sir_pepe
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Comment · 11 months ago
It does not count as "easy" if the features don't stay disabled.
Comment · 1 year ago
Why not learn from past failures? Then everybody gets a great user experience, not only those of us who know how to set up a pi-hole. Everybody wins! Apart from the framework-industrial complex, that is.
Comment · 2 years ago
I actually tried to shoehorn AI into https://code.movie/ as an experiment once, but it only got unpredictable and of course extremely slow. Hand-tweaked magic numbers plus escape hatches for manual intervention feel much more reliable.
Comment · 2 years ago
The bigger ones do more out of the box! Most obviously, they include render functionality, which Ornament does not — you get to pick and choose your building blocks yourself.
Comment · 2 years ago
My day job is all about doing presentations, so I obviously wrote my own slide software. It is a pure expression of my workflow, my requirements, and my idiosyncrasies and the way all of the above changed over ~10 years. It is a great performance booster if you can basically brain dump your thoughts straight into slides, and if you can just implement breaking changes (or choose to keep supporting an objectively bad feature for all eternity). I don't need to care about any other users, or the bus factor.
The only part of that software that ever became public was the animated syntax highlighter[0], but I don't believe any other part would help anyone else accomplish anything.
Comment · 2 years ago
Fortunately it is very easy to opt out of all of this. Nothing stops you from having a backed deliver HTML and then sprinkle some basic JS and CSS on top. In theory at least, in practice everybody's brain has been smashed to bits by repeatedly colliding with the hype train. But the old approaches still work, even better than in the old days (thanks to improvements to all the relevant standards).
Comment · 2 years ago
The real problem in my experience is that people who consider themselves to be "real" developers don't care about CSS. I do a ton of code reviews and consulting for companies of all sizes and their JavaScript and TypeScript is almost always at least in a borderline defensible state? But CSS is always one giant file that has been growing since 2002 and is treated as an append-only log of !important. Nobody even tries to fix their CSS because nobody can imagine the concept of "well written CSS". It's like JavaScript in the early 2000s, where the language has (in the minds of developers) to be worked around with stuff like tailwind.
Comment · 2 years ago
Not true, member state's contributions are the largest "money maker": https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/financing-the-eu...
Comment · 2 years ago
When you want to pass an object to a web component without going through JSON or some other stringification procedure.
Comment · 2 years ago
Building your own proprietary frontend framework still counts as a framework in my mind. Like how a custom tailored suit is still a suit, just one that is, well, tailored to spec. The whole "no framework" narrative is silly.
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