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phartenfeller commented on Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus   tailwindcss.com/blog/vani... · Posted by u/ulrischa
AstroBen · a month ago
I just can't fathom how someone can look at this and think "yeahhhh thats some good clean code". How did tailwind get so popular? Learn plain CSS. It's really good now
phartenfeller · a month ago
It is not the nicest but you will quickly get used to it and productive. However maintaining huge websites with thousands of thousands of lines of custom CSS will never be easy. And especially if somebody else wrote it.
phartenfeller commented on JavaScript Trademark Update   deno.com/blog/deno-v-orac... · Posted by u/thebeardisred
fluidcruft · 2 months ago
When has Oracle ever added value whatsoever to the tech ecosystem?
phartenfeller · 2 months ago
I think you underestimate the impact of their database on the world. They were a huge tech innovator in that part (and actually still are).
phartenfeller commented on New EU rules on digital accessibility to come into force   rte.ie/news/technology/20... · Posted by u/austinallegro
dr_dshiv · 2 months ago
Can AI make inaccessible websites accessible from a consumer end? Why or why not?
phartenfeller · 2 months ago
It can definetly help, like with describing images that have no description. But I doubt it can deliver good and consistent results to make whole websites accessible where developer have paid no attention to this topic at all.

From an efficiency standpoint it would be way better when devs run this once and not every visitor.

phartenfeller commented on Show HN: PLJS – JavaScript for Postgres    · Posted by u/jerrysievert
phartenfeller · 2 months ago
Interesting. This is now the second DB next to Oracle[1] that can do JS (that I know of). pgSQL and PL/SQL of course still stay relevant but in the Oracle spehere the argument is that you can reuse existing code from NPM. Like this blog post [2] describes how to run an GraphQL endpoint from within the DB.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/2... [2] https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/post/creating-a-graphql-...

phartenfeller commented on Show HN: Aberdeen – An elegant approach to reactive UIs   aberdeenjs.org/... · Posted by u/vanviegen
phartenfeller · 4 months ago
Not for me as I like looking at actual HTML but definetly intersting. Good job!

I also like Svelte which uses it's own language and needs transpilation. I think that's key to elegance as JS was not really designed to control layout, style and logic all at once.

phartenfeller commented on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding   danfabulich.medium.com/al... · Posted by u/dfabulich
phartenfeller · 4 months ago
I think browsers are in the best state to slow down their development rate. They have come so far, it is the most uniquitous application ecosystem nowadays. Even though there are still great developments currently, they are rather niche and it would be way more damaging if it slowed down 10 years ago. Maybe financial constraints also have a positive side. TL;DR the web ecosystem has matured a lot.
phartenfeller commented on Andrej Karpathy on the State of Web Development   twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/mg
phartenfeller · 5 months ago
It's always the same. Big internet giants having really unique issues: scaling with millions of users at the same time, micro optimizations as they have a big impact because of the scale. So they need to really complicate things like distributed systems, eventual consistency, and unique UX etc.

They do a good job about it and want to share it so they publish their story. Now people from other companies read this and think that this is now state of the art and they also should do this. But they don't even have the same issues.

I work with a Low Code framework from Oracle (APEX) that literally runs in the database and serves web apps. Want a report and form on a table? Click create new app and xreate page, select the table, customize labels, maybe move things around, maybe change an item from type text field to select list with another query and done in 5 minutes. With lost update detection, easy authorization control, automatic validations for your table constraints, etc. You can still code data processing procedures but why reinvent the wheel for another web UI?

People just choose to overengineer backend apps that only 50 people use...

phartenfeller commented on Rost – Rust Programming in German   github.com/michidk/rost... · Posted by u/miniBill
piokoch · 5 months ago
Horrible idea, but I am not surprised someone decided to do this. In Germany employees have guarantee that they can speak German at work, does not matter the company is international, on the meetings, emails are people from USA, India, Ukraine, Poland. German has to be used if a single German employee wants that.

I have a friend who works in such place. DeepL is a most important piece of software he uses, the problem starts if DeepL messes up some details. Meetings are a nightmare, communication is a nightmare. Managers try to mitigate all that, by avoiding employees from Germany in the projects, what is pretty funny, as company is multinational, but of German origin, and most of the managers are Germans...

This attitude is just one of the many factors that led to https://www.amazon.pl/Kaput-German-Miracle-Wolfgang-Munchau/...

phartenfeller · 5 months ago
That is certainly one way to look at a fun project...
phartenfeller commented on Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?    · Posted by u/flowinho
pandemic_region · 5 months ago
Sadly no linux support :-(
phartenfeller commented on I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days   twitter.com/Steve_Yegge/s... · Posted by u/tosh
phartenfeller · 6 months ago
I tried it too and tasked it to do a bigger migration (one web framework to another). It failed pretty bad where I stopped the experiment. It still gave me a headstart where I can take parts and continue the migration manually. But the worst thing was that it did things I didn't asked for like changing the HTML structure and CSS of pages and changing hand picked HEX color codes...

More about my experience on my blog: https://hartenfeller.dev/blog/testing-claude-code

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