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Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

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Post by latchkey »

wesz wrote: post #98
59nadir wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In all fairness, 30+ years of web development is exactly what would convince you that shipping 1+ MB of JS is fine, no? I'm not really kidding... Web development is where all of the worst practices in programming thrive and come from. Some of them are spending minutes (sometimes 10+ minutes) compiling/"building" web pages before they "deploy" them, and so on. 30+ years in web development is what you say at the suppor…

Yeah, i'm also webdev with a couple of decades under my belt and i cry from time to time seeing what happened to it in the past 10+ years. Webdevs nowadays blindly follow "trends" that phase out every couple of years, without really bringing anything of the value to the ecosystem.

I'm curious, what value have you brought to the ecosystem? What's your github? Is this it? https://github.com/wesz

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

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Post by wesz »

fooster wrote: post #100
wesz wrote: post #31

The improvements are nice, that's for sure. But i checked out github and it looks like overengineered ai slop, you could implement all the features with 1/10 of the code. But again, nobody cares nowadays which makes me sad. You even generated chrome/firefox logos using ai...

Why don't you do that? Instead of doing that you unfairly critisize the guy that gave away his time and effort on something which no-one is forcing you to use. Shame.

Oh man, he must have gave away so much time prompting ai agent. Shame on me:)

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

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Post by latchkey »

wesz wrote: post #104
fooster wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't you do that? Instead of doing that you unfairly critisize the guy that gave away his time and effort on something which no-one is forcing you to use. Shame.

Oh man, he must have gave away so much time prompting ai agent. Shame on me:)

I wrote code. But, the whole point of this project for me was to experiment with how far I could take AI as an assistant to help me with coding. So far, I've been extremely impressed.

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

#106

Post by wesz »

latchkey wrote: post #101
wesz wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, i'm also webdev with a couple of decades under my belt and i cry from time to time seeing what happened to it in the past 10+ years. Webdevs nowadays blindly follow "trends" that phase out every couple of years, without really bringing anything of the value to the ecosystem.

I'm curious, what value have you brought to the ecosystem? What's your github? Is this it? https://github.com/wesz

Yes, it is. I'm not really active on github (other than some toys i want to share with friends), i didn't even update portfolio on my website in over 10 years.

I'm happy to share my projects and contributions privately, if you're interested.

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

#107

Post by andrecarini »

altairprime wrote: post #8

Latchkey, would you be comfortable with HN adopting your dark mode styling as a user choice someday, if they came around to liking it? I really like it and I think it’s in the spirit of the site.

For those that prefer userstyles, I made a dark theme a while ago https://github.com/andrecarini/hn-dark-mode/blob/main/hn-dar...

Tom (the moderator) said he was looking into getting it appended to the HN's CSS. I haven't asked them about it since ages ago, wonder if they dropped the idea.

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

#108

Post by latchkey »

redlewel wrote: post #103

Not bad I do like the transparency on AI usage. So many projects omit this completely and its difficult not to assume someone just claude coded it in an evening to farm clicks. But this looks nice I'll probably check it out

All day long, I read about people vibe coding, so I decided to open my mind and try it out myself and see if I could do some sort of mix between my own skills as a life long web developer and whatever the kids are doing these days. Mostly because I have a strong belief that AI itself won't take our jobs away, but people who know AI will.

What I found out is that I'm never going back to a world where I don't integrate AI into my entire coding workflow. All the way from writing documentation to committing code. It makes things way more enjoyable.

I truly enjoyed creating this whole project, it scratches my itch, and I hope that it continues to grow and be maintained over many years. I have another web project that's going on 7 years now and gets 88k downloads a month [0]. This is my passion, I'm here until I die, and even that project is now benefitting from AI.

[0] https://github.com/lookfirst/mui-rff

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

#109

Post by hyperhello »

xydac wrote: post #13

its funny how us developers build varied UX, but nothing beats the simplicity of HN's default experience. quick and bloat free.

I would actually like a setting for less. I don’t like upvote downvote social dynamics. How about giving me a mode for a simple conversation by time, without the hierarchy.

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

#110

Post by mhitza »

Pretty cool. This is the glitchy userscript I use on Firefox mobile[1] (with screenshot) to make tap targets bigger and move navigation at the bottom of the page + collapsed.

[1] https://gist.github.com/mhitza/0956d7e2c11d3102cbd4cba7f6d06...

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