Julesman

(Below has nothing to do with people who need surgery due to catastrophic injury or congenital defect.)

Most surgeries are followed by more surgeries.

And the hard truth is that most surgeries happen because most people do not have the discipline to do what's needed over many months to solve the problems they are having with the chronic pain they are in. They want a faster solution and are never really told by anyone that the only real permanent solution is one that will be difficult and take months.

Rather than change their habits and their environments and their bodies, people opt to do things that have surprisingly low rates of success and more often than not result in a state than can never be fixed.

Some people get past the point of no return. For those people, surgery may be the only option. But for most people the only real option is a change in lifestyle that is more or less like deciding you are going to get very fit. It takes months and in the mean time, theres a lot of effort and discomfort.

In addition, most people don't really get how much of their back pain and ailment is due to ergonomics. That their bed is wrong. That they are sitting in a bad office chair or couch.

But more than that, most people don't get how central exercise and core strength are for maintaining the health of your back.

So before you get back surgery, consider getting a new office chair, exercising more, and facing that pain for a few more months. Work toward a real solution.

AI detection should NEVER be used in an educational setting where the only acceptable false positive rate is 0%. That being a rate that which will never be achieved.

I've been building websites for over 15 years. Soon after I learned, largely from haunting w3schools, I felt strongly that a) the basics were pretty easy to learn and b) there weren't any sites that were very good at teaching it.

Most sites assume too much prior knowledge. Most try to teach you things I've never used on the job. Most assume you need to be tested or want a certificate. Most sites are either for kids or for adults, when I feel the same information can serve both.

When ChatGPT debuted it was clear to me that it was an amazing education and production assistant. And that got me inspired to build out this project. It was clear to me then that while AI could do some coding, that knowing the basics was not going to become irrelevant. Also, that AI could make a site like this more useful than ever.

So I made this happen. And I wrote a solid chunk of the content by hand. It's a curriculum of super basic summaries. Each includes a demo, a code sandbox, and a chat assistant prompted to answer questions in a helpful way.

This is a free tool with no registration and the project is not-for-profit. The best possible outcome would be just knowing people had used it to learn and teach.

I'm hoping for any input people have. I'm certainly aware that there are more lessons to include. I'm more interested in whether people think this could be a useful tool. Why or why not.

I demand a submission directory of submission directories!!! :)

Zero value. I don't get it.

Priority Pickups: The only ostensible value. I've never waited more than 5 minutes for a car. $360 a year to save a couple minute?

Ride Savings: Pay to save money.

Early Access: Zero value.

Flexible Cancellations: Pay to save money.

GPT agrees with me.

The site positions itself as advocating for simplicity and minimalism in web development—stressing plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—but then pivots into building the entire project using React. That’s a contradiction.

If the goal is truly "plain vanilla web," introducing React (with its build tools, dependencies, and abstraction layers) runs counter to that ethos. A truly minimalist approach would skip frameworks entirely or at most use small, native JS modules.

So yes, it's philosophically inconsistent. Want to dig into a better alternative stack that sticks to that principle?

TL;DR

If you have a kid, please be a parent.

I wonder if anyone involved could define 'zen.' I know the answer.

No, they don't. We know this already. And failing student on that basis is just a very quick path to losing lawsuits which will shortly eliminate this question as a serious concern.

"Usually, I would just powerthrough reading the minimized code..."

Huh? Is this a thing? There are endless online code formatting sites. It takes two seconds. Why would anyone ever do this? I don't get it.

I think it would be more useful to list the few CSS properties that all email clients do recognize. I don't mean to be flippant. I'm serious.

CanIEmail? The answer is generally no.