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Great job! I was significantly older when I built my first website (19, in 1996) but I'm so glad I had a space to pretty easily put up basic HTML (Geocities, though there were similar options). No WYSIWYG, no build steps, just the basic text-only HTML which created a foundation to build on. It's unfortunate there aren't really good options for that for today's younger creators. (is there?)
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I miss the fun in software development in the workplace. Something has changed. When I started 20+ years ago, people would get excited about something new they learned and rush to tell other people about it. Now everybody is grim, too busy grinding and "managing their visibility" to show any pleasure. If it was just me and my friends who were joyless now, I'd chalk it up to us getting old, but my coworkers who are th…
For me the joy of programming is thinking and making the simplest thing which accomplishes my need, and the regular intervals of satisfaction from a sequence of jobs well done. When I started by career ten years ago that was how it worked. Around 2019 I noticed a change. At some point coding was replaced with "HERE LEARN AND USE THIS NEW TOOL" fourty times a week. It is all kitbashing now. Software development has be…
I still have loads of fun when someone introduces me to a problem and lets me actually write code to solve it. That just doesn't happen in 2024 workplaces though. If you want programming work to be fun again, you need to start there.
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I'm in Pittsburgh right now and struggling to buy a house. Everything on the market are estates and get bought within a week of listing. This past one I put an offer on was sold in less than 24hrs of posting...
I'm surprised to hear this, I would never think to lump Pittsburgh in with big metros. Are you being picky or something? Do you have kids and thus school district is a major consideration? Do you have a specific neighborhood you want? Really, Pittsburgh of all places? I know a quick search from someone from out of town is kind of shaky and there's a lot of local knowledge you have, but are houses like https://www.zil…
I suggest you back up the HTML files as a record of her work when she was still a child, it will be a family treasure in the future :) You can even add it under your family's domain for safekeeping.
OBSESSED! She did SO good! I taught young girls to code (founder of nonprofit Girls Code Lincoln, based in Nebraska USA) for the past few years - I love this! A few resources that you may be interested in sharing with her, age appropriate for her: Youtube series that we did where our students interviewed women in STEM - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-32uv45Ln4VJGhVr_jr6... Podcast series where we talked abo…
Additionally, Pixar has a really good and robust coding lesson - called Pixar in a Box - https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/pixar Not sure if this is quite the right aged resource for her, but might be nice for you to have in your back pocket. Happy to help with pointing you to any resources you may need to keep her engaged!
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You almost got me. After all why not? So I had to go read stuff, and think more about it than I would have. So thanks for this. So: is probably mostly fine, but not great, and not good practice. The ARIA spec [1] says: > 2. Notes on ARIA Use in HTML > 2.1 First Rule of ARIA Use > If you can use a native HTML element [HTML51] or attribute with the semantics and behavior you require already built in, instead of re-purp…
one is a table the other pretends to be a table. There has to be a lot wrong for the table to forget what it is. try disabling style. css also gets complicated much faster than html. I like to offload complexity to less complicated areas. a practical example: i look at each row and set rowspan for duplicate values. a series of rows might have week 22 as their first cell and multiple with monday as their second.
How about "one pretends to be a layout, and the other is a layout"?
I don't understand well what you are saying, but:
> a practical example: i look at each row and set rowspan for duplicate values. a series of rows might have week 22 as their first cell and multiple with monday as their second.
This seems to be a case of using a table as a table, which is fine. You should use tables when you are trying to represent tabular data.