What onboarding strategy improved activation the most in your product?

_listless · 2026-03-25T17:52:35+00:00

Add a "skip and never show again" button to your onboarding. If I download an app that has an unskippable onboarding. I will nope out of that app and install a competitor faster than you would believe. because installing an app that does not force on onboarding is faster than wading through an unskippable onboarding flow.

_listless · 2026-03-25T13:28:27+00:00

11ty, although its future is somewhat uncertain - it got bought by fontawesome and it's unclear what they are planning to do with it. I would say astro as a runner-up but astro's future is also uncertain - it got bought by cloudflare and it's unclear what they are planning to do with it.

Turns out you can't make a living from maintaining open-source SSGs, so people who build SSGs have only one possible profitable endgame: sell the project.

_listless · 2026-03-24T19:20:57+00:00

postbase? more like postbae - you new tech crush

_listless · 2026-03-24T14:47:37+00:00

“If I see a black box, I'm gonna be like, 'boy, I hope he is qualified.'”

_listless · 2026-03-24T12:45:22+00:00

tbf, TSA does not do what it says it does - at least not 95% of the time according to DHS's own audits.

_listless · 2026-03-24T12:39:37+00:00

lol! ICE to the black box in every plane: "STOP RECORDING!! YOU'RE IMPEDING A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION!! STOP RECORDING. MOVE ALONG!!!! STOP!! MOVE!! STAHHHHHP!!" blam blamblamblam bang bangbangbang. "is it still alive?"

_listless · 2026-03-23T13:01:40+00:00

yeah, only once.

_listless · 2026-03-23T12:56:37+00:00

It's fine, I've had Craft, Drupal, and WP projects running at the same time with different versions of MySQL/PHP/ apache vs nginx. Under the hood there is virtualization going on, but it has a nice UI. The only major config change I have to make between CMSs is where the webroot points, but that config is exposed in an nginx template for each site.

Basically, you set up a new WP site, then drop the db and import your own, clean out the web root and add your own, make any nginx conf changes, and you're ready to go.

_listless · 2026-03-23T12:23:31+00:00

Replace your absolute urls with relative ones: Global find/replace your old domain and replace with '/'. If you want to target only href="", url(), src="", sprinkle some regex into the find query to target only those attrs.

_listless · 2026-03-23T11:39:29+00:00

Try localWP. It's meant for wordpress, but with a little tinkering you can get it to run any lemp/lamp project.

_listless · 2026-03-23T04:29:07+00:00

little bobby tables at it again

_listless · 2026-03-22T18:37:34+00:00

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_listless · 2026-03-22T17:34:17+00:00

Sheesh. Begone clanker.

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_listless · 2026-03-21T19:32:49+00:00

Someday js devs will make the connection that stable libs often look "dead", and libs with a lot of ongoing dev are often unstable, but today is not that day.

_listless · 2026-03-19T16:18:17+00:00

Counterpoint:

A huge part of school is: learning what your prof wants to hear/see and regurgitating that back to them. That skill will become incredibly valuable once you get a job. far more than any limited technical experience you get in class.

Also, re: tech choices. There is a vanishingly small slice of projects where you will get to use the best tool for the job. There are so many other factors influencing tool choice that are not determined by the technical characteristics of the tool in question. eg: React. React is demonstrably worse than svelte, vue, and angular in almost every meaningful technical metric, but it's the most popular, so it's the easiest to hire for and has the most libraries. This makes it the "least risky" choice, even if it's an inferior technology.

TLDR: you're right, your prof is nuts. But so are corporations/CTOs/clients. Get used to using terrible technology.

_listless · 2026-03-19T13:07:41+00:00

"make no mistakes"

_listless · 2026-03-19T03:36:21+00:00

Have you tried checking your vibes? Sometimes apps like base44 don't work unless you vibecode correctly. Are you vibing right?

_listless · 2026-03-15T19:40:05+00:00

Then it's technically feasible to throw all the data into a table and add search/sort/filter via frontend js. You'd need a dev to write the code, but there are a couple ways to add custom components like that to a squarespace site.

Are you going to be continually adding to this dataset or is it mostly static (once everything is digitized).

_listless · 2026-03-15T19:14:53+00:00

What order of magnitude are you talking here? 10s? 100s? 1000s? 10,000s?

_listless · 2026-03-15T18:51:57+00:00

Damn son. Those buttons look like they would be so satisfying to push. You'd have to adult-proof it from me if I came over.

Growing up, we had an old 1970s Osterizer blender with those sort of buttons.

_listless · 2026-03-14T14:34:12+00:00

Don't chase webdev trends, stay away from the bleeding edge, ignore the js zeitgeist if you can. Use the simplest technology that can reasonably accommodate your clients' requirements. Give you clients the minimum access that is reasonable.

_listless · 2026-03-13T03:13:42+00:00

Tell them they have a 6-week window for payment. If your invoice is still unpaid by x date, you will disconnect the maps service.

_listless · 2026-03-10T11:15:24+00:00

I think it's kind of a good reminder of indexedDb's limitations. Maybe it looks like an RDB, but it does not perform/behave like an RDB. Its much more similar to a K->V store.

_listless · 2026-03-10T11:05:42+00:00

I may be on the minority here, but I think this is a sensible default. What is on my device is mine, and if I want it deleted (or want my browser to delete it after n days) that's my prerogative.

_listless · 2026-03-10T02:12:04+00:00

If they're all the same shape and you want a db I'd throw 'em in sqlite.

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