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I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by dgb23 »

surrTurr wrote: post #15
trevormcneal wrote: post #6

I miss those times. I could spend hours complaining about the depressive current state of the web, I imagine being a newcomer to such world and have to handle the over complexity of the current scenario without knowing that things could be simpler. I remember seeing a team member migrating a project from grunt to webpack, the project was just a 404 page. "You need to compile your assets" they say, just a cat *.css >…

There’s also is-even[1]. It has one dependency: is-odd [1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even

This has to be a joke right?

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

cookiengineer wrote: post #11
ashneer wrote: post #3

I really wish I could experience the web back then at 1993 (I'm 25). I imagine much faster, and intuitive websites than nowadays. Beautiful UX is one thing but making a website feels natural, that's what I think the internet is missing today.

You had to wait 30 minutes to wait for all those unicorn gifs to load, so I'd say it wasn't as fast as it could've been :D The amazing part was that everyone had a homepage at some point, where they put content online about topics that they thought was worth sharing. Even girls in school had a website with sparkling rainbow gifs and a guestbook, and some pages about topics they liked... like smallville series charact…

This was my favorite ("I Kiss You"): https://methodshop.com/mahir-cagri-i-kiss-you-internet-celeb...

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by SenHeng »

dgb23 wrote: post #31
surrTurr wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s also is-even[1]. It has one dependency: is-odd [1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even

This has to be a joke right?

isOdd and isEven pop up often but they and all those other packages were explicitly created for the sole purpose of boosting the author's profile.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29241943

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by dncornholio »

dgb23 wrote: post #31
surrTurr wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s also is-even[1]. It has one dependency: is-odd [1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even

This has to be a joke right?

I don't get the issue. You write a function to check if a number is odd. You seem to have this function in every project so you make a package for it so you, and others, can easily include it. This is exactly what npm is made for?

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by dncornholio »

SenHeng wrote: post #34
dgb23 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has to be a joke right?

isOdd and isEven pop up often but they and all those other packages were explicitly created for the sole purpose of boosting the author's profile. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29241943

too be honest, a comment of someone doesn't make it true. It could be he has actual use cases for these repositories. Just that someone thinks it should'nt be used like this, doesn't mean it's true.

It seems like a lot of people think they think how npm should work, while forgetting to see how npm actually works.

There's even an example of a well respected npm author that has repositories with just a few lines..

Y'all just love to hate on npm

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by soco »

tomhoward wrote: post #20

My 1996 self feels very seen. I think a lot about the way the web was back in the mid 90s, compared to the bleeding-edge technologies of today, particularly blockchain and cryptocurrency. And one major aspect I keep coming back to is that web technologies in the 90s, and even their descendent technologies now, are simple enough for most technology-literate people to understand, and that carried with it a lot of comfo…

Erm, no, many understand very well what blockchain is and it's definitely not opaqueness what they accuse it of. But everybody can choose their own strawman to fight, can't they.

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by OJFord »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #32
cookiengineer wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You had to wait 30 minutes to wait for all those unicorn gifs to load, so I'd say it wasn't as fast as it could've been :D The amazing part was that everyone had a homepage at some point, where they put content online about topics that they thought was worth sharing. Even girls in school had a website with sparkling rainbow gifs and a guestbook, and some pages about topics they liked... like smallville series charact…

This was my favorite ("I Kiss You"): https://methodshop.com/mahir-cagri-i-kiss-you-internet-celeb...

Interesting there's a section on Borat at the bottom there - I'm pretty sure I've never heard of this (let alone the lawsuit) and I was reading about it, seeing the photos, thinking he was surely an influence on the character. Not sure what to make of that.

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by blueflow »

soco wrote: post #38
tomhoward wrote: post #20

My 1996 self feels very seen. I think a lot about the way the web was back in the mid 90s, compared to the bleeding-edge technologies of today, particularly blockchain and cryptocurrency. And one major aspect I keep coming back to is that web technologies in the 90s, and even their descendent technologies now, are simple enough for most technology-literate people to understand, and that carried with it a lot of comfo…

Erm, no, many understand very well what blockchain is and it's definitely not opaqueness what they accuse it of. But everybody can choose their own strawman to fight, can't they.

This sort of opaqueness: Many people hail it as the next big thing since sliced bread, but when you actually spend the effort digging in you realize its barely good for anything except money laundering and tax evasion.

Give me some bitcoin and i would not know what to do with them except changing them back into money.

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