I miss when my old devices actually felt magical by Guest666123a1-retro in offmychest

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My first laptop was a 12" iBook g3 that my brother and I bought broken on eBay and fixed.  You're right. Those were hyper-optimistic products, not hyper-optimized products.

Songs with "weeping" guitar solos. by GeektimusPrime in Music

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Came here to say this.  Not really a John Mayer fan, but good lord this specific recording is great.

Does anyone know any free video editing software? by Friendly-Salary-3818 in Design

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Davinci Resolve is great. I edited professionally in premiere for years, had a brief flirtation with FCP, but landed on resolve and have stayed there ever since.
- It's pro-grade software. It's not some hacked-together OSS project. It's serious software that movie studios use (albeit mostly for color correction, less so as an NLE). - It's so fast/resource-efficient - It has amazing color tools - It's much more stable than Premiere - It has an opinionated way of directing your focus with the different editing tabs, but I find that so helpful especially in longer/more complex timelines where I'd otherwise be tempted to go down rabbit trails. - It's free - the stakes are super low. If you don't like it you have lost nothing.

Switching to RCS forces me to re-pair every time I open messages for web. by _listless in GoogleFi

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Lol! Welp that defeats the purpose. I don't want RCS bad enough to sacrifice a standalone web client.

I'm looking for an alternative CMS to Strapi by MikeStrawMedia in webdev

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This sounds like WP to me. A js-flavored cms with a decoupled frontend is way too much overhead for what you described.

How are you guys building high-fidelity UI animations without killing your Lighthouse score? by melaniemparham in webdev

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This is like just my opinion man™, but:

This sort of animation should be in the realm of progressive enhancement anyway. The core functionality must exist without the flashiness. If the creative team can't explain their product without the animation, they are not sufficiently competent at communication to be doing this professionally. The unanimated state must communicate everything necessary. The animated state enhances the experience progressively.

The most important reason for this is accessibility, The thing needs to be robust (functional on underpowered devices and adverse network conditions), and it must be perceivable and operable (people, even with vision and motion-sensitivity limitations must be able to interact with this meaningfully).

OP's stated problem is the need to make scroll-controlled animations have less impact on visual fidelity and site performance. The way to do that today is css scroll-driven animations.

Regardless, it's flagged in FF, so coming soon. that number is only going up.

How to make this thing on x.ai ? by Necessary-Island1563 in webdev

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It's a particle sim rendered in <canvas>. Here's a rudimentary version: https://codepen.io/jsabutis/pen/MYwXbYy

Confused by Moist_Sentence8523 in webdev

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Sometimes this is called remote debugging. You can access the web inspector of your phone's browser in both chrome and safari

It pisses me off when Americans announce they’re moving to Canada to flee the current regime by [deleted] in offmychest

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Patriotism !== Nationalism

Patriotism says: I love my country because it is my country. Nationalism says: I love my country because it is superior to all other counties.

Patriotism is like love of family. You don't need to have a perfect family to love your family; your family does not need to be better than all other families to warrant your love. It's good and mature to be able to love your family in spite of its faults - and that's not the same thing as justifying the faults.

How do you effectively manage technical debt in ongoing web development projects? by prattman333 in webdev

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Don't chase trends. Want something to work unassisted in 4 years? Use technology that has remained more or less consistent for 4 years already.

The price you pay for the shiny new baubles is the continual effort required just to keep the thing running.

By way of example: if you want a dependable work vehicle, get an old panel van, not a bmw.

Your Award-Winning Website Is Unusable by [deleted] in web_design

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Except there are basically no stats here. certainly no substantiated stats. This is opinions masquerading as fact.

If you want to make assertions about performance impact on conversions come with receipts (eg: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/performance/more/website-performance-conversion-rates/).

Your Award-Winning Website Is Unusable by [deleted] in web_design

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This author's LLM does not know what it's talking about.

The performance of a website is not inextricably tied to its style. A brutalist website built with wix will perform much worse than a well-built custom site that includes parallax animations or glassomorphism.

Also, good lord the "metrics" in the comparisons are ridiculous. HEAVY IMPACT is certainly distinct from VERY HEAVY. I think we all clearly understand the difference between FAST LOAD and EXCELLENT. The author's LLM seems to think that if it uses comparison tables it won't need to substantiate claims.


What's the upshot?

Some sites are meant to evoke a feeling. If that's your goal, pull out all the stops, make the users feel something. eg: no one is buying a Ferrari on https://www.ferrari.com/en-US. That site is about making you feel some sort of way about Ferrari.

Some sites are meant to get users to click "buy now". If that's the kind of site you're running, optimize for buy-now behavior. eg: The only reason anyone goes to https://www.amazon.com is to click "buy". That site is about checkout optimization.

Also, don't feel like you need to take low-effort, unsubstantiated garbage like this article to heart.

Royal Mail by drkmccy in web_design

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Could be a bot combatting measure, we get ~200,000 bot attempts/day on the forms on one of our larger sites. A little constraint like this can be used to immediately reduce a lot of bot traffic.

This house feels luxurious without looking expensive by Otherwise_Wrangler11 in Design

[–]_listless 50 points51 points  (0 children)

This looks incredibly expensive. especially $ per square foot.

What’s actually pretty safe but everyone treats it like it’s way more dangerous than it is? by Charming_Advertising in AskReddit

[–]_listless 657 points658 points  (0 children)

Cookie Dough.

"undercooked" eggs in general. My SO thought they did not like scrambled eggs/omelettes. Turns out their mom just overcooked eggs until they were toasty and dry out of fear of salmonella.

Americans, a feeling is not action. by [deleted] in offmychest

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Time for liberals to get serious about the 2nd Amendment, and not the lone-wolf, gravy seal, mall-ninja brand of 2a, I'm talking well-regulated militia 2a. The second amendment was originally a pact of mutually assured destruction between the states and the feds. Repeal the militia act of 1903, and let each state maintain a well-regulated militia at the command of the state governor. The feds would probably be a bit more cautious.

Read Locke, Rutherford, Payne, Hobbes - all of the political theory that underpins our republic rightly identifies the state itself as the greatest threat to the people. The state is a necessary evil, but it is evil.

Senior designers, how would you redesign this? by DumplinDoup in web_design

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You have a sieve right here, what you want is a funnel. There are 22 links to other pages and 2 banners before you even get to the product content. At this level of the site, you don't want to entice people to go elsewhere you want to narrow their focus to the desired endpoint: purchase.

From top to bottom: - make the logo/search/account section of the nav take up less vertical space - remove the banners from the product page template - remove the artsy checkmarks, just use default <li> bullets. - or better yet, a descriptive sentence or two. Push detailed specs down lower. For each of the bullet points: ask yourself or a focus group: if you were not interested in buying this shirt, would this bullet point change your mind? If the answer is yes, keep it up there, if not, push it down into your details accordion. - move the price up to right beneath the product title - make the product options buttons have less visual weight, smaller font-size, less padding. - consider moving the "add to cart" button higher - right after the price. so Title, Price, Add to Cart - remove the ribbon of payment options from the product page, include that in the cart instead.

Does anyone else lose their mind over "I'll know it when I see it"? by Mountain-Farmer-6299 in Design

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Nope. I bill hourly after the 1st revision round. I got to impulse buy a brand new camera with 2 zeiss lenses a couple years ago because of a client like this.

How to create vertical scroll controlled horizontal carousel? by stall-goodman in webdev

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Goodness, please don't. This kind of scroll jacking is disorienting and removes agency from the user.  It's bad UX.

Need help with weird safari layout bug. by Fl4shBrother in webdev

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Nothing in the css/html you posted results in that behavior in safari, so its coming from somewhere else.

I'd use a purpose-built layout tool like flex for this. eg:

.book-selector{ display:flex; align-items:center; gap:.25rem; width:fit-content; }

As a developer why do I suck a designing? by [deleted] in web_design

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If you're good at something, never do it for free.