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Is this the first time mainstream media is saying something? Prominent voices have done so for years e.g. Anil Dash[0], but no one seems to have gotten the memo; people who I thoug…

So how do you deliver design on the web, if not without code? Remember that designing for the web is not like designing for print, where the dimensions of your canvas, and the amou…

How many of those languages are declarative, or domain specific? There's no use comparing CSS and assembly. It betrays a shallow understanding of CSS. Points to ponder: - Assembly …

Alright, if you say so. But what stupidity do you mean? What do you mean offload it to figma etc? Why is it dumb to write code for... the job CSS is built for?

Ask your boss to hire someone better at CSS than you.

When is it ever necessary to change event handlers?

>Why is this so weirdly prescriptive about inline event handlers? >> Even in a single file, inline event handlers are not a good idea. One button is OK, but what if you had 100 but…

If this is about staging partial file changes, then I think this is where git GUIs especially excel. It's typically a matter of selecting and deselecting individual lines of change…

Firefox restores all windows.

Don't you think : is already used for something else in CSS?

Just adding this here: I created a multi-window management addon Winger[0] which lets you treat windows as 'tab groups', and it has a stashing feature (windows bookmark folders / t…

>still no way to remap Ctrl+T to open a new tab in the current container context A quick search found me this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-container... , usi…

>You aren't "programming the presentation logic", you're configuring the browser. Under-appreciation of frontend skills in action. Do you think of "presentation logic" as an oxymor…

Other Zen of Python principles are allowed to override it. Let's say, "Readability counts".

It costs nothing to keep a tab (you had every intention to revisit later) open, especially when tabs can be auto unloaded to free up memory, either by an addon or the browser itsel…

It's probably about all the boilerplate code you always start an extension with. AI is good at boilerplate.

Can you elaborate why?

For young kids with no personal devices of their own, they would only get Spotify from their parents' devices.

If large indentations bother you, good. Braces or not, large indentations and large code blocks should make you start wondering how to refactor them. And if Python's design seems t…