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It's admittedly basic but you can help make it more exciting.

I built a to-do list for movies and TV shows. Built on NextJS, deployed in Vercel, storage in Google Firebase, QA'ed with Playwright, designed with Pico.css, backed by The Movie DB…

Shameless plug if it helps anybody else, like it helped me; http://govspy.peterbe.com/

What do you miss about it? Can you not find what you're looking for?

It's pseudo code. The real code is TypeScript React and looks very different and it wouldn't serve the article to take snippets from that code to explain how it works.

Getting accessibility right is hard. We very much care about that. One of the strong reasons for why we're using Downshift.

> They hi-jacked the browser's `/` key to focus the field, which is something I hate. You're not the first one to point it out. Please join github.com/mdn/yari to raise your voice.…

MDN has 2 search things: 1. client-side only which downloads a complete list of all titles. 2. full-text search on everything with Elasticsearch.

Relevancy is the huge game-changer. MDN uses pageviews analytics to determine was a "popular" age is.

(author here) We're still on FlexSearch 0.6 and the new 0.7 is a big refactor. I hope we can upgrade some time.

is awesome! But I find it works better for short options. See https://www.peterbe.com/plog/datalist-looks-great-on-mobile-...

On every document, there are appropriate links at the bottom .

Can you scroll to the bottom of that page and use the "Report a problem with this content on GitHub" link? The raw content is not Markdown. It's HTML with some macros (called kumas…

It's not that easy. We have 60+k pages carried over from 15 years of organic evolution. It's unstructured and messy. A move away from HTML to something "more popular syntax" (like …

MDN is powered by a mix of people paid (by Mozilla, Google, Samsung, Microsoft) and contributors who volunteer their time.

Why would it be for the worse?

Sorry(?) But it's still just MDN (or MDN Web Docs). Yari is just the code name for the code repo. Not a particularly important name.

This is just the beginning. Finally we can do the kind of web performance improvements we couldn't do on the old platform. But to boot, we gained 10-20% on the First Render metrics…

PostgresSQL is better. We're all aware of that. But it's miniscule in importance. Especially if you use the ORMs and other decent tooling. The move to git isn't MySQL's fault. It's…

1. That's right! But it's not really on the roadmaps either. One can hope that someone in the community writes a fancy web app wrapper for GitHub's API or something. 2. Yeah, it's …

What's cool about git as a persistent storage, is that you can use vscode, emacs, vim, or notepad. Or you can write a little web app that starts a WYSIWYG editor on localhost:8888 …