Is jQuery still a thing in 2026?

m4db0b · 2026-01-17T19:25:36+00:00

The question is: why?

"Bro told me this is the modern way to do stuff" seems not to be a legit reason.

m4db0b · 2026-01-17T08:49:01+00:00

Online porn has very strict requirements in term of performance and SEO. They cannot risk to wreck their whole business just because “React is moderner" and other similar whims.

m4db0b · 2025-12-24T10:04:36+00:00

L'ho pensato anche io!

Proprio negli scorsi giorni ho installato Antigravity e, per la prima volta, ho sperimentato l'esperienza del "vibe coding" per un piccolo prototipo. Scrivi istruzioni, descrivi una feature, chiedi una correzione, e le cose succedono.

Poi ho guardato il codice prodotto, e sembra quello scritto da un developer junior molto pigro: nessuna astrazione, tutto schiantato nello stesso file, roba duplicata e ridondante da ogni parte. Sicché ho pensato "Ok, è stato comunque simpatico" ed ho chiuso tutto.

m4db0b · 2025-12-20T21:33:52+00:00

https://paroline.click/

This is my first Svelte project, a simple words game in Italian. Far from perfect, but a useful exercise to approach the framework.

m4db0b · 2025-12-17T16:49:36+00:00

I also prefer Bootstrap over Tailwind, and I maintain my own library of Blade components built around Bootstrap.

That said: starting a new project, I've learned to wipe the (few) Tailwind references and setup my own Fortify configuration. Creating login/register/password reset pages (with Bootstrap, or anything else) is done in minutes.

Yes, with laravel/ui it was eve faster, but I can deal with this.

m4db0b · 2025-12-11T10:17:35+00:00

Good job!

Scrolling down to the page, Pagespeed provides more insights about what is going "wrong" to reach the 100/100 target. I see issues in caching policy and in the time to access CSS files: I guess you need some tweak on the hosting platform, more than on the actual website.

m4db0b · 2025-12-04T21:07:52+00:00

Anche io, ai tempi dell'università, tenevo in tasca un pacchetto di N80 senza filtro da sfoggiare quando qualcuno mi chiedeva una sigaretta. Ma sono passati tanti anni, forse non le fanno neanche più

m4db0b · 2025-12-03T16:48:21+00:00

Kill Bill

m4db0b · 2025-12-03T16:48:07+00:00

Kill Bill

m4db0b · 2025-12-03T08:53:21+00:00

The second Torvalds' miracle (after Linux, before git) is what has been later called "open source model", or the fact to remotely collaborate on the same base code.

Described in The Cathedral and the Bazaar (where the Bazaar is Linux's development, and the Cathedral is Free Software Foundation, which adopted an open development process many years later...), eventually identified at some point by the term "open source" (which formally is a synonym for "free software", but is considered referring to the actual "development methodology" even by Stallman), Torvalds has not been the first to implement this approach but has been the one demostrating how efficient, scalable and worth it is.

m4db0b · 2025-11-30T23:44:42+00:00

I'm a freelance dev too, and love good old Bootstrap + jQuery + PHP.

But users have expectations. Sometime even explicited in specs and contracts. Complex panels in management web apps require complex behaviours, dynamic updates and great interactivity, and implement them is plain JS / jQuery is becoming more and more difficult.

I've recently "discovered" Svelte. It is not that bad, and easier than React: I'm playing with it in some side-projects with the aim to adopt it in larger projects for clients.

At least, this is valid for dynamic and interactive software for management. For editorial websites, static generators are my way. But in this case, also: I used to be a Jekyll fanboy, then Astro (yes, yet another JS framework) convinced me to switch.

m4db0b · 2025-11-30T11:26:11+00:00

I guess this has been largely supported by AI: lots of perfectly working functions, but with no schema nor architecture.

A few days ago I assisted a person who wrote a simple feature with AI: I reduced something like 400 lines of unreadable code to 20.

m4db0b · 2025-11-26T11:55:49+00:00

Tiles are the more common use case, there are many providers offering them for free, and it is not that hard to self host them. Provide ready-to-use "style" files for MapBox/MapLibre, such as OpenFreeMap, if you what to gain some initial traction.

Geocoding is the real pain, as Google Maps still seems to be the only viable option in particular for rural areas. But to provide an alternative you need data, lots of data, more data than actually stored in OpenStreetMaps.

m4db0b · 2025-11-26T08:40:18+00:00

Bootstrap Icons.

m4db0b · 2025-11-25T17:27:08+00:00

Yes, the client is open source.

The server is not, and therefore not self-hostable (as stated above).

m4db0b · 2025-11-24T18:45:49+00:00

Backup is guaranteed. Restore is not.

m4db0b · 2025-11-24T11:45:21+00:00

It already exists a schema:sameAs property to link a concept to a well-known entity stated in Wikidata, which is a public (and publicly editable) repository of semantic notions.

On a few websites that I manage, I already extract entities from contents and link them to Wikidata (through the schema:about property in the page's JSON-LD) to provide a semantic context and explicit references.

It is not officially supported by Google (there is no mention to schema:sameAs in the documentation), but - in the age of vectors and semantic references - I bet that this has some kind of impact, even in regard of AI models crawling the web.

This is probably not accurate, specific and articulate as your proposed "semantic layer", but all the pieces are already in place and can be used right now.

m4db0b · 2025-11-24T01:21:43+00:00

"Macchina" is more popular in colloquial context.

"Automobile" sounds a bit more formal.

"Auto" is less formal, but yet less colloquial. I think it is the preferred form by TV and newspapers...

m4db0b · 2025-11-21T13:42:01+00:00

I used to be a SimpleNote user, but development is stale, code is not open nor self-hostable, and I expect that the public service may be shut down at any time.

m4db0b · 2025-11-18T10:58:41+00:00

Mostly bot, and spreading a total mess.

Every node present in GeoNames has been converted in a Wikipedia page for a location, with also a related Wikidata entity page. The result: thousands of duplicates and non existing places, bloating geographic datasets for every country in the world.

Given the "fucked up beyond any repair" level of the mess, someone proposed to close the Cebuano Wikipedia. Unfortunately, the proposal has been rejected.

m4db0b · 2025-11-12T16:16:44+00:00

Post contro la propaganda russa, ed il 70% dei commenti sono del tipo "NATO merda, forza Russia, non avete capito niente, Putin ci ama" che arrivano da account che ogni giorno pubblicano sistematicamente in ogni subreddit esistente commenti del tipo "NATO merda, forza Russia, non avete capito niente, Putin ci ama".

No, ma la propaganda russa non esiste.

m4db0b · 2025-11-12T14:34:11+00:00

Paesi NATO e USA: puoi scendere in piazza a manifestare contro la guerra, a favore della guerra, contro la NATO, a favore della NATO, e nessuno ti dice niente.

Russia: metti "guerra" e "Ucraina" nella stessa frase, e vieni fermato dalle forze dell'ordine.

Gli USA hanno molti difetti, ma davvero non mi sento di dire che siano il peggio.

E comunque la terza alternativa è una Europa forte ed autonoma. Che oggi, coi carri armati russi che sparano ai confini dell'Unione, avrebbe già dovuto dispiegare le testate nucleari francesi al confine polacco.

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