blowski

31 ms·

391.
by blowski 3y ago
My solutions to the problems you raise, in order of preference: 1. Not worry about it, it probably won't happen on the projects I'm working on. YAGNI. 2. OK, it's happened. Get some coffee, make all the changes. Can I use a r
392.
by blowski 3y ago
Yes, I did use SASS before Tailwind (and Compass back in the day), and got a lot of value from them. Where it started to get painful is when I have: a.link { } a.another { } <a class="another link"
393.
by blowski 3y ago
Horrible.... for you. For me, it's lovely. My UI productivity and satisfaction has massively increased with Tailwind, and I've been using it for 3 years now.
394.
by blowski 3y ago
Sounds like a boring Friday afternoon job, or something I could give to a junior contractor. It's also something that doesn't happen very often on the kinds of projects I'm working on.
395.
by blowski 3y ago
I can sum up what I like about Tailwind in the following code: ``` (in CSS) a.link { border: red; } a.link:hover { border: blue; } ``` ``` (in Tailwind) <a class="border-red hover:bor
396.
by blowski 3y ago
It’s not doing it on foxnews.com. Take everything else Musk is saying and doing, and it’s hard to believe it’s not some grudgelist.
397.
by blowski 3y ago
Enshitification is different. It’s when companies destroy a product with hundreds of changes that prioritise internal politics above what end users want. This is something else - just the ego of one rich guy petulantly satisfying his inner
398.
by blowski 3y ago
I’m not sure it’s so modern. Every tollgate in the ancient world was effectively rent-seeking. Even in prehistoric societies, it seems there were protection rackets and shamans with “monopoly access” to the gods.
399.
by blowski 3y ago
I'm not aware of a report that shows "popularity of Excel", but I can give some points. * I pay for my own Excel license because it's so useful for me in a variety of contexts. My wife does all our family accounts using
400.
by blowski 3y ago
Because it’s bundled for free with tools people do want, like Excel and Outlook. I don’t know anyone that would choose Teams as a stand-alone product.
401.
by blowski 3y ago
At some point, we thought it would be the BRICS. All of them have moved away from that in the last decade.
402.
by blowski 3y ago
I had a failed startup where we warned our customers they were using suppliers without sufficient qualifications, insurance, etc. Nobody wanted the product, even for free. At a system level, they chose to use cowboy tradespeople and cover t
403.
by blowski 3y ago
The title means “alternative to WordPress and Ghost”.
404.
by blowski 3y ago
My rule of thumb: if you know the ID of the resource you’re creating, it’s a PUT. If the system generates the ID, then it’s a POST.
405.
by blowski 3y ago
I use DDG as my main search engineer. Many of my searches have hashbangs into other sites. On DDG landing pages, I often go straight to the right hand side of the page, with the info panel. Sometimes, I click on traditional web links, but w
406.
by blowski 3y ago
That seems rather “One True Scotsman” logic. “Where are the Elton Johns of today?” “Here and here and here” “Ah yes, but those are exceptions that prove the rule” By that easy logic, I can say Elton John was also an exception.
407.
by blowski 3y ago
Successful apps have more to lose from being on such an ecosystem than they stand to gain. It’s why so much software starts out as wanting to be open, dominates the market, then puts up the garden walls. The closest we have to this is app s
408.
by blowski 3y ago
Lewis Capaldi, Adele, Meghan Trainor, Jay Z, Drake. I don’t believe any of them made it because of their looks. On the other hand, the Beatles, The Stones, The Monkees, Stevie Nicks, Olivia Newton John - their looks were very much part of t
409.
by blowski 3y ago
Reminds me of the book “Other Minds”, where the author discusses consciousness in octopuses.
410.
by blowski 3y ago
That’s not the best explanation of Giffen goods, since it only covers price inelasticity. The key point of Giffen goods is that, as they become more expensive, you have less to spend on alternatives and thus have to buy more of the Giffen g
411.
by blowski 3y ago
Ah yes, I long for the halcyon days of IT stability… oh wait, business has always been fraught with risk and trade-offs. You get insurance, put mitigations in place, and hope when it does go bad, you can blame Microsoft anyway.
412.
by blowski 3y ago
It was the Web 2.0 era. Delicious, Flickr, Digg, Netvibes, YouOS - they all had AJAX interfaces that used innovative techniques in JavaScript.
413.
by blowski 3y ago
> posted on June 9, 2022 > this is old ???
414.
by blowski 3y ago
The Old Testament has quite a few references to snakes, serpents, and seemingly dragon-like creatures. It’s possible these were used as metaphors for other civilisations. Or perhaps they were genuinely fearful of such creatures and wanted t
415.
by blowski 3y ago
Hyperbole, much? Are we at that stage of the hype curve already?
416.
by blowski 3y ago
(Tweet contents) > No, we haven't made GPT-4 dumber. Quite the opposite: we make each new version smarter than the previous one. > Current hypothesis: When you use it more heavily, you start noticing issues you didn't see be
417.
by blowski 3y ago
Not Bolivia Bold?
418.
by blowski 3y ago
I agree with much of your comment, but take umbrage with: > the point of the entire backend of an app is to serve the front end It’s a phoney argument. Once can just as easily say “the whole point of a front end is to provide simple acce
419.
by blowski 3y ago
There are still some grammar schools, but they are badly distributed, because it’s based on political views from past ages. For example, the city of Southend in Essex has about 7000 grammar school places. Entire counties of Norfolk and Suff
420.
by blowski 3y ago
Because I lack willpower. For those with strong willpower, I know I sound like a lily-livered idiot, but it's easier for me to impose controls I can't easily escape.

More ›