This is also why SMTP is such a fucked up protocol. It was designed so that you could just follow the email protocol by hand. HTTP as well followed this philosophy (up to 2.0 at least). A decade or so ago there was a bug in outlook where you couldn’t have a line with only a period in it because that’s the end-of-email signal in SMTP.

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This is so fucked up. They know the thing they built is shit, and they refuse to go back on it, so the hack shit to make it seem like it’s less shit.

We had a Svelte application. We chose svelte because it’s simpler than React is, and it’s much faster. However further down the line a consultant said to the CTO that we should move to React. I said React is more complicated and has more edge cases, and its slower, but the consultant said more people know react and it has a bigger community, so we switched to React. This was fairly early in the project. React has sooo many edge cases. It’s not made with async in mind, if you forget to add a [] to a useEffect it just breaks your application completely instead of doing the more sensible thing, it says “don’t use useEffect” but there’s so many “except when” that you end up using it everywhere regardless. Later on the CTO got all in on Claude Code, so we spent the easter holidays rewriting the app in Svelte. Except a few bugs it was feature complete by that week and in production a few days later.

It’s much, MUCH faster now, and the code is much simpler. We lost absolutely nothing by moving back to Svelte but gained a lot.

Edit: not that using either of these is sane thing to do in the start menu. The start menu should not be a web application.

It’s bash. Everyone is expecting nightmare code, and that’s why it’s fun!

Lite was made for Manifest V3. They had to drop a bunch of features to get it functioning which is why it’s called “Lite”.

Yeah, it’s probably not a very profitable service, if at all.

The fact that it improves safety is a claim that can easily be challenged as recently it seems to have put people in harms way. Texas police used it to stalk a woman across state lines to find out if she got an abortion elsewhere.