lionelw

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by lionelw 7mo ago
Is this the first time mainstream media is saying something? Prominent voices have done so for years e.g. Anil Dash[0], but no one seems to have gotten the memo; people who I thought would care have continued to either be on it or cite cont
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by lionelw 1y ago
So how do you deliver design on the web, if not without code? Remember that designing for the web is not like designing for print, where the dimensions of your canvas, and the amount and nature of your content, are known quantities. A web p
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by lionelw 1y ago
How many of those languages are declarative, or domain specific? There's no use comparing CSS and assembly. It betrays a shallow understanding of CSS. Points to ponder: - Assembly is superlatively imperative while CSS is the opposite.
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by lionelw 1y ago
Alright, if you say so. But what stupidity do you mean? What do you mean offload it to figma etc? Why is it dumb to write code for... the job CSS is built for?
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by lionelw 1y ago
Ask your boss to hire someone better at CSS than you.
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by lionelw 1y ago
When is it ever necessary to change event handlers?
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by lionelw 1y ago
>Why is this so weirdly prescriptive about inline event handlers? >> Even in a single file, inline event handlers are not a good idea. One button is OK, but what if you had 100 buttons? You'd have to add 100 attributes to the
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Oil companies face a wrongful death suit tied to climate change(npr.org)
1 points by lionelw 1y ago|0 comments
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by lionelw 2y ago
If this is about staging partial file changes, then I think this is where git GUIs especially excel. It's typically a matter of selecting and deselecting individual lines of change. The concept and term "hunk" (to mean a grou
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by lionelw 2y ago
Firefox restores all windows.
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by lionelw 2y ago
Don't you think : is already used for something else in CSS?
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If Chinese were phonetic - a brief thought experiment by Ted Chiang (2016)(newyorker.com)
3 points by lionelw 2y ago|0 comments
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by lionelw 2y ago
Just adding this here: I created a multi-window management addon Winger[0] which lets you treat windows as 'tab groups', and it has a stashing feature (windows <-> bookmark folders / tabs <-> bookmarks) similar to
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by lionelw 2y ago
>still no way to remap Ctrl+T to open a new tab in the current container context A quick search found me this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-container... , using Alt+C. There are other
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The Rise and Fall of the LAN Party(aftermath.site)
3 points by lionelw 2y ago|0 comments
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by lionelw 3y ago
>You aren't "programming the presentation logic", you're configuring the browser. Under-appreciation of frontend skills in action. Do you think of "presentation logic" as an oxymoron? I think many people can
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by lionelw 3y ago
Other Zen of Python principles are allowed to override it. Let's say, "Readability counts".
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Dave Winer Proposes Textcasting(textcasting.org)
3 points by lionelw 3y ago|0 comments
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by lionelw 3y ago
It costs nothing to keep a tab (you had every intention to revisit later) open, especially when tabs can be auto unloaded to free up memory, either by an addon or the browser itself. Firefox unlike Chrome does not keep squashing more tabs i
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by lionelw 3y ago
It's probably about all the boilerplate code you always start an extension with. AI is good at boilerplate.
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by lionelw 4y ago
Can you elaborate why?
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by lionelw 4y ago
For young kids with no personal devices of their own, they would only get Spotify from their parents' devices.
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Show HN: Winger – A Firefox add-on to easily manage multiple browser windows(addons.mozilla.org)
5 points by lionelw 6y ago|0 comments
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by lionelw 7y ago
If large indentations bother you, good. Braces or not, large indentations and large code blocks should make you start wondering how to refactor them. And if Python's design seems to discourage over-indentation and oversized code blocks
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by lionelw 8y ago
That is certainly not the definition of bias. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=define+bias And you don't believe a "winning group" would hold its own biases?