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Very little surface area. It embraces your knowledge of plain ole CSS/JS/HTML and empowers you with reactivity and a means of if being able to add motion to your ui.

Newbs and Pros alike can build fast with it. That speed + reactivity allows your software to better keep up with your converstaions that make it all so. Thats insanely powerful.

It's soooo good. Congratulations to Richard Harris and everyone on the Svelte/SvelteKit Team! <3

Comment · 4 years ago

I adore nvALT. so much so i took a stab at making a clone in JavaScript to revel in all the subtle details you take for granted as a user but take a considerable amount of concentration to orchestrate all together as code.

https://github.com/bkeating/nakedNV

Comment · 4 years ago

this is awesome! nice job on the minimalist approach. it looks very clean.

im obsessed with offline-first/offline-only (optional) and have been trying to build all my products with the underlying philosophy of single-file tooling and “infra-less” in-mind; meaning it doesn’t care where it lives and highly portable by default.

here’s a note taking app that is all in a single html file. images are base64’d and data is kept in indexdb. https://github.com/bkeating/nakedNV

Comment · 4 years ago

Yer darn right they don't change and this is one cool URL because I remember reading this years ago in exactly the same place.

Here is a relevant Long Bet that I think about often (only has one year left to go!) https://longbets.org/601/ "The original URL for this prediction (www.longbets.org/601) will no longer be available in eleven years."

Comment · 5 years ago

Alfred[1] (Mac app) w/It’s ‘Power Pack’ add-on gives you a clipboard history manager, text expansion, launcher and more. Very power. You can even navigate your file system, copy, move files... Easily the most crucial piece to my setup and keeping my hands on the keyboard. It’s been a solid app for a very long time.

[1]: https://www.alfredapp.com/

Comment · 6 years ago

Tailwind and utility-first in general is a major win in my book if for one thing only; I don’t have to think about naming my elements at the html level at the start.

Huge speed increase that gives me immediate results. You can absolutely spot and define those names, but you don’t have to think of them up front, allowing you to move forward more abstractly. Readability and maintainability seem like an inefficient nightmare but so far I have felt no pain or burden.

Hats off to the Tailwind team. This is the way.

Comment · 6 years ago

Well said. We need more analogies like this.

Comment · 6 years ago

This reminds me a lot of Brian Eno’s 77 Million Paintings: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/77_Million_Paintings Perhaps this could fuel v2 ;)

Comment · 8 years ago

Imagine that the future is now and they’re looking back on our time. What a valuable and warming touch to the whole thing.

It makes sense, too. Out of all the things Long Now has done, an inspiring space for great minds to meet definitely seems fitting. A priority, even.

Comment · 11 years ago

Make Magazine should put him on the cover of their next issue.