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yawaramin

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yawaramin
·8 days ago·discuss
Then don't trust it. Don't read it. Don't use it. But I don't get this obsession with trying to police and control everyone's use of AI. Hint: you can't control everyone. They're going to do what they want whether you like it or not. The only thing you can do is move on.
yawaramin
·29 days ago·discuss
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
yawaramin
·last month·discuss
1a & b. Sure, but you wouldn't know that ahead of time. You'd have to wait until they finished the app.

2. It was enforced, just at a higher level (expensive fines triggered by customer complaints). A good engineer broke down and actually applied the constraints in a preventative way.
yawaramin
·last month·discuss
Also possible to just ignore interaction patterns that don't work well with HTML and replace them with ones that do.
yawaramin
·last month·discuss
I actually like the built-in stuff and the Constraint Validation API. I wrote about using it with htmx: https://dev.to/yawaramin/handling-form-errors-in-htmx-3ncg
yawaramin
·last month·discuss
How good are you at hammering nails with a screwdriver? Tools are important. We have a more apropos saying in our industry: use the right tool for the job. Don't let your brain get fried by the 'poor workman' adage, it's talking about the difference between an expensive tool and a cheap tool of the same kind, not two tools of different kinds entirely.
yawaramin
·last month·discuss
From The Article
yawaramin
·last month·discuss
FTA: 'To apply for their services, customers could either use an old ASP form on the website, or follow a manual process.'
yawaramin
·last month·discuss
No, it's actually people. FTA: 'My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem. To apply for their services, customers could either use an old ASP form on the website...'

Ie customers of the utility company were completing the form, not random users from the internet.
yawaramin
·last month·discuss
Doubling conversions, in digital marketing-speak. Marketing firms probably give out fat bonuses for this kind of result.
yawaramin
·last month·discuss
Also allows user scripts to interact with the forms, eg I can run a bookmarklet to fill out certain forms. With React controlled components all these changes are wiped out and reset with the state that React has in its app memory.
yawaramin
·last month·discuss
None of the increased traffic was from AI agents. FTA: 'The results? When we launched, the number of people completing the form doubled.'

All completions were real people. It's a government website.
yawaramin
·last month·discuss
1. Presumably the team that made the previous app also thought they knew what they were doing. Presumably they were not hired on the assumption that they couldn't make a good app.

2. The design constraints had always existed, the previous app just failed to meet them.
yawaramin
·last month·discuss
I'd rather not have to maintain lists of source files to compile by hand; dune eliminates this drudge work.
yawaramin
·last month·discuss
The OCaml ecosystem tried the Make route, it was complex, turns out no one likes maintaining makefiles by hand, and they like opaque make rules even less. Like it or not, dune exists for a very good reason.
yawaramin
·last month·discuss
Yeah, unfortunately, looks like they're `<div hx-get>`. This is exactly what I tell everyone to avoid in htmx: https://dev.to/yawaramin/why-hx-boost-is-actually-the-most-i...
yawaramin
·last month·discuss
Hello, nice work. I recommend running Chrome's built-in Lighthouse analysis tool specifically for accessibility. It will make some very helpful suggestions, like img alt text and colour contrast issues. One example that I eyeballed is the search bar–the background colour is pink and the text colour is yellow. Kinda hard to read :-)
yawaramin
·2 months ago·discuss
Passkeys don’t lock you into anything.
yawaramin
·2 months ago·discuss
> With CSS names are global.

Not necessarily. Nested selectors make it pretty easy to apply styles in a modularized way. See https://rstacruz.github.io/rscss/
yawaramin
·2 months ago·discuss
What does 'marker of affinity toward precision' mean?