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I don't like this trend.

I know a lot of you are going to turn Reply Guy on me, but I don't think it's good for humanity for everyone to work from home. Thread:
When I moved to London, then NYC, I knew almost no-one. I was able to form deep, meaningful friendships largely because I worked in offices with people. I can maintain those pre-existing relationships now, but I think I'd struggle to form similar new ones if we all WFH'd.
I get that not everyone enjoys their coworkers' company. I'm sorry if that applies to you! But I really think a lot of WFH evangelists chronically underestimate the harm to the fabric of society if people were to become even more isolated after Covid than we were before.
People don't like to talk about this because no-one wants to sound like they're incapable of making friends outside work. The reality is I think a lot of millennials *do* predominantly make friends that way, and we're the age group most likely to suffer from serious loneliness.
A society with fewer strong social bonds is a more fragile, more volatile society. And loneliness is widely recognised as a major health crisis. Let's not make it worse! WFH should be an option, not the expectation.
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Several people have asked me to make a @sveltejs version of this interesting demo that's doing the rounds, which purports to show how fast React can be with 'scheduling'. Let's take a look!
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@sveltejs On the left, we have the React version, running in prod mode. On the right, Svelte (in dev mode, because I forgot to build it. Oh well.) Notice the huge gap in the React version whenever you change the count. With Svelte? Honey badger don't care.
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this is a niche tweet, but: conventional UI framework wisdom is that we should strive for incremental hydration, rather than blocking the main thread while you make the entire SSR'd page interactive. but! this seems to leave you with a choice:
Either you run the risk of inconsistent UI:

```
<button onClick={increment}>+1</button>

<!-- gets hydrated later... -->
<p>clicks: {count}</p>
```

In this case, the user could click on the newly interactive button without anything appearing to happen.
Or: you hydrate incrementally, but wait until the end to 'activate' everything and apply current state, in which case you may have kept the main thread unblocked, but really you just delayed interactivity.

Is there a third option?
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My talk from @jscamp, "The Return of 'Write Less, Do More'" is up on YouTube:

It's a 30 min talk on @sveltejs, and why less code = fewer bugs — kind of a sequel to "Rethinking Reactivity" () Here's a summary thread:
'Write Less, Do More' is the jQuery slogan. jQuery changed my life: I was working at a newsroom in South London, trying to learn to code so I could do e.g. fancy interactive dataviz like the big guys were doing, and I doubt I would have succeeded without it.
As it happens, 'write less' is one of the very few rules for writing *prose* that almost everyone agrees on. Every word should be doing work. It's not just about respecting readers' time — it helps you write prose that is *correct*. Flabby prose creates space for bullshit.
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