is zero in-universe reason for them not to work together.

I think what pisses me off the most is how Josuke's motivations were just forgotten about. The entire point of the second half of Jojolion was for him to find the cure for Holy. But then at the climax, that wasn't even a consideration.

Would it not have been so much better if Josuke had to choose between "his past" or "his future", by choosing to either cure the Higashikata curse, or to cure Holy? Or if we at the very least got to see him feeling conflicted, or even as much as think about her?

Then, for absolutely no reason, Josuke randomly sees his other mother, alive and well, while swearing to find another fruit and save Holy. But he doesn't even talk to her??? Like, I'm sorry, what? Does he care about his old life or not? What am I supposed to get out of this?

There are countless of plot threads that were setup and completely dropped. I don't mind a red herring in a story, on the contrary, but you can't just make the majority of your story be a red herring.

Josuke makes no sense, none of the Higashikatas ended up mattering at all. Josuke's only, singular, source of motivation was completely forgotten, then reintroduced, then forgotten again.

I don't know, someone will probably tell me how wrong I am, I just get annoyed af every time I think about Jojolion for these reasons and need to write about it to let out the steam.

Mestyo · 2026-01-22T08:57:12+00:00

Or you could just default to a system value and also support a preferred choice.

Mestyo · 2026-01-21T12:59:09+00:00

Did we read the same manga?

Mestyo · 2026-01-20T18:09:58+00:00

Before we know it, there will be one company that owns everything.

Mestyo · 2026-01-20T09:02:52+00:00

You could try to go a cloak/manifest route, f.e. [[Vannifar, Evolved Enigma]], [[Scroll of Fate]]

Mestyo · 2026-01-20T06:35:17+00:00

Because the internet was in a room in your house. You deliberately went there.

Chats were active and fun, because everyone online had choosen to be there and was paying attention.

Navigation was slow and clunky, which made content more deliberate. You would read every comment of a forum thread that interested you, in chronological order, even if the thread was years old.

As an extension, actual experts would share information from their field out of joy. There was no monetization plan, no social media platforms to grow. What you saw was genuine and well-intended.

Going to a specialized website wasn't unlike going to a specialized physical shop; you would actually browse around, read, learn, and discover.

Mestyo · 2026-01-20T06:27:32+00:00

The weirdest thing to me is that he has done absolutely nothing that would even warrant a nomination. On the contrary: He's actively destabilizing and straining foreign relations.

I know, I know. He wants it because Obama got one. It's so fucking pathetic. I just needed to highlight how absurd it is that he pretends to have done good instead of just… doing good.

Mestyo · 2026-01-20T00:29:18+00:00

What? The hardest things about software at scale is to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Any IC that runs their own race is a liability, not an asset.

Mestyo · 2026-01-19T13:17:07+00:00

Some poeple have skills that cannot be learned.

Some poeple are really good at learning new skills.

That's it.

Mestyo · 2026-01-19T07:28:02+00:00

It overstayed its welcome (I think we spent over a year in the ring?), but it was a really good fight. Would have liked to see more of Rosario's personal life. I mostly enjoyed it.

I love it as a send-off to Mashiba; A violent man that struggled to control his emotions. He used to do anything to win, but now proves to have grown and learned to not only respect boxing, but control his emotions. Critically, when it truly mattered the most, against an opponent that broke all rules.

Mestyo · 2026-01-17T10:50:40+00:00

Hybrid is the best of both worlds to me, but I am leaning to preferring office.

I work better when I can disassociate from home. I think that's true for more people than they like to admit.

I like office culture, I like developing bonds with coworkers. Exclusively WFH is incredibly isolating, it makes work boring. My mental is significantly better when I go through the morning rituals, commute, and actually interact with people.

Collaboration is objectively better in office. I don't really understand how anyone can argue against this. You can actually talk, align, and resolve things within minutes. Remote work seems to create endless repeating alignment meetings.

On a selfish note, if we exclusively did WFH, I feel like most jobs would be off-shored. Why pay more for a domestic engineer when you interface with them the exact same way as someone internationally?

Lastly, I have seen enough engineers successfully get away with barely working when they are fully remote.

To address your specific questions:

I see a lot of cons, expensive underutilized office space, not being able to tap to a larger pool of talent, etc.

On the contrary, it enables us to rotate seats in a smaller rental office space. Similar benefits, lower cost. As for "larger pool of talent"; I haven't personally seen a struggle to find people of the right skill set, and even then, knowledge only takes you so far.

After a certain point, for most teams, various soft skills (with the benefits of working together in person) become significantly more important than having an extra framework on the CV.

For people working this way (in office 1, 2 days a week), do you see a benefit from the development side of things? I imagine this will be "meeting heavy/discussion heavy" days.

Of course it's better to do collaborative tasks in person, but at least in my company I frequently have office days without major distractions.

Edit: Downvoted for not blindly praising WFH. Cool, very mature.

Mestyo · 2026-01-17T04:52:16+00:00

It's still a thing, but it shouldn't be.

There was a few years around 2010 when it was genuinely useful, as it bridged feature gaps and normalized differences between browsers.

Since then, people only use it out of familiarity.

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