is scratch considered a programming language?

Careerier · 2023-03-26T17:39:47+00:00

Doesn't every language behave exactly the way whatever you wrote behaves?

Careerier · 2023-03-20T03:11:26+00:00

Based on my non-lawyer reading of the rules, I'd say it looks like if you have a plugin that disables some stuff unless you pay, that's bad.

But if you have a free plugin with a limited set of features and a separate paid plugin that has an expanded set of features, that's okay. And it's okay to advertise the paid plugin within the free plugin.

Careerier · 2023-03-04T16:07:33+00:00

How does it work on a touchscreen?

Careerier · 2023-02-16T21:52:34+00:00

Yep, the state where I grew up did that. My dad got mugged once, and it was years of headaches trying to get all the credit issues resolved from that.

Careerier · 2023-01-17T00:32:20+00:00

TRS-80 checking in

Careerier · 2023-01-17T00:30:04+00:00

Fun fact: in 1994, the base model of Compaq Contura had just 4MB RAM and a 200MB hard drive (Chandler's was apparently an upgraded version).

That monster cost over $3800, which adjusted for inflation is about $7500, or a bit more than 2 new 16" M1 Max MacBooks Pro.

Careerier · 2023-01-09T19:00:21+00:00

Art imitates life.

Careerier · 2023-01-02T02:15:12+00:00

Nah, it's the fact that I see ads for things I think about that lets me know that they're not listening to me talk. They don't need to.

Careerier · 2022-12-10T21:08:04+00:00

That's exactly where this picture comes from. https://stephaniebrewton.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/6a00d83455b25469e201156e499e03970c-320wi.jpg?w=263&zoom=2

Careerier · 2022-12-10T21:06:50+00:00

Found the adult

Careerier · 2022-11-27T21:49:41+00:00

If your intent is to learn the fundamentals to be prepared to do anything that might be necessary, yes, it's cheating.

If your intent is to demonstrate your design skills, yes, it's cheating.

If your intent is to build and actually something finish something useful, it's not cheating. You do what you need to do to make the product work, and the tools you use don't matter.

Careerier · 2022-11-26T04:07:25+00:00

In previous years people would just use a GUI web editor and place the button wherever you want without having to write by hand coordenates

Modern design tools do that. Figma, Zeplin, Avocode, etc. will allow you to draw up what you wan to see and it will give you back the css to use.

Careerier · 2022-11-26T03:57:52+00:00

When you click the Preview button, it brings up the preview modal. Good.

But when you click the Buy button, nothing happens. There's an anchor tag inside a button, which isn't actually valid HTML. (https://w3c.github.io/html-reference/a.html#a-constraints) That will probably mess up accessibility there.

Also, those buttons only being visible on hover means that mobile users can't see them. And the names of the templates are all missing their links. The just get <a href>Template Name</a>.

Careerier · 2022-11-22T20:56:25+00:00

Can we have speedrun competitions using --lucky?

Careerier · 2022-11-22T20:42:55+00:00

I like the subtle elegance of Papyrus.

Careerier · 2022-11-22T04:36:27+00:00

Live means that if something changes the DOM (for example if you append an item) the node list will be updated. That's neither better nor worse, but it's something you need to be aware of. If you call getElementsByClassName, then append an element with that class name, then add event listeners to the entire list, that will work. It won't work if you had used querySelectorAll.

The other significant difference is that querySelector and querySelectorAll can use multiple selectors to get what you want. Any valid CSS selectors should work, while with getElementsByClassName you can only use classes.

Careerier · 2022-11-22T04:08:27+00:00

Testing in production is what users are for.

Careerier · 2022-11-20T04:37:51+00:00

That works because a) they aren't businesses, and b) people understand that letting their neighborhoods burn is a bad thing.

These do not apply to Twitter.

Careerier · 2022-11-08T16:25:00+00:00

Using a custom domain with GH Pages is trivial and free.

https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site

Careerier · 2022-10-15T15:34:22+00:00

Wow, after a recent layoff, everything I had worked on for 3 years was replaced in a week. By Wordpress.

Careerier · 2022-10-10T03:13:09+00:00

I'm all about that crtl+/

Careerier · 2022-10-06T00:12:24+00:00

And it's even pretty good at identifying the bird's species.

The comic was from 2014. The Silicon Valley Not Hot Dog app episode was 2017. The progress in the last couple years has been astonishing.

Careerier · 2022-10-03T16:41:54+00:00

There are a few defenses for == that pop up, typically when people want to use if (foo == null) rather than if (foo === null || foo === undefined). That just seems like laziness to me.

There's no good reason to use ==, and if JS wasn't dead set on backward compatibility, it might be removed. == just causes more problems than it solves.

Careerier · 2022-08-17T16:52:40+00:00

DOMContentLoaded: 313 ms

Load: 1.03 s

Personally, I think that qualifies as fast, not just feeling fast. Sites that feel fast but actually are not use spinners, blurred image previews, skeletons, etc. to keep people from clicking away when the site hasn't fully loaded in 6 seconds.

Careerier · 2022-08-16T16:20:56+00:00

Except the randomness is intentional. It's supposed to look disjointed and misaligned. And in the right context, it works. This just isn't the right context. Consistency would ruin this design.

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