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by dgb23 3y ago
It's not only a great reference documentation, it also has comprehensive guides for both beginners and advanced developers. Including niche/complex features like canvas, webrtc, service workers etc. In a web programming course I c
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by dgb23 3y ago
The GP mentioned that their wife is entirely new to programming but starting a CS degree. She will certainly learn the deeper concepts in university, but catching up with coding quickly, even in a shallow manner, is super beneficial. I thin
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by dgb23 3y ago
But you don’t need to grasp anything deeply. You want to create something small and get a little bit of feedback quickly. When we teach math to children we don’t start with algebraic structures and proofs. We give them simple recipes. Later
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by dgb23 3y ago
You can pretty much do anything with a combination of refs, events and useEffect. It’s often fiddly and cumbersome though. Aside: That’s why I‘ve been gravitating towards approaches that have much simpler execution models. You can still do
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by dgb23 3y ago
I‘ve written a UI a few months ago with only lithtml and direct DOM manipulation and it worked pretty well. I needed to do calculations and reading bounding boxes from the DOM initially and on resize. Basically a hack to get around CSS limi
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by dgb23 3y ago
Does that mean the return types are the same when you use async or not on the same function?
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by dgb23 3y ago
Imagine how much complexity, churn, standards etc. we could have avoided if they put a Scheme in Netscape (like they initially wanted). - language features like module loading, async, classes arrow functions etc. would be unnecessary or tri
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by dgb23 3y ago
On one hand this is hilarious. But on the other hand it's a way better system than the one above, because the side effect has a positive portion to it.
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by dgb23 3y ago
I agree with the criticism except that I believe that these products provide some core utility to us. One of our dogs was posted for adoption on FB for example. Although plain old websites + RSS are my preferred method.
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by dgb23 3y ago
English is not my first language, when I wrote this I was suspicious too. What I wanted so say is that, these structures want to promote people upwards based on expertise, effort, popularity etc. So the structure is in part based on meritoc
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by dgb23 3y ago
That’s likely a very good example of the limitations of LLMs.
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by dgb23 3y ago
I think when someone says „I want a C that’s cleaner and has some simple, generally loved features“ they don’t think of C++?
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by dgb23 3y ago
I see why they or others do this. But it’s a prime example of Goodhart‘s law. The incentives misalign with the overarching goals. It reminds me of the (very fun) book Bullshit Jobs by the late David Graeber. He categorized one of the types
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by dgb23 3y ago
I definitely benefit from knowing calculus. But I always disliked it, it was taught in such a mechanical fashion. I only really started to get math when I learned about linear algebra, combinatorics, proofs, A&D, algebraic structures, m
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by dgb23 3y ago
With or without a family, the reality is that you work in spikes. You have times where you work much less than that on client projects, maybe just 50% of that, and use some of the "free" time to tinker, learn, improve your interna
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by dgb23 3y ago
I would have expected that the Go community welcomes a uniform interface for iteration.
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by dgb23 3y ago
You mean not growing the heap or literally no allocation?
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by dgb23 3y ago
Is that correct? I get a larger number. In either case, they said a single byte saved. Any amount of minification is going to save more than just a byte. It’s also incredibly low effort to do so.
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by dgb23 3y ago
I guess sometimes Worse is not Better?
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by dgb23 3y ago
You mean htmx in general? The author of htmx wrote a rationale (when and when not to use it). https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/
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by dgb23 3y ago
Call your "backlog" column "ideas". Move "ideas" into "todos" with intent. And by the way this: > ever-growing list of tasks that you can never finish creates stress and inhibits your motivation Is
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by dgb23 3y ago
I think there’s an even bigger wisdom in here. We tend to overburden ourselves with these negative thoughts all the time. What other people might think, and other forms of self sabotage. In a sense it’s a good sign. It’s good to care and pu
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by dgb23 3y ago
I don’t understand what you mean. I understand „nerd“ as someone who passionately sits with their toys (computers, other tech) and tinkers for fun on hours end. I understand hard work in a professional context, but the constant learning and
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by dgb23 3y ago
WP is fantastic for the first group you mentioned. I put it up there with Excel, Filemaker, Visual Basic and similar software that democratize software and make it accessible to everyone. Naturally all of these things have limits and qualit
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by dgb23 3y ago
> Is the problem PHP? PHP is fast for a dynamic language (compared to say Ruby/Python and even JS). It has the disadvantage that it gets slow by default the more code you have, because it has a static execution model. WP is extremel
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by dgb23 3y ago
I don't do "Agile" and never have. But every time I read or hear about Agile it's described like above. Everyone seems to hate it and it all sounds terribly inefficient and frustrating. I scratch my head... Why? Why are
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by dgb23 3y ago
Imagine you want to have a conversation with a colleague about how to approach a new project, but some smart-ass is constantly pestering you, forcing you to use a heavily formalized, technical language that requires you to put every idea in
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by dgb23 3y ago
PHP is uniquely vulnerable to things like XSS and others on that list, because it does escape strings that are used in templating. Escaping by default has become a standard practice with HTML templating languages, see the Go html template s
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by dgb23 3y ago
Judging from my limited experience the first and fourth are either caught by the compiler or at least result in a panic in some cases. The middle two are out of reach of a typical PL or type system (there are exceptions like Ur, but I don&#
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by dgb23 3y ago
Tech that has stood the test of time is the opposite of a fad.

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