React by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
React officially recommends that you use Next.js[ref], so just do it. It just sets up obvious missing functionality from raw React.
React feels like a good. But it also feels impossible to use/learn sometimes.
Its main design goal is to reduce DOM changes to improve rendering times.
And an important side effect of that is that it becomes easier to do stuff of the type:
  • user creates a new comment that appears on screen without page reload
  • comment has a delete button, which is JavaScript callback activated
and then the new comment easily gets the callback attached to it.
And it also ends up naturally doubling as a template engine.
But React can also be extremely hard to use. It can be very hard to know what you can and cannot do sometimes, then you have to stop and try to understand how react works things better:The biggest problem is that it is hard to automatically detect such errors, but perhaps this is the same for other frontend stuff. Though when doing server-side rendering, the setup should really tell you about such errors, so you don't just discover them in production later on.
Is is also very difficult to understand precisely why hooks run a certain number of times.
Examples under: react.
Video 1.
React for the Haters in 100 Seconds by Fireship (2022)
Source.
As of 2020, no one knows how to build the major desktop distros fully from source into the ISO, and especially so in a reproducible build way. Everything is done in build servers somewhere with complicated layers of prebuilds. It's crap.
Mathematically, we can decide if two events are timelike-separated or spacelike-separated by just looking at the sign of the spacetime interval between them.
On the light cone, these are events on the left/right part of the cone.
Different observers might not agree on the order of two spacelike-separated events.
Further discussion at Section "Light cone".
The opposite of those events are timelike-separated events.
Fraunhofer diffraction by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Far field approximation to Kirchhoff's diffraction formula, i.e. when the plane of observation is far from the object diffracting.
One single universal wavefunction, and every possible outcomes happens in some alternate universe. Does feel a bit sad and superfluous, but also does give some sense to perceived "wave function collapse".
Ortholog by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
A gene that was inherited from the same ancestor in two different species, and which has maintained the same function in both species.
DeepMind by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
They seem to do some cool stuff.
They have also declined every one of Ciro Santilli's applications for software engineer jobs before any interview. Ciro always wondered what does it take to get an interview with them. Lilely a PhD? Oh well.
In the early days at least lots of gamedev experience was enough though: www.linkedin.com/in/charles-beattie-0695373/.
GitLab by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
GitLab was very important to Ciro because he wanted to base Booktree on it.

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