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Come on, autoplayed videos? Just respect your readers. I have my music in my headphones. I'm not going to read your website if you don't respect me. No, changing my browser with some autoplay-disabling-plugin doesn't convince me to read what you wrote.

Yea, I know that most probably the author won't read it :)

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Give him another 17 years and he might learn some basics.

I must write such an article on my blog. Some clickable title like "37 things I have learned during the last 37 years"...

The list would be quite short:

- use Postgres - don't irritate your readers (e.g. with autoplay videos, sounds, making accounts to read anything) - make the page lite (with terribly small usage of javascript)

(then repeat the above 12 times) and the final thing would be:

- just read some books about programming, learn KISS, YAGNI, DI, OFA (other funny abbreviations) - and use it

- set aside a time after every iOS release to retest the frontend because apple will have broken some part of the standard in amusing and hilarious ways.

I didn't get anything autoplaying. Are you referring to the embedded YouTube video? I wonder if that's a flag in the embedded image, or just a browser quirk?

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