Ok, so it’s an encrypted, open source whistle-blowing feature in their app / system.
The article is light on technical details but if it makes whistleblowing easier and safer than for example emailing their editors that’s probably a good thing.
Context for people who don’t get the joke, the logo on the right is for Tailwind, a library that offers an alternative to using normal CSS for styling Web UIs and websites.
It provides you with microclasses that add flexbox, margins, shadows etc. and discourages you from using the “Cascading” part of CSS (which was likely a mistake imo)
Ultimately, it’s still CSS under the hood which is the joke.
I’ve been on that platform since 2014. It’s a mix of an anime tracker and a Facebook-like social media site. Used to be called Hummingbird.
It’s alright, if a bit dated.
Of course, but OOP is typically about putting methods on classes, inheritance of behaviour etc.
JS Objects aren’t typically used that way, they tend to be used as pure data containers. At least, that’s how we mostly use them.
Occasionally, we’ll use objects to simplify passing multiple arguments including arrow functions, but I’d say that doesn’t really count unless the arrow function mutates the object it’s a part of.
I’ve worked on projects with 10 000+ lines of typescript and maybe 3 classes total.
I think they are bundling this into their regular app, so they’d have to put every guardian read on the list😅