🇺🇦 Ingvar Stepanyan
Sr. Principal Engineer at Cloudflare by day, WebAssembly consultant by night.
You might also know me from my work on OSS tools and libraries (JS / Wasm / Rust) or Wasm DevRel at Google Chrome
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- Oh my god. github.com/cofob/autoge...
- Microsoft: software should work without an internet connection. Believe it or not I can write code without the internet, but apparently can't run VS Code without it. Related: and recommendations on a code editor I can use offline? I'm mostly Linux.
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View full threadIt's absolutely insisting on running updates, despite the fact that it was running 2 minutes earlier. I closed it accidentally and immediately tried to reopen.
- Huh odd. I guess you can disable auto-updates.
- Wait why can't you run VS Code without it? I don't think I had any issues. (I mean, obviously things like pushing commits or Copilot won't work, but the actual editing works fine.)
- request for opinions: saying "please" in error messages and warnings for dev tools - is this inviting and friendly, or insincere and possibly even passive aggressive? or perhaps neither of those, and just unnecessary and inefficient? or something else?
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View full threadas a canadian, i agree!
- As a Canadian, you don't say please whenever you have the opportunity to do so?? Shocked, shocked I'm telling you. Your neighbour is a bad influence.
- british culture: stiff upper lip also british culture: damn that cli didn’t say please when it told me how to fix my problem
- Hey complaining about everyday shit and stoicism + dark humour in times of extreme shit go hand in hand, whether it's 🇺🇦 or 🇬🇧. It's the US that is weird one :P
- hm, yeah, i don't say please often in code reviews. i think i'm more inclined to say it in a review message ("please ping me before this lands so i can ...") but not in comments on specific lines ("use x method instead").
- Oof, that kind of assertive messaging does read somewhat rude to me. Cultural differences for sure.
- interesting! typically if i'm asking someone to do something for me, then i'll say please, and if i'm just giving advice then i'll just say it directly. i wonder if maybe living in the UK has an impact on your preference here!
- Certainly could be a cultural difference. Do you apply the same standards for PR reviews? Because I think that's the way I'm usually reading linter messages - as any other review comment, and so (unconsciously?) expect them to be in a similar style.
- You ever notice how absurdly polymorphic the node:fs read API is? It's truly awful.
- So you're saying we should add an `{ encoding: 'json' }` variant, right?
- Definitely feels friendly & polite for me. I guess I'm not thinking of devtool as a separate conscious entity that is issuing those messages, but rather of a person behind the devtool trying to help me, in which case robotic messaging sounds pretty off-putting.
- After 18 years at Microsoft, with roughly a decade of that time working on TypeScript, I have unfortunately been let go in the latest round of layoffs. I need to take a few days to process before I start looking for work. Thanks to everyone who's been part of my journey so far.
- Damn, end of an era.
