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centerDiv.js (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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got it from here https://front-end.social/@elly/114668957184577014

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I worked with some pretty dumb people who mocked me for years as the guy who couldn't design a UI to save my life because the product I inherited was designed by someone in the 1990s. it wasn't pretty but it was functional.

any time a UI request came in for the new product and I would try to take it, the PM would pull it and give it to someone else. "oh, their skillset is better suited for UI/UX." I was told.

I got fed up with it and designed my online portfolio. used it to showcase my work and skills even documented my process from mockups to design iteration and final products.

I then posted on linkedin my new portfolio and listed myself as open to connect. within a day the PM made a point to pull up my portfolio on standup and asked me where I got the template. told them, "no template. as you can see in the documentation I designed it from scratch using HTML5 CSS3 and JavaScript. I also included the js packages I used."

they were stunned and immediately started to shuffle some UI tickets my way. I just said, "sorry, my skillset is better served for backend requests."

I quit two months later after a few interviews that seemed to go well. I hated that shithole.

moral of the story? don't discourage people from taking on tasks they aren't obviously suited for. they might just surprise you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I agree with your final take, but why would you want to take frontend tickets if you can also do backend work?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Raw spite. If you're upset enough to build a whole LinkedIn profile, you've already mentally moved on to the next company.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

With me too, my employer has to start worrying once I put my current position into my linkedin profile.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

change of pace, mostly. I also like the challenge. when I'm not challenged at work I lose interest easily and can spiral into not doing my job. so it's nice to break up a long running project with some new bugs or tasks that are unrelated.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Obligatory https://justfuckingusehtml.com/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'm totally going to bookmark this & also I'm going to insert this as well. https://www.htmlhobbyist.com/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

That was wonderful, thank you for sharing. When it's done well, I really enjoy this style of prose.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

div {
  display: grid;
  place-content: center;
}

We've come a long way...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

The collective man-hours this would have saved people, if we had it back in 1999, would be staggering.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You misspelled nesting tables

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

My man right here. Y'all ever want to code some HTML emails? Nested tables as far as the eye can see!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wait until you see what they do to avoid learning SQL or Regex or JSON Pointer or XPath.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Wait until you see when they refuse to learn anything but SQL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Not something I've encountered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Ugh, i've had to write some Selenium tests where I had to come up with weird ass Xpaths because not a single fucking element had an ID and over half would spawn something in a different div

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Oh yes please. But not JavaScript. I use Rust frameworks to avoid all three!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Flutter like a butterfly, sting like a Dart.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Eww Rust! I hate memory safe languages, I love torturing myself with C

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can wrap everything in unsafe and keep living dangerously!

[–] yetAnotherUser 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Tsoding has created a few rules for writing Rust to make Rust "fun" to program in, and gave them the name of Crust.

Here is the rule set (it may change over time):

Every function is unsafe.

No references, only pointers.

No cargo, build with rustc directly.

No std, but libc is allowed.

Only Edition 2021.

All user structs and enums #[derive(Clone, Copy)].

Everything is pub by default.

If you ever want to try this out for some ungodly reason, there's a GitHub repository with an example Main that shows how to use libc and other libraries (in the example, it's raylib), and with a Makefile showing how to compile your projects (remember we aren't using cargo).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Oh boy, now I can stop missing C++

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

unsafe doesn't deactivate memory safety. It only allows you to then create raw pointers and whatnot, which you could use to circumvent memory safety, but all the normal language constructs still do enforce it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I know, but it does let you sled off a cliff if you choose to.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Yeah I gotta get my workplace to get on board with it. Rust->Webasm is simply amazing

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I was so pleased when a brief for a thing at work was "no frameworks".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)

JavaScript frameworks are invented because pure HTML and CSS suck for dynamically loaded pages, and vanilla JavaScript suck in general.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Most pages don’t need dynamic loading.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

My menus need to be dynamically reloaded!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

True

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

Dynamically loading pages suck too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

JavaScript frameworks actually exist for two reasons, one, vanilla JavaScript lacks ease of use (does not suck and I don't care who disagrees) and two, people love over engineering the fuck out of technology. See: technology since the iPhone came out. We have advanced systems around the world spinning up processes to make up for the fact that touch screens are hard to type accurately on.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

jQuery got popular because Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and other browsers weren’t exactly cross compatible. Writing vanilla JS was risky business in that sense.

It also supported AJAX across all major browsers, which meant the website could make API requests without reloading the entire page. It was super revolutionary to press a button and it only changed a part of the page.

Then Angular and React took it a step forward and that’s where we are now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I am very aware of the progression. But you're vastly glossing over how much complexity (and feature set) was added after jQuery. If JavaScript sucks, how would you change it? Shitty browsers implementing it poorly in the past (and safari doing so today) doesn't make it suck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

people love over engineering the fuck out of technology

Exhibit A: 2.85 Million packages, as of mid-2023

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

It's still Javascript.

[–] yetAnotherUser 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

OP, I don't think you've correctly linked to the post (when I visit the linked webpage, the browser tries to download an ActivityPub activity instead of showing the post in the Mastodon web UI). Please replace the link with this one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

got it, my bad

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

real ones learn dhtml

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Do you remember the dhtmlguru? The site had the bronze man holding some kind of ball over his head and would magically move when you hovered over the navigation menu.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

React sucks and is way way way overdone and ill die on that hill

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Damn that's some spicy takes lol.

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