What isn't available in vanilla js?
I think it's probably a matter of things being easier: show()/hide() or simple animations versus futzing with style properties and CSS animations.
Readit Newsethagnawl commented on jQuery 4 blog.jquery.com/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/OuterVale
Ive never been a frontend guy, although I was a heavy user of jquery when I needed it. But I cant help but stick to my roots.... LONG LIVE PROTOYPE!
Prototype was great when it first landed but I found jQuery to be so much more elegant and fluid. For example, the overloaded $(...) which I'm pretty certain we have to thank for querySelectorAll.
US manufacturers are going to be ok as long as there are policies banning foreign cars and there are tariffs, which is going to be true for a long time.
And somehow US consumers feel comfortable paying more for worse cars.
> And somehow US consumers feel comfortable paying more for worse cars.
It's baffling and a complete self goal.
The GMC dealership near me is spilling full-size++ pick-ups and enormous Suburban/Tahoe/whatevers out of it's lot and onto the grass. The average sticker is ~$48K/~$750 per month and, depending on driving habits, it can cost hundreds of dollars per week to run these vehicles. That's to say nothing of insurance, maintenance and the cost of replacing those monster truck tires every 2-3 years.
Compare all that to a BYD you could realistically buy outright for $10-15K and charge in your driveway every night.
My old honda fit had one of those inside the glovebox. I believe you were meant to plug in a flash drive or ipod and leave it forever. It did not provide enough power to actually charge a battery.
Oh. That's interesting. I have a 2018 Fit and I've never been able to get the USB port in the center console to charge anything. I bought it used, so I just assumed it was broken and moved on to using an adapter in the cigarette lighter. I wonder if that's what's actually going on?
I specifically bought the model of induction stove I have (LG Studio) due to physical knobs for the burners.
This sounds great. Unfortunately, the options for 24" induction ranges were extremely limited when I was in the market 3-4 years ago and I had to settle for a Blomberg.
>I can't think of any device, appliance, etc. I own whose UX is _better_ for not having physical, dedicated buttons or switches and instead having a touch interface or buttons which require a complex series of presses or chords.
Phone.
I'd be first in line to buy a smartphone with a physical keyboard if a company was selling one which wasn't a Kickstarter or hobby project.
I'd love to know what the justification for replacing them in the first place was. I can't think of any device, appliance, etc. I own whose UX is _better_ for not having physical, dedicated buttons or switches and instead having a touch interface or buttons which require a complex series of presses or chords. It's almost like there was _no_ UX research to back any of these "features" up and people just went ahead and made these changes because they could, it was fun and they look cool.
To give a very concrete and potentially hazardous example: I have an induction range which has no physical controls but has a touch interface which requires various combinations of tapping, holding and sliding fingers. To say nothing of the fact that this is useless for people who have significant visual impairments, how am I supposed to turn it off if there's an electrical fire because a pot boils over or something? Is the expectation that I reach into boiling water that potentially has current running through it and hope to tap my fingers in the right place? Am I supposed to try to yank the power? Or is the expectation that I just walk outside and call the fire department?
ethagnawl commented on Lessons from 14 years at Google addyosmani.com/blog/21-le... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
14 years? Wild. I remember when Addy came into the scene hot with a new jQuery tutorial (what seemed like) every few days. To be clear, that's not a knock despite how it may read in 2026.
ethagnawl commented on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time data.stackexchange.com/st... · Posted by u/maartin0
Do I read that correctly — it is close to zero today?!
I used to think SO culture was killing it but it really may have been AI after all.
It's not zero but it's very low. You can glance at the site now for confirmation.
I was using the site recently (middle of a US workday) and the "live stats" widget showed 10s of questions asked per hour and ~15K current users. I have not done the work to compare these values to historical ones but they're _low_.
I remember I was at a Python conference some years ago and every Microsoft dev I saw had a MacBook. So no, I don’t think they use their own product internally.
As an aside, I used to know a number of MS heads who ran Windows on Mac Intel machines because they preferred the hardware (~2014 MBP) and/or because they ostensibly worked at Mac shops and were handed one upon entry.