This is great fun. The code may not be perfect, nor translated into 100 languages, nor built with microservices on an instantly scalable architecture, and not even leveraging AI, but that's why it's so awesome. Thank you for posting this today. After the week we had here in Colorado I needed it.
Bongo Cat
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#172It's getting increasingly more surreal to see Bongo Cat popping up everywhere when you know the person who did the original art for it. NEVER expected to see it here on Hacker News.
Now back to lurking.
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While i use React at work for bigger things, I've come to use Vue for almost all my "smaller" hacks since it becomes a win to use almost as soon as you start using inputs. After this it scales pretty well up for anything that is on "one page". Apart from work things the main example would be a that I built a small audio sequencer hacked together with Vue. That project would've been suicidal to do in JQuery but also w…
I never understood this “suicidal” critique of jQuery. I've never got so tangled up in my own code to feel the urge to switch to a different model. I've seen Backbone.js, Angular, React, etc, all come and go and none ever answered the “why would I want that” question to me. I remember using Prototype.js and MooTools.js and when I saw jQuery's home page I knew instantly the “why” and the answer was an instant and rej…
I use https://umbrellajs.com/ whenever I can get away with it. Lesser overhead than jQuery but much of the convenience I need for my prototypes.
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I never understood this “suicidal” critique of jQuery. I've never got so tangled up in my own code to feel the urge to switch to a different model. I've seen Backbone.js, Angular, React, etc, all come and go and none ever answered the “why would I want that” question to me. I remember using Prototype.js and MooTools.js and when I saw jQuery's home page I knew instantly the “why” and the answer was an instant and rej…
mooTools was great back in the day (oh man, we're old). And jQuery was a great improvement from that. Prototype was a great initiative, but I think the community was right when it decided to go the jQuery route, and not append new functions to the prototype. Even though prototype never really caught on, working with websites where it was used partially, or scraping data on websites that used it, has caused me plenty…
Oh, so that's what all the JS slang was about in all those webdev vacancies I've seen over the past 10 years or so?!
I'm an embedded guy (very little idea about webdev stuff). Nice summary :)
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I'd say that CommonMark is a pretty widely-utilized standard defining formatting including `inline code` snippets.
Gotcha, didn't realize it was standardized. I feel like I heard about CommonMark when it first was announced and I more or less wrote it off as another markup format, but thanks for the clarification. My poor little internet points <\3 sorry HN for the unforgivable offense of asking a benign question
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HN isn’t a web standard.
The markup that it uses for comments should use one though - and apparently it does! Others have mentioned that it uses a subset of CommonMark as mentioned in your post's sibling comments. Thanks
The page with HN's formatting options is a bit hidden (in the FAQ). I'm not surprised people don't know about it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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#177Why does it presume the cat is right pawed?
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Sad state of JS frontend. Overcomplicating things is the first thought that we have now, then we think about the requirements.
Complain about JQuery yet this loads in less than 300ms. Struggle to imagine any React/Redux engineer I know getting this on the screen in even 3 seconds let alone sub 1. Depresses me how even 10 second webpage load times are considered acceptable in that toolchain, I know it's capable of better but it clearly needs more work to get there than people are willing to put in.
You and I must be using very different react applications.
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#179Re: Bongo Cat
#180Very fun 2452 997 2452 775 2452 57421175 Rick Astley - Never gonna give you up
I think 57421175 is actually 57420075 but the keyboard doesn't go low enough