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I like the concept, from a cursory look the advantage of this over something like dribbble are the color selector and code components. The code components link does not work and the color selector returns pages without the selected color so on that basis I don't see the advantage over dribbble for now.

If you implement the code components I think the degree of usefulness will also depend on the frameworks used and the quality of the code. On the few occasions I bought templates in the past to try and save time, I was unable to use them because the code was too poor to extend.

Listening to some of these arguments you'd believe we need to get an expert's opinion and a literature review to gauge the quality of the things we use in our daily lives.

I don't need an expert showing me a frequency curve to gauge the quality of earphones, I don't need an expert on manufacturing to tell me whether my current pair of glasses are more or less solid than the previous pair.

Part of being an intelligent person is also accepting that other people are just as intelligent as you, and not complete fools. People can see what's right in front of their eyes.

For anyone who wonders an Aloha shirt is just an Hawaiian shirt, there is no difference.

You never have the right version installed though. Every time I've tried to install a .NET program it's always asked me to install a different version than the one I had.

Why is that the answer? I'm talking about the insanity one about the soul who hears voices.

I genuinely can't tell what you are saying.

I don't know if you are mocking people who speak like this and satirising their beliefs that drugs are harmless, or if you genuinely speak like this and are mocking the people who wish to criminalize drugs.

Anyway, it's just more evidence for my campaign to criminalize sarcasm and get its users rousted and smacked by police.

Stuck at level 4, looks fun though.

Very fun and original, I love imperfect information games. Took me ~20 clues and a bit of guess work for this one.

I didn't see a description of what the titles meant (is "constable" good?).

What kind of data structures and algorithms did you use to represent the game, find a solution, and choose the clues?

Those aren't the same propositions (I'm not sure they even are propositions?) so there is no such logical relationship.

"Meta will nuke your account" and "you nuke your account" is different. It might not even be possible to perform one of these (nuking your thread profile).

Your Instagram account is deleted (the state not the action) iff your thread profile is deleted.

Your thread profile is deleted iff your Instagram is deleted.

Those are the propositions that are logically equivalent.

Of course but starting from the assumption that he is doing it himself he will have an easier time using design software than jumping into CSS.

Design software encourages/enforces good design rules through its interface. You couple that with a willingness to learn and a bit of practice and you can achieve some nice things. Especially given that the design of some types of websites is very codified like SaaS or blogs.

Yeah we all have that problem but the design factors in the customers' decision to buy and designers cost an insane amount so what can you do.

Gotta say, that's a great blog. I opened it only to check the design and ended up reading 4 articles back to back.

It feels nostalgic scrolling down and back through our technological history.

It is simple, both templating and hot-reloading are fairly common programing concepts, neither are uncommon or esoteric when it comes to web development.

The specific implementation is irrelevant, you could use any other piece of software to achieve it.

I see your point. My recommendation if you wish to improve your designs is to do them outside of CSS if you don't already. With something like figma or Penpot you will have your fonts, palette, spacing and layout all predefined.

Then once all your views are created using these common elements, you only need to transcribe them as classes in your CSS and use those few classes where needed in your HTML.

I'm not a design expert, so take it with a grain of salt, but I used to be terrible and following that workflow allowed me to get decent.

Fancy that! HTML and CSS? To make a Website? They must be mad!

All joking aside, I use the same stack save for the templating. Unless you are a web developer I don't see the point of a CSS framework, it's much easier to roll your own. Nor of a site generator, I tried Hugo it saved no time at all. Nor of JavaScript, a few months ago I tried replicating the websites of a few companies to improve my css skills, HTML and CSS were enough to reproduce the appearance of all of them, yet none of their website would even appear without JavaScript enabled.

We stack on framework after framework, new languages, new tools, all for nothing but increased complexity and busy work for a new generation. (Save for the 5% of websites that actually need that stuff.)

Also interesting to see they actually sell a service, would have been curious to know what their prices are like.

Plausible is great, and they just added conversion funnel analytics last week which was the big feature I was missing.

Depends on the SPA, plenty of them fire enough requests to the server for server side logs to be useful.

Wish you would have posted the aggregated results so we could get an idea.

I suspect if most blogs want to improve their loading time they would have better results getting rid of the 20MB of trackers before breaking the web a little further with stuff like cloudflare.

I think it's correlated to the failure of search engines.

There is no way to discover content anymore, long gone are the days where some expert's blog would appear prominently when searching a topic. Now all the results are people trying to sell you something. Reddit has replaced google (more or less) for a lot of people.

The only functional search engine nowadays is marginalia.

I have been saying this for years.

The contribution graph of most projects looks like a power law, this is a failure of open source. We need to lower the barrier to entry to flatten the contribution graph and to enable mass collaboration. And that goes through a focused effort on what they call open knowledge.

And I think that implies giving up on some agile principles for most open source projects. You cannot rely on people over documentation, for example, when the potential contributor pool has 1000s of developers and the knowledge is held by one guy in Wyoming who does it part time after work.

Those caching issues seem quite common of late. I remember Steam and a couple other companies encountering a similar problem a couple years back where they'd exposed cached pages containing their customers' info.

It reminds me of the gmail timing attack.

I can't find the link anymore and I don't remember it precisely but it was something like loading the auth page for a specific address in the background and depending on the load time you'd know if the person was already logged in with that address.

It assumed there was a specific list of people you were targeting whose address you already knew and you could show different content to a specific target.

It might be the implication, "If it bothers them so much"...

I pick stuff up occasionally but I can't make up for a city of people who don't care to pick up their own trash. If I complain about it and you suggest in anyway that if I cared I should pickup after grown adults who don't care to act in a basic civilized manner I would find that very grating.

Civic pride needs to be collective.

I'm feeling strangely comforted to have pictured the mythological creature before the meme.

The GPT4 "paper" that's been talked about so much is little more than a marketing press release.

I certainly disagree that it's the case for the whole field of ML. But the AI that's in the news right now is LLMs with OpenAI in the lead who have done their utmost to imped reproducible research and even research built on top of their already released tools.

It's been a trend that started with Google years ago and their increasingly large models which are unreproducible for most of the scientific community and often not released (if I recall correctly).

I'd get the 1.9 deal anytime, if it's so good I end up using it more than a year I'll happily pay twice the lifetime price in the end.

If it's like 99% other products that offer bulk deals, I don't know such a long time ahead whether I'll end up using it that much. The expectation of savings by taking the "worse" short-term deal is higher than taking the supposed advantageous lifetime/bulk deal in my case.

Looked perfect for me on Firefox Android, responsive and all. Any broken page in particular?

Specifically because of Cloudflare in my case.

Having stopped Firefox users from browsing the net with infinite verification loops, Cloudflare finds their unbiased estimation of internet browser usage shows Firefox is in decline.

It kinda made sense, even the modern diagram isn't so far off from the original.

It was a crude model built with the tools available at the time, I've seen it referenced in research articles and this professor says it was taught in universities so presumably it was.

He was also published in nature along with ~30 other people so I don't think it's about the 15 minutes of fame.

It's something that's always struck me as prime ground for regulation when the contentious topic of Apple's control over their platform comes up. One of the most often repeated points from Apple customers is the ease of use and trust they have in Apple's payment and cancellation system that all apps are forced to go through and how much they'd hate to lose it.

There is an obvious failure here, we shouldn't rely on companies to force other companies to undertake obviously good, pro-consumer behaviour.