Even in a humorous context, cursing and insults land much better if they're used more sparingly. At some point in the essay they became distracting, and by the end I found them tiring.
Just use HTML
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Re: Just use HTML
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What makes you think this was written by a "feminist tech sis"?
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#63What percentage of this was written by an LLM? (Asking out of genuine curiosity, parts of it are triggering my LLM-detector while others feel human)
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#64Yeah, I remember Zed in 2009. Do you think no one else does? What an embarrassing way to advertise.
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#65Wow, I had no idea elements with an id attribute are directly accessible in JS.
Combine this with Pico CSS or one of those minimal stylesheets (Water.css) to get better typography and spacing and you‘re set.
I guess htmx is the extreme version of this no-framework philosophy… kinda.
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#66I wish html would just look good from the get go.
How much of that is down to browser bare-bones defaults before the page defines its own styles, IIRC bare HTML doesn't define what the client must do because at that level it's not defining a presentation.
I could see a browser making a change to have their defaults for an undefined style to something else, other colors and fonts or closer to reader mode, with an options toggle or flag to restore old behavior. I doubt many browsers would bother as unstyled pages are so rare for most of the web.
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#67Sponsored content via a justfucking website. Bold move Anyway, I am firmly in the "self-hosting modern Sentry is crazypants" camp, but https://telebugs.com/alternatives/glitchtip reads like a hit piece, and not a serious "but, why?" I'll keep my Rails commentary to myself
It's not sponsored. I'm the author of both sites :)
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#68You don't need to swear at me about it, thanks.
I think this style of writing tries to emulate what passed as "cool" in the early 2010s or so.
Matthew Inman of "The Oatmeal" is to me a leading representative of it.
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#69Somehow this site is both plain HTML yet also blocks the Firefox reader button, rendering it unreadable. ( Edit: Browsing to https://justfuckingusehtml.com/index.html shows the reader button, I guess Firefox has a really dumb heuristic for when it shows. )
Readability's heuristic is intentionally opaque as a defense against targeting by advertisers and others who abuse the web.
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#70Sponsored content via a justfucking website. Bold move Anyway, I am firmly in the "self-hosting modern Sentry is crazypants" camp, but https://telebugs.com/alternatives/glitchtip reads like a hit piece, and not a serious "but, why?" I'll keep my Rails commentary to myself
It's not sponsored. I'm the author of both sites :)
Yes. You are the sponsor of this sponsored commercial message.