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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Remix is a server-side rendering framework focused on pre-SPA web fundamentals like progressive enhancement and minimizing downloading and evaluating JavaScript and CSS assets for lighter, faster pages.

Edit: It does in-fact load a JSON payload along with client-side routing as well if you click to view comments. But then if you use browser refresh, it renders as a traditional server-side request. So true to its name, Remix is a blend of both approaches, playing on the strengths of each.

Comment · 4 years ago
Halo Combat Evolved is how I got into software development. It only had LAN multiplayer, but tunneling software on your PC enabled you to play over the internet. That blew my mind in high school and I got heavily involved in the community, writing mIRC scripts, chat bots, forum plugins, application skins, and so much more.

Man I spent endless hours playing and coding back then. But I never could get into the later Halos. The gameplay was so drastically different. The CE pistol was the ultimate weapon. It was always available and had the potential to bail you out of any scenario. But you can’t solely rely on it to win competitive games. Powerup timing is king. Everyone knew the exact second overshield/rockets would spawn, so there was a natural flow to the maps as teams pushed to gain these items. Halo 2 and beyond removed all of this.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Some time ago I dealt with this exact bug for an e-commerce site with millions of requests per day, and it was also Rails + Unicorn.

ANY time ruby 1.8 raised a timeout, it was silently swallowed, and Unicorn returned the adjacent request session_id. We had to constantly defend against any code that might hit the native timeout.

Comment · 6 years ago
Just getting into this. Do you recommend any particular "dumb" camera devices with a quality stream?
Comment · 6 years ago
Props on your design + dev execution.

I noticed your personal website mentions building products with React Native, but in this thread you mentioned Gentle was built with Flutter.

It's been a few years since I took a serious look at mobile, and after trying out NativeScript and React Native then, I ended up just wrapping web views. The bar for app experiences is much higher now, and it sounds like you have been able to iterate quickly without compromising quality. Will Flutter be your tool moving forward? Do you give it the upper hand over RN? Or is the difference just personal taste?

Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
More likely from developers who hate to identify as developers because developers like to focus on development problems without empathy for the end result.
Comment · 7 years ago
I have kids and no doubt they have reinvigorated the journey of life. Watching them grow and learn and experience things for the first time brings back that taste of life that grows stale with age.

But before you have kids, it is more important to find a committed partner. There is nothing that will wreak havoc more on your life than a broken family. If you ever hear a parent regret having kids, you can bet there was trouble with their partner.

Comment · 7 years ago
We suffer from the same problem. If only I had an app that linked to a trust fund that I could redirect people to. There is a weird social pressure to always show up to a kid party with a gift. I'd rather all those $20-$50 gifts go right into an account that they get access to at 18.
Comment · 7 years ago
The pendulum swings back and HTML/CSS make a major come back as digital natives look to create without giving up data ownership.
Comment · 7 years ago
So does this make it trivial to input a source portrait, and then visualize different hair styles?
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm not sure why the content is lazy loaded on scroll. Extremely jarring, can't skim, can't estimate the length of the article. Closed tab.
Comment · 8 years ago
Front-end devs need to first master the vanilla tools, then reach for the frameworks once they understand the why.

I'd like to see a build tool that focuses on plain HTML, CSS, and ES6 modules. It takes the input .html file, parses the <script type="module"> elements, and statically analyzes the code to polyfill and re-write output for specified browser compatibility.

I think part of the problem is that the intro tutorials for the fully loaded frameworks look so much simpler at a glance than trying to wrangle something on your own.

Any ideas for youmightnotneedreact.com?

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