afloatboat

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by afloatboat 1y ago
Sad to hear that about the PS3, seeing how long it took them to go to market. Been driving a Polestar 2 for nearly 4 years now and while it’s not a disastrous experience it could be a lot better. Things have improved over the years, but sti
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by afloatboat 2y ago
I got a loan for a house 2 years ago. The process included showing our 3 last pay slips, the expected cost of the house (new build) and showing the bank how much money we had in our accounts (I loaned at a different bank that gave me better
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by afloatboat 2y ago
Next should have the same functionality that Gatsby had when doing a static export: pre-optimised images for different breakpoints that are created at build time. That would be a truly portable solution.
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by afloatboat 2y ago
SVG elements also support currentColor for the fill property, which is linked to CSS’s color property. <svg><path d=“” fill=“currentColor” /></svg> element { color: hsl(0 0% 0%) } One advantage is that you can
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by afloatboat 2y ago
Don’t get me wrong, I was just making an observation about a ‘role’ being specified. Not suggesting the role=“application” should be used here. Ultimately in my case I’m leaning to either replacing the production year, parental guidance and
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by afloatboat 2y ago
That's some good feedback and I honestly think this should have been an definition list from the start. I was interested about how it would change if I replaced those `span` with `p` and it still reads the entire block for me with Voic
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by afloatboat 2y ago
I can't link the page, but this is a cleaned up DOM output (the extra spans/divs are components): `<div><div><span aria-label="IMDb rating" title="IMDb rating">IMDb 8.2</span><&#
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by afloatboat 2y ago
Pretty clean, I like it. I tested it out on a page I'm developing that has some meta data on a TV show. One of the elements is a set of divs each containing span with an `aria-label` describing the contents. With MacOs' VO this ge
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by afloatboat 2y ago
Not if you consider that a lot of front end developers today started learning web development through JavaScript. I started around 2000, when people were still using tables for layout and CSS was pretty new. If you wanted interactivity you
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by afloatboat 2y ago
I wish! I love working with HTML and CSS, but every front end job is covered by the blanket term “front end” that considers you as much a JavaScript ‘architect’ as they do a UI developer. Not realising that this does not make the slightest
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by afloatboat 2y ago
As an unhappy front-end web developer I feel I'm mostly unhappy because my job title has stayed the same, while the responsibilities have changed drastically. I've always been a developer that liked to work on the UI. I got joy fr
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by afloatboat 2y ago
Grid has been around for a while now, together with flex it’s the way to go to start building layouts. But like everything it requires practice to get the nuances down and learn about the pitfalls. You won’t experience many cross browser is
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by afloatboat 2y ago
We just turned back from Nextjs after a 4 month trial for a new application. Some issues we ran into: - The dev environment is too finicky. Full page reloads instead of HMR and random errors after x reloads. - Cache is a black hole and work
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by afloatboat 2y ago
Raycast - Replaces Spotlight for opening applications - Replaces Magnet for window management, same features but don’t have to run a separate app now. - keeps a clipboard history - allows me to convert colours and units - integrates with my
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by afloatboat 3y ago
While I haven’t read his book [0], I always enjoy the articles by Ahmad Shadeed [1][2]. The ones that focus on how big websites like Facebook implemented specific functionality and how he would have tackled it are a great resource in advanc
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by afloatboat 3y ago
I was recently thinking of posting a similar ask hn, but opted not to because if felt too complainy and I’m not sure if the issue is with me or not. I mainly feel that the scope of a developer’s responsibilities is constantly growing and it
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State of React 2023 – Survey(survey.devographics.com)
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by afloatboat 3y ago
I'm currently investigating the feasibility of using Next.js for a major refactor of our service and the one thing that stands out to me is how fractured the Next ecosystem is. More than 6 months after the App router was introduced the
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by afloatboat 3y ago
Alternatively, https://fx.wtf/ is also a great interactive viewer with JavaScript filtering that I recently discovered through HN.
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by afloatboat 3y ago
What makes these brands leading in your opinion? From a tech and design perspective I get the appeal that VanMoof and Cowboy have, I've wanted one for years because of that. But in doing research I've also read a tonne of horror s
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by afloatboat 4y ago
I've use React Router 6 in combination with @tanstack/react-query 4 in a ±2 month old project without issue. I did notice that React Router 6 annoyingly by default returned to an object notation for its routes instead of elements,
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by afloatboat 5y ago
I see people comment this on HN on a daily basis and it always boggles my mind. For me this reads as: 'This thing that was initially conceived years ago when computers were incapable of much more than display text should never evolve&#
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by afloatboat 5y ago
I wanted to check out Factor a couple of weeks ago and got stuck on the installation step, an error about it using esmodules for lodash if I remember correctly. The docs were behind an authwall and there was a forum full of spam and one th
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by afloatboat 5y ago
Ah, right. But the mesh useRef is not wat is being rendered, the `mesh` component is more like rendering a div. If you open the sandbox and remove the useRef mesh and references it will still work. Pretty confusing though, would have been b
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by afloatboat 5y ago
I believe the `null!` is some trickery to let the rest of the code know that the `ref.current` will never be null, but with how React works you can’t really provide any other value. It prevents having to check for `null` everytime you addre
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by afloatboat 6y ago
Intel had the right idea with its Compute Card [0], but decided to sunset it a couple of years ago. It's clear that the way we're manufacturing these devices now is not the way forward. We're putting computers in televisions
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by afloatboat 6y ago
The same question was asked when Google was down. Apparently this leads to a surge of traffic to HN because everyone wants to know what’s up and this causes the slowdown. The recommended ‘solution’ is to log out so that HN can serve you wit
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by afloatboat 6y ago
Not a direct answer to your question, but somewhat related. When the iPhone was first released (or a year later when the App Store was released) we did have more competition than we do today. Windows Mobile, Symbian OS, BlackBerry OS (and t
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by afloatboat 6y ago
There’s a local function for @font-face that allows you to link a webfont to a locally installed font and it will indeed skip the download if it can find it.
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by afloatboat 6y ago
Then again, how did this happen? In my scenario you have a product owner asking for specific functionality to be added, a (group of) developers gives their estimation of how much effort/time this will take and some time later it gets b

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