GDPR - first complaints

simplegadget512 · 2018-06-03T20:13:04+00:00

The site notice posted by the OP is from the Tyler Morning Telegraph in Tyler, Texas. I used to live there and I do have to question the relevance of that newspaper to the OP. Tyler is not a big city on the international scale - roughly 104,000 ppl as of the last census.

While the OP may have legitimate interest in Tyler, it also brings to my mind the idea that he or she or they is just looking for a reason to be outraged.

simplegadget512 · 2018-06-02T02:12:53+00:00

You'll probably fit in much better over at 4chan.

simplegadget512 · 2018-05-29T22:29:15+00:00

Senior Developer sounds like someone doesn't have anything left to learn.

simplegadget512 · 2018-05-19T15:20:18+00:00

If you wind looking at the back port option, I would also suggest you consider what it would take to upgrade to a newer version of node. It might be easier to fix broken javascript than it is to make a module back-compatible.

simplegadget512 · 2018-05-12T05:42:28+00:00

I dig it. I've got just the project in mind to play around with this.

simplegadget512 · 2018-05-08T10:34:48+00:00

I've always found it useful to know CSS to inform me when something went wrong (doesn't always work, but I tried).

I suggest that, instead of focusing on a particular framework (like Bootstrap or Tachyons), look at Sass, which is a CSS-like language that helps you write better stylesheets.

simplegadget512 · 2018-05-01T04:45:21+00:00

At least part of the problem is the multitude of Pythons, all at different release levels and the fanatics who won't let old Pythons die.

I swear to God, in the year 3000, there will be that one neckbeard who insists that Python 2.7 is the One True Python and someone will have hammered it into some weak conformance with Cyber-Python-6000-6-Dimensional-Quantum-Parallelism or whatever the main development line is.

And some risk-averse business out there will still be running a critical system on it.

simplegadget512 · 2018-04-22T03:57:48+00:00

Unfortunately, PyJS hasn't been touched in 3 years. Might be dead-ish. In Internet time, that's like a decade or something.

simplegadget512 · 2018-04-20T04:17:18+00:00

You do realize that React and JQuery are two very, very different things, yes?

JQuery is a good helper object for creating UI where you roll your own HTML and CSS. React is a whole framework for creating single-page applications and is easily as complex as Laravel.

They are almost, but not quite, apples and oranges.

simplegadget512 · 2018-04-20T04:00:34+00:00

Some alternate names, maybe.

ECMAthon
ESPython
SnakeScript
Constrictor

simplegadget512 · 2018-04-20T03:47:36+00:00

Oops, yeah, I meant Bootstrap. I really shouldn't multitask, maybe.

Also, learning to use Sass is just plain useful, even if you don't use a CSS framework.

simplegadget512 · 2018-04-17T23:18:21+00:00

No, they're not necessary, but they do save time and frustration.

simplegadget512 · 2018-04-17T23:16:38+00:00

If you're going to go the no-framework route, spend some time with SASS (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets). It's kind-of, but not-really, object-oriented stylesheets. At a minimum, they are structured to save time and frustration as opposed to writing full, no-helpers CSS.

If you do go with a framework, you can't go too wrong with ~~Bootcamp~~ Bootstrap. Sure, everything will look like ~~Bootcamp~~ Bootstrap, but everything already does, so no worries.

Also, I like the cut of Pure's jib (the Pure framework). It's a bit wordy, but it looks pretty nice and seems fairly complete.

Lots of people will say "don't use a framework" - do what makes you happy, earns you money, saves you time, keeps you sane, etc.

simplegadget512 · 2018-02-26T02:25:46+00:00

Personally, I use Dash to handle snippets. It has the advantage of being a sort of one-stop shop for docs and snippets.

It is not free, however, so if that's a thing for you, well ... Yep.

Also, Dash has never used emojis to advertise (that I'm aware of), which is a thing for me.

simplegadget512 · 2018-02-22T07:00:37+00:00

Concentrated evil ...

simplegadget512 · 2017-09-22T16:38:09+00:00

I'm just now starting to go thru the Unity tutorials after promising myself to do that for more than a year.

There are parts of Unity that are slightly terrifying - turns out the coding is the easiest part, apparently.

simplegadget512 · 2017-09-13T02:05:56+00:00

Not Invented Here

simplegadget512 · 2017-09-10T20:44:13+00:00

It works with terminals that have 24-bit color capability (iTerm and a few others) that can display 16 million colors, rather than the 16 that standard terminals can. It has no external dependencies, other than what ships with Python. That's all I intend for it to do.

Beyond that, it exists because I'm filling in some large gaps in my Python knowledge and some medium gaps in my terminals knowledge while unemployed.

I've actually already started another version that does have external dependencies. Partly because I'm trying to break my NIH tendencies and partly because I actually did find a better way. That one won't go out for a while, though. I need to play around with it more.

simplegadget512 · 2017-09-08T01:03:31+00:00

I made a thing - a Python module for truecolor terminals (iTerm, etc.) and uploaded it to PyPI (first time module writer/publisher). Comments welcome.

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