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azeemh··on Htmx in a Nutshell
This is the philosophy I had when I coded Zedtopia.

Clean Html5 and css3 should achieve everything. Only use JS for specific interactivity.

azeemh··on Tell HN: Your Android carrier can remotely turn settings on
intel's ime is a perfect example
azeemh··on Tell HN: Your Android carrier can remotely turn settings on
I guess Clapper needs to see consequences.

I think I got hacked for trying to run for Congress.

"If video games have taught me anything, it's that if you encounter enemies then you're going the right way." - Ali G

lol

azeemh··on Consciousness, the Observer, and Quantum Gravity
indeed, it may not be mainstream and yet the double slit experiment confirms it to be true.

i mean climate science denial is the mainstream so we really cannot rely upon the mainstream to discern truth.

finally there's a more complete mathematics in this page's content, in comparison to the highly incomplete Von Neumann Wigner interpretation.

azeemh··on Neanderthals and modern humans may have copied each other’s tools
neanderthals have a dna based built in instinctual desire to dominate others and steal their inventions, ideas, copy tools etc.

unlike cro magnon which could make fire neanderthals had to steal it...

azeemh··on Show HN: Create unlimited links in your TikTok, Instagram profile bio
cool. I'll share this with Zedtopia users. We have pretty free form bio and contact info sections but have a single dedicated link spot that people could definitely use this for.

As a fellow entrepreneur I wonder how you'll differentiate from linktree.

Bless up

azeemh··on Ask HN: Light or Dark Themes
Dark themes, just like dark mode in cad. My first original dark mode experience came from Autocad.

It's easier on the eyes.

azeemh··on Show HN: BrainFlow the library to work with biosensors and neurointerfaces
awesomeeeee
azeemh··on Show HN: BrainFlow the library to work with biosensors and neurointerfaces
This is really cool. Is it possible to connect Brainflow to Neurosky or Artoo?
azeemh··on ‘Exclusionary zoning’ is opportunity hoarding by upper middle class
Exclusionary zoning is bad for the economy: Enrico Moretti and Chang-Tai Hsieh estimate that the U.S. economy would be 10 percent bigger if three cities (San Francisco, San Jose, and New York) had the zoning regulations of the median American city.
azeemh··on Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3
it's not metacognitive otherwise it would know this is an exploit and it would have a sense of a self it seeks to preserve.
azeemh··on Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3
Sooooooooooo AI reveals the need for critical thinking.
azeemh··on Show HN: I built an extension for analyzing rental properties in Zillow
Landlords dont provide any services. Construction workers build the house.

if there were no landlords people would still have 1 home and builders would get hired by the homeowner who could finally afford homeownership.

We have more empty homes in America than homeless people.

The market is not working because its failing to respond to the demand of more than 90% of the population for affordable housing despite us having more supply of housing than homeless people in need.

azeemh··on Show HN: I built an extension for analyzing rental properties in Zillow
i disagree because land developers and land development programs already exist we simply need to coordinate a co-op effort.

using homes an investment leads to hoarding of resources.

Why does america have more empty homes than homeless people? Markets have failed because they're chasing imaginary rental demand instead of adapting to real demand.

If people could only own 1 residential property at a time this would not be an issue and the whole program thecalebf built would not be needed.

the program you built helps exacerbate a social ill, and while it's great technically it's horrible socially.

I hope this feedback helps you pivot to solve the more pressing problem in real estate.

azeemh··on 'We don’t have enough' lithium globally to meet EV targets, mining CEO says
hydrogen fcev is the way.
azeemh··on Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of speech (2020)
Freedom of speech is the freedom to vocalize, share, and evaluate thoughts.

Thought Policing is quite un-American yet it is championed by authoritarian neofascists and neoliberals alike...

azeemh··on The Death of Personality (2017)
lovely. agreed -- the loss of personality comes from this insistence on design conformity... details make everything better.

read this article with this lovely music playing.

https://youtu.be/mcOYj2Jd6po

azeemh··on Regarding the eSIM-only iPhone 14 models in the U.S.
no headphone port, no sd cards, no charger cables, now no sim cards, this is very much apple's locked down approach just further evolving.

imagine they made the most useful, intuitive, and beautiful device instead of just the thinnest one?

azeemh··on Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?
I agree with your perspective on separation of concerns as that was the intent of the html5 standard.

The reason react was invented was to enable real time update of items on the page -- to update when someone liked your item, or send you a notification update instantly instead of polling the server.

It was the idea of pushing code to the webpage. So they made a component in javascript that updates in realtime -- the state or prop determining the content or how many likes the post had. However this ended up requiring a huge Redis instance which is also very expensive, so now they need to sell more ads. In order to figure this out they realize emojis on the like button allow people to choose a sentiment of their reaction to the content. Their ML uses the sentiment to group and sandwich ads between content the ML knows or thinks you will react favorably.

So for example, a comedy central ad will be shown after a meme or story that is similar or something you reacted Haha to because the advertiser's desired reaction is a Haha as well.

Thus the name React. Plus it makes that div/element/part of the page defined as a "component" in js that will update or "react" in realtime -- anytime they push an update to the server everyone viewing that page sees it change in realtime.

Essentially a combination of a push notification or pubsub and ajax request.

Honestly, when jsx goes out of style like it should because its idiotic, and gross, and a violation of those separations of concerns, it could just be an html page where you write a js function to add a realtime update to an id or class...

Svelte uses that style of approach to the DOM.

If you don't have a realtime data store like Redis or any type of realtime data streaming going on, React or any other component based framework is a waste of time.

The ability to update the page without reloading or building as a single page app is not SEO friendly unless you use SSR which you already would have created in your normal seo friendly html files.

also name your files consistently and clearly.

unless you need to change the page in realtime without reloading, react and these other component frameworks have no use case.

If you want a clean css3 framework to help build a web front end that works neatly in html5 check out Bulma.

Bulma.io

You are exactly right, the js developer scene is like a herd and people wanted to work at facebook or look smart so they learned it.

It's useful for making single page applications, however all framework interactivity can be written in normal js, so if you take your time you'll have much cleaner, unbloated code, yielding pages that run better and faster...

azeemh··on Why haven’t PWAs killed native apps yet?
It was a website in 2006 when millenials decided to use it to meet college only friends.
azeemh··on Why haven’t PWAs killed native apps yet?
Zedtopia is a PWA...

Going Native App this early would cost too much to develop and maintain, and because our platform is for publishing, sharing, and discussing web2 and web3 content, our app would require using a webview to render user uploaded html.

Thus might as well use a browser.

Myspace was just a webapp. Facebook started off as a webapp. Reddit is a webapp. I don't like installing extra apps unless necessary.

Bloatware is annoying to my target user -- Early adopters and innovators.

Thus PWA is the choice for this platform. It guarantees universal accessibility which is really important to our core values of inclusion and universal design.

It's easier to make a webapp that uses the ecosystems' accessibility tools for deaf, blind, and impaired users.

with things like webgl, we can even do lightweight gpu calculations and 3d presentations on a phone browser.

a native app is only necessary for apps that use native functions.

furthermore, until we move past jwt auth for api based apps and backends, platforms will still get hacked.

azeemh··on GitHub Outage
this is what happens when you sell important community infrastructure to M$FT
azeemh··on Zedtopia Launches the First Cybercivilization
link to their policy page even has a cyberconstitution... what do you guys think?