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yawaramin
·8 gün önce·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 gün önce·discuss
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
yawaramin
·geçen ay·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
·geçen ay·discuss
Also possible to just ignore interaction patterns that don't work well with HTML and replace them with ones that do.
yawaramin
·geçen ay·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
·geçen ay·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
·geçen ay·discuss
From The Article
yawaramin
·geçen ay·discuss
FTA: 'To apply for their services, customers could either use an old ASP form on the website, or follow a manual process.'
yawaramin
·geçen ay·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
·geçen ay·discuss
Doubling conversions, in digital marketing-speak. Marketing firms probably give out fat bonuses for this kind of result.
yawaramin
·geçen ay·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
·geçen ay·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
·geçen ay·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
·geçen ay·discuss
I'd rather not have to maintain lists of source files to compile by hand; dune eliminates this drudge work.
yawaramin
·geçen ay·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
·geçen ay·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
·geçen ay·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 ay önce·discuss
Passkeys don’t lock you into anything.
yawaramin
·2 ay önce·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 ay önce·discuss
What does 'marker of affinity toward precision' mean?