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Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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Post by banana_giraffe »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #46

Asking as a person who understands the fundamentals of all of the technologies involved but is horrified by much of what goes on in the minds of today's web developers and designers, what motivates the decision to make this repo use make, docker, yarn, npx, nginx, react, and jest rather than a bit of static HTML and css and something like qrjs2.js or VanillaQR.js with a simple canvas or datauri update in onInput?

I can't speak for the poster, but sometimes the fun is in using tools you know.

I don't know VanillaJS that well, so I took a stab at the same concept:

https://q726kbxun.github.io/qrcodes/

Not nearly as pretty, since I know even less about making pages pretty, but still, a fun little stab at making such a site.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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Post by manuel_w »

bndw wrote: post #67
BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #46

Asking as a person who understands the fundamentals of all of the technologies involved but is horrified by much of what goes on in the minds of today's web developers and designers, what motivates the decision to make this repo use make, docker, yarn, npx, nginx, react, and jest rather than a bit of static HTML and css and something like qrjs2.js or VanillaQR.js with a simple canvas or datauri update in onInput?

Answering as the author who also understands the fundamentals of all of the technologies involved and questions much of what goes on in the minds of today's web developers and designers-- I use Make as the standard way to interact with every repo I own. This allows me to type `make build` instead of `$some-language-specific-command-I-forget-in-2-weeks`. I use Docker for distributing every app I build. If the app is a…

> I use Make as the standard way to interact with every repo I own. This allows me to type `make build` instead of `$some-language-specific-command-I-forget-in-2-weeks`.

I also used to do this until I switched out Make by Just[1]. I find it worth a recommendation.

https://github.com/casey/just

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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Post by fortyseven »

I think some folks here need to shut the fuck up and let a developer code using whatever tools make them happy.

There have been plenty of times I've decided to use a project as an excuse to learn something new. There's always going to be a more optimal way to go about things. But you might not have nearly as much fun, or grow as a developer.

Potentially making a dev feel like shit for sharing the fruits of their labor because they didn't implement it in a way that makes YOU, personally, satisfied?

You're just a jerk.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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Post by occz »

valbaca wrote: post #88
BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #46

Asking as a person who understands the fundamentals of all of the technologies involved but is horrified by much of what goes on in the minds of today's web developers and designers, what motivates the decision to make this repo use make, docker, yarn, npx, nginx, react, and jest rather than a bit of static HTML and css and something like qrjs2.js or VanillaQR.js with a simple canvas or datauri update in onInput?

People love to constantly say "Want to learn to code? Make projects! projects! projects!" and then when someone makes a project as a means to learn a particular technology, now people turn up their nose and say "ew, why did you use this?" Anyway, this project provides exactly what I needed. Thanks to OP for sharing! Slick and simple

There's a simple explanation: people in this context refers to separate groups.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

#136

Post by tkuraku »

remram wrote: post #129
tkuraku wrote: post #51

I just generate a QR code for my wifi login using libreoffice writer. Edit: just use the built in QR code generator with a string in this format. WIFI:T:WPA;S:$SSID;P:$PASSWORD

Can't you also screenshoot it on your phone?

I generate the QR code and then add some text to make a kind of poster and print it out. Ios and android users can then just use their camera app to automatically connect to the wifi.

https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-GB/text/shared/guide/...

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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Post by baliex »

mynegation wrote: post #4

This is a nice idea! I once whipped up a shell script to do the same thing. UX feedback - disable autocorrections on the input fields [1], you may want to trim white space as well. [1] https://davidwalsh.name/disable-autocorrect

Please don’t trim whitespace, I ended up on a network recently which had a space on the end of the SSID

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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Post by dividedbyzero »

cinntaile wrote: post #92
weejewel wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But now you’re paying for keeping a server online, whereas a GitHub page could’ve hosted this static website for free.

He did this for fun, his motivation wasn't to find the cheapest way to host his content.

It's also not like you'd have to have a separate server/vserver for every such project, a very affordable vserver will run quite a lot of nginx containers. Plus I guess some people will have a vserver or something like that anyway (I have a small one to get around NAT at the ISP level), in which case it might be net-zero.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

#139

Post by mdaniel »

captn3m0 wrote: post #53
floatingatoll wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you type this in from memory?!

There is no real specification. This is the best source[1], which documents QR standards. >There are some standards -- de facto and otherwise -- already in use. This wiki attempts to catalog some possible standards for encoding various types of information, and suggest a standard action associated to them. [1]: https://github.com/zxing/zxing/wiki/Barcode-Contents#wi-fi-n...

Damn, that's saddening, but also answers a question I had about what the escape character is for a password containing `;` -- I guess there's no specification to tell me :-(

OTOH, I guess a "standard" is whatever the common implementations accept anyway, so if one could dig up the source to the WiFi QR scanner in source.android.com that's the 2nd best thing

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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Post by mod »

sam0x17 wrote: post #111
easton wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought that was crazy, but reflecting over my CS education they haven’t gone over the difference between disk space and RAM. I suppose they figure everyone already knows?

You sure you didn't have a computer architecture course? Most CS programs it is a required course

What is a required course?
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