colourgarden

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Senior UX developer based in London.
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Comment · 3 years ago
Not mentioned in the article:

- Semantic version is not responsive (sure it looks ok but isn't optimised)

- Tailwind version has 13 inlined SVG icons (on the homepage) which increase DOM size (Semantic version has none)

- Tailwind version uses optimised markup for SEO purposes which leads to increased DOM size (<ul> list for navigation; not wrapping entire article summary in an anchor; using <dl/dt/dd> structure in work section)

This is clearly not comparing apples with apples when it comes to semantic HTML+CSS vs Tailwind.

However, most egregiously, the author goes on to make a bunch of comparisons between the Next.js tailwindui marketing site and his Nuejs-generated template for the argument that "Tailwind is bad for performance". This is deliberately misleading.

There are plenty of valid criticisms of Tailwind but it's hard not to look at this article as anything but a puff piece for the author's framework rather than a serious comparison of two approaches to building UIs.

Comment · 3 years ago
Better than zero chance. He addressed it in the AMA thread last week.

> P.S. old.reddit.com isn’t going anywhere

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Wait till he finds out where they culturally misappropriated the name Thunderbird from!
Comment · 3 years ago
The title relates to Into Thin Air which Jon Krakauer also wrote about the 1996 Everest disaster (of which he was part).
Comment · 3 years ago
Maybe not in the US.

> We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law.

If this line is to be believed then the police would have been committing a crime by proceeding.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
I've been using VIU for a couple of years and can highly recommend. Good quality acetate frames, decent pricing and good in-store service.

https://shopviu.com/en_int/viu-stores/

My partner previously also used VIU and recently had a good experience with Ace & Tate (who have been recommended already).

Comment · 4 years ago
> He realized that Vasa had the wrong proportions even before she was launched

Not only did he realise it, he proved it. Days before launching the ship, he had 30 men run across the deck to demonstrate its stability. The ship listed badly and they stopped the demonstration before the King arrived.

Comment · 4 years ago
OP didn't directly say such dark patterns are fraudulent. They said AppLovin was committing fraudulent activity and then that Unity uses dark patterns.
Comment · 4 years ago
You may have a misunderstanding of what the ECHR is. A party can make an application to the ECHR against a member state of the Council of Europe (not the same as the EU) that that member has breached an article of the agreed European Convention on Human Rights. They don't "go after" individuals.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
> The instructions assume you have a whole PHP dev environment setup

How else would you expect to run a PHP-based application? WordPress also requires a PHP environment and database.

I wouldn't argue against Craft being more difficult to install than WordPress but I also wouldn't describe it as difficult (I'm a FE dev, no PHP wizard).

And I don't recall Craft every being marketed as a WordPress alternative - it's always been a "CMS for developers" (I think this may have been a tagline on their homepage at one point).

Comment · 4 years ago
Second paragraph.
Comment · 4 years ago

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