Thread by @swyx

Let's de-stigmatize changing your mind!

Quote tweet this with a strong opinion you used to have and no longer do.

I'll offer some in thread

https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1349258512644198406

"Time travel debugging is only for showing off in demos"

https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1323662465872273409?s=20

"HSL is better than RGB because you can control hue, saturation and lightness as independent variables."

https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1222335610758688769?s=20

"We should move all errors to compile time, the earlier we catch them the more productive we are."

https://twitter.com/avdi/status/1114181834353647616?s=20

"React/Preact is the best paradigm to code websites."

https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1317635707838496768?s=20

"Monorepos trade off contributor/bug reporter experience for maintainer convenience."

I've done a 180 on this thanks to feedback from FB folks. I now think it's the tooling (@github, build tools and pipelines, metaframeworks, IDEs) that need to improve.

https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1292471675712188416?s=20

how could I forget! I used to want to be a hedge fund analyst... until I got the job and burned out of it. now I am much happier, have more friends, and most importantly lower chance of dying of a heart attack stressing about earnings.

freecodecamp.org/news/shawn-wan…

I had two opinion changes here:

"If you can support dark mode you might as well support infinite themes"

"I like dark mode so I can make my site dark mode-only" Should still soften your whites, but yes, dark mode is overrated for blogs.

https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1291717268942909440?s=20