thinkxl

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by thinkxl 4y ago
I do mostly of my backend in Python, but I've been curious about Clojure for a while. I might give it a try this weekend.
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by thinkxl 4y ago
Yes. It's more minimal than Flask. It's a single file and it contains everything you need including a template language. Fun fact: Flask was born as an April Fool's joke parodying Bottle. (source: https://en.wikipe
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by thinkxl 4y ago
I use Bottle [1] a lot for toy projects. [1] http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/
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by thinkxl 4y ago
by solved you mean rushed out a prototype out to production.
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by thinkxl 5y ago
I started programming at 30 and started technical lead positions at 35. I'm teaching two friends in their 40s to program in Python. I know there's still a considerable gap between 40s and 60s from my stories, but the point is that
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by thinkxl 5y ago
it does one job and does it well
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by thinkxl 6y ago
Of course that's up for the developer to decide. You can't force a developer to make a website accessible to all people regarding of their capabilities. But you have to remember the initial goal of why the Internet started as open
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by thinkxl 6y ago
It's not mouse hate, but an alternative way to use a computer.
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by thinkxl 7y ago
https://www.m1finance.com/ Haven't used it yet, but I asked the same question about Robinhood alternatives and this was the top recommendation.
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by thinkxl 7y ago
You pay for convenience. Someone else takes care of the server. I pay them $5 per month for the site/app I pay $15 for the database in other place and I charge +$150/hour while I work in something else instead of dealing with the
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by thinkxl 7y ago
Nope. It's really hard to distinguish these days!
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by thinkxl 7y ago
> Host a static website the HN way Gatekeeping alert! Fortunately, there is more than one way to do things. I've been in HN for a while now and I don't do any of this. I was doing it when I wanted to learn, but now I need to ge
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by thinkxl 7y ago
https://jolvera.dev
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by thinkxl 7y ago
> it is overkill. > It definitely is. It is not, you pay $14 and you get basic analytics and this https://usefathom.com/news/anonymization that's worth the money for me. > It's cheaper, faster (by a
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by thinkxl 7y ago
A "killer" product isn't for everybody. Not everyone needs all the options that Google Analytics offer, plus there are some people concerned about privacy, and products like Fathom and Simple Analytics are perfect for them.
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by thinkxl 7y ago
Not too much at all. But in case your budget is tight, you can move around some services, for example, I canceled my hosting account and moved all my websites to ZEIT Now, and I pay around ~11 USD for 7 sites and 20 API endpoints (serverles
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by thinkxl 7y ago
Related "Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics"[1] - [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19883876
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by thinkxl 7y ago
I've been using Firefox and DuckDuckGo for almost four years now!
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by thinkxl 7y ago
It is not about spying on users, but see trends and how users behave on your site. In my case, I want to see what posts have more visits. I don't intend to monetize my blog, but I do have a lot of curiosity about what people like to re
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by thinkxl 7y ago
I do and I'm pretty happy with it. https://app.usefathom.com/share/hwimpavv/jolvera.dev
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by thinkxl 7y ago
> good practices and HTML don't really exist They do, we have a standard for that, https://html.spec.whatwg.org/
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by thinkxl 7y ago
> in reality, in real projects, if it works, it works, and you move on. This is your perception, but if you don't use semantic HTML, you are building elements that look like something (for sighted users) but in reality, is something
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by thinkxl 7y ago
> If I want my images to execute on click events, and so on, I probably have a reason for that. If that thing looks and works horrible, I'll learn that, but it may also work perfectly, or in 99% nobody cares. There's a semantic
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by thinkxl 7y ago
Sigh. Basically you want to disregard web standards that have a purpose to be able to "stick generic classes." > there's a mismatch between how HTML is designed and what it actually has to do in the wild. There is an entir
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by thinkxl 7y ago
> I feel like Bootstrap (and similar) are a lot "to blame" for some of these. IMO, it's more about developers just using Bootstrap without reading the documentation. The examples are pretty well done, they use semantic ele
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by thinkxl 7y ago
Yes. I mostly hang out in ##frontend, #indieweb, and #whatwg. The people I met in ##frontend were extremely helpful and made them good friends.
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by thinkxl 8y ago
I hope nobody follows this advice. Sleep is very important for your physical and mental health, and it affects people around you, too. Even those two extra hours you can add are really important. You probably could say "yeah, I'll
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by thinkxl 8y ago
I like Tailwind. I think the appeal here is to write less CSS, get things done faster, have a consistent design and the maintainability. All good so far. But let's remind everybody that this is only one approach of many you can use. On
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by thinkxl 8y ago
Wow, surprised to see this genre here, I listed to Goa Trance/Psy Trance music when trying to focus at work.
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by thinkxl 8y ago
old thread about the same with good examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6005295

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