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Re: Show HN: Projects Made with Code

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Post by tomcam »

lucideer wrote: post #49

As someone who develops in PHP, and continues to be generally annoyed by the way many HN commenters will dismiss the language out of hand, I really hate to be the one saying this. However, while PHP has come a long way and modernised significantly in terms of development practise, WordPress is really not an example of that modernisation. It may have applications for a basic blog, but I find it very difficult to take…

Agreed with everything except the last sentence, which I do not understand. Why shouldn't WordPress include authorization and signup? Are there higher quality PHP facilities for it or what?

Re: Show HN: Projects Made with Code

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Post by tomcam »

stanislavb wrote: post #10

"a place for developers to collect and share open source projects made with code." - If you are looking for this, I'd recommend giving a try to LibHunt https://www.libhunt.com/ Disclaimer, I'm the creator of LibHunt :)

No offense, but doesn't "a place for developers to collect and share open source projects made with code" describe github? How is LibHunt different from github? Not trying to be mean. Genuinely interested

Re: Show HN: Projects Made with Code

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Post by lucideer »

tomcam wrote: post #51
lucideer wrote: post #49

As someone who develops in PHP, and continues to be generally annoyed by the way many HN commenters will dismiss the language out of hand, I really hate to be the one saying this. However, while PHP has come a long way and modernised significantly in terms of development practise, WordPress is really not an example of that modernisation. It may have applications for a basic blog, but I find it very difficult to take…

Agreed with everything except the last sentence, which I do not understand. Why shouldn't WordPress include authorization and signup? Are there higher quality PHP facilities for it or what?

Using WordPress for a simple read-only blog is OK: security is not as major a concern.

Once you're taking signups, the quality and security record of the underlying software is worth considering more carefully, and I just personally would not choose WordPress where those are requirements.

Re: Show HN: Projects Made with Code

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Post by tomcam »

lucideer wrote: post #53
tomcam wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed with everything except the last sentence, which I do not understand. Why shouldn't WordPress include authorization and signup? Are there higher quality PHP facilities for it or what?

Using WordPress for a simple read-only blog is OK: security is not as major a concern. Once you're taking signups, the quality and security record of the underlying software is worth considering more carefully, and I just personally would not choose WordPress where those are requirements.

Auth code looks ok to me but I am not a PHP expert. Could find no major recent breaches--am I missing something? (Not being snarky, just trying to understand the issue.)

Re: Show HN: Projects Made with Code

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Post by lucideer »

tomcam wrote: post #54
lucideer wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using WordPress for a simple read-only blog is OK: security is not as major a concern. Once you're taking signups, the quality and security record of the underlying software is worth considering more carefully, and I just personally would not choose WordPress where those are requirements.

Auth code looks ok to me but I am not a PHP expert. Could find no major recent breaches--am I missing something? (Not being snarky, just trying to understand the issue.)

WordPress the app is inherently unsecure in many ways. A full overview would be lengthy, but an obvious example is the general architectural reliance on self-modifying code, which requires write access to executable files on your server (this can be disabled with some difficulty, but this makes updates difficult and completely breaks many popular plugins. Doing so is not encouraged or really properly supported by WP devs). This isn't the only problem, but it's a large enough one, and most importantly, it's by design.

Auth code might look OKish (haven't looked closely recently), but any general vulnerability in any part of the app as a whole or in any 3rd-party plugins potentially opens you up to data breaches.

Re: Show HN: Projects Made with Code

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Post by bbcbasic »

yoo1I wrote: post #31
techiev2 wrote: post #20

Not entirely related to the product, since I am midway through the signup but something about the Auth that I thought you should take a look at right away; more so when you say Pinterest for "programmers" :) A password field that's a text field? http://i.imgur.com/xNP4XHA.png

possibly intentional: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/stop-password-masking/

> It's just you, sitting all alone in your office, suffering reduced usability to protect against a non-issue.

And there the point to stop taking that article seriously.

The MS Solution is good though. I think it is the best. Better than the android/iphone flash up the last char for a second thing.

Re: Show HN: Projects Made with Code

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Post by floridianfisher »

lucideer wrote: post #49

As someone who develops in PHP, and continues to be generally annoyed by the way many HN commenters will dismiss the language out of hand, I really hate to be the one saying this. However, while PHP has come a long way and modernised significantly in terms of development practise, WordPress is really not an example of that modernisation. It may have applications for a basic blog, but I find it very difficult to take…

https://wordpress.org/showcase/archives/

Re: Show HN: Projects Made with Code

#59

Post by kirushik »

floridianfisher wrote: post #45
kirushik wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've even registered in this project because I thought it would be literally "Pinterest for code". I'm sorta GitHub star hoarder, have starred 1.9K repos at the moment. I use that to track libraries I'm interested in (and their counterparts in other languages, for inspiration), projects addressing the same niche as the ones I'm working on... GitHub star-search is good, but can be made even better. And also some proje…

You could store all your projects on codemade and arrange them into collections. The search function would help you find them. Is that what you want or something more? I built cm to collect my favorite projects and to share with others. I'm all for making it even more useful to other programmers.

Can you please add "Import starred repos" from Github, Gitlab and BitBucket? Having all those under the same roof will be an enormous help!

Also, will it make the full READMEs of the projects searchable? Astral (the one from the comment above) seems to search only in projects' taglines, which is definitely not enough for me...

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