DanielKehoe

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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
Yes, Rails still has its charms :-) I'm glad the installation guide was helpful. Here's the full guide for Rails: https://learn-rails.com/install-rails-mac/index.html Take look at the `$ rails new myapp --min
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
To install Ruby, it helps to have a good guide (but, yes, sometimes they are difficult to find): https://mac.install.guide/ruby/index.html
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
We're talking about beginners. Presumably they start with HTML and then ask what they should learn next. Let's save the madness of Typescript and tree shaking until after they've achieved some initial wins. Let's start w
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
Try this tutorial [0]. It shows how to build a web component using JavaScript with just a text editor and browser. No Node, no $PATH, no build tools, no framework, and it's useful for any beginning web developer. Happy to improve it wi
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
It's time to refactor the last ten years of professional web development.
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
For beginners who've started with HTML, React or Rails is a huge cliff to climb. Yet that is the expectation we've set as professional web developers, when in fact we're often over-engineering our projects. There's no ne
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
$PATH is complicated and scary for most beginners, just as math can be scary for many kids, especially if they don't have a good teacher. Do we say we don't want kids learning math? No, we need to be better teachers. There are so
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
It doesn't have to be Notepad. But it's important to communicate to beginners that they can actually get far without build tools or frameworks. Go stackless. Use the platform.
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
The author is right when he says "coding is still too damn hard for beginners." That's because he's been led to believe he needs to install Node to join the "code club." Contemporary professional web developmen
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
Where were you when the web was invented? Author of the article here (thanks for submitting it!). I'm happy to respond to any comments or questions.
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
In the posted article I wrote: > when developers choose complex software such as React or Rails to build simple websites, I cringe at the violation of Rule of Least Power Just now I read through 400+ comments on "Hotwire: HTML over
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
The submission is a memoir of my first encounters with web. I'm happy to respond to any comments or questions. For me, with every anniversary of the web's creation, the contrast between the original vision and the web as it exists
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30 Years Later: Early Days of the Web(blog.yax.com)
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I haven't yet posted it to "Show HN" so it's great to get early feedback. Let me know what topics you'd like for tutorials and I'll put them at the top of the list. Give it a try and I&
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
I love to see how the NeXT obsession can't be shaken. I just emailed the site's creator to see if he is still maintaining it. Notably, it's missing a link to the archives of NeXTWorld magazine which are on Simson Garfinkel&#x
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
This (Mvp.css) is one of 16 different "classless" one-page "tiny sites" on display at https://sites.yax.com/ (compare classless themes, click to create a GitHub repo, then click to deploy to Netlify, Ver
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
Are you concerned about spam? Is that why you are requiring a login for comments? Most of the visitors are developers with side projects themselves. How about rewarding comments with points that boost the commenter's own project in the
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
I think it would work better if a visitor could leave comments without logging in. I submitted my project ( https://try.yax.com , "tiny websites with free hosting") and paid the $20 to have it promoted to the #3 position
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
I'd like to see a comparison among Netlify, Vercel, and Render.com as they all offer free hosting for static sites with similar usability. It's a growing service category (free hosting for static sites deployed from GitHub). Are t
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
I didn't know this technique had a name but I've often used it when I've written books and tutorials. Learned about it from Linda Liukas of Hello Ruby [1]. [1] https://helloruby.substack.com/p/no-03-compu
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Using semantic waves to improve explanations and learning in computing(blog.teachcomputing.org)
2 points by DanielKehoe 6y ago|1 comments
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
Interesting. Could Plum Mail be suitable for communication in an open source community? There's a range of group communication platforms, including email newsletters, Slack channels, and Discord (and originally email lists and UseNet)
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
The black cube (as a Platonic ideal) was a Steve Jobs design statement (as the form factor for the first NeXT computer) and informs the logo design. The logo has richer significance within that context. To me, it is Steve Jobs saying that a
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
(updated the title) It's interesting to see a hybrid of a console and a GUI. For me I can see usefulness beyond a man page or Google search to see what flags are available for a command and then select flags. Plus there's benefit
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Fig: Visual Apps and Shortcuts for Your Terminal(withfig.com)
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microJam uses VS Code to generate static sites(goessner.github.io)
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Personal History: Punctuating the Web (1993)(danielkehoe.com)
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by DanielKehoe 6y ago
Yes. It seems many developers will honor coding conventions or Internet RFCs but love to engage in debate about orthography when it suits them, rather than referring to the Chicago Manual of Style or another authority.
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I got to thinking more about this and posted an essay to my blog [1]. Looking back, I wonder if browser developers could have applied the algorithms that Tex uses and perhaps web pages would look slightly more elegant. We take for granted t
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We debated this in 1993 on the www-talk mailing list [1]. Terry Allen (an editor at O'Reilly) wanted rendered HTML documents to follow Tex conventions with extra space after a period. Marc Andreessen (still at NCSA in 1993) pointed out

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