These all look very professional for (basically) a parody library
IMO that means "professional" will look very different in a few years.
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#102“TokenStream – Server-sent events (SSE) were added to the HTML5 spec in 2008 but never used until 2025.” I remember chunked transfer encoding shipped in 1997. It's been possible since then to readily and easily stream bytes of text or chunks of html the way everyone sees LLMs do today. I used this to write a web based telnet client in 1997, and later a text moo / chat for the web. In both cases used a frameset so you…
COMET was so far ahead of its time. Sierra Online used it for their webchat in 1995 and it was absolutely the best webchat out there for years
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was going to say that too. Some of these I definitely am guilty of. I have a few dozen that aren't on the list but it's a breath of fresh air to see it so well organized even though, we all know what it is :D fantastic job to the author(s).
please share your few dozen components
Why? They are silly gimmicks. You can easily prompt this.
Claude: “In react, make a full screen component that renders pixel squares that fade in and accumulate over a page component, taken as a target prop.”
Stupid crap like that. What’s cool is for those fullscreen tutorials or app walkthroughs, this works REALLY well to highlight the box on screen.
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#106Oh wow, it uses normal css, how delightful! https://github.com/vorpus/performativeUI/blob/main/src/style...
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#107The funny thing is, the techniques shown here are the ones that were once considered something only advanced front-end developers or publishers could do. Seeing that a former symbol of skill has now become a subject of satire makes me think that what we call 'high-level' ultimately comes from what others can't do. I personally never even thought about how to implement ASCII art animation.
It's less about "can't do" and more about creativity :)
Well, yes.
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#108When Agentic browsers become the norm, surely we will go back to the days of super plain HTML pages?
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#109I've worked on several projects where people looked at the site, which was simple and straight to the point, and people would straight up tell me they didn't take it seriously because it didn't have these performative UI things on it. It's like when a Youtuber's audience complains about how they're constantly asking you to subscribe. The reason it happens is because the statistics say it works.
Same for clickbait thumbnails, people hate them, and yet don't really click on non clickbaity ones.
I really wish there was a way to filter out the soy-O-face thumbnails entirely. I do not like them. I do not want to see them.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same for clickbait thumbnails, people hate them, and yet don't really click on non clickbaity ones.
I really wish there was a way to filter out the soy-O-face thumbnails entirely. I do not like them. I do not want to see them.
Check "DeArrow" chrome extension.