Live data from Hacker News

What I wish I knew before becoming a code-free programmer

airdev.co

11–20 of 30 posts

Re: What I wish I knew before becoming a code-free programmer

#11
post #7

Can’t open the page either. I guess that happens to code free programming

Ha Ha. We were getting a traffic spike through this, which caused the issue. But Bubble has this feature where you can add more "units" to your overall app capacity to handle increased traffic, which we did. Enjoy!

Your page doesn't render without JS enabled, including JS from hard-to-trust cloudfront.net domains, and also doesn't render in Firefox's reader mode.

Re: What I wish I knew before becoming a code-free programmer

#12
post #7

Can’t open the page either. I guess that happens to code free programming

Ha Ha. We were getting a traffic spike through this, which caused the issue. But Bubble has this feature where you can add more "units" to your overall app capacity to handle increased traffic, which we did. Enjoy!

I have no paranoid browser settings (i.e. JS still is enabled), only an ad blocker, and yet all I get is

> Your browser was unable to load some necessary resources, contact your IT network administrator and ask him or her to allow access to

     dhtiece9044ep.cloudfront.net 
     dd7tel2830j4w.cloudfront.net/ 
     d1muf25xaso8hp.cloudfront.net
Even from sites with ad blocker blocker have I ever seen such a failure to even load the page at all.

Re: What I wish I knew before becoming a code-free programmer

#14
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ha Ha. We were getting a traffic spike through this, which caused the issue. But Bubble has this feature where you can add more "units" to your overall app capacity to handle increased traffic, which we did. Enjoy!

I have no paranoid browser settings (i.e. JS still is enabled), only an ad blocker, and yet all I get is > Your browser was unable to load some necessary resources, contact your IT network administrator and ask him or her to allow access to dhtiece9044ep.cloudfront.net dd7tel2830j4w.cloudfront.net/ d1muf25xaso8hp.cloudfront.net Even from sites with ad blocker blocker have I ever seen such a failure to even load the p…

Thanks for flagging

Re: What I wish I knew before becoming a code-free programmer

#16
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ha Ha. We were getting a traffic spike through this, which caused the issue. But Bubble has this feature where you can add more "units" to your overall app capacity to handle increased traffic, which we did. Enjoy!

Your page doesn't render without JS enabled, including JS from hard-to-trust cloudfront.net domains, and also doesn't render in Firefox's reader mode.

Thanks for flagging. This is helpful for us to assess

Re: What I wish I knew before becoming a code-free programmer

#18
Interesting.

Given the level of knowledge the author now has of the underlying data structure and algorithmic thinking, I suspect that learning a "real" programming language would only be a small leap and would open up a ton of capabilities for them.

That's pretty much been my experience with visual SQL query builders as well - by the time someone is able to use it efficiently, they are not only a small step from just writing the code, but they'll end up being many times faster if they did. That said, I think visual development definitely has a place; it's great for visualizing the relationships between things and reducing complexity. Once that's done, optimizations and sometimes the actual implementation of the blocks you're connecting is best done in traditional code.

Re: What I wish I knew before becoming a code-free programmer

#19

Interesting. Given the level of knowledge the author now has of the underlying data structure and algorithmic thinking, I suspect that learning a "real" programming language would only be a small leap and would open up a ton of capabilities for them. That's pretty much been my experience with visual SQL query builders as well - by the time someone is able to use it efficiently, they are not only a small step from jus…

That's a good point. I don't have much traditional programming experience myself, but have found that Bubble has help me "speak the same language" as those who program with code. Perhaps there is an interesting place for tools like Bubble to be a middle-ground for those learning the principles behind coding.

Why is it you think that someone like the author would be able to code many times faster than they could develop software visually through Bubble?

Post reply on HN