Yeah, that tracks.

At work someone estimated adding a section of static content to a page that uses React as 3 story points.

They were searching for components that would style the header and paragraph elements just as they wanted them, but were coming up short.

Instead I simply added it with html elements and a couple of lines of CSS.

5 minutes. Done.

😐

Yeah, it’s kinda wild.

Roku channels are created using 2 proprietary languages, BrightScript and SceneGraph. You will never use them for anything other than creating Roku channels. 😐

You’re very welcome! I’ve since left the Roku team (I’m still on a few other teams) to work on my own client.

If you’re interested, it’s called viv and is available in the Roku channel store.

And since this is a programming community, here’s the source code: https://github.com/1hitsong/viv

I’ve always followed the rule of 1 car length for every 10 miles per hour you’re going.

🤘 Enjoy

Yep. That code was merged and released roughly 2 years ago.

Because I wanted to listen to music while doing the dishes.

The Jellyfin Roku client didn’t support audio playback, so I wrote it myself… while learning Roku’s proprietary language 🙄

Pull requests welcome.

You had me poop in a church?!