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I had posted this to my own blog at http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/2934-Advice-to-young-web-developers and it looks like it was the Tumblr auto-crossposted version that got submitted here. That's unfortunate. EDIT: I've updated the Tumblr version to make this a bit more clear.
HN doesn't use markdown: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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How does that work exactly?
It's literally just a folder full of perfectly normal HTML files. You don't need Javascript or a SPA to double-click one of those and look at it in a browser. Even better, if your operating system has full-text file indexing, it'll be able to search them normally.
"Give people consistent but random stimulus and you will be habit-forming. Getting people hooked on your product might seem like a good idea, but the tobacco industry feels the same way." DO NOT Listen to this. Make your site as addictive as possible. It can only help you win at life. More users = more impact = more money = better life. So long as it's not porn, your website won't be as bad as tobacco.
You cannot convince me that the addictiveness of social media is a good thing.
Advice to Young Frontend Web Developers: Use React. HTML is not a rich enough framework to do client work. Second article in a row here advocating for HTML purism. That is where I jump in and talk about how React changed my career in 2015. Since then, my life has had a measurable impact because of how easy building apps became thanks to React. There is no app where I would consider not using React including landing p…
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Nothing pisses me off like getting a message that some website only supports Chrome in 2020
It's so sad that it became "acceptable" to not test in Firefox (as estimated by the number of sites I randomly encounter that don't work in FF but do in Chrome) right around the time that Firefox Quantum happened and Firefox became good again :(
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it’s a git repo sitting unused on some 20-something’s laptop, because anybody rich enough to market it doesn’t know enough to recognize it
Can you point to some worthy examples of this as proofs of existence? And I mean something truly novel, and not simply a different way to do something we already can do.
https://github.com/begriffs?tab=overview&from=2016-10-01&to=...
How many projects are there to automatically API-ify a database with auth boilerplate today? At least a few well funded ones, one recently funded by YC even.
They came up with it in 2015? 2016? and still have a thriving project going with it. Looks like less than 10 people have more than 10 commits in its history:
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Nothing pisses me off like getting a message that some website only supports Chrome in 2020
It's so sad that it became "acceptable" to not test in Firefox (as estimated by the number of sites I randomly encounter that don't work in FF but do in Chrome) right around the time that Firefox Quantum happened and Firefox became good again :(
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Nothing pisses me off like getting a message that some website only supports Chrome in 2020
It's so sad that it became "acceptable" to not test in Firefox (as estimated by the number of sites I randomly encounter that don't work in FF but do in Chrome) right around the time that Firefox Quantum happened and Firefox became good again :(
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It really speaks to modern web dev culture when you can't imagine a way of viewing a document offline without running JavaScript.
It really speaks to the Hacker News culture to suggest that in 2020, browsers shouldn't be allowed to run code.
[0]: most of us are not saying browsers shouldn't be allowed to run code, only that there's no reason why anyones statical documents should need to run code on my machine.
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Don't need a SPA for that. Local HTML based documentation was a thing long before SPA was even a term.
How does that work exactly?
Run this:
find /usr/share/doc -name '*.htm*'
Your system's package manager is installing the HTML documentation right along with the software you install.
When you update your system, new package versions along with their corresponding documentation are downlaoded.