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A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML

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Re: A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML

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post #5

This is too oddly written to read in its entirety and I don't get the point. I mostly still do things like it says it worked in 2008. The difference with the "modern" workflow with 1400 packages and a build system is that web pages I put online just work, unlike most modern website which are horribly bug ridden and take ages to load and render.

>This is too oddly written to read in its entirety

It's AI slop.

Re: A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML

#12
Very much worth pointing out that while this is a fair history lesson of the entire toy chest, you still don't have to do any/all of this.

Contrary to popular belief, even big corporate web dev projects for high profile clients can still be, and often are, just plain HTML and CSS. The design does most of the heavy lifting. This is especially true for anything related to marketing.

Re: A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML

#13
>Not a prescription, a starting buffet. These are popular, well-supported defaults, not the only right answers. Tap any tool to open its site.

These AI tells are getting really easy to notice. A negative that absolutely isn't needed in a sentence, and you know it's AI that wrote it (, not a human ;) ).

Re: A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML

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post #3

Reading this hurt so much. Please just write articles by hand. I don’t care about perfect grammar and I don’t care about your article sounding „native“ or not. But I do care about not having to read the word „genuinely“ a hundred times just because Claude likes it so much.

I don't think only their writing is AI, I suspect the site as well. With modern frontend GenAI renditions it is more common for me to find sites that stutter during scroll, as this site does.

Re: A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML

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post #3

Reading this hurt so much. Please just write articles by hand. I don’t care about perfect grammar and I don’t care about your article sounding „native“ or not. But I do care about not having to read the word „genuinely“ a hundred times just because Claude likes it so much.

This reads like the transcript of an AI YouTube video that is trying to make it to 8 minutes for an ad roll.

Re: A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML

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post #3

Reading this hurt so much. Please just write articles by hand. I don’t care about perfect grammar and I don’t care about your article sounding „native“ or not. But I do care about not having to read the word „genuinely“ a hundred times just because Claude likes it so much.

I just used the modern method for articles like that.

I read the headlines, skimmed the prose that has no purpose other than 'it was what the AI put out', then read the conclusion.

Similarly, I skip video content where the title is something like "How to get better fuel economy for your car" and the video starts "Let's investigate the entire history of wheels", and the whole video could just be a guy sat in a chair saying "keep your tyres at the correct pressure"

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