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numbnuts··on Mozilla's "Platform Tilt" shows how Firefox is harmed by Apple, Microsoft
VIA is Chromium-only because of WebHID which, last I checked, isn't even on the standards track. I don't blame Mozilla for that. The API is useful but I don't want Firefox just implementing whatever Google decides to try to railroad into web standards.

I'm with you on Mozilla removing the ability to install PWAs on desktop though. Strange that they'd ditch it on desktop but not mobile.

numbnuts··on And Then Came JavaScript
I've been teaching web dev for ~10 years, I learned early on that with JavaScript, the programming fundamentals need to be introduced in bits and pieces. The class hits a wall otherwise. As much as I would like to focus on programming fundamentals first, a class of adults needs to know and get hands-on experience with the why asap to keep them engaged. So I introduce some DOM basics early like the author outlined (except for the last two items).

It also really depends on the profile of the students themselves. I teach at a coding bootcamp now where we also have short courses on just front end web development. The bootcampers are typically more amenable to a front-heavy, bottom-up, fundamentals-first approach. The short-course students need more hand-holding.

numbnuts··on Ask HN: Simplest stack to build web apps in 2021?
Something like Next.js for JavaScript would be better. Express is too bare-bones for OP's criteria. It's bring your own batteries. Just trying to choose from all the batteries available is a full-time job.
numbnuts··on MindGeek: The owner of Pornhub and RedTube
> As for Ars, they used to have a journo that would publish 10+ page reviews of the latest Mac OS release, and the dude had an extensive knowledge of Apple and Apple products.

John Siracusa. He left Ars ~5 years ago, I think. Even after I switched away from OS X, I would still read his reviews.

numbnuts··on Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try
I use Auto Tab Discard if anyone is looking for something similar for Firefox.
numbnuts··on What's New in JavaScript for 2019
Isn't TypeScript committed to implementing all stable ECMAScript features?

It being a superset with TypeScript-only features on top of ECMAScript, wouldn't the "aggressive changes" you complain about be worse?

numbnuts··on What's New in JavaScript for 2019
After the big dump of new features in ES2015, I don't find the pace of planned updates to the language aggressive at all. JavaScript is still playing catch up.

People will complain if they don't add features. When they do add new features, people complain that they're "bloating" the language or moving too fast. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

The JS ecosystem is a different matter.

numbnuts··on Reahl – A Python-only web framework
Heh, good spot. It uses jQuery and jQuery UI.
numbnuts··on Reahl – A Python-only web framework
What do you think would be a better title? I read "web apps" I think html, css, and js. I wasn't expecting (nor would I want to) to ship Python to the browser.
numbnuts··on Reahl – A Python-only web framework
That's a pretty big difference though.
numbnuts··on Reahl – A Python-only web framework
I'm three-fourths into the tutorial and I have yet to see a need to write html, css, and js.
numbnuts··on Principles we use to write CSS for modern browsers
Sounds like this one: https://jakearchibald.com/2014/dont-use-flexbox-for-page-lay...
numbnuts··on React-Boilerplate v3: The “JS Fatigue Antivenin” Edition
Arrogant?
numbnuts··on Practical Emacs Lisp
OP's link covers more topics but I prefer Steve Yegge's emergency elisp for quick and dirty things.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/01/emergency-elisp.html

numbnuts··on Amazon Web Services in Plain English
I wouldn't want to be around you when you're actually worked up.

I found it both funny and useful. But I can see where you're coming from. If I wanted something fucking accurate that goes into greater fucking detail than 1-2 mostly tongue-in-cheek sentences I'd go to the fucking source.

numbnuts··on Anti-Web-Design Manifesto (2013)
Putting this line in my uBlock Origin filters helped a lot:

    ||images-amazon.com$object,domain=amazon.com
numbnuts··on If DjangoGirls makes you uncomfortable, maybe that’s a good thing
There are many styles of dresses with multiple levels of formality. A sundress, for example, is in no way equivalent to a suit.
numbnuts··on Show HN: Nuggets – Remember everything you read or learn
Themes range from $0 to $30. No excuse for lifting a design wholesale.
numbnuts··on Bling – the $ of jQuery without the jQuery
This fork[0] adds delegation.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/MadeByMike/7e7707eff116229a5948

numbnuts··on Flight, an event-driven web framework from Twitter
It's funny. If you transplant ziles88's comment to when Flight was released two years ago, it would be just as appropriate as it is today.

The JS framework landscape is insane (has been for at least 2 years).

numbnuts··on Targeted: Simple email testing
I wouldn't be surprised if HTML emails convert better (not for the HN crowd, obviously).

Most newsletters I subscribe to still use multipart, thankfully. If I'm not mistaken, Campaign Monitor and Mailchimp require you to have a plain text version for your campaigns.

numbnuts··on Why we should stop using Grunt and Gulp
We default to Make too since we're all (all two of us) running a *nix OS. I'm currently sub-contracting for an agency with devs all running Windows so I'm hoping `npm run` works well enough. If I had it my way I'd just tell them to install MinGW but they might take that as me telling them to go fuck themselves.
numbnuts··on Tell HN: Thank you for interface change
Search. Not sure how recent it is but it's great.
numbnuts··on Firefox Developer Edition
Changing the DevTools theme changes the whole browser's theme too.

http://i.imgur.com/NJzTpG9.png

numbnuts··on Show HN: What to use instead of WhatsApp
Does anyone have any experience with Telegram[0]? Having a desktop or web client is very useful. It doesn't seem like they're coming anytime soon for Threema[1]. And no, Google Hangouts is not an option.

[0]: https://telegram.org/

[1]: https://threema.ch/en/faq.html#desktopversion

numbnuts··on Advanced Javascript and Web Debugging Techniques
Both Firefox and Chrome allow you to "blackbox" js files of your choice.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Debugger#Blac...

http://www.divshot.com/blog/tips-and-tricks/ignoring-library...

numbnuts··on Move.js is a small JavaScript library making CSS3 backed animation
Didn't mean to imply otherwise. I've learned quite a bit just reading his code. He has a ton of projects and I worry that he's spread himself too thin. I assumed this project had been abandoned.

Sorry TJ, didn't mean to sound like a dick.

numbnuts··on Move.js is a small JavaScript library making CSS3 backed animation
Not surprising given who the author is.
numbnuts··on Firefox 22 released
Don't forget ES6 fat arrows! That and right-dockable dev tools excites me more than they probably should.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...

numbnuts··on Docker - Way better than a VM
The README lays out their reasoning under the second heading, Better Than VMs[0].

[0]: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/#better-than-vms

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