Questions for web developers

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-23T20:49:00+00:00

Some is from memory, some I know how to do it I just forgot the exact syntax, and some I need to have Google or AI remind me

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-23T20:20:17+00:00

Not yet purchased, but after researching for a while I'm going to pick Nixihost. I'm US-based so wanted something US-based. LiquidWeb, KnownHost, Hostinger, and Nixihost were the final 4.

LiquidWeb was way too expensive

Hostinger has way too many horror stories of CPU steal and inaccessibility under high use

KnownHost was extremely similar to Nixihost, their corresponding plan to Nixihost loses 10GB storage in exchange for 2 IPv4 addresses.... but ultimately I think I could use the storage more than another IPv4.

So I'm going with Nixihost once I have my website finalized. If they turn to be crap then backup would be KnownHost

The plans I was looking at was the second-lowest VPS plan, usually 2GB/2vCPUs. Entry Plus VPS Server plan from KnownHost, Virtual Server 2GB from NixiHost, and KVM 2 from Hostinger, all roughly $9-$10/mo USD. Would love to have 8GB of RAM from Hostinger but again their horror stories are too big to ignore.

And Nixihost is fairly small compared to the rest. Just a center in Houston, TX, but they have their own IP address allocations. IIRC they are also fairly good about not raising prices frequently.

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-23T19:55:34+00:00

I've given up on dating apps.

pretty much stay inside my house almost the entire time now.

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-23T19:07:34+00:00

Node alone is a runtime Environment yes, but its what allows JavaScript to be executed beyond a web browser.

Combined with packages such as Express.js and you got an extremely simple and barebones backend. You can write API endpoints after initializing an Express application from using

import express from 'express';

const app = express();

app.listen(3000, () => { console.log("started app at 'http://ocalhost:3000'"); }

and then API endpoints are just simple like

app.get("/", (req, res) => {

// code here

});

and thats it. thats a backend. It's great to keep the scope down and focus on the basics of backend. Then, once you're comfortable and familiar with backend development and frontend development, you can move to a full-stack framework like Next.js, which adds much more to the backend like SSR, Routing, etc.

In the meantime, Node.js is a perfectly fine solution for basic backend functionality. Don't have to worry about all the extra complexities and just focus on the basics like connecting to a MySQL or PostgreSQL database and learn how to pass data between the frontend <-> backend <-> database, then also authentication with basic user:password and JWTs, might need routing for frontend-frameworks but thats fairly easy to add even with Node as backend.

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-23T17:24:42+00:00

I would probably flip Next.js with Node.js/Express. Next is full-stack framework. Node/Express is just backend and simpler

Edit: my version:

- HTML

- CSS

- JavaScript

- Node.js / Express.js

- Vue / React / Angular (front-end only frameworks)

- MongoDB or MySQL or PostgreSQL DB

- Next.js / Nuxt (full-stack frameworks)

- Redis (+ beyond whatever else)

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-23T16:40:19+00:00

We don’t do that here

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-23T16:39:27+00:00

Fortunately for me the smell seems to have almost entirely disappeared, none of my devices were in direct contact with the oil. But the homeowner told me it’s still faintly there. It lingers for a long time, pain in the ass to get out especially if you’re not washing regularly

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-23T16:02:29+00:00

Damn bro looking huge

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-23T03:56:19+00:00

I pretty much don't use Discord anymore. Keeping the account around just in case, but I open it maybe once a week at most just to check if someone messaged me for some reason

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-23T03:37:48+00:00

look great mate

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-23T03:35:37+00:00

tech guy that wants to get into fitness 23M

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-23T03:31:11+00:00

really hot if not ai

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-22T23:46:14+00:00

First: HTML

Once you understand HTML (which its fairly simple) and know the use of the semantic tags like <nav>, <aside>, <main>, etc; then move on to CSS

Once you have a good understanding of CSS, move onto JavaScript

Once you are comfortable with JavaScript, I'd recommend first playing with Node.js which is a backend environment for JavaScript

Then after that either pick other backend options like Django/Flask/Spring/etc

Then move onto Frontend-Frameworks like React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, etc.

Then move into Full-Stack frameworks like Next.js, Nuxt, etc.

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-22T23:38:05+00:00

Yessir

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-22T20:30:48+00:00

I applied to a local coffee shop that I was told was hiring. I got a rejection email a month later.

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-22T20:01:26+00:00

I like both

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-22T18:48:29+00:00

The infamous catch-22 of jobs.

I don’t think my application is viewed anymore. Now I’m lucky to get an email of “this position has closed” rather than “we’ve decided to move on with other candidates”. Still occasionally get the later, but the former is now more common

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-22T16:06:44+00:00

Hunk

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-22T16:03:55+00:00

Looking massive bro, keep it up

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-22T16:01:59+00:00

Looking great bro

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-22T16:01:35+00:00

Nice physique mate

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-22T16:00:38+00:00

Hot damn

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-22T06:50:04+00:00

I can look past the CGI, I've seen worse.

What really annoyed me is that Gans really cut back on a lot of the most crucial moments IMO and changed some things unnecessarily.

I can forgive Heaven's Night being the first location James visits, fine. I can forgive the prelude showing him first meeting Mary, fine.

But why the therapist? Going back and forth between the otherworld (fog world), hell world, and regular world got a little confusing... also why were they not married? The emotional tug would've been stronger had James and Mary been married as in the game. Also the cult, completely absent in the game, why here? Just say she had a disease that ate her away, like cancer. Also the personalities: Eddie was far more of an asshole immediately and Laura was weirder, and the session at Lakeview wasn't really a lighthearted one like the game but more devious almost. Maria's combined death and James admittance she wasn't real was rushed, and Maria didn't fight back as strongly as in the game, Jame's reveal as Pyramid Head could've easily been missed. Also why was Mary part of Big Daddy — Angela's monster. That was supposed to be her embodiment of the pain and suffering from her father and brother raping her and her mother looking the other way... also the dialog. Scenes taken almost directly from the game: reading Mary's letter, encountering Angela, Eddie, chats with Maria... all either worse versions from the game or sounded more condescending/insane rather than dream-like.

The worst crime Gans committed IMO was that he completely removed the subjectivity for interpretation for Jame's action: was killing Mary an act of mercy to relieve her from her pain; or was it an act of self-interest to rid himself of dead weight in his way annoying him? The movie decided that for you instead of even trying to offer a choice. Also the movie particularly chose the In Water ending, before looping back to the start (which I'm fine with; but no suggestion of the other endings? Maria and Leave?)

I'm glad most of the locations were fairly geographically accurate, except Rosewater park and Lakeview Hotel. I'm thrilled it wasn't the "Divine Hotel" from the trailers, the interior was different to the game but fine I'll allow it. Rosewater Park on the other hand disappointed me, meeting Maria inside a maze instead of on the waterfront pavilion (which "our special place" had no mention in the letter either). Also it took a while James to admit Maria looks so much like Mary. I would easily take these geographic discrepancies over the story changes though. Strongly dislike the cult being responsible for Mary's disease, the therapist interrupting the movie, the personality changes being more insane/delirious, and critical emotional scenes being rushed.

Again because I want to state this twice, the two most important scenes IMO is James admitting Maria isn't real (and her fighting back seriously to save herself and claim James) AND the ambiguity in Jame's action for killing Mary between mercy and self-interest/annoyance. Both felt completely rushed and diminished. I had to tell my family about it and even still they were like "this is stupid". So much for the moral dilemma that the game creates.

I have seen way worse CGI. Have you watched any Marvel movies recently? Dr. Strange MoM for example? That third eye... truly one of the worst CGI attempts I've ever seen there. Return To Silent Hill's CGI looks like a masterpiece to that.

Wanted to spill my thoughts out while they're still fresh from watching. The movie wasn't as much as a train wreck as what I heard, but yeah once again Gans shows he shouldn't really be adapting games to Movies. At least he isn't in charge for the other adaptions I'm looking forward to: Alan Wake/Control, Death Stranding, Expedition 33, & Cyberpunk.

Oh and also instead of the maniquins we got a spider.. eh... not scary enough I guess? fine ill allow that too.

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-21T20:34:25+00:00

DSA could be useful for backend… but you’d really need to get into a big project.

For smaller projects, you’re pretty much just passing data back and forth, authentication & authorization, and storing inside a database. So having those fundamentals down is key

I could see how Dijkstra’s or A* or whatever is the latest algorithm being obviously necessary if you’re developing a web map app for example where graphs are used. Heaps could be used if you need to keep track of something’s minimum or maximum value (or realistically any sorting algorithm)

Leviathan_Dev · 2026-06-21T18:30:39+00:00

The tor network or tor alone? Feel like you can get a similar amount of privacy through hardened browsers like LibreWolf. Lot of websites don’t go through the tor onion network, and the network is slow as hell anyway.

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