wackget

31 ms·

421.
by wackget 5y ago
As a web developer who has never used anything except locally-hosted databases, can someone explain what kind of system actually produces billions or trillions of files which each need to be individually stored in a low-latency environment?
422.
by wackget 5y ago
How about listing which fucking search engines are affected ? Guess that'd be too easy for Mozilla.
423.
by wackget 5y ago
You don't see anything wrong with the obviously highly subjective and demonstratably hypocritical approach that Apple is taking here?
424.
by wackget 5y ago
Wow, that gallery of Wordle clones is really infuriating, especially when seen in the context of OP's submission. The absolute gall of Apple to reject OP's submission repeatedly despite him providing differentiating features... bu
425.
by wackget 5y ago
...then they destroyed every extension by completely changing the extensions architecture.
426.
by wackget 5y ago
Are we calling slideshows "decks" now?
427.
by wackget 5y ago
RESTER on Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rester/
428.
by wackget 5y ago
The mere CONCEPT of a car manufacturer being able to push UI changes to the car that I drive is equally disgusting and terrifying. I will never, ever own a Tesla or any similar garbage.
429.
by wackget 5y ago
> The reason I believe this is a good approach for pretty much any problem is because each component is 100% swapable In reality, how often will a client actually want to perform a straight swap like this, though? And that's assum
430.
by wackget 5y ago
Constant, needless, routine-breaking UI or UX changes. Really difficult to not get pissed off when features or hotkeys you've used for 10+ years are suddenly changed without warning and for no remotely justifiable reason.
431.
by wackget 5y ago
This isn't mentioned on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist
432.
by wackget 5y ago
That website's choice of font colour makes for frustratingly low contrast and therefore is a recipe for eye strain. I didn't waste time reading it.
433.
by wackget 5y ago
Finally. I am so happy someone else noticed how much of a garbage fire Twitter is when you limit (not even block ) JavaScript. I use uMatrix and a hardened Firefox profile so I notice pretty quickly if websites are poorly made. Spoiler: th
434.
by wackget 5y ago
> No one asks if Excel or Hearthstone or Git or other desktop applications have progressive enhancement I do. I stopped "upgrading" most applications years ago because they only became worse with each version. Excel probably pe
435.
by wackget 5y ago
Yeah I totally get it. It's just not nearly as relevant for my industry (web dev) as it is for actual rocket science, for example.
436.
by wackget 5y ago
As a web developer who works almost exclusively in PHP/SQL and devops, if I was presented with a "Leetcode" challenge or any other intentionally esoteric / purely theoretical bullshit interview technique I would immediat
437.
by wackget 5y ago
This is great but it's also enormously depressing that there is such a massive amount of crap you have to do to have a reasonably private/secure/frictionless web browser these days.
438.
by wackget 5y ago
You can open chargebacks for years after the fact. Do it.
439.
by wackget 5y ago
What kind of processing do you mean? Unless you're developing a game or a media player, I can't think of a good example where processing might delay the UI.
440.
by wackget 5y ago
Questions people will ask: 1. What is a Pi? 2. Where's the keyboard/mouse/screen? 3. What does "download a file" mean? 4. What does "run it" mean? And as for using an Android... that immediately defeats th
441.
by wackget 5y ago
Great for you, but you have to realise that the average person can barely even remember a single password. That is not a solution suitable for mass adoption.
442.
by wackget 5y ago
"Plaintext passwords". Quality.
443.
by wackget 5y ago
That should be "less functional".
444.
by wackget 5y ago
This is a great article, however I feel a bit like it's shouting into an echo chamber. Many people in sci/tech industries are already aware of the importance of repairability and right to repair controversies. For an article like
445.
by wackget 5y ago
Flickr has always done the same in my experience. Any attempt at viewing the source image always resulted in a redirect to Flickr's shitty landing page.
446.
by wackget 5y ago
As a life-long Firefox user who has been increasingly angry with Mozilla's direction for the browser for the past ten years, I honestly don't know how developers like you could put up with it. Trashing an entire swathe of extensio
447.
by wackget 5y ago
When XHR requests are blocked, the OP's URL returns a 404. "Interesting" website design.
448.
by wackget 5y ago
£195 for 1mm sheet aluminium which you have to assemble (and bend) yourself? Fools and their money...
449.
by wackget 5y ago
Can't you just render text to a canvas element then crop the canvas? That results in the exact bounding dimensions you need.
450.
by wackget 5y ago
"Opprobrium"? "Tendentious"? The author of this piece really broke out the thesaurus, didn't they?

More ›