I think I'm allergic to React. I opened Visual Studio Code and immediately got a migraine

@foone

Still better than that rash that won't go away...

@foone Understandable. The last few months I was working on a React app felt like I was, I'm some places, up against the limits of its original design.

@foone That's the body's natural response. Those who can tolerate it have a rare genetic mutation. Microsoft actually tests for this gene during the interview process to check if an applicant is a suitable employee. Using a urine test, of course.

@foone you're having a... React'ion?

@foone does it even use react?

@whitequark I mean that my visual studio code opened to my most recent project, which does use react

@foone This is more common than you'd think

@foone at this point that would be on par with the corn allergy lady

@foone sound like a sane self-preseevation reflex

@foone Come to Eclipse land. We have better memory management and cookies.

@bayindirh I Did My Time in Eclipse, which is why I don't want to use it now

@foone You try it again. It boots in ~4 seconds and is much faster than Eclipse of yore.

trying to do something more relaxing and less migraine-causing today

reverse engineering some 6502 assembly!

@foone Much better!

@foone That’s a blast from the past! 6502 was what I cut my teeth on

everything is going fine

@foone you've angered the game genie

@foone

@foone #InterestingButWrong :-)

@foone that's what I'm doing this week too! Although it is reminding me how much I dislike BCD and accumulator architectures and addressing mode quirks.

@th fortunately mine is on an NES, which is actually a modified 6502 (Ricoh 2A03) where they took out the BCD instructions!

@wouter @foone

It's a Java based, full blown IDE with multiple first class language support which you leave open for at least half a day, or sometimes for days, non stop.

For a complete workshop, 4 seconds is fast. For a text editor, 2 seconds is extremely slow.

@foone a real ‘this is not my beautiful house’ moment

@wouter @foone
In short:
- Bespoke static analyzers for at least C, C++, Java.
- Valgrind integration with inline warnings and graphs.
- Integrated remote development/deployment.
- Integrated task management with remote repository sync.
- Much more advanced build profiles and project management w.r.t. makefiles, plus makefile generation.
- Project and environment portability.
- Configuration snapshots/import/export/rollback
- Integrated WYSIWYG editors for data & file types,

…and possibly more

@wouter @foone

I also like and use text editors (vim/KATE/BBEdit and more) with LSP integration and whatnot, but after a certain project scale, these tools doesn’t work as well as a bigger tool.

At the end of the day, using appropriate tool for the job is important.

no migraines from 6502 hacking.

I suspect the connection isn't React, it's just that doing react coding is the kind of thing where I need multiple monitors (so I can juggle docs/vs code/firefox) and that's too much brightness so it's triggering my light sensitivity

@foone I found React wants (needs) me to think in little components. I don't always like to think in lots of little components. Perhaps the migraine is from having to fight this.

@foone you are a migraineur, on top of everything else in your life that is “eating your lunch”?

@MedeaVanamonde YEP!

only relatively recently, though. I don't think I ever had any until last year.

(my current guess is that it happened because of my hormones being knocked out of whack by my health insurance (and health) imploding)

@foone did you lose or have to ration estrogen and/or progesterone?

Lifelong migraineur me.

@MedeaVanamonde I don't think so (I can't recall, most of that 16 months when I was bedridden are a blur) but I did go off my t-blocker for nearly a year, which definitely had some negative effects.

@foone there’s a lot of misogynistic papers out there blaming estrogen for migraines. I think histamine and general inflammation are more likely involved

@MedeaVanamonde both of which are Known Problems with me. And my migraines have definitely been much worse this last week when I've been off my antihistamines

@foone which antihistamines.
Yesterday switched back full from Cetirizine to Fexofenadine as Cetirizine was causing neurological issues and making my migraines more intense and frequent.
For migraineurs any antihistamine that crosses the blood brain barrier should be avoided like a radium butt plug

@MedeaVanamonde Fexofenadine is my antihistamine of choice, yeah.

(I used to use Loratadine until I developed an allergy to it, which just seems mean. I'm allergic to an allergy medicine!?)

@foone I like the idea of rating things by how migraine inducing they are

@foone yeah it happens.
I tooted a paper earlier that goes into adverse effects of Loratadine a d Cetirizine, the latter being the worst of the two: it gave me low level constant brain fog just for starters…not really sure why my GP switched me to out other than she’s getting kick backs.
OR it may just be the first 2nd generation Antihistamine our clinic recommends…and then they switch out to Fexofenadine and after that…the more exotic not available OTC stuff.

Here’s that paper again:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11387460/