exodust

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by exodust 4y ago
> A nonprofit I was involved with had to pay thousands per year to keep an essential WooCommerce match at least 10% of the functionality of Shopify Sorry but I don't believe that for one second.
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by exodust 4y ago
> (like adding online ordering, inventory management, etc.) you are better off finding other, better suited options. What better suited options? And why are they better for someone's small business or intention to sell a few produc
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by exodust 4y ago
> " It's very possible to make super fast sites on WordPress... " The word "very" is misplaced. What I've noticed is that as soon as you add WooCommerce, you can forget about snappy performance. You may get
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by exodust 4y ago
Not really. I would never begin an ebay account with selling. I would start with buying, get some positive feedback and completed transactions before moving on to selling small items initially. As a buyer, I would never buy anything worth h
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by exodust 4y ago
That example introduces a lot of visual clutter and inconsistency. I doubt anyone can make it from 1 to 24 and not feel exhausted. Panel 4, "Deep dive into IOT" has an illustration of stick figure diving under water. I'm not
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by exodust 4y ago
Slightly cynical but lesson 2 is already into GitHub and a bunch of terminal commands. Great way to put beginners off web development. I guess it's no surprise Microsoft wants beginners to sign up at lesson 2 of 24. Also I'm not s
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by exodust 4y ago
> in a clear way Skeletons are less clear because broken or missing things on a page can sometimes look like skeletons. Loading spinners never look broken or ambiguous. I don't think it really matters. Skeletons might be better for
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by exodust 4y ago
Agree, being stuck on 99% is worse than stuck on a loading spinner. The design problem that gets overlooked is how to inform users that things are taking longer than normal. Even the eventual fail message with "try again later" is
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by exodust 5y ago
Surely a radio that switches on for 5 minutes via motion sensor would be better? It's random music. Or just leave the radio on all the time and don't worry about the motion sensor. I don't believe a recorded waterfall sound c
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by exodust 5y ago
For noise generators, "MyNoise" is still top dog, at least I've not seen better/easier and more accessible for the amount of control and quality on offer. https://mynoise.net/ Dial in your distant thunde
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by exodust 5y ago
I hope web pages are never removed from servers on the basis of last modified date! I wonder what is the etiquette for devs in their update notes, when there's no other change except this pulse update? Describe it accurately or slap a
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by exodust 5y ago
> "I asked people in code/design reviews to rename white/black lists to allow/deny lists" Odd thing to do. "Black" is synonymous with darkness, hidden, off, empty space, and things of that nature. For t
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by exodust 5y ago
Strange times when travel advisory warnings are about the rules in response to the virus rather than the actual virus. Are Shanghai's hospitals overwhelmed? Or is there a new variant over there or something? Seems very poorly handled.
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by exodust 5y ago
> supermarket cashiers I don't use the self-checkouts anymore since they installed cameras on the screens at some of the supermarkets in my area. I don't care about normal CCTV in ceiling. But when the camera is 30cm from my fa
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by exodust 5y ago
Reading books isn't a problem because the serif fonts are tiny black printed letters on paper. Serif helps the small letters stand out. A computer screen doesn't share the same type size issues. When combined with high contrast, I
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by exodust 5y ago
Having a negative goal isn't recommended according to something I read somewhere. You're meant to frame personal objectives in positive terms. Instead of "stop eating junk food", "start eating healthier food".
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by exodust 5y ago
> serif fonts Can't understand why websites choose serif fonts. I find long passages of text a chore to read when the font is serif. They're less readable than sans-serif, as the little feet on every letter adds up to unnecess
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by exodust 5y ago
Deceiving the actor with no film in camera sounds extreme, but I suppose every production is different. Sometimes actors come up with new or better lines. Off top of my head, Brad Pitt apparently came up with the line "what's tha
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by exodust 5y ago
Because they're claiming that only 6% of shoppers are successful with searching for products on e-commerce sites. They imply Google can help prevent the 94% who "abandon their session" because of inadequate site search. It&#x
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by exodust 5y ago
I'd be interested to see even one example where the e-commerce store's own site search failed to return a relevant result that google otherwise achieves. Just one example. I use Google search too when shopping online. For the purp
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by exodust 5y ago
More Google spin. > "Some 94% of U.S. consumers abandoned a shopping session because they received irrelevant search results" This would often be because the product is simply not in stock, leaving no other option for the use
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by exodust 5y ago
> Remove status bar Missed still! On large screens I prefer a permanent status bar with useful info persisting, than a URL flashing over the page. Chrome did it first, then Firefox copied like a mirror. The status bar was oddly banished
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by exodust 5y ago
Okay, maybe. This was years ago when my dad complained about it not working. I installed FastStone Image Viewer as a replacement (what I use), but he preferred Picasa.
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by exodust 5y ago
Yep, I almost added "not Shopify" when asking for alternative woocommerce suggestions, but thought that was a given! I did indeed mean alternatives where deployment is controlled. Wordpress+Woocommerce does actually tick along oka
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by exodust 5y ago
They raise an interesting point I've wondered about, in regards to movies: > " Like you are watching Avengers End game in Netflix and they ask you if you wanna pay 5 dollars more to watch Captain America use his well known outf
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by exodust 5y ago
> It's shameful and disrespectful to take a client's money and give them a WordPress site in return If their site is already Wordpress and they ask you to fix it, then your job is to fix their Wordpress site. Where is the sha
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by exodust 5y ago
> "they generally do try to migrate users to a product that provides the same basic features" Try telling that to Picasa users. When Google announced it was "moving on from Picasa", they stated: "We apologize for
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by exodust 5y ago
> " I've managed to convert all my old dynamic sites to be statically generated, without really compromising on bells and whistles. " In your linked article you say: "Anyway, site search is only a nice-to-have...and f
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by exodust 5y ago
> " ...anything but the original intent " We're only hearing about the "original intent" now, via a smug tweet in 2022. It doesn't say much about someone who insinuates people "don't understand the
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by exodust 5y ago
> "all while prioritizing user privacy". The way Google mentions "privacy" in the first sentence reminds me of a mining company mentioning "the environment" in the first sentence of their plan to dig a gigan

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