2021/12
Redundancy, Terseness, and Code
Most human communication, text or written, is wordier and more redundant than it needs to be, strictly speaking.
That previous sentence, for example, would still communicate its point in about a third of the words with “Most human communication is too wordy”.
You’d likely still get the idea if I used about half the characters and wrote: “hmn comms too wrdy”.
There are certainly reasons why you might include words when speaking or writing that are technically not needed:
TypeScript and jsbundling and Rails 7
This is a quick bit of service journalism about one thing that seemed less than obvious about converting the code in Modern Front-End Development For Rails to Rails 7.0, namely how to integrate TypeScript with the new tools.
Specifically, the Rails 7.0 version of the code ditches Webpacker in favor of the new jsbundling-rails and cssbundling-rails gems and uses esbuild instead of webpack. See here for an only-slightly out-of-date description of the new tools.