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My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Don't tell me she also included Cloudflare analytics on her site?

Why on earth Cloudflare scripts are running on a webpage made by a little girl?

We fucked up bad. Real bad. As software engineers, we have produced nothing but garbage in the last two decades.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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I know you're not entirely serious, but we really had it good and largely figured out with tables. It's probably because using tables for layouts was my native language, but I still sometimes have to mentally translate divs into a table in my mind to picture what is happening, and when default types are change (like block to inline, etc) it sometimes breaks my brain and I have to fallback to experimentation to get wh…

Tables aren't even deprecated. IMO you're better off keeping the tables than transforming it into soup. 20 years ago you'd hear it shouted from the rooftops: "Tables for layout are not semantic!". Guess what? s are never semantic. Just use tables if it suits you.

I lost out on a front end job about 15 years ago because I marked up a business’s open and close hours in a table during a coding test. I was told that my skills were clearly out of date.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Is this code review of HTML written by a 7 year old too hackernews, or just hackernews enough? Who can tell!

When the Trump assassination attempt happened last week and every single post on here was still about computers that's when I realized this place is different

I’m glad that my attempts at removing USA politics from my content feeds have been so successful that this is the first time I hear about the Trump assassination attempt.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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I was talking to my parents the other day and surprised myself getting pretty chocked up remembering how my dad had shown me how to program an ascii animation on his 386, and how the wonder I felt at that in many ways led me to where I am today, so many years later. These things matter.

Do you still have the animation?
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