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wow it's been ages since I posted here. Honestly, it's somewhat comforting to come back to a site with >40,000 active user sessions at any one time and see that it's life as usual on a website that is firmly Web2 with Web1 roots. No one here seems to be chasing "make everything serverless" and scaring people unneccesarily that their project "won't scale" when it doesn't even have 100 users yet.
I think I stopped being active on here around the time that I graduated high-school and started uni. At that time, I met a ton of new people, discovered new programming communities, and branched out into learning Linux as a daily driver (always used PHP & C# on Windows prior), learned about cool new terminology, and (in hindsight) ingested a whole pile of imposter syndrome that told me my "limited" javascript, C#, and PHP knowledge wouldn't carry into the real world.
through uni I lived through the initial web3 phase (terrible) and have seen at least 2 different ML hype cycles. I would follow the times through hackernews, twitter, and reddit and was constantly thinking that I didn't know nearly enough and that I had to learn **everything**.
Anyway, now uni is far behind me and I've held down a decent software dev job for a while, I'm starting to realize how much time I wasted chasing the "current thing" rather than methodologically improving my existing skills.
... now that the update on my life story is done: has anyone here seen HTMX? What are your thoughts? It's a rebranded intercooler.js, and it aims to dissappear into the HTML spec as a moonshot goal. I quite like it. It seems like a step "back to basics" is occurring in the crowd that I got lost in for a while, and I'm all here for it.
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modified 8-Feb-24 23:08pm.
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First I have heard of HTMX. I need do some research.
Hate to sound old school, but live and learn.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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haha "live and learn" isn't old school, it's timeless
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It's "Yet Another Framework" that will get a cult following and nothing more. It solves none of the problems with HTML/CSS/Javascript.
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Yeah ... Unintentional framework[^] 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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fascinating comic
the ability of JS to spawn new frameworks reminds me of C's ability to spawn new languages
so many things we write compile down to C eventually, just a question of how many steps of compilation are involved (and if they don't become C, it's a question of how long ago the language became self-hosting)
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Welcome back. I've heard of it. Saw it being employed at one of those online "code preview" sites but didn't give it much of a look, simply because I'm not a web dev.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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"not a web dev"
good, it's a messy industry 😂
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Tell me about it! I did back end development for years, everything from your standard N tier applications to entire server based programming environments (before .NET I build a web farmable version of ASP)
The front end stuff was so ugly but that was prior to HTML5. Now it's gone from not as ugly per se, but just obfuscated in other ways. Too many frameworks. Too much transpilation (I suspect HTMLX adds to this problem) to the point where everything is so abstract you can't tell what's actually happening anymore.
Furthermore I suspect there's a single lynchpin NPM package that the whole web depends on and is maintained by a disgruntled developer who could pull the repo at any minute.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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As with most things in the programming world and, for that matter, life in general, there is an xkcd about that : xkcd: Dependency[^]
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Mitchell J. wrote: has anyone here seen HTMX?
Yes, it looks interesting enough that I'd thought I'd explore it more and maybe write a short article, but work and life keeps getting in the way. 
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Mitchell J. wrote: has anyone here seen HTMX? What are your thoughts?
I've done a cursory glance at it, so I'm not an expert. It's horrible though and only serves to show just how little design thought goes into new crap coming out for the web. You shouldn't be mixing logic with presentation -- even if it's UI logic. All it does is clutter up crap more than it should, makes it that much harder to hand off the presentation to a designer, etc. It's like they took the bad parts of Angular and made it worse.
History repeats though, what sucks is cool and what's cool sucks, over and over again because people really don't care to learn history about code or enough about design or real development to stop this kinda stuff from propagating.
Jeremy Falcon
modified 9-Feb-24 12:52pm.
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Aren't you a little young to be talking like a curmudgeon? 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'm old at heart. Reached the I've seen it all phase... just need that front porch and cane to make it legit. 
Jeremy Falcon
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XML, HTML, HTML5, HTMX, XAML.
To me, they're all the same; but everyone (except me) "hates" XAML. 
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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