Though there is always a person standing next to the self-checkouts helping people if something is not working or they need to approve alcohol. They always seem pretty bored just standing around.

Our Rewe recently switched to card-only

It does make sense when you mix. You get the benefit of instant rendering and dynamic content all in one. And web dev becomes even more complicated…

There is no latency on static pages. They are rendered once as regular HTML and then saved on the server to be immediately ready for the user. The server is only processing that initial data fetching and rendering once per site. If needed, it can be retriggered. This is great for blogs and other regular pages.

Server pages on the other hand will do the initial fetch request every time but once the site is there, no data is missing and everything is there. It’s not for everyone. Regular dynamic pages still make sense. For every method there are use cases.

Disclaimer: I’m speaking from my experience with Next.js which did the same thing long before and React now aims to make that easier. But I’m not sure if React has the distinction between static and server. It’s all new and I haven’t had a project to test it on yet.

It’s called Server Components. If you actually build a fully static website, there is no DOM modification going on. I would actually not recommend doing that with React because it kinda defeats the purpose. The goal of it is to have a mix of both. The initial render is super fast because it is prerendered once for everyone. Then dynamic data is being fetched if needed and elements are replaced. It also improves SEO.

React 19 is not yet officially released but you can read more about it here https://react.dev/blog/2024/04/25/react-19

I’m a React dev. You can create server side websites, written in JS, that don’t require JS to be turned on in the browser. Granted, this just became a new official feature in React but has already been available with React frameworks like NextJS

I envy you

Work takes all the fun out of coding for me. I haven’t touched a side project for a year.

Is this why todays NYT Crossword Mini asked for scurvy treatment?

No arrays are not allowed. Attributes can only be strings. But the children are kind of an array.

There is actually an extension to JSON: https://json5.org/

Unfortunately only very few tools support that.

Since XML can have attributes and children, it’s not as easy to convert to JSON.

Your JSON example is more akin to:

<address street_address="21 2nd Street" city="New York" ...></address>

JSON not supporting comments is a human rights violation

It wasn’t worth vacuuming if it doesn’t crackle.

Yes it’s not abuse but still a man-made problem for animals, which is why I mentioned it.

Beekeeping is a real problem, especially since it became a new hobby for some people. It’s advertised as helping to save the bees but in reality the honey bees are not in danger. They are the danger - to wild bees and other local insects.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-27591-y

Indeed

The moment an animal is involved in the process of making money they are bred, caged and treated only as “good” as needed so they stay alive.

Incredible how humans always find ways of abusing more animals.

When I look at a digital clock I always convert it to analog in my head. Guess I’m that old.