Notices by Sorin Davidoi (sorin@toot.cafe), page 9

Have to say that TypeScript is starting to grow on me. I've initially dismissed it, mostly due to seeing it used to construct unnecessary abstractions and leading to over-engineered codebases. But used in the right amounts it brings some piece of mind when refactoring, which is a feeling I've never had when working with JavaScript.

Didn't take a look at the generated code yet though.

@Naveenthms https://moa.party/

@nolan Thanks for sharing, cleared up a few things in my head!

@zack My understanding is that if you don't comply you can't operate in EU. Not really enforceable in cases like Mastodon, where the administrator is usually a private person, but it is pretty serious if you are a business.

@aral Haven't followed through, but isn't this the version that some users reported messing with permissions [1]? 5.7.1 seems to have fixed the issue [2], so maybe use that instead?

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16435305
[2] - https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v5.7.1

@baldur @nolan First impression is that it works but selectors are more verbose. Doesn't seem to get along nicely with the WebComponents polyfill though, so for this use-case it only supports Chrome currently 😞 https://toot.cafe/media/r3qbZ5m3dS4OJ_eSUtQ

Don't care what the band thinks these days, 🐄 Atom Heart Mother is an extremely enjoyable album.

@nolan @baldur I am curious how these solutions work with ShadowDOM. None of the accessibility extensions I've tried can pierce inside, and I don't have high hopes for these tools either.

The project seems understaffed though - two weeks and no reaction, not to mention that the pull request @nolan made in August for IntersectionObserver is still not merged :blobthinkingeyes:

@torgo @david_ross uBlock origin has a blacklist of resource intensive websites/origins (enabled by default), don't know about others.

@xiroux Guardian just published an opinion piece taking the same view 😕 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/07/elon-musk-spacex-launch-utterly-depressing

Wrote an email to a news organization a month ago - no reply.

Asked a friend to message them on Facebook - they replied in under an hour on a Sunday.

@baldur Have you tried https://octobox.io/?

@nolan "Except there's no way I can figure out what a given update does anyway." => This. Would love to get an in-depth change-log, not just "Bug fixes and performance improvements".