danrot

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Web Push Book (web-push-book.gauntface.com)
 

Web push book provides all the information you need to learn about the web push API.

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Understanding animated graphs in D3.js (danielrotter.at)
 

Building a graph is a pretty straight forward task in D3.js, but I’ve had a hard time understanding how to update them. This is a try to explain why.

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Execute commands for multiple files using fish (danielrotter.at)
 

Quite often I want to execute the same command for multiple files. It is quite easy to achieve that using the fish shell, once you get the hang of it.

It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks. in c/webdev@kbin.social
[–] danrot@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Sure, web applications have different requirements and might warrant the use of more JavaScript than a website does. But one of the biggest problems nowadays IMO is that many developers choose these fancy technologies also for websites, just because they like them, without thinking too much about how that affects the user, and it does so in a mostly negative way. If you are building a website for the local bakery HTML and CSS backed by any CMS probably suffice, and there is no need to add the complexity of client-side JavaScript and SSR (or whatever) to it.

It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks. in c/webdev@kbin.social
[–] danrot@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think the point of the article (and I agree to that) is that "modern" websites (i.e. use heavy javascript frameworks) are having real issues that websites being built without loads of client-side javascript do not have. I guess some websites built in 2005 are performing better and are more accessible than websites being built today.

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It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks. (heather-buchel.com)
 

Exploring the reasons why we no longer have web designers.

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Keep All Commits Green (kellysutton.com)
 

The practice of keeping all commits green can help create better software faster. Let’s explore why.

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Demystifying Containers - Part I: Kernel Space (medium.com)
 

This series of blog posts and corresponding talks aims to provide you with a pragmatic view on containers from a historic perspective. Together we will discover modern cloud architectures layer by…

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Finding used values of XML attributes using the command line (danielrotter.at)
 

I was refactoring a feature and wanted to know which options were used for a certain attribute in a XML file. I decided to level up my CLI skills for that.

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Writing a TodoMVC App With Modern Vanilla JavaScript (frontendmasters.com)
 

Click here to see how I turned ~170 lines of code in moder vanilla JavaScript in TodoMVC.

Avoid z-indexes whenever possible in c/webdev@kbin.social
[–] danrot@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I have even mentioned stacking contexts in the article, and the thing is that they are not only introduce with z-index, which makes them even more complex :-/ So yeah, it certainly helps if you understand them, but I think it does not make the problem less complex.

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Avoid z-indexes whenever possible (danielrotter.at)
 

Whenever I use z-indexes, I am going to regret it at some point, especially with libraries utilizing components. Let’s see if we can avoid them all together.

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Stick to boring architecture for as long as possible (addyosmani.com)
 

"Stick to boring architecture for as long as possible, and spend the majority of your time, and resources, building something your customers are willing...

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Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can't agree on Tailwind (joshcollinsworth.com)
 

It's popular to say we can’t agree on Tailwind, but I posit we actually already do. I think what we actually disagree on isn’t the details of this (or any) specific software; it's in what we value, and how we each define assets and liabilities.

Tailwind, and the death of web craftsmanship in c/webdev@kbin.social
[–] danrot@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I mean it is not really inline styles, with inline styles only it is e.g. not possible to implement a hover style AFAIK. I think the inventor has written a blog post explaining the steps, is that what you are referring to? I also read that, and it kinda makes sense, but basically giving up on development tools to work properly is kind of a high trade IMO.

I would also be interested in seeing a performance benchmark. As the article says, gzip will probably make the difference in terms of network traffic negligible, but it would be interesting to see the impact it has on parsing HTML.

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Tailwind, and the death of web craftsmanship (pdx.su)
 

There's a worrying trend in modern web development, where developers are throwing away decades of carefully wrought systems for a bit of perceived convenience. Tools such as Tailwind CSS seem to be spreading like wildfire, with very few people ever willing to acknowledge the regression they bring to our field. And I'm getting tired of it

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