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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 by tantalor »

rubinlinux wrote: post #39
nirvanis wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, OP here. Thanks for this. I don’t seem to have cracked the Hacker News writing formula yet. A few years ago I got similar feedback, but for the opposite reason: people complained that my English felt awkward because I’m not a native speaker. This time I asked an LLM to smooth out the wording, and it seems I accidentally outsourced my personality too. The content and research are mine. I spent a few hours trying t…

I work with claude every day, and instantly recognized its voice; but at the same time, as a web dev from the late 90s who traveled kicking and screaming through all of these ages, I really enjoyed the article anyway. I don't have a visceral disgust with claude's tone as some others here seem to. I'm glad you wrote it and I plan to share it with a friend.

Same. Bookmarked to come back to later.

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

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Post by hyperhello »

nirvanis wrote: post #36
tantalor wrote: post #35

[Metapost] Can we unflag this? It's a good resource and shouldn't be suppressed just because some people don't like the tone.

Hi, OP here. Thanks for this. I don’t seem to have cracked the Hacker News writing formula yet. A few years ago I got similar feedback, but for the opposite reason: people complained that my English felt awkward because I’m not a native speaker. This time I asked an LLM to smooth out the wording, and it seems I accidentally outsourced my personality too. The content and research are mine. I spent a few hours trying t…

I wish I had a better way to communicate that I loved this article. I just took a Software Engineering Methods class that just should have been this article. Don’t listen to people complain your AI use is ruining their lives; their contribution is less than yours.

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

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Post by chr15m »

tantalor wrote: post #34
chr15m wrote: post #21

We need the exact opposite of this.

Do you mean "this" as in 1. the story this website is telling, 2. the website itself, or 3. all the tech in the story

I mean we need "a field guide to hand-written HTML for the modern front end developer."

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

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Post by xtiansimon »

My_Name wrote: post #20
memjay wrote: 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 s…

> “I skip video content where the title…”

I skip anything where a talking head says, “here’s the thing”, or “what they don’t want you to know”.

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

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Post by tapete1 »

nirvanis wrote: post #36
tantalor wrote: post #35

[Metapost] Can we unflag this? It's a good resource and shouldn't be suppressed just because some people don't like the tone.

Hi, OP here. Thanks for this. I don’t seem to have cracked the Hacker News writing formula yet. A few years ago I got similar feedback, but for the opposite reason: people complained that my English felt awkward because I’m not a native speaker. This time I asked an LLM to smooth out the wording, and it seems I accidentally outsourced my personality too. The content and research are mine. I spent a few hours trying t…

You will never write something that everyone likes. And furthermore, writing a quality text is _hard_, as in, that is something that even a native speaker will have to practice several years.

"There's a Gap that for the first couple years that you're making stuff what you're making isn't so good. it's not that great it's it's really not that great it's it's trying to be good it has ambition to good but it's not quite that good but your taste - the thing that got you into the game - your your taste is still killer and your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you're making is kind of bad."

https://youtu.be/X2wLP0izeJE

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