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Hi Michiel!

Just a small headsup: clicking on the Leiden Python link in your About Me page give not the expected results.

And a small nitpick: it's "Michiel's" in English (where it's "Michiels" in Dutch).

Thanks for devoting time to opensource... <3

I went with SSR for a new project started 2025Q4. I'm not against React, but when I have to make an SPA (or very interactive component in an SSR app) I much rather use Elm.

In order to do the JS that I have to do with an SSR app I went with Alpine.js. It reduces the JS I have to write and that fits my SSR approach.

It feels a bit like a modern jQuery to be honest: you cannot build whole apps with it, but just to sprinkle on top of an SSR it does really well.

Indeed. It's weird they write so much with addressing the elephant.

So lets discuss it...

From the start I thought that the TechEmpower Benchmarks were testing all the metrics the JVM is good at, and non the JVM is bad at (mainly: memory usage, start-up time, container size). I got the idea back then than they were a JVM shop (could not confirm this on their current website).

Lately the JVM contenders are not longer at the top. And the benchmark contains many contenders with highly optimized implementations that do not reflect real life use.

Which is kind of understandable as Wayland tries to be more secure: and thus in Wayland not all keyboard events are propagated to all applications (that's what X11 does). I think it's a good idea to put security first in this iteration of FLOSS desktop technology.

Why to you prefer? I have a different experience, and want to learn.

(I'm also hating on TS/JS: but some day some AI will port it to Rust, right?)

So much agreed. I'm constraining my AI, that always wants to add more dependencies, create unnecessary code, broaden test to the point they become useless. I have in mind what I want it to build, and now I have workflows to make sure it does so effectively.

I also ask it a lot of questions regarding my assumptions, and so "we" (me and the AI) find better solutions that either of us could make on our own.

It's a cuban-missle-crisis like moment for Russia. And they act accordingly.

I'm not in favor of one or the other: I just notice imperialism when I see it. And Russia+Iran have been much less aggressive than the "allied western forces" for the last 60 years, while they have a lot of reasons to dig in and toughen up not to become the next Libya/Iraq/Syria/etc.

Sanctions, instigations (admitted) lead to protests that lead to violent crack downs.

Yes. Without those sanctions + instigations the crack downs would not be needed. That's beyond obvious to me.

Religious concerns are, IMHO, always a facade for the underlying economic/territorial/geopolitical reasons. These religious facades help sell the war effort: get young men to enlist and fight to the death for "preserving their identity". And "muh freedom" is just as much a religious motivation to me (unsubstantiated, indoctrinated, unthreatened).

US sanctions, US/Moss instigates, makes the Iranis desparate. Irani regime (that is the result of US intervention decades ago) digs in and toughens up.

People die in the streets.

Who's to blame? The Irani regime? C'mon...

It's like crashing your car into a tree and and blaming the tree.

Also: you really think the US/Moss care about dead Iranis in the streets, other than it being a useful pretext to go to war?

And inflicted less damage than the fire bombing campaigns on civ pop centers that were carried out along side the A-bombs.

The A-bombs were not the worst part of the attack on Japan. And thus were not "needed to end the war". They were part of marketing /the/ super power.

You already agreed that he said it. So funny how you twist and turn in order to believe the narrative you were force fed.

I'm anti the rushed out, badly tested, mRNA treatment. It's not a vaccine. Believe as you wish.

Why you call people critical of the mRNA-jab to be "anti vax"? I'm not against all vaccines, just the mRNA treatment that was rushed out and pushed on us was a giant fraud. The word "anti vax" is part of the campaign to push it on us: demonize the people that are hesitant.

Dunno man. When enough people overweight, 1-2 alcoholic drink become healthy (alcohol is a blood thinner): this happened, but as we know now it's not true.