If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the #web, what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?
No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.
@molly0xfff I liked the home-made sites. I remember being astonished and delighted to come across a site that was just pages of jokes about banjos! I liked the "webrings" - once I found a site that was about a topic I was interested in I could just click "random" and see more. I liked that the web was not overrun by spam and ads. The social media was specific-topic message boards and they felt like a small group.
@5t3ph Page layout: left nav sidebar, optional right sidebar, content taking remaining space. As the browser width gets narrower a breakpoint puts the right sidebar below the content. So the width of the content area isn't easily predictable from browser width. All the things in the content (which vary widely) are arranged based on the content size.
I know I’m by no means the first to make this complaint, but it’s incredibly disorienting that the new Slack design is applied by team, so as I switch from one team to another, the UI changes.
I can think of more user-hostile ways to roll out a new design, but not many.
@Meyerweb And I switch teams A LOT, all day long. It used to be an easy click. And I used to be able to glance to see which team has a notification. But instead of have dm, activity, later, and more which I have no need to ever click on.
hey that tabs vs spaces meme that's going around is funny but did y'all know that there's a very solid reason to prefer tabs: #accessibility
It allows for more customization by individual devs (someone with poor vision can turn their tab width up to 8, someone working in code with many indents can turn it down to 2) without having to change the meaning of a tab: one indentation.
@inherentlee I don't get why editors don't treat them the same then no one would care. That is, if a file is indented with spaces, I should still be able tell the editor how many millimeters a tab indent is.
As long as I can adjust the width of a tab indent and as long as the left arrow doesn't stop in the middle of a tab stop I wouldn't care.
@5t3ph I used to use flex for everything - now trying to use grid when it is more appropriate. Also I always used scss variables for colors, now using native variables.
Older, wiser, neckbeards warned me when I switched to VS Code last year that this would happen to me at the worst possible moment, but it finally has: even with all extensions disabled, VS Code is now so laggy on my computer that I literally have to stop and wait for it to render each word I type. Talking >200ms per character.
How do I fix this if it's not an extension causing it?
🤔 Do bicycles create empathy? Or do people that care about other people, tend to care about bikes?
Why is there such a big overlap between "bike infrastructure radicalized people," and "people that care about people that are different than themselves?"
Why is there such a low overlap between "people with trash hateful takes" and "people that want more bike infrastructure?"
@joef@being@mekkaokereke I see that in Charlottesville - downtown there are crosswalks every block, the speed limit is 25, and most people stop for pedestrians. Literally a few blocks away the crosswalks are farther apart, the speed limit is 35 and almost no one stops for pedestrians.
Fighting with TypeScript is so exhausting. My tasks take easily 50-75% longer, and it's so much easier to get sidetracked making TS happy to the point of forgetting what I was aiming to do 😫
Is the big secret in tech that this happens even to the aficionados and they just pretend it's fine?
@5t3ph For me, the larger the project, the larger the benefit. But I don't hesitate using // @ts-ignore when I know I'm right. I add a short comment so I know what I'm fixing, like:
What's always been "weird" to you about #CSS? As in, how something works? Less intuitive aspects? Stuff that trips you up even though you "know" how it works?
This is not a gripe thread, I'm looking for constructive input, thanks!
@5t3ph Sometimes I am poking around devtools and I can't figure out where a margin, padding, or an element width is coming from - and I use devtools all the time. (Sorry, if I could be more specific it wouldn't be so weird.)