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Client-side code must remain client-side

clientside.surge.sh

3 pointsby plugnburnhá 10 anos0 comments

Show HN: My .nanorc

gist.github.com

9 pointsby plugnburnhá 10 anos3 comments

Ask HN: Do you use Android's capability to connect devices via OTG?

4 pointsby plugnburnhá 10 anos3 comments

Show HN: DaBi – data binding library that keeps it simple

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1 pointsby plugnburnhá 10 anos0 comments

Show HN: numLaunchpad – a WebAudio-based drum pad

10 pointsby plugnburnhá 10 anos6 comments

Show HN: XS.js - an ultra-small CSS rule builder in 10 lines of JS

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1 pointsby plugnburnhá 10 anos1 comments

Show HN: Psto: a single package.json to run your single-post web page in no time

gist.github.com

3 pointsby plugnburnhá 10 anos1 comments

Show HN: XT.js – a DOM construction/templating nano-library, 323 bytes minified

gist.github.com

4 pointsby plugnburnhá 10 anos3 comments

Show HN: 999.css, a barebones CSS framework in 999 bytes (Not gzipped)

7 pointsby plugnburnhá 10 anos0 comments

You Have Ruined Build Systems

you-have-ruined-build-systems.surge.sh

4 pointsby plugnburnhá 10 anos0 comments

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há 10 anosdiscuss

Is the web dying?

Only in red-eyed-hipstazz dreams.

há 10 anosdiscuss

I meant that website is probably valid but ugly, and HN page is vice versa.

há 10 anosdiscuss

If it's true, then in this case that's literally shouting "I don't give a slightest finger about my users, I'll toss them an autogenerated pile of markup and will not even test if it's legible".

There's also a huge difference between "minimalistic" and "outdated". One should exit the cryo-chamber in order to see it though.

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To put it all together:

The authors of all those sites (as well as their supporters here) seem to live in a parallel universe where all users have nothing but 640x480 VGA cards and Dillo browser is the best one out there, lynx/elinks/w3m is a norm in that universe, and the most recent smartphone of 2016 is called Nokia 9110 Communicator.

They may produce the best content but it remains absolutely worthless and can't gain any level of trust until they actually care of delivering that content.

If they can't make nice looking (not even to mention the word "responsive") websites themselves, they may ask or hire someone to do it. There's nothing wrong with it. But if such a way was chosen deliberately then it's a good indicator of the attitude to the website users. And if the users bite this and say "yeah, it's ok, we can trust him anyway because he's successful at other fields", it kinda looks like a sect. Questions about why such a "successful person" haven't created a decent site (himself or with someone's help) remain unanswered. So be it. Because, you know, it's pointless to argue with sectants.

So, given the level of pseudo-elitist zombie ochlocracy here, I'm not going to discuss this topic any further. Believe whatever you want to believe. Live in a parallel world as long as you can. But rest assured: reality will catch you at the most inopportune moment.

há 10 anosdiscuss

Except that most pastebins would at least make the text more readable than it is there. Especially on mobiles.

Markdown with Strapdown inclusion, a pastebin, a CMS, bare Bootstrap... anything would be more readable than this.

há 10 anosdiscuss

Speaking of React/Angular - they are obsessed because they never used 10-years-old computers and slow Internet connection and don't actually know how users feel when their weak machines are thrown all that stuff at.

I'm not against new concepts. Client-side rendering is awesome, reactivity is awesome. But I'm against all that bloatware. If a new concept can't be implemented without bloatware (hint: it can), we don't really need it.

But these things can and should be done in a different way. For example, all my JS stack (Z5 + DaBi) targets ES5 and is under 4 KB altogether. Yet it provides:

- DOM manipulation and auto-polyfilling some DOM essentials (only for the stuff that's really uncomfortable to do with native APIs - Q.js);

- reactive in-memory storage (with an ability to easily populate from external objects or remote requests - Zen.js);

- easy data-to-DOM and DOM-to-data binding (DaBi library);

- ability to easily build DOM and CSS styles from JS native constructs (XT.js and XS.js - never go through escaping hell again);

- client-side routing (R.js).

And while I agree that React/Angular are the bloatware (even jQuery is), I disagree that server-side rendering is any better and that throwing in another bloatware like ClojureScript would solve this issue. Like I had said in my article about client-side development (http://clientside.surge.sh/), go native or go home.

há 10 anosdiscuss

You are obviously trying to do some appeal to authority, which doesn't work on me. No one is an authority for me.

> This is the website of John Walker, cofounder of Autodesk

If he's a cofounder of Autodesk and can't make a decent website himself, how hard would it be to pay someone who can?

> Paul Graham's site

Even worse than the former. Someone, stop that pain, tell him finally how to adjust screen resolution over 640x480!

> Does that detract from the quality of the content?

Yes. It shows the real attitude to the target audience.

> Hell, you're on hacker news. It doesn't even define a doctype and also uses tables for layouts.

Correct, but at least it has some CSS and doesn't look like a hello-from-nineties.

há 10 anosdiscuss

Looked. So what? There's a difference between "ugly" and "invalid". Both cases are bad but the first one has much more impact on end users.

Edit to answer "how is it invalid": is this not enough? http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombina...

há 10 anosdiscuss

Did you just register to say that? Hilarious.

I'd always laughed at "developers" that can't even arrange their own websites properly and still try to educate us about what's acceptable and what is not.

Don't know a thing about web design? Use a ready-made blogging platform then, not a school-grade HTML4 style-less nonsense. No one forces you to roll your own solution every single time. But heck, even a simple Bootstrap-based page would be much more readable.

Seriously, it reminded me of my very first HTML page made in school in 2004 when I knew nothing of it. The only difference is that I omitted the doctype altogether back then.

P.S. HN thinks that I'm "submitting too fast", so it took me about an hour to wait for an ability to reply.

há 10 anosdiscuss

A wrapper over something like this...

  git clone https://[repo]/[module].git node_modules/[module]

...and ability to provide dependency resolution along with custom runscripts?

Yes, we can. Not a rocket science. How many paranoid freaks will actually switch to it - that is the question.

há 10 anosdiscuss

Why not use location.hash and URL shortener? That way no upload is needed.

há 10 anosdiscuss

I personally had used WoSign several times: https://buy.wosign.com/free/

Besides Chinese origin of this CA, haven't found any caveats so far.

Free is better than cheap (at least in a way you haven't to disclose any of your real data).

há 10 anosdiscuss

When I opened the page, I honestly thought CSS failed to load. But then I looked at the first line of the page source:

  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

I think they really shouldn't tell us what is now an acceptable scripting language if they still consider that design and that doctype acceptable in 2016.

há 10 anosdiscuss

In JS we can rely on the Date.getDay prototype. Here's the ES6 flavour:

  weekDay = (dateObj) => ['Sunday','Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday','Friday','Saturday'][dateObj.getDay()]

há 10 anosdiscuss

14 lines in JS? O'rly?

Even with such a strict check of the padding character length (with an exception) and a period by default it's a four-liner at most.

  leftPad = (str, len, pd = '.') => {
      if(pd.length !== 1) throw 'Invalid input'
      else return Array(len > str.length ? 1+len-str.length : 0).join(pd) + str
  }

há 10 anosdiscuss

> If something has had enough downvotes to go invisible it's nearly always because offensive, smartass, or spam.

Why does someone has more right than me to decide what's offensive, smartass or spam? Either leave that to the administration, or give that to everyone.

> The problem with downvote for everyone, including sock puppet accounts, is it becomes Reddit: "I disagree, have a downvote"

YMMV but I'm experiencing absolutely the same here.

Btw, when I agree, I upvote. Why can't I downvote when I disagree?

há 10 anosdiscuss

So again, is this Hacker News or Karma-Jerkin-Conformist News?

It seems that in order to "earn" that "ability" one has to praise Lisp, Rust and Haskell and publicly hate JS. Isn't that mass conciousness manipulation?

The selected few or a crowd thinking the same thought - what's the actual difference? The only difference is that in the second case all fresh and independent ideas get downvoted much faster.

Any karma-based resource suffers from this plague.

Ochlocracy at its worst.

há 10 anosdiscuss

Upvoted just to keep the thread and go against "elitist" hivemind.

há 10 anosdiscuss

I honestly think the entire idea of downvoting available only for selected users creates a mass conciousness manipulation tool. When some "authority" decides what's good and what's bad.

Why can't I use the downvote button? It either must be available to everyone, or not available at all.

And if you, HN founders, are afraid that newcomers can be smarter than you, then remove the ability to downvote altogether. Whoever dislikes a post, can just ignore it.

P.S. The entire user rating system here contradicts the resource name. Hackers do not believe in karma.

há 10 anosdiscuss

Actually, there are several immutable FS-over-tinyURL projects. I have created some of them too. A real problem with Twitter is that you can get banned quickly for doing this.

há 10 anosdiscuss

Why not just use anonymous gists in conjunction with RawGit CDN?

Unique IDs, no way to change or delete (since the gists are anonymous), served right out-of-the-box with a proper content type from cdn.rawgit.com.