its all JS's fault.
Don't know about 'all' - centralisation of content for me is the most depressing part of the modern web.
I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
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Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#112I 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.
I'm only 32, so 1993 was a bit early, from what I remember "the internet" didn't become truly mainstream until 1996~. Now that I think back the computers "acted" really differently from what we use today. Things felt much more "immediate" (as in the computer responded to you very quickly) but also much slower; imagine that your keystrokes occurred immediately but opening a window took 50ms. If the CPU was being hit w…
Nowadays browsers intentionally delay painting to load stuff.
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#113I 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 >…
>hours complaining about the depressive current state of the web
That's pretty much most HN content about the web / front end development. I find HN al but useless for that topic now.
I've had this thought in the back of my head that a lot of content / comments are on HN are folks who do a little, not a lot, and are really annoyed that they have to do any front end development, so then we get rants about this and that... they're not fundamentally wrong, but as a web dev I find them a little skewed and completely useless / just negativity.
Like how many "I made this rando personal blog without a framework" and "there's too much javascript" (page includes lots of javascript) and etc that gets boiled down so far that it is pointless?
We're at the point a loading icon gets upvoted on HN to bitch about SPAs ... and I don't know about you but a hell of a lot of pages can sit at a loading icon that aren't SPAs. How disconnected is that?
Front end development discussion a land fertile for bike shedding and just about every topic can dip into it now, movies, music, all media really ... questions about who pays for the news, censorship, etc. Somehow it all gets pulled into the tech discussion as well.
Sometimes I just want to find a place to discuss it where we find neat things to do and less campaigning about every other topic.
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
> you can determime whether a number is odd or even with a modulo Or you could check the lowest bit. Better to abstract away from that implementation decision. ;)
That too, but I get the feeling those kinds of operations aren't in Javascript's standard library...
`my_number & 1 == 0` works.
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#115Not to mention that there's now a generation of users that, thanks to siloed apps and ecosystems, can probably go days without ever hitting the actual Web.
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#116Back in the early 2000's, I taught "computers" to a bunch of kids in DC. I first started off with how a computer work; IO, CPU, storage and their eyes glazed over. I quickly ditched that topic and went right to building a web page. Taught them a few HTML tags and they instantly became "webmasters". They were so thrilled. They could create blinking text, could make all the fonts pink. All just by moving around some si…
You can still just use HTML.
At least the doctype is simple nowadays. The XHTML one was horrendous.
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> its barely good for anything except money laundering and tax evasion
You can’t think of any situation where you would want to share access to and control of data with multiple untrusted third parties, where you would need to guarantee not only that data modifications are only executed in an authorized fashion, but also that no previous modifications have been reversed?
The list of use cases for that capability is not limited to “money laundering and tax evasion.”
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#118I 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
183,453 weekly downloads — wth?
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#119Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#120Earlier 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?
Yes, JavaScript is a joke for having such a barren standard library that the community has to do it for them.