No one cares how many pedals you have on your guitar pedalboard. But if you hit one wrong note, everyone in the audience will hear it and talk about it. Playing pedals is primarily for you and your team, not your audience.
Plain Vanilla Web
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> I've purchased specialized woodworking tools online that simply involved filling out a form. I later received the parts with an invoice to send payment. You can simply not pay if you choose not to. People romanticize businesses like this but there’s a reason you’re not posting the link. It only works when it’s for a small group of people who are in the know and refer trusted buyers. It’s also trivial to set up any…
> People romanticize businesses like this but there’s a reason you’re not posting the link You are correct that I was a worried about an HN hug of orders for brass tacks. > I guess I’ve spent enough time dealing with things like non-payment or doing work for trades that never arrive that I just don’t romanticize this stuff any more. In this case there isn't much of a choice. When the last manufacture of brass tacks c…
> brass tacks
An interesting story behind those:
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2023/02/07/john-wilson-1939-20...
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#463Note that you can make things even simpler than this: just use vanilla JS to compose HTML strings, and plug them into divs using innerHTML = "...". When your state changes due to user input, just rebuild the page using the new data. I've been building many simple apps using this technique, it works fine. I'm sure there is some kind of performance hit; it's almost never an issue. I have never seen any browser compatib…
On one hand this approach is simple, but on the other hand I dislike treating HTML as a mere string, when it is actually a tree and treating it as such is a huge enabler, that many frameworks miss out on.
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Having a live location of the delivery person makes total sense here though.
Why? What I would prefer is a "Notify me when the rider is [X] minutes away. Use ringtone [R]" feature. X is the time I need to go downstairs and open the gate. The customer need not have their brains cluttered with logistics details.
Because in a lot of cases, the driver isn’t in the correct place, and so if you have their location you can easily tell them how to get to you. I’ve had multiple deliveries where the Uber Eats app just could not tell the driver the correct location for my address, and I wouldn’t have been able to tell the driver how to get there by just them telling me where they were.
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I sell urns online and my website just has an email link. No shopping cart. A brick-and-mortor urn shop would never have a shopping cart, so why would a virtual one? I've purchased specialized woodworking tools online that simply involved filling out a form. I later received the parts with an invoice to send payment. You can simply not pay if you choose not to. There are so many way to do commerce both on and offline…
How does the woodworking company ensure payment? Does the specialized nature ensure only "real" customers buy? Is there a trusted relationship? A threat of legal action? I know the other way around is basically the norm: how does one know the company, the seller, will actually provide the product after paying. But the prevailing culture, currently, is that companies in this regard are trustworthy and customers are no…
They have your address and it would be illegal not to pay. But also if the products have little to no resale value, are good quality and replaced relatively frequently, then such a company is worth its weight in gold. Even if you "get away with it" you can obviously never do business with them again.
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You can get smooth transitions with just css too with @view-transition https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@view-trans...
Worth mentioning @view-transition is still not supported in Firefox.
No one uses Firefox (within the margin of error). Use them to your heart's content.
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#467Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that this comment is a great example of the total disconnect these conversations always have. On the one hand we have lots of people on here who are building full-featured web apps, not websites, on teams of 30+. These people look at frameworkless options and immediately have a dozen different questions about how your frameworkless design handles a dozen different features that their use case absolutely requi…
> On the one hand we have lots of people on here who are building full-featured web apps, not websites, on teams of 30+. Photopea is a full-featured web app, not website, written without frameworks by a single individual. It is absolutely possible to build feature rich applications without the framework du jour.
I don't really have anything to add to the conversation at hand, but Photopea looks pretty cool. Thanks for sharing!
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#468If every website did this I wonder if there would be a measurable impact on things like: battery life, performance, and bandwidth usage.
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#469I'd recommend vanilla TypeScript instead of vanilla JavaScript. The benefits of typing are enormous. You don't even need npm in the critical path either if you use VSCode since it has tsc built in
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