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I think a more fitting question is why should google showcase the ten megabyte page so far up the results. Perhaps because those ads that cause the bloat are likely served by them.

I have market knowledge in this sector and can confirm the impact. Once the pandemic hit, Airbnb's from private landlords flooded the market due to travel nosediving.

see: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/world/europe/airbnb-dubli...

Where the code is illustrative not intended on being literal copy paste, and the sharing of text without formatting hinders readability and illustrative intent

Started dipping my feet in app development recently. To get an app onto an Internal track for testing purposes..you still need to get 'reviewed'. literally a hello world app needs human review that takes 3 days. That blows my brain. Not open to the web. just testers. 3 days. painful. and imo. broken.

Is the colour and visual display of errors really considered a significant problem that prevents technology adoption? I must be getting old.

Of note - the Guardian engineering team have moved away from their custom RTE over to this https://www.theguardian.com/info/2019/jan/24/leaving-scribe

Its probably easiest to do this as a departing gift to colleagues you are leaving behind.

The blog also did something else.. give non technical users a voice. Do we celebrate that or mourn for a web full of people just like us?

In the same way that Facebook killed blogging- once a better mousetrap for publishing comes along it finds an audience albeit the great technically unwashed.

Yes. Its worse than terrible on a mobile. Going to see if its open source and put a pull in for it.

I wish more people knew how to tune their beat by ear.

Innovation often has casualities and the pace of innovation of the front end particularly has exploded in the last few years combine that with mobile uptake and we have a whole can of soup on our hands. At the moment it feels like we havent quite settled on a proposed standard of build tools and processes which comes across as daunting but imo is also indicative of not reaching the absolute peak. Underneath it all we still have the fundamentals of html css and js and that aint gonna change anytime soon.. I only hope some of the tools we have for layouts settle soon as the browser landscape and chasms are only getting wider as mobile devices and iot throws a whole new can of worms at producing cross browser compatible applications. In my instances that fact alone is choking the web.

Very cool. Be nice to have it as a Chrome plugin just to open it quickly, or have it there all the time as a new tab.

Once upon a time Matt Cutts used the example of 'a cure for cancer' marked up badly with poor HTML structure but providing the true result versus a well marked up site with the wrong info. Which should rank better?

The same IMO can be applied to speed as a factor. A slow site, (due to depth of content?) badly marked up but providing the correct result should outrank the fast site providing wrong info.

It sounds like you werent given the space and time to learn as a junior dev on a project that needed seniors. I'd recommend making some commits to open source to publically demo your skills which will prove youve learnt from early mistakes and show a commitment to learning new things.

Big fan of https://mailtrap.io

..except you will end up with a 300kb js file and a massive Json file. Whilst this plugin generates magic your speed suffers with it.

I went cold turkey a while back, never looked back. Facebook is the digital equivalent of opening the fridge & staring inside, even though you're not hungry.

Not unlike YQL - https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

Web based mail clients are nearly as bad with how much CSS etc. they strip out. Gmail is particularly aggressive. Yes Outlook is terrible, but there's plenty of security conscious developers throwing baby out with bathwater when it comes to email design .

woah there conclusion jumpin cowboy. tired after work != automatic depression.

Get a full set of bloods taken. could be underactive thyroid or anything.

There's even evidence of vote manipulation on this very HN thread on the announcement over on Reddit.

Have you heard of http://nanowrimo.org

Find out where these people hang out including hashtags etc. Huge community of starter writers.

you got a link anywhere?

oh great. now my kids have even less of a reason to go outside. thanks fb!

I wish Google would create a separate index of all the stuff I bookmark, and provide it as a subset of the Google search experience. I too find myself Google searching for info Ive previously browsed.

I love sites like this, that prove content wins out over everything else.

Google's Vision API FWIW unsurprisingly blows Clarifai out of the water.

https://cloud.google.com/vision/

I have recently come across a bug in relation to this particular javascript widget. Once they dropped the requirement for widget IDs here:

https://blog.twitter.com/2016/embedding-twitter-timelines-ju...

Widgets no longer worked. So basically if you had widget IDs on data elements in HTML, the code no longer executed. Forced upgrade of the frontend code to match the JS requirements.

Correct. This is the open graph bot. You can force fb to scrape your site at will and clear the current cached image preview.

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint