Found myself wanting to build something like for a long time. Pretty much every time I work on any sort of significantly sized Javascript project I'm frustrated with the speed and fragility of the tools.

This isn't a replacement for webpack yet as it doesn't have a full featureset.

> This isn't a replacement for webpack yet as it doesn't have a full featureset.

And yet you present it as such.

Shortcomings are listed quite clearly in the README.

Ever struggled reviewing a large pull request in GitHub? PRHero is an open source alternative UI for reviewing pull requests.

I'm playing around with a lot of ideas here, feedback welcome.

Documentation might help people recognize the ideas reflected in the application's design. As another comment notes, it is hard to grasp what I am looking at when looking at the app (beyond the things I already familiar with like green highlights for addition).

Huh interesting. I do agree that this is also a problem for me.

Would it follow naturally from just being able to see the files that are affected? I'll look at the model file first and then move onto the controller file for example.

It should handle large PR's quite well. It probably doesn't right now but that's more a function of the code being hacky.

I think the problem with the GitHub UI is you have so much scrolling that it's a large amount for the browser to try and paint out and for a user to parse through. Since this is only showing a diff on a file at a time it's not subject to that issue.

Understand what "cost" means to an economist.

To understand cost in economics you'll learn topics like externalities (positive and negative) as well as internalities and their meaning. You'll dive into concepts like opportunity cost as well as fixed vs sunk costs.

Once you get at truly what cost means to an economist you will be so much better informed in making business and personal decisions. In my line of work (software development) so many products and daily decisions hit the sunk cost fallacy of wanting to hang onto projects we are in love with. Other ideas like negative externalities really are the underpinning of understanding why climate change is out of control.

Cost is always oversimplified. Spending some time to understand it deeply and learn the concepts and common language is incredibly valuable.

Yep usability. Some sort of common patterns for all of these tools.

I've found deploying to all these new infrastructure tools is a big gap. I've been open sourcing a tool https://deliverybot.dev that I built internally at my current org.

You are right to be skeptical - this is a really new idea that I did just get started on this week. To answer your question:

I've investigated whether it's feasible technically, talked with a few people who would use it to refine the concept and built a really rough prototype of the UI.

Is this just to gauge interest? Yes. In doing that though I have found a first customer that wants to switch from their current system if it works as advertised. I can't promise it will but I definitely will try :)

Thanks for your question, I hope you'll give it a shot once it launches.

I wonder if mattermost has the APIs to support this. Good suggestion, I'll take a look at this!

I definitely agree with this. I have to say though, I really enjoyed Blink and the storytelling around that. I visited the statue from the first chapter in the story and marvelled at how researchers "just believed" it was fake.

Sometimes pop-psychology, if it gets us more interested in subjects, may not be that harmful.