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peterkonsz

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peterkonsz··on Show HN: I made a website even my tech un-savvy parents can use to find a laptop
Great idea with the static JSON file. Also I like the filtering is nice and zippy because it's all happening client-side (according to lack of activity in my network tab).
peterkonsz··on RSS is still pretty great
No matter how much people want to proclaim RSS is "dead" there is actually no way to kill it. It is decentralized. No one owns it. If we keep publishing RSS feeds, it still lives.
peterkonsz··on Help Needed on Some CSS
I think this kind of question is better asked on stackoverflow or reddit
peterkonsz··on The pursuit of cutting-edge JS frameworks resulted in a less accessible web
The JS ecosystem of 2024 does not represent what's on the web right now. What is out there is by-and-large codebases that were started in the mid 2010s. Sure, frameworks have been doing a great job correcting mistakes over the past couple years, but the JS-heavy junk of the 2010s is still largely out there ruining access for folks.
peterkonsz··on Should you buy inexpensive laptops frequently or expensive ones for longterm?
>Many websites advertise deals on laptops that seemingly have good specs for a great price, but buyer beware on these products: it might not be the deal you think it is. The build quality on many of these machines is subpar, if not outright awful. Bad hinges, plastic casing, and cheap components mean there is a good chance these machines were designed to fail - right after that 1 year warranty expires, of course.

I have called this the enshittification of consumer products. It's not just computers, it's everything

peterkonsz··on Ask HN: Do you refuse to do coding challenges for software engineer interviews?
Does leetcode count as skill check?
peterkonsz··on Ask HN: Has web accessibility gotten worse since the advent of single page apps?
I think about the tooling a lot too. It’s gotten so much better in recent years so I wonder if it kind of offsets the SPA challenges
peterkonsz··on Solid.js feels like what I always wanted React to be
They both have footguns. Solid has fewer which is nice.

Maybe I am just an old man yelling at the clouds. Big give me a traditional (multi page app) over a SPA any day at this point.