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    August 24, 2020

    God damn I hate Wordpress web developers

    God damn I hate Wordpress

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 08:56 AM PDT

    How in the fuck did this clunky, bloated POS become the most widely used CMS on the internet?? I've been using it for 3 years now and it STILL doesn't make any sense.

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    How to create blurred fills for images with aspect ratio containers in CSS

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 07:00 AM PDT

    Understanding ExpressJS in plain english

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 05:04 AM PDT

    Obscure Chinese browser engines

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 08:13 AM PDT

    Hello,

    I found a number of obscure Chinese browser engines on this website: https://user-agents.net/rendering-engines

    I am wondering if anyone knows a bit more about them?

    My research so far:

    - X5 a.k.a. QQBrowser engine: a variant of WebKit by Tencent, used in QQBrowser and WeChat, seems to be in active development. Not sure how this is different from the normal WebKit.

    - T5: a variant of Webkit by Baidu, again not sure how it differs from WebKit. (Actually I didn't find any reference to Webkit but every user agent string contains Safari.) Formerly used in Baidu Browser, but now they have switched to Blink, so T5 seems to be discontinued.

    - T7: a variant of Blink, not sure how it differs. Used in BaiduBoxApp, whatever that is. Maybe it's the name of the Baidu search box on Android? Seems to be actively developed still?

    - U2: used in UC Browser for feature phones and in speed mode in UC Mini, so similarly to where Opera Mini is still using Presto. Seems to be an independent engine and not a fork of anything, probably only basic HTML/CSS support? Still in active development?

    - U3: a variant of WebKit used in UC Browser, but now superseded by Blink in newer versions, so it seems to be discontinued. Not sure how it differed from WebKit.

    Mainly I'm wondering whether there's any actual difference between X5/T5/U3 and Webkit or if it's just marketing, then what BaiduBoxApp and T7 is, and finally whether U2 is indeed a completely independent engine or just something like Webkit with server-side compression?

    submitted by /u/joscher123
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    How do I get flex column working for iOS?

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 12:25 PM PDT

    New LQIP approach using webp for significantly faster and smaller image placeholders

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 03:03 AM PDT

    Being a front-end developer for years making public websites, pivoting to one that makes web apps, has been extremely hard.

    Posted: 23 Aug 2020 06:24 PM PDT

    From 2013 - 2019 I worked as a front-end developer at a couple digital agencies building public-facing websites for companies. Most of these WordPress, on a blank starter theme doing html / scss / some js. It was an absolute breeeze (for the most part). It wasn't programming. I basically built out the front-end for page templates, and it was all basically static. Some things were dynamic, nothing a plugin couldn't take care of. I still made something look great and respectable for businesses, and I loved doing it.

    Starting this year, I've taken on an in-house position. There's a public company site that I build landing pages for, but now there's things thrown at me that is a front-end dev's job, but not the classic 'front-end dev that makes websites' role. It's a very JavaScript heavy app built on React that I've been tasked to maintain and add features to.

    I gotta tell you... this is super fucking hard and stressful. Holy cow.

    Now before you say 'get better at JS', I've done side projects with React and JS (consuming APIs, doing things with them), that I never got to do at a digital agency. As I realized I needed to be better. But now with having to do this stuff that's..

    • Hard as fuck (more complicated)
    • At my job (with a marketing manager who has zero idea of development)
    • That has deadlines (or if it doesn't, my boss asks constantly day to day 'is it done yet?'..

    Is incredibly, incredibly stressful. I'm not looking forward to work anymore. I have imposter syndrome like crazy.

    It doesn't help that I'm the only developer at my job as well. So I can't ask for help from anyone. I've tried StackOverflow, which hasn't been helpful. I just don't know what to do.

    I have this web app that's totally out of my realm of ability. I felt like breaking down and just crying on Friday. I want to be good at this stuff but it's so hard when it's your full time job and in the middle of a pandemic, when you have a family that depends on you, and you have a boss that depends on you knowing this stuff - when I'm barely hanging on.

    Any advice at all would be helpful.

    submitted by /u/jdfweb09
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    No More Excuses: Lazy Load Your Images

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 03:56 PM PDT

    foreign ips accessing my website

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 03:41 PM PDT

    Run my own small web server and looked at access logs and found a few Chinese ips and other ips that are not in the north America
    i am new to this so i just want to know if this is normal

    link of the entire log
    https://controlc.com/8a74fd89

    submitted by /u/Vangoss05
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    Questions on portfolio strategy, as I suck at design

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 01:04 PM PDT

    Hi everyone,

    So I've been creating a portfolio, hoping to be able to find a job doing back-end work or something. (I've been mainly working with Django recently.)

    I've been having significant problems on the front-end side of my projects, as I really suck at design. It's not only that I've never really had a natural sense of good visual aesthetics, but also that whatever I do looks amateurish to me. I'm realizing that even with professional and successful websites, had I done them, I'd think they look like crap. So I feel like I can't really rely on my own senses for design, even if I come up with something decent.

    Anyway, I was thinking that as a workaround, maybe I could just copy the designs of successful websites. (I'm just copying the visual design, as if it were given to me as an image. I'm not copying their actual files, and I'm implementing my own features.)

    The logic behind this is that, as I'm not looking for work as a designer, this would better demonstrate relevant skills anyway, as I'm assuming any front-end responsibilities would involve taking a design created by someone else and turning it into a functional site.

    So this way, I could demonstrate that I'm capable of implementing a design with clean, organized HTML and CSS, React, or whatever, without wasting the time I have been coming up with amateurish designs.

    I'm wondering if this is a viable strategy, or if I'd be better off with a utilitarian front end that didn't necessarily look so nice. I'd of course be explaining this in my cover letter or on my main portfolio page (much more concisely) so it doesn't look like I'm trying to pass off other people's designs as my own.

    submitted by /u/nanocyte
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    A clean start for the web

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 02:00 AM PDT

    Best modern replacement for putty ssh?

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 06:39 AM PDT

    So like most devs I use putty for a variety of uses, but it's clunky, dated ui, settings nested in deep menu structure, no easy way to export import settings.. etc.. is there something better more modern open source that's easier to work with?

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    The process of finding a junior web developer job in America so difficult compared with the UK - what am I missing?

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 10:24 AM PDT

    I'm a dual citizen of the UK and USA and I'm looking at applying to jobs in Reading, UK and Austin, TX. In the UK, many jobs have a clear and reasonable set of requirements, as well as salary expectations. In America, there's no given salary ranges for 90% of jobs, they often have an impossibly large list of required skills, and many ask for 5+ years of experience - all for entry level jobs. Others are incredibly vague and hard to decipher what they are even looking for. 10 days PTO is also not looking too appealing compared with the 30 average of UK companies.

    Is there something I'm missing here? I've only looked at indeed and LinkedIn, so perhaps this could be the problem. Pre-covid employment rate is similar for both countries, so clearly other people manage - what am I understanding wrong here?

    submitted by /u/ChuckAP
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    A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 07:07 AM PDT

    How to Send an SMS with Ionic

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 09:53 AM PDT

    (VSCode - Beautify) How to stop CSS from creating new lines?

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 12:00 PM PDT

    Motoko, a programming language for building directly on the internet - Stack Overflow Blog

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 03:41 PM PDT

    How do I not become homeless after using a serverless back-end?

    Posted: 23 Aug 2020 06:07 PM PDT

    In my website, I have a single API call to a serverless backend that loads data once per page visit.

    What stops someone from hitting that API a million times and ramping my bill up to hundreds of dollars?

    Even if I rate-throttle it on the server side (if it's the same IP too many times, throw a 404), the computation (is this the same IP?) happens on the serverless platform, which still incurs charges. Client side validation is also useless.

    How is this handled usually?
    Saying I had to sell my house to pay my credit card bills because of one API in a vain portfolio would be...painful :(

    Edit:
    Thanks for the great replies!
    Solution is to - use something like Cloudflare DNS to throttle.
    You can also cache(but won't help against malicious users)

    submitted by /u/ZnV1
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    Handcrafting your own SVG

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 04:37 AM PDT

    Tips for my first freelance job?

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 11:01 AM PDT

    I landed my first gig! It is quite a simple dashboard written in Laravel with some payment APIs. I'm just wondering if any of the more experienced freelancers can offer advice on what to do and not do on my first freelance job?

    submitted by /u/1234filip
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    Tried a minimalistic design for personal portfolio page using pure css

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 01:59 PM PDT

    How the heck does Firebase's startAfter work?

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 01:26 PM PDT

    I have a query like this:

    listingsRef = db.collection("listings").orderBy("created", "desc");

    I do

    listingsRef.startAfter(latestListingData.created);

    But that perpetually returns the same set of query results, rather than paginated results after startAfter.

    I have tried passing various things into startAfter:

    • the full doc snapshot of the last listing returned from the previous query (i.e. latestListingData.created)
    • the JSON object of the data returned from the previous query (i.e. latestListingData.data())
    • toDate() version of the created timestamp

    Nothing seems to work, and I'm reading on StackOverflow that there was a bug in React Firebase library related to this (although I'm using Vue)?

    Does anybody know how to use startAfter correctly to paginate the results of a Firebase query?

    [Edit: is it possible I can't chain on .startAfter in a separate line?

    For example:

    line 1: listingsRef = db.collection("listings").orderBy("created", "desc"); line 2: listingsRef.startAfter(latestListingData.created); line 3: listingsRef.get()

    Is it possible that doing this in 3 lines, instead of a single line, is what's breaking? I've refactored to a single line and it seems to work.]

    submitted by /u/Proud-Masterpiece
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    GridlessBuilder.js - a Javascript library for building responsive web content without grid constraints, allowing you to freely position elements and design more with freedom

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 01:24 PM PDT
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