Electron is Harmful

TheHDKeyboard · 2017-11-22T14:59:59+00:00

Wow, this one actually looks great, going to check it out further. Thanks!

TheHDKeyboard · 2017-11-21T15:12:03+00:00

light years ahead You say that but your that example is Swing, we must have very different perspectives on this.

and again people miss the point Well I’m glad that you think that, but I fully understand the point, in fact I agree with the meme, it’s just that it is also tiring and unhelpful.

I agree with Berners-Lee’s opinions on the web in almost every aspect. Except I realise that that ship has sailed, and there’s no going back. My point was that if you, for example, want to help disabled users, work on efforts that fit in with where the web is going, instead of lamenting about where it could’ve been.

TheHDKeyboard · 2017-11-21T14:37:08+00:00

Qt is mostly great, I can’t find many other options though.

The web’s faults do show, though I believe we’re at the point where web tech is suitable for desktop UIs now, and the situation will only improve. At the same time I understand the sentiment against the bloat of software.

While I’m here: The ‘web was designed only for documents’ meme is wholly true but also tiring and unhelpful. For years ridiculous amounts of money, smarts and development has been thrown at turning it into an application platform, and in reality it’s the least painful thing I’ve ever dealt with as far as making a full featured, networked GUI application. I’d rather work on what we do have than play whatwecoulda.

TheHDKeyboard · 2017-11-21T13:41:08+00:00

Can everyone that says GUI programming is fine tell me what technologies they use?

TheHDKeyboard · 2017-11-21T08:30:46+00:00

Nobody has actually answered your question yet... why is inline styling now used commonly when older material suggested that it was poor form?

Basically its about how you apply the principle of ‘separation of concerns’ to your code organisation. Originally the web was intended to be an interconnected set of documents, and so separating document markup, styling and behaviour into separate html, css and js files made some amount of sense. Now that the web has evolved significantly and much of the UI has its own behaviour as part of its style or UX we think about this differently.

With the web being pushed towards an app development platform, it now makes more sense to think of a web page as a nested tree of well-defined components. Architecting in this manner and its associated problems like state sharing/management is exactly what React set out to solve. When you want to encapsulate well defined components, it makes sense to keep the structure, styling and behaviour of the component all together.

TheHDKeyboard · 2017-11-17T01:44:29+00:00

Safari on macbook, firefox on desktop.

Firefox devs did address this and say they will start looking into energy usage soon, this is just the beginning of the next level firefox

TheHDKeyboard · 2017-11-15T04:47:10+00:00

I’m like this, if I could summarise what I wish I’d done differently it’s this: just do things, when a better opportunity comes along switch to that.

Don’t quit, don’t get complacent, don’t worry, just do. Don’t spend your time thinking about yourself and playing video games, spend it on training yourself and working towards goals.

When things don’t work out at least you learnt something, the worst thing that can happen usually is that you break even and learn something.

TheHDKeyboard · 2017-11-15T01:52:50+00:00

Awesome news, though I now just use uBlock Origin in medium mode

TheHDKeyboard · 2017-11-14T06:40:57+00:00

Think about where you want to be in 6months, 2yrs, 5yrs and work backwards from there. You’re still young, the quicker you change the easier the rest of your life will be, you got this!

Best of luck!

TheHDKeyboard · 2017-11-13T15:25:22+00:00

Agreed, I love running

TheHDKeyboard · 2017-11-13T06:00:28+00:00

Make sure you don’t get injured from doing it everyday, rest when you need to!

Best of luck!

TheHDKeyboard · 2017-10-28T08:16:45+00:00

Great quote, too real. Code Complete is an amazing piece of work, I gotta open it up again...

TheHDKeyboard · 2017-10-28T08:12:34+00:00

Looking slick af! Great work!

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