> there's this common back-and-forth round-trip between the contributor and maintainer, which is just delaying things.

Delaying what?

Merging code

There would be no merge if there isn't a PR in the first place.

This isn’t about the PR. This is about the back-and-forth.

If the maintainer authors every PR they don’t have to waste time talking with other people about their PR.

This doesn't seem to be a critique of the principles so much as a critique of their phrasing.

Even his "critique" of Demeter is, essentially, that it focuses on an inconsequential aspect of dysfunction—method chaining—which I consider to be just one sme that leads to the larger principle which—and we, apparently, both agree on this—is interface design.

Yes, and there are many different kinds of truth, so when two arise together—we can call this connascence—we can categorize how these instances overlap: Connascence of Name, Connascence of Algorithm, etc.

A valiant effort but not quite legible. What's color doing, here?

Mean pooled embeddings of headlines projected onto Oklab color space so that semantically similar articles are similar in color.

Small deltas in shade seem to map to pretty big semantic deltas, however, because the color space is so limited.

Point taken on the legibility! Thanks for the feedback, I have some work to do

I'm not familiar with their ouvres, but I am surprised to find myself disagreeing with the Romanticist verse. Am I getting older?

Sure, when these things were novel the friction was delightful. Now that the magic is gone, I want to finish configuring my device ASAP and get back to the games.

Seems like a powerful concept, and I'm excited to try it, but yikes does the code snippet seem like a textbook example of primitive obsession.

Incredibly, agent-of-empires has become my daily driver.

Hm... A Twitter comment is not documentation, but:

> every skeleton screen you've ever hand-coded is a waste of time

> you're literally measuring padding and guessing widths to build a worse version of a layout that already exists in your DOM

> so I made a package that just reads the real one

Linked from the readme.

I've never personally seen a skeleton screen. I don't know why anyone would need this, and struggling to think of what problems are solved by them.

You may have seen.

https://i.postimg.cc/qqCYtL6V/Screenshot-2026-04-08-134800.j...

The pic above is representation of skeleton screen on youtube.com when opened in browser

Placeholder with same dimension or colors as actual content, which will get replaced it keep user engaged rather having a blank screen that suddenly fills or spinners.

Ahhh okay, have never seen it called that before. Thanks!

Thanks, I had not heard this term before.

Been working on websites on and off since 1999

How does one rat mentor another?

You can teach a kid to change a tire without saying a word. It’s the same thing. Rats are very smart and very social. Rats that were good at teaching Rathood to their little ones had more that survived.

Put food in a maze and I’m sure rats would teach other rats how to get it. I expect this is similar.

Our dog learned to find tennis balls by smell off a dog that was good at it. This was after me one walk with this dog.

Every trip to the park got us a few.

Then he ate one and have himself a bowel obstruction and me a great enthusiasm for pet insurance.

Rats are intelligent social mammals. They teach by actions. Imagine training a dog. You have two dogs, one trained and one not. You say "sit" and the trained dog sits and you give it a treat. The non-trained dog will quickly pick up on that.

My guess, first they send them links to confluence wiki.

All deprecated pages with outdated info of course. But the comments have links to Slack threads about the incorrect info.

“Feel free to update the wiki to correct anything you find that’s outdated”

When I was young I saw a rat mentor 4 turtles!

Human in the loop reinforcement learning

More specifically, fruit in the loop reinforcement learning.

imitation learning is widespread among animals including many nonhuman species

RatGPT