dmje

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by dmje 4y ago
Like most things it's not as simple as that. I'm a long-in-the-tooth web guy (30+ years doing this stuff) and for Legacy Reasons I use GD. I wish I didn't, but all my domains (and all my client domains) are with them. Yes I c
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by dmje 4y ago
Why I work with museums. I'll never be rich but they're full of amazing people who truly give a shit about what they do. The WankerCoefficient is very low - 12 years in and the number of tosser clients I've had to deal with c
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by dmje 4y ago
Did you autoplay that video? You did, didn't you? Don't do that.
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by dmje 4y ago
This highlights what bothers me most about today's [mobile] culture. There are reams of other things to say about the damage being done (I'd recommend Johann Hari's book Stolen Focus [0] for a great, if severely worrying, o
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by dmje 4y ago
IMO you also need an about page. Why are you doing this? Who are you? Why should the world pay attention? And stick them in your navigation. Overstate your cause rather than assume that people will get it. It's a rad product you'r
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by dmje 4y ago
He's doing that thing [1] where's he's writing about a thing and presumably wants me - the interested reader - to know more about that thing because it's the thing he's spending all his time on, but he gives zero na
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by dmje 4y ago
Or Facebook could just open up their data. Oh wait, not their data , silly me. Everyone else's data. Keep on scraping, I say.
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by dmje 4y ago
I did it for the UK. It didn’t take long :-)
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by dmje 4y ago
Fuckwaffle. Actual tears. I may have to use The Matrix of Pejoration on a daily basis.
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by dmje 4y ago
I started off thinking ...man, ANOTHER damn video calling app / virtual workspace / etc... ...and then I started scrolling through some of the fun stuff, like using avatars in games..and as I scrolled I thought more and more &quot
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by dmje 4y ago
It's a great search engine. I've enjoyed the experience, so have paid for premium. Ignore the cynics, guys, see if you can make it work!
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by dmje 4y ago
You'd just buy a dumb fridge in the first place, no? I mean I know with TV it's nearly impossible to buy dumb now but with fridges it's (at least in the UK) still "default is dumb"...
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by dmje 4y ago
What makes me sad isn't any of the mechanics around cheating, it's that such a vast percentage of people aren't honest. What is the point in doing any kind of learning at all - in fact, anything at all - if you're just g
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by dmje 4y ago
Minor usability suggestion that literally no one will likely care about but I notice it all the time: If you're writing a blog post about your service then chances are you're interested in driving people to the main website about
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by dmje 4y ago
I'm gunna suggest compromised hosting. The issues I've seen (once plugins / core / php is up to date and obvious stuff sorted) has been almost entirely on shared hosts.
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by dmje 4y ago
Some truth in that, for sure. I think they're clearly aiming at the Squarespace / Wix market which is probably the scenario you describe.
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by dmje 4y ago
That's what we do. But (at least until now, it's slowly changing...) you could still take a beautifully designed theme and butcher it by doing some of the things I describe above.
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by dmje 4y ago
The thing I want to see, above all else (and it is coming, but slowly and without any kind of apparent over-arching strategy - which it badly needs) is designer / developer control. Gutenberg gives remarkable agency to editors, which f
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by dmje 4y ago
This is as much a comment to myself as to you or anyone else (I've got some similar hoarding tendencies): it really doesn't matter. I had a realisation the other day - it happened after I accidentally perma-deleted my Wallabag ins
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by dmje 4y ago
Possibly old fashioned view here but I think of it in two ways. Firstly if it's "transactional" it fits more often into the label of "application". If it is there mainly for consumption of media, it's more &quo
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by dmje 4y ago
Couldn't agree more, been saying this for years. There are moments when an "app-like" experience is what's required - and that's mostly (not always but mostly) when these SPAish approaches are relevant. On big, spra
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by dmje 4y ago
Ah miserable downvoterz
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by dmje 4y ago
Actual LOL. This deserves All The Upvotes.
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by dmje 4y ago
Both halves of your sentence work but collectively the logic you've inferred is questionable...
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by dmje 4y ago
Just finished this and came here to mention it. Amazing, beautiful and sad book. It made me think about timescales very much: if trees moved at human scale time, we'd think about them in a totally different way, and I'm sure would
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by dmje 4y ago
It's strange but as - I suppose "veteran" (sigh) Web guy, I just don't see the problem of building stuff(+) in html, css and maybe a sprinkling of js + PHP or whatever else serverside if you need it. (+) stuff for me = w
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by dmje 4y ago
As per my mum's fridge magnet: "the older I get, the better I was"
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by dmje 4y ago
I've thought about this a lot. The totally unscientific conclusive I've come to is that it isn't about scale per- se but about the money and greed that tends to come with that scale. As Acton once said[1], "absolute powe
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by dmje 4y ago
Thank god for you. Wish I could upvote this 10x :-)
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by dmje 4y ago
Unfashionable thought: pay your damn taxes. Loopholes are one thing and IMO should be closed but morality is another. The whole idea that you can make a billion dollar business without being hugely dependent on the infrastructure, education

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