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imilk··on Launch HN: Highlight.io (YC W23) – Open-source, full stack web app monitoring
There are definitely a bunch of overlap though between the two, most notably in session replay. Honestly if one of you could combine application analytics with monitoring, it would be a fantastic one stop resource. There is no reason in my mind why these two areas should be separate. Both are basically logging events of different types.
imilk··on Launch HN: Highlight.io (YC W23) – Open-source, full stack web app monitoring
Looks great, and will be testing it out soon.

I have to say though your landing page looks remarkably similar to Posthog. So much so that I am having to double check to make sure you are not the same company.

imilk··on WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser
Yeah some themes are way better than others, that's for sure. This is one of the cleanest and most flexible that I've used on dozens of sites, getting them up and running with a branded look in 2-3 hours:

https://themeforest.net/item/salient-responsive-multipurpose...

imilk··on A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place
Do you also have no time in the evenings or weekends? Spend the hours that you normally watch TV or browse social media/Hacker News working on your project.

But the fact that you're posting on here while complaining that you don't have time tells me you just don't want to do it enough for it to ever be worthwhile.

imilk··on WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser
What a bizarre attitude to have. You could also save tons of seconds by not using indents in Python or brackets in JS. But then you would also not have working code.
imilk··on WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser
The backend is a terrible mess. But most of the time WP sites are served as cached static assets to the end user so you can still get the load times pretty good (despite the dumpster of a backend/DB).
imilk··on WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser
Wordpress is still great for downloading a theme from Themeforest to get brochure style sites (restaurant, simple small business, etc) up and running pretty fast. It is not great (possibly horrendous) for revisiting a few years later when all the plugins/theme/core needs to be updated and a bunch of different people have added custom JS/CSS all over in random places.

It's hard to reconcile "pro web designer" with no-code though. Having said that, my preferred stack for something that involves more than a simple site is Sveltekit, Tailwindcss, & Sanity. But everyone has their own preferences.

imilk··on A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place
If you have the ability to program you can find time around your day job to make a little progress each day until you have something ready to market. Because it just sounds like you're lazy and are throwing up random excuses.
imilk··on Tailwind and the Beauty of Ugly Code
More like CSS is well water and Tailwind is a good quality water filter.
imilk··on Tailwind and the Beauty of Ugly Code
There are many, many, many cases where communication is not possible because who is working on the code now didn't exist when it was written (unless you want to take the time to document out all of your CSS and hope that everyone who touches it follows that documentation exactly). A new team taking over, a new agency updating a website for a client that was made by another agency, a new developer being brought on, etc.
imilk··on Tailwind and the Beauty of Ugly Code
Have you ever jumped in on a project with hundreds of "secondary sticky container hero-text" all over the code base? It is a woeful few hours (at least, maybe day or two) of cross-referencing all of these "semantic" class names to their definitions in CSS, and even then you are never truly sure if there is another rule overwriting your changes somewhere else in the CSS. And good luck if more than one developer has touched the code since you last saw it.
imilk··on Tailwind and the Beauty of Ugly Code
You can use CSS preprocessors such as Sass that have inheritance. But most people doing front end design these days separate out design elements into components, which pretty much completely handles the re-usability of the underlying CSS. But @apply is useful for smaller elements used across components like buttons, form elements, headings, etc.
imilk··on Tailwind and the Beauty of Ugly Code
Oh the joys on having to edit a website that was made (by myself or someone else) years ago before Tailwind. It takes at least a few hours to figure out exactly what all these class names actually do, and you are still never sure that there isn't some random lines in the CSS files that will prevent the style from changing like you hoped.
imilk··on Tailwind and the Beauty of Ugly Code
I would love to see the CSS files behind your amazing Tailwind-free designs and know how easily a new dev/designer can jump in and make meaningful non-breaking changes. Especially if any of those projects have touched more than one team over a few years.
imilk··on Tailwind and the Beauty of Ugly Code
They discourage you from doing this wholesale for the good reasons in the link you posted. But it is still highly useful for small elements that are reused across the site.

Plus, I'd assume that almost everyone using Tailwind is going to break their website/app into reusable components - which negates the need to use @apply across the board.

imilk··on Tailwind and the Beauty of Ugly Code
You can quickly create a .primary-button (or whatever) class where you group all the Tailwind classes with an @apply. Then just add primary-button wherever you want.

https://tailwindcss.com/docs/reusing-styles#extracting-class...

I'd also add that the code in the Tailwind example is much easier to maintain and jump in on. It describes everything going on without you having to cross-reference a separate CSS doc with all of the actual meaning hidden in it. Joining a new project with 1000+ line CSS files + media queries randomly added throughout is a horrendous experience.

imilk··on A GPT 3.5 powered tool for generating regex
Personally a fan of https://regex101.com/
imilk··on Load 'em up and throw 'em under the bus
Completely agree. If you never say that you are at capacity you become the dumping ground for work that other people should be doing.
imilk··on Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
I've been using Porkbun for years and it's been great. Good prices, reliability, security, and they don't push nonsense add-on services on you like a lot of other domain providers.
imilk··on Unovis: Data visualization for React, Angular, Svelte, TypeScript, JavaScript
Until a better library comes out, I'd highly recommend using Layercake with Sveltekit. It's a wrapper around D3 which allows you to build reusable components that are responsive and can load server side without JS on the client. It's not as plug and play as some libraries, but it's not too bad, and gives you a lot more customization options:

https://layercake.graphics/

imilk··on Show HN: Tweek Calendar – A minimal weekly planner and to-do list
The name makes it sound like a calendar for methheads. Which would probably be very useful, but I'm sure that's not the intended audience.
imilk··on You Don't Need HTML
Well I see 6 HTML tag on the site
imilk··on Zuckerberg's leaked email on VR strategy (2015)
eating snacks with a VR headset on sounds messy
imilk··on Supabase Series B
It isn't deleted, it's just paused.
imilk··on Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (2019)
If you're talking about Sanity, feel like I should mention Directus. Been wonderful for a few projects and completely open source.
imilk··on Kanopy – Stream films with your public library or university card
Are you having a mental episode or is this a strange bot account that I'm replying to?
imilk··on Kanopy – Stream films with your public library or university card
Been using Kanopy for a few years and the quality of the content on there is an order of magnitude better than any other streaming service. In the Seattle area you only get 5 views/month, but that's plenty for me.
imilk··on The new and upgraded Framework Laptop
Fractional scaling works pretty seamlessly for me using Pop OS on a Framework.
imilk··on Google's Subsea Fiber Optics
Good luck getting anyone at a publicly listed company to sign off on a video promoting a $xxx million project with candid unrehearsed interviews.
imilk··on Google's Subsea Fiber Optics
Have you never seen a video produced for or by a company before?
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