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Arabic software pioneer Mohammed Al-Sharekh dies(arabnews.com)
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I don’t have much insight into htmx + Tailwind, since the last time I worked with Tailwind was like 8 months ago at my prior job - and even then I did very little styling work. With that said, it’s not really clear to me what the connection
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Of course! With any solution, you’ll need to have some awareness around SQL injection, CSRF, XSS, etc. Some frameworks have sensible defaults to help you avoid common mistakes, but there’s no 100% fool-proof solution. Right now I’m in dev m
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by ralmidani 3y ago
When you say you want to build something simple with a few pages, you might be able to get by with something minimalist like Flask and maybe DataTables: https://datatables.net/ If you don’t expect to have scalability or rea
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Companies were OK with “job-hopping” until they weren’t, i.e. the market turned in their favor.
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I’ve settled on htmx not because I’m anti-JS, but to avoid Node/NPM, build steps, duplication of logic, etc. For me, it’s the ecosystem that’s problematic, not the language itself. Also, “just learn JS” is a lazy and off-the-mark respo
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I actually want learn to build every one of the non-CRUD programs you mentioned (I actually enrolled in a Compilers course once but had to drop out last-minute). I don’t __want__ to spend the rest of my life building CRUD apps exclusively,
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by ralmidani 3y ago
That’s even worse; now you need to introduce a specialized, non-standard tool into your development and deployment cycles.
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I’m working on a B2B app. Things get more interesting when you need background tasks, notifications, interaction with 3rd-party APIs, etc. Successful CRUD apps usually become more than “just” CRUD apps. Also, using libraries like htmx is ac
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Utility classes which require a build step add complexity and bloat to an already complex and bloated ecosystem. Personally, I am using Bootstrap (without Sass), but even if I wasn’t, I would rather write inline styles or a custom style.css
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Glad to see there’s still some common sense on that side of the pond. Meanwhile, in Dearborn, Michigan they decided to tear down a 670,000 Sq. Ft. office building which was previously used by Ford. https://www.detroitnews.com&#x2
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by ralmidani 3y ago
This epidemic will continue to spread unless the burden of proof is placed on the party filing the complaint, along with having penalties imposed for filing bogus complaints.
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by ralmidani 3y ago
If the point of having Election Day off is to give folks time to vote, poll workers are already, well, at the polls. Naturally, they will be able to vote.
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Your words are racist. Why are you entitled to quality of life and enjoyment of “how things once were”, but people trying to help their families escape from poverty in “3rd world” countries should be shunned and doomed to cyclical poverty i
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by ralmidani 3y ago
This looks really nice, thank you! I’m actually building a Django and htmx app right now and will definitely be using some of these code samples. As a side note, I really wish the use of strings as Django templates was more common and had b
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Lots of anti-religious sentiment being echoed here. Marx said the right thing for the wrong reason when he described religion as “the opium of the people/masses”. I definitely believe that religion can be effectively misused to pacify
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I doubt many advocates for htmx (or Hotwire) believe React is being abandoned right now. However, they do represent a serious challenge, because they’re not just marginally faster or more ergonomic like, say, Preact or Svelte - they represe
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by ralmidani 3y ago
If you use the same Node version and NPM dependencies it could work, but trying to get the project upgraded to use a modern version of Node and mitigate vulnerabilities was a nightmare and I just abandoned the effort. I get emails from Gith
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I’m building out my server-side with Django while reading up on htmx. I haven’t started with actual UI interactions, but htmx is what I plan to use. For more context, I’m essentially revisiting an app I built from 2015-2017, before I became
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Aside from being compensated directly for daily commutes (on which we could reasonably disagree), there’s also an issue around liability: if someone crashes going to work and the other side wants to sue, should the company be liable, the em
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by ralmidani 3y ago
It makes perfect sense to you, and me, but unfortunately, in America at least, the upper hand is very much with employers. I could be semi-OK with non-reimbursement for salaried workers if daily travel was factored in, but for those on hour
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by ralmidani 3y ago
This kind of nuance is also brought up in sister comments, but you probably explained it best. With the caveat that C-suite mandates should not be the only determinant; let teams have some degree of autonomy and self-organization, and be ab
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I get it, I am neurodivergent myself. But I don’t think you need to have a certain disability or neurodivergence to be protected from predatory employers or potential employers. Of course, being in the US I also understand your realism. One
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Yeah, they passed that already in the Netherlands. I think the Netherlands doesn’t stipulates a disability. And honestly, there are reasons other than disabilities and neurodivergence; some people are caregivers, or have young kids, or have
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by ralmidani 3y ago
So if it has no measurable effect, and some workers need/want to work remotely for whatever reason, why do some orgs not want to give them that option, especially for desk work in software, insurance, law, etc. that require little to n
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Same… Apple software has, for a while, been going steadily from “just garbage” to “dumpster fire floating through a river of sewage”.
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by ralmidani 3y ago
It’s called “nuance”. Also, Stockholm Syndrome is the opposite of what you’re objecting to; someone is taken hostage and sympathizes with the hostage takers.
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by ralmidani 3y ago
> And FWIW, I'm an Apple fan and find Tim S a completely unsympathetic character. But seeing the hilariously absurd lengths that people will go to justify Apple's outrageous greed grows old. Heh, there are still folks who actua
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by ralmidani 3y ago
One difference: physical goods suppliers can theoretically choose to sell and deliver direct any of their goods to any consumer willing to pay for them. With the app store, at least in the US, the captive audience can’t side-load, and now A
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Python/Django and Elixir/Phoenix are both excellent. Which of these 2 is preferable should be, IMO, dependent on where you are in the development process. Personally, if I was joining a team with a mature codebase, a decent auth s

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