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Why would they be out of date? The ecosystems themselves (for example .NET) receives regular updates.

Yes, they cannot include everything, but enough that you do not _need_ third party packages.


Insufficient mock data in the staging environment? Like no BYOIP prefixes at all? Since even one prefix should have shown that it would be deleted by that subtask...

From all the recent outages, it sounds like Cloudflare is barely tested at all. Maybe they have lots of unit tests etc, but they do not seem to test their whole system... I get that their whole setup is vast, but even testing that subtask manually would have surfaced the bug


Testing the "whole system" for a mature enterprise product is quite difficult. The combinatorial explosion of account configurations and feature usage becomes intractable on two levels: engineers can't anticipate every scenario they need their tests to cover (because the product is too big understand the whole of), and even if comprehensive testing was possible - it would be impractical on some combination of time, flakiness, and cost.


I think Cloudflare does not sufficiently test lesser-used options. I lurk in the R2 Discord and a lot of users seem to have problems with custom domains.


It was also merged 15 days prior to production release...however, you're spot on with the empty test. That's a basic scenario that if it returned all...is like oh no.


my guess is the company is rotting from the inside and drowning in tech debt


Just crazy. Why does a staging environment matter? They should be running some integration tests against eg an in memory database for these kinds of tasks surely?


I recently tried out https://daisyui.com/ (CSS only components, depends on tailwind) and so far I really like it.

It also highlights how far browser have come with new features such as dialogs, which I always implemented with (a lot of) JavaScript in the past


This library doesn't appear to be accessible. Just looking at two random components: The Drawer (https://daisyui.com/components/drawer/) doesn't trap focus inside itself (letting you tab to the page behind the drawer while it's open). The Accordion (https://daisyui.com/components/accordion/) first example is using radio buttons as a hack to avoid Javascript, which would be very confusing to screen reader users (announcing the radio buttons to them).

This is why there's so much complexity in libraries like Radix - accessibility in the real world usually requires a lot of Javascript.


> This is why there's so much complexity in libraries like Radix - accessibility in the real world usually requires a lot of Javascript.

I agree in many scenarios, but for the two you mentioned it seems like the <dialog> and <details> elements provide accessible solutions out of the box?


They do, most issues that arise from making things accessible are self inflicted. Some people just want to redesign things for the sake of design while ignoring a core principle of design (accessibility) over aesthetics.

Sounds harsh but maybe somethings SHOULDN'T be designed a certain way because it breaks a11y when there are other roads to be taken that can still look pleasant, be accessible, and way easier to maintain (less brittle JS to worry about).


StackOverflow always wanted less low-quality questions, which is now the case. Whether they still receive some high-quality ones...

But I'm sure the website still receives a lot of views, as it still is highly ranked in Google.


Do we know that it's fewer low-quality questions? Or is that just assumed because it's fewer total questions?


That was a tongue-in-cheek inference from the number of new questions going to near zero.


Yes the start menu is now very slow with the web stuff enabled.

If you disable it, it becomes snappy again. Pretty crazy to me that Microsoft allows the default option to be that slow


Or do not use caching at all until you need it


Creator of Kreya here, thanks for mentioning us! If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them


Switzerland has this and for basically every other job as well. Apprenticeships are very common here, I did mine as a "programmer"


I further like how much diversity is packed into compsci programs in CH, e.g. time at the Paul Scherrer Institute


I'm one of the creators of Kreya [1]. We were one (or the) first to support a fully-offline, git-centric local data storage in this space.

Kreya is privacy-first since its first commit five years ago, since we were fed up with Postman and Insomnia. Happy to answer any questions

[1] https://kreya.app


This shouldn't be a problem with Windows 11 anymore? AFAIK, the "evergreen" version of WebView2 is installed by default.


It might even be better than that. It sounds like Microsoft pushed WebView2 to (at least some) Windows 10 computers (N.B. Steam says 32% of users are still on Windows 10).

Of course, the docs still say:

> Even if your app uses the Evergreen distribution mode, we recommend that you distribute the WebView2 Runtime, to cover edge cases where the Runtime wasn't already installed.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/co...

I wish we knew how prevalent that situation was. Not sure what the failure mode would be. But it sure would be nice to be able to assume that a modern WebView always exists on Windows! That certainly wasn't the case back when I made my decision circa 2022.


It was added in 22H2 Windows 10.


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