An open letter to Stewart Butterfield: Why Slack will never replace email web developers

I've been listening to Naval Ravikant, the founder of AngelList and VentureHacks (co-founder) and he speaks about this sprinting technique where he compares humans to lions in that we should work in bursts.

I'm interested in this. I'm working full-time right now so I can't try this and so was just wondering.

Has anybody tried this? Any input is welcome. Thank you!

PS: Here's an interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvreWX6m8Dk

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Need help with for loop iterations - it has to produce an output with 10 lines saying “3 and x do/do not match!” But only produces one and isn’t accurate. What am I missing?

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 03:44 PM PDT

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How to achieve this amazing page change effect?

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 01:59 AM PDT

I came across this website: https://awsmd.com/

And their page switching effect is just plain amazing for three things:

It animates smoothly from one page to another without any load time
The URL changes depending on the page
The performance, few websites on this "level" are this performant on my computer like this one

I'm somewhat novice to Javascript (mostly know React) but I know that you can achieve the URL changes without load using Router, however I'm a but curious how these guys may have pulled it off as it's so incredibly fast & the url goes to a ".html" URL which makes me think there might be more to it. And I suppose they have some form of "animation handler" that animates first then actually re-directs the user to the new "page" but I'd love to get more insight on how to learn to build something like this.

In summary, I'd like to learn (or be directed to a place where I might learn more about how to achieve this)

How to create an animation effect for page switching
How did they build the URL switching? or is it just react-router and I should learn more about it?

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Netlify: Weighing Up Client-Side Rendering Or CMS-Triggered Builds - What Are My Options?

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 05:08 AM PDT

Weird title, I know, so let me try to explain a bit. I love the DX of Netlify; it's everything I've wanted in a host for over a decade. Being able to easily create continuous deployment via Git/GitHub is brilliant, having previews for development branches, auto HTTPS, easy server routing - everything I've thrown at it so far has just worked exactly as I want it to.

But... I don't want to lose access to my CMS. I currently run a headless version of Craft, which I'm equally in love with and happy to continue hosting, but I'd like to move my actual websites to Netlify.

I've been playing around, and it's definitely possible and quite nice to do all of this using client-side API calls/rendering; it took me about an hour to setup a blog endpoint and configure the routing so that the Netlify site renders the correct page based on the URL. That's great, but it makes the site completely unusable without JavaScript, as no content renders.

I can see an alternative would be to rebuild the site in a Static Site Generator and have CMS changes trigger a rebuild but... that sounds like madness to me, particularly because I have comments on my site and would like to keep that functionality without having to use a third-party, JS based service.

It seems like either route requires me to sacrifice user experience for DX, which I'm just not comfortable with.

So that leaves me with a few questions:

Is there an alternative method that I'm not currently considering? Some "best of both worlds" option?
- Or, specifically, is there some non-JS way of fetching data from a REST API in the client? I'm pretty certain there isn't, but I'm more an HTML/CSS front-end dev so it's possible I'm completely missing some knowledge here.
Can you "split" your build, so that (for example) a new comment on one blog post only requires rebuilding that file?
Are there any services out there which have all the DX benefits of Netlify (easy CD, out-of-the-box Git integration etc.) that allow dynamic server-side rendering?
Am I just massively overthinking these things and one (or either) option outlined above is actually fine?

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Downloads are seen as Viruses

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 10:30 AM PDT

I have a webpage, in which you are able to download my projects. But for some reason Windows and google think, that they are viruses. For reference, they are exe and bat files. Is there a way, to make windows see that they arent viruses?

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Do you add things to websites that you would never personally use?

Posted: 15 Jun 2019 09:15 PM PDT

There are a lot of things in modern websites that I never use, like 'share via Facebook/email/twitter/whatever' (I naturally will just copy/paste the URL). Also logging in via Facebook (I don't mind, as much, Google or other services, I just personally hate Facebook).

Also having email links that will open up your email client, again I just naturally copy/paste. I hate those links.

Do y'all have things like this that you hate about modern websites? Do you include them anyway, cause 'its more modern' or whatever?

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How would you address 430 PDF files?

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 03:48 PM PDT

Context:

In October, I filed a FOIA request on a piece of land that has a lot of industrial history behind it. Factory built in 1919. Two Superfund sites. The city has actively made efforts to ensure the level of remediation being performed isn't in public periphery. They built a high school on the land. They're attempting to make it residential.

The response was around 430 PDF files (none of them with OCR, I've run that on the ones I could - but some of the PDFs run 80-200Gb). City manager catches wind of my story, calls my paper's publisher and the story is shut down. Took another job, turned in my two week. Bought a domain. My host (Dreamhost) has me set up with unlimited bandwidth and storage.

Presently, I'm working all of this through the Diiv WordPress theme and a random plugin that allows for PDF embedding. As I'm doing this (deadline is 7/1, the centennial of the town, deadline personally set since I'm not making money off any of this), I keep thinking that I'm doing this the most painful way possible.

Best case scenario goal of functionality:

I'd like to have a section for articles and commentary since no one is going to understand what the actual eff they're looking at if I just dump everything and provide it in an open directory. That part isn't so much an issue since I can just make that the Posts page available from the static landing page. Since this is a complicated and technical topic, I think the best way to present narrative would be in copy blocks of around 500-700 words (which is generous, 550 is probably the sweet spot) - embed screenshots of what is being referenced, and then embed the PDF referenced at the bottom of the post.

I'd also like to have all of the content available by year (it's 39 years total), by area of the site (high school, baseball field, Superfund site, areas rezone as residential) and by... essentially "Is this site narrative, communication between the environmental officials and the city, 200 pages of lab analysis, or one of around 40 maps?"

I'm not really looking for a way to make adding meta to the files easier. After living and breathing this data for around seven months, I can look at the file and know what it's referencing. The files have already been sorted out by year (thanks FOIA'd agency for appending the year to the end of the filename).

I'd like to include data visualization at some point, but let's face it: If I'm asking a question involving just the mechanics of hosting and presentation of the origin data? Maybe it's best to go one step at a time.

Since I'm trying to follow the First Question guidelines: In terms of research, I've been digging around to locate similar sites with similar goals. But I don't want to go the brutalist approach of Cryotome, reworking it as a wiki wouldn't be out of the question (since I'm dealing with swaths of chemical names, maybe that'd work better than the on-hover I had considered implementing).

That being said, it's a somewhat novel issue of implementation. I worked in creating KnowledgeBases for around a decade (customer and CS/TS facing) - but things have change a bit (for the better) since using Primus as a CMS.

I have a secondary question regarding presentation, however - I think that's more for WebDesign. If I totally misread my own question and this is entirely design? I absolutely apologize.

What I have access to:

Dreamhost's One Click installs. I can create new SQL DBs. Shell and S/FTP.

Tl;dr:

If you were given a project to make 430 PDFs available to the public. Able to be embedded. Able to be browsed by multiple classes: How would you approach the backend of that past "Well, I've got them all uploaded in directories by year."

Thanks for your time and again, if I'm off the mark and this is ultimately more design than dev - I apologize. While having a smoke between embedding files, I figured asking the hive might be a thought. Responses will be pretty immediate.

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Studybuddies, mentors and hanging out

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 03:38 PM PDT

Hey let's be straight to the point.

I have setup a community a few weeks ago for people to find studybuddies, request exercises - and get feedback, get long-term mentoring, ask questions and hangout. This is for almost all languages. If there's a language missing, just hit me up! If you are interested, you're welcome. If you're not, well.. Sorry for this post then, hope you don't find it annoying it's all free!

The link: https://discord.gg/bhSwuDS

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A few questions about setting up OwnCloud alongside my current web server

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 09:21 AM PDT

I'm currently creating a web server from a Raspberry Pi in my home. It is currently running Raspbian Stretch Lite, Flask, uWSGI, and Nginx for a reverse proxy.

One of my goals is to have ownCloud setup as a subdomain on my website. How do I get Flask to point the link https://www.example.com/owncloud to point to my ownCloud server? Also, how would I get cloud.example.com to point to example.com/owncloud? A CNAME record doesn't work for that.

Will I need to add another server block to the nginx configuration for owncloud?

Lastly, I'm using LetsEncrypt (certbot) for SSL certificates. Will owncloud need its own certificate? I know a sub domain like cloud.example.com would. But lets say I use example.com/owncloud, if example.com already has an certificate, would I need a new one?

Thank you, sorry if the questions aren't worded well.

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Am I in over my head or is this doable?

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 03:19 PM PDT

Hey guys, sorry if this is long but I was recently asked to create a website for a client (I am a animator and graphic designer, not a web designer) that sells gift certificates for flight lessons to roughly 200 different locations. Their current website has a location finder and then a drop down menu to select the location you want a certificate to and then a online checkout where they receive a email with said certificate/receipt. My client also then receives a email with the receipt. My question is this possible to recreate using a simple website builder? Or will this require heavy coding? The current site was all coded using html and is being hosted on plesk but essentially looks like jibberish to me and the client would like something that they can understand and edit if need be. Does anyone have any experience creating a gift certificate site like this? And is it doable? I'm sorry if this breaks rule number 1, I'm not sure who else to ask.

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Is there a way to edit Netlify Forms?

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 09:14 AM PDT

Hey, is there a way where I can adjust what fields my Netlify form captures? I seems like when I make a submission with some fields (name, email, d.o.b) then add a field like country or something, the form still only captures the original fields and ignores the country field. Is there a way to change what each form actually sends? I am using Gatsbyjs and Netlify if that changes anything. Thanks!

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Debating a 13 of 15 MBP. Which is better for dev?

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 02:55 PM PDT

I know wen dev is far too broad a field to generalise, but for your work specifically... Does a 13 cut it, or do you need a 15? I can't decide. I'll mainly be stationary at a desk, but I love the form factor of the 13, and I'd like to get a external monitor anyway... But the 15 seems like it'd be great... Need some help

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Easiest way to password protect MEAN app

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 02:45 PM PDT

I'm trying to password protect a MEAN stack web app I made, I've been trying to get a .htaccess to work for a few weeks but to no luck. I know passport is an option, but it's a bit of an overkill for this project. I just want to password protect the entire site, as in no access unless you know the username and password.

Perhaps I'm setting up the .htaccess incorrectly. I create a .htaccess file in the root directory of the app (Next to index.html), and a .htpasswd as well. My .htaccess file looks like this:

AuthUserFile .htpasswd AuthType Basic AuthName "Login to view this site" require valid-user

My .htpasswd is userName:MD5 Hashed password

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The FizzBuzz Test | I thought I'd try to stand out a bit. Thoughts?

Posted: 15 Jun 2019 04:20 PM PDT

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I've got an idea for an artist webpage I'm designing. Wondering how can I pull this off?

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 02:21 PM PDT

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How do you store Time in a nosql database?

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 06:45 AM PDT

There's a few options as I see it, but they all have downsides.

Store the time as a string '10:00', and convert (with momentjs for example)
Store the time as a timestamp, which will have a date part, but we ignore it.

Any other ideas? How would you handle this?

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Is there a way to process a file in the back end so that the user doesn't have to wait for the server to respond?

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 02:07 PM PDT

Right now I have a method the imports an excel file to the database. It works which is great for a start but now I'm starting to think about scalability. If the excel file has a lot of data it will by nature take longer to process and the user will be sitting their waiting for a response. If its longer then a few seconds then they will think its broken so I was wondering if there was a way for the server to respond to the user with a successful upload and process the file in the backend and maybe send a notification with its done.

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Advanced courses?

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 02:03 PM PDT

So there are loads of resources out there that are great intro/beginner level courses. Courses that are essentially teaching you the basics of programming and whatnot. Are there any courses that are relevant for intermediate and advanced devs? People who are either entering the industry or have been in the industry for a while.

So, anyone have any good recommendations for more advanced level courses? Or is the general consensus to just work on side projects/open source?

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Anyone with Twig and symfony translation experience?

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 01:56 PM PDT