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amsheehanon Show HN: AI Tool Is Now Supporting React, Angular, CSS, Svelte, Vue

All of the properties controls are bound to a network request. This is a big bummer. I don't like having to wait 400ms every time I change a color.

amsheehanon Time-Based CSS Animations

We shouldn't diminish the power of transform here. It's not just one property like opacity. You can animate quite a bit on the compositor with transform

amsheehanon CSS is hard no matter how good you are at it

I agree with exactly one sentence in the comment thread so far. "CSS requires experience"

If you're interested in actually learning css, and don't just want to complain about how poorly written css is bad, this website is invaluable and provides concrete examples of how to build layouts and style elements.

https://web.dev/learn/css

amsheehanon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)

Location: Chicago

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: to New York

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KT6-A2h77RRVvd4IL__OOv_7...

Email: alex.m.sheehan@gmail.com

Open the resume if you need:

- Any frontend technology built - An engineer with a background in interaction design - An interaction designer who can code - Cloud services stood up - Legacy code modernized - Creative technology

React / NextJS / Angular / Idiomatic JavaScript (Typescript) / Firebase / Postgres / Node / Express / Koa / AWS / GCP / Testing / Interaction Design

amsheehanon Google is dismantling its health division

I don't think I'm breaking any NDAs by saying that that is just entirely not what happens.

amsheehanon Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (2016)

We don't

amsheehanon Why use GraphQL, good and bad reasons

Naming things is the Vietnam of computer science. I wrote a haiku for it:

A quagmire of bad decisions made in haste, haunting us— years later.

amsheehanon 55% of the US National Debt Is the Result of Repaying Debt with More Debt

I don't think you read it correctly. What we're doing, indeed what we've done since 2008, was borrow at a historically low interest rate to pay back interest and debt bought at a higher interest rate.

amsheehanon FWD:Everyone

Thank you! We hope so too. There's so much first hand knowledge locked up in inboxes that people would like to share.

amsheehanon FWD:Everyone

Currently we rely on the gmail API, but it is on our roadmap to expand to the other major email providers. Is there one in particular that you would like to see on FWD:Everyone?

amsheehanon FWD:Everyone

Both of us come from situations where this product would have saved so much time and energy in a business setting. It really influenced our design of the org and repo features. Let us know if you have any questions or want to kick the tires in an organization setting.

hello@fwdeveryone.com

amsheehanon FWD:Everyone

Please reach out to myself or Alex to get this worked out:

alex.krupp@fwdeveryone.com alex.sheehan@fwdeveryone.com

amsheehanon FWD:Everyone

You're absolutely right! We'll get this up ASAP. Thanks for your interest in the site.

amsheehanon FWD:Everyone

We are actively working on a gmail add-on which would allow you to not give us access to your inbox, rather, publish single threads to the site through the gmail interface. We have a few tickets open with Google to narrow the scope of the permissions available to us for exactly that reason! :)

amsheehanon FWD:Everyone

One of the features we have is a naive suggestion engine. Upon signing up you can feed the app a list of keywords. These key words are used to surface relevant threads from your inbox.

You can see this in action in this video: https://youtu.be/MqbTUDCvYB8

amsheehanon People Are Turning Their Instagram Accounts into Bots

That didn't really answer the question. I think the user understood the article, just asking for clarification on why this negatively impacts the experience of users on the platform.

amsheehanon Tell HN: Failing to log in to deactivated Facebook account has reactivated it

Out of curiosity, why don't you think you can delete Facebook? I have a few friends whose jobs are in new media spaces and have thrown out a couple reasons off the cuff. After talking through those scenarios though, we concluded it's entirely reasonable and practical to delete their Facebook accounts, and it wouldn't negatively impact their livelihood as much as they originally thought.

amsheehanon SPAs are harder and always will be (2013)

Google's crawler at some point last year started indexing a really large mostly text based AngularJS app I built: https://www.fwdeveryone.com

Even if it didn't, headless chrome makes it really easy to pre-render content for web crawlers.

amsheehanon SPAs are harder and always will be (2013)

It sounds like your experience with SPA's is the exception, not the rule. I have never built a product or website using Angular or React that performs as poorly as you describe.

- Routing modules in all the major frameworks interact directly with the history APIs, and are fast as f*.

- There are only a handful of locations in the US where you can expect sub 100ms server round trips, usually they're around 300ms, but lets call that negligible. The real time spent waiting is usually if you're executing some complex database query over large data sets. This has nothing to do with SPA's vs Monoliths. Even so, it sounds like you just experienced bad code if you're waiting 6 seconds for a modal to open.

Also...React with React DOM is only 10kb larger than jquery, and when gzipped it's only 37kb.

amsheehanon E Pur Si Muove

Freedom of speech is part of a legal framework. It means you won't be arrested for something you say or express. Doesn't mean anyone has to have a positive response to everything anyone says.

amsheehanon E Pur Si Muove

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

amsheehanon E Pur Si Muove

Though it may be true that some liberals who work in technology argue about pronouns, that doesn't mean the entire set of liberals working in technology did anything.

amsheehanon E Pur Si Muove

Can you elaborate? I don't think I understand what you mean.

amsheehanon E Pur Si Muove

What I would take away from that notion is that large is relative. A large portion of the country still has fewer people than New York City.

I am of course, not trying to start a flame war either, but my take on it is that those sorts of issues would be inappropriate to bring up at work or in a job interview in the first place, regardless of your position.

Based on your description, I believe I probably espouse the opposite position on those issues, and even though I work at a large tech company in NYC I still don't bring them up at work.

That said, I can totally see where you're coming from. I have a friend who ended up being a pretty staunch Donald Trump supporter, and I watched as a lot of colleagues ostracized him (even though he never really brought it up at work).

It takes hard work to see past issues that divide us. In the case of my friend, I always just try to focus on our shared interests. It's what has kept us friends.

In closing...there are of course different degrees of ideas that people will tolerate, and it may just be that large cities have spoken, and they don't want intolerant people in their ranks.

shrugs, walks away

amsheehanon E Pur Si Muove

What about whataboutism?

amsheehanon Net Neutrality will die, so let’s take the profit out of killing it

Or... on any post? Because...It was crazy when Rand Paul said it, and crazier when you say it.

amsheehanon FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see

I have one choice. I guess that's a choice.

amsheehanon Netflix: Removing client-side React.js improved performance by 50%

rolls eyes so hard he falls over

Not a chance that they were just, you know, using it wrong?

amsheehanon App will self destruct in 5 months:How Counterpath have screwed over Mac users

TL;DR: Can someone recommend a decent softphone app that runs on High Sierra?

amsheehanon A Coloring Book about Group Theory

You never asked!