TIL Prettier is considering making tabs the default in 3.0. This is huge — it would make an entire set of programming languages more accessible (if you’re somehow still pro-spaces, read this comment to instantly convert), and, more importantly, vindicate my personal preferences twitter.com/tomus_sherman/status… t.co/MYxY5wYLI3

it only took seven and a half years, but you can now set the tab width on github.com. pretty sure this means the last semi-defensible reason for using spaces is gone, and we can all finally recognise the inherent superiority of tabs t.co/z73EUkCfw2

This is a great question! SSR’d HTML is

1. way faster (especially when your JS is competing with ads/analytics etc)
2. more scrapeable and archivable
3. resilient to the many conditions that can cause JS to fail (spotty connections, weirdly configured public wifi, adblockers) twitter.com/Trumpery45/status/13…

I stumbled upon a technique for generating fluid charts that don’t require JavaScript. It seems to work pretty well dev.to/richharris/a-new-techniqu…

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Let’s say your Pulitzer Prize-winning colleagues have unearthed new tax information about the president, and need you to make a bar chart to illustrate their findings. Bar charts are easy, right? But there’s a catch. nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/…