If it's not an out and out scam of some kind, he probably got banned, or lives someplace where it's not legal for him to use the service, or something like that. But it's probably jut a scam, he'll need your account # or some **** to transfer the money etc etc.

This is 98% some lame attempt to get your bank acct info

ya no one wants to fire someone. esp if that person is really nice. and esp if that person had been competent at some aspect of the job in previous years. and esp if its a hudge company that is making tons of money. like, theres really no incentive to cut the dead weight here since there is so little of it.

Do any of you who are using React (or another framework/library) a lot wish you were just using vanilla js?

No - jquery only maybe - but not vanilla.

AJAX is a PITA, cross-browser stuff is a PITA. A bunch of other stuff that jquery just makes much easier.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong (though I have accomplished what I want), but I have a ton of AJAX in my React (making calls to a Python script to get data).

You're not using, say, the fetch library?

And **** no, I don't want to use vanilla JS.

I am not sold on SPA. In fact maybe I'm against it. But I'd still rather do that than try to roll my own.

Not in the slightest, but not sure what you mean really? What desirable vanilla JS features is React preventing you from using?

"not importing 6MB of garbage?"

Yeah, I'm uneducated and don't know what things are called. I'm using fetch. "AJAX" supposedly means asynchronous javascript and xml or something and I guess what I'm doing is asynchronous javascript and json, so AJAJ. I guess the pain part is the xml parsing part?

I kinda like the SPA thing. The React Dev site I have so far just really flies.

I'm taking your word for React > vanilla 100%.

My first pass moving into "production" has been to have Python/Flask/apache/mod_wsgi serve the React. I have that working in a hello world way, but I think that's the wrong approach and I have to just keep the python as an api fetching data and deal with the cors/cross-origin issues that I failed to conquer setting up the dev.

By AJAX most (old school) people means "XMLHttpRequest" calls

If you have apache in the mix you might as well have apache serve the javascript parts and not make flask do it, since apache can do it as well as or better.

React is pretty great. I think redux and a bunch of the other react ecosystem is flaming garbage though

Ajax just means making REST calls. The X is a vestigial hold-over from days before JSON.

Let's talk terminals.

Behold, I give you the worst mac default color scheme of all time - Red Sands!



The other defaults are pretty terrible too. I like the old school terminal look:



It kind of makes my vim look really ugly though, but I've gotten used to it. Considering a change.

I'm always about the black and green.

My vim

What about vs code themes? I go 80s monokai.

It’s all subjective, I used Red Sands when I had multiple terminals up to different servers to keep track of a server I didn’t want to screw up on, but mostly used a variation of green and black.

I really don't like the background being too black. Too much contrast. Also, I've learned to accept my limitations and just make fonts a little bigger.

peachpuff background and midnight blue foreground 4 lyfe

(although actually I also do the 'use a different background for prod related term windows so you don't do something dumb')

Yeah I definitely pushed the font size up, which is why I’m a fan of big monitors.

I played around with the colored backgrounds, but I really like the pale flat off-black. Screenshot I posted there is pretty awesome, no?

every time the product manager I'm working with comes up to my desk says some variation of "you and your matrix looking desktop"

I do typically have 2-6 sessions open, always black with green lettering.

People comment on mine too but it’s variations of “you werent even alive when those terminals were around”

I'm trying to remember now if my first PC had one of the green ones or one of the amber ones. I think it was green. God damn that was like 30 years ago.