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chrisldgk commented on Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale   derwiki.medium.com/do-thi... · Posted by u/derwiki
NikolaNovak · 12 days ago
I liked Google Plus. "Circles (of friends)" is exactly how my brain works. So I had a family circle and computer geeks circle and photography circle and general circle. It was super easy to create and manage the Venn diagrams, and be in control of both how you share and what you see. It was even easy to share circles themselves! The joy of discovering somebody's shared circle with awesome photographers to follow. I felt in control and joyous and it was awesome.

I am, as always, a negative focus group - perhaps precisely for same reasons I loved it, apparently nobody else did :-/.

chrisldgk · 12 days ago
People hated it because Google for some reason decided to force it into YouTube by forcing you to link your YouTube account to your G+ account. Remember that stick figure tank guy that was plastered over every comment section?

I believe that’s mostly what killed Google Plus. People were introduced to it in the worst way possible, so nobody actually cared to try it out, even if it was technically a good product.

chrisldgk commented on Rust running on every GPU   rust-gpu.github.io/blog/2... · Posted by u/littlestymaar
chrisldgk · a month ago
Maybe this is a stupid question, as I’m just a web developer and have no experience programming for a GPU.

Doesn’t WebGPU solve this entire problem by having a single API that’s compatible with every GPU backend? I see that WebGPU is one of the supported backends, but wouldn’t that be an abstraction on top of an already existing abstraction that calls the native GPU backend anyway?

chrisldgk commented on AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze, deletes entire company DB   tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/ARandomerDude
chrisldgk · a month ago
Turns out „artificial general intelligence“ just means AI can sometimes be exactly as stupid as any other human to the point where it will delete a production DB like any other junior developer if you give it permissions it shouldn’t have.

Welcome to the future you didn’t want, but deserved.

I won’t go on a rant about giving AI any permissions and trusting it blindly here, I’ll just say that I think the typical AI bulletin point list where it perfectly recounted how it fucked up made me fall out of my chair from laughter.

chrisldgk commented on Why you should choose HTMX for your next web-based side project (2024)   hamy.xyz/blog/2024-02_htm... · Posted by u/kugurerdem
ksec · a month ago
But why? And what is a moderately complex web products? For example is Gmail a moderately complex web products?

I am guessing there is a whole generation of developers growing up where front end equals React and HTMX / HTML / CSS is somewhat of an alien. Compared to some of us growing up with HTML, DHTML and Ajax.

chrisldgk · a month ago
While React and JSX/TSX might be somewhat of an abstraction on top of HTML and CSS, you absolutely still need intricate knowledge of HTML and CSS to build anything good with React.

In the end what you get out of your React code after your build process is vanilla HTML, CSS and JS. While you might be able to abstract some of those things away using libraries, all you‘re doing in your React code is building and manipulating HTML DOM trees within your React code and styling them using CSS (or using some abstraction like CSS-in-JS, CSS modules, etc.). To do so efficiently, you not only require knowledge of how exactly HTML and CSS work but also what React tends to do under the hood to render out your application. Even more so when things like a11y are required. A good dev also knows when to use JS to reimplement certain interactions (hover states, form submits, etc.) and when to use the native functionality instead (for example CSS pseudo selectors or HTML form elements).

All this is to say that I disagree with the notion that React devs don’t know or understand the underlying technologies. It might be different and more abstracted, but it’s still the same technologies that require the same or more understanding to be used efficiently.

chrisldgk commented on Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web   websmith.studio/blog/astr... · Posted by u/pumbaa
diggan · 2 months ago
> Traditional frameworks hydrate entire pages with JavaScript. Even if you've got a simple blog post with one interactive widget, the whole page gets the JavaScript treatment. Astro flips this on its head. Your pages are static HTML by default, and only the bits that need interactivity become JavaScript "islands."

Back in my days we called this "progressive enhancements" (or even just "web pages"), and was basically the only way we built websites with a bit of dynamic behavior. Then SPAs were "invented", and "progressive enhancements" movement became something less and less people did.

Now it seems that is called JavaScript islands, but it's actually just good ol' web pages :) What is old is new again.

Bit of history for the new webdevs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement

chrisldgk · 2 months ago
I agree with that it’s not a new concept by itself, but the way it’s being done is much more elegant in my opinion.

I originally started as a web developer during the time where PHP+jQuery was the state of the art for interactive webpages, shortly before React with SPAs became a thing.

Looking back at it now, architecturally, the original approach was nicer, however DX used to be horrible at the time. Remember trying to debug with PHP on the frontend? I wouldn’t want to go back to that. SPAs have their place, most so in customer dashboards or heavily interactive applications, but Astro find a very nice balance of having your server and client code in one codebase, being able to define which is which and not having to parse your data from whatever PHP is doing into your JavaScript code is a huge DX improvement.

chrisldgk commented on New EU rules on digital accessibility to come into force   rte.ie/news/technology/20... · Posted by u/austinallegro
paganel · 2 months ago
A 15-people business is most definitely a small business.

> complying to the available laws.

That's why Europe has gotten into its present sorry state when it comes to IT. They're winning all the law-related battles but they've lost the big war, just look of how all of Europe is a slave to the American IT industry (after all, we're having this conversation on a an American-run forum, even though I presume that we're both EU citizens).

chrisldgk · 2 months ago
That might be true, but it’s also the reason we don’t have a Zuckerberg or Musk taking charge of EU politics. There’s a balance to be struck here, and I prefer this over being a slave to American big tech.
chrisldgk commented on New EU rules on digital accessibility to come into force   rte.ie/news/technology/20... · Posted by u/austinallegro
Piraty · 2 months ago
less javascript + less dynamically loaded/changed content is the solution to web accessibility
chrisldgk · 2 months ago
Tell that to the developers that are 5 years, 1 million lines and 500 TODOs deep into their legacy React banking frontend. Adding stuff on top of your existing hacks is easy, taking unnecessary code away is hard. Especially if all your training on web accessibility was a one-day workshop where you never actually learned how to do anything, only why you need to do it.

Source: I used a frontend developer working on a big bank frontend. The existing UI stack was horrendous and deadlines and bank politics wouldn’t allow you to refactor anything. Just build shit on top and hope that Jenga tower of a web application doesn’t fall apart halfway there.

chrisldgk commented on New EU rules on digital accessibility to come into force   rte.ie/news/technology/20... · Posted by u/austinallegro
jonathanstrange · 2 months ago
Sorry but this line of "don't worry buddy, nobody cares about your small company" reasoning is dangerous. No reputable company wants to operate in a legal grey zone. Or do these directives and the corresponding laws explicitly only apply to large corporations?

Edit: I'm not complaining about the regulations in this comment, I'm saying that it's bad advice to ignore them just because you're a small business unless there is an exception for them. As it happens, exceptions for small business are planned.

chrisldgk · 2 months ago
I don’t know the exact wording, but from the GDPR and accessibility trainings I had to sit through at the enterprises I used to work at, I believe there is a certain size of company under which the regulations don’t apply. That was somewhere in the millions in revenue each year, so if you’re actually an indie-hacker, this should not apply to you. I’ll check if I can find a source for that claim though.

There are some parts of GDPR that are non-negotiable however, even for indie hackers. If you collect personally identifiable info, you NEED a privacy policy, a process for users to get their data deleted if they request it, for example.

chrisldgk commented on Better Auth, by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC   techcrunch.com/2025/06/25... · Posted by u/bundie
alemanek · 2 months ago
I am going to give a guess on this one. I work for a large enterprise and have been involved with evaluating different OSS solutions.

One of the things that tends to come up is support. Now a small OSS startup with no funding and maybe even no way to pay them gets an automatic no in most cases.

My guess is that it is less about VC money and more about “I know I will have someone to call as long as I am willing to pay” kind of thing. VC money tells the company someone else is confident enough about this so I can be too.

Just my non-expert opinion.

chrisldgk · 2 months ago
Yea, that’s pretty much what I meant as well. Knowing the project is backed by a significant amount of money makes it a lot easier to rationalize using the product within your stack for the reasons you mentioned. This is usually more spreadsheet-acrobatics than actual reasoning (as is so often the case in enterprise) however, so YMMV for the actual outcome.
chrisldgk commented on Better Auth, by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC   techcrunch.com/2025/06/25... · Posted by u/bundie
Imustaskforhelp · 2 months ago
I remember how basically better auth got a huge lead because lucia was shutdown by its dev for their own reasons which I admittedly have forgotten but they made sense and the community had accepted it.

But those who hadn't started using better auth more. And now I guess its crazy how I felt as if this would be just a small project like lucia in the sense of its just created for the passion and the art, but now it has raised 5 mill$ , I wonder if the community wanted this to be an artisanal like project like lucia before its end or what the community thinks of this move. Since VC and open source have some inherent compromises with each other and I guess I just wanted to write this to hear more about people who are using better auth in prod and what they think of what this VC funding.

chrisldgk · 2 months ago
As an indie hacker using better auth, I’m somewhat skeptical of there now being VC money in the mix (enshittifcation is a process that starts with VC money). But from my time working for enterprise, they often prefer OSS products that are well-funded for their stacks so they can rely on them for a longer amount of time. So I’d suppose this would help in that regard. Also having a cloak-like SaaS solution might be nice for those who don’t want to host their own infra, though I‘d advise against relying on third parties for auth.

u/chrisldgk

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