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Also, stop with the flat and “clean” design. If there’s something your users are supposed to click on, make it look like something you can click on. Make links that look like links, buttons that look like buttons, etc. Even lobsters fails at this, there’s a menu at the top of the page but it doesn’t look anything like a menu, it’s just a horizontal line of gray words.
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Also, the names of the words make a user think they might be menu options. Then, the user hovers over them to see the link icon appear. There is an investigate step there vs links that are obviously links which is a usability loss. I don’t the loss is significant, though, given nature of our community. We’re technologists and explorers. Heck, the whole point of the site was coming to look for good links. :)
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Submit a pull request? https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
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It’s a logic I’m starting to follow more and more (while it’d already be noticed on my blog and such, as I pretty much only have a basic CSS) this logic.
In fact, I’m working on re-building my CV from scratch with pretty much 2 CSS instructions (for background and foreground colours), and I’ve never found an easier-to-maintain CV.
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For castling.club, I tried to not even set colors. I wonder how that works, in practice, for browsers that apply a theme? All it has is a translucent blue background for links, which I was hoping would work for both light and dark themes.
In practice, the page is just black text on white for macOS. Maybe the dark style in 10.12 will affect it? I remember Epiphany on Linux followed the GTK theme back in that day, which actually broke a lot of sites that only set one of text or background color.
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A problem I found with not setting colours anywhere was the contrast. Just reducing the contrast by putting a text colour of
#222and a background colour of#dddcan help quite a bit with reading.I don’t know how one can handle “system theme support” or disable it in CSS though, if that’s even possible.
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Hi, I’m Artemix and my technical blog is about HTTP, the Web, backend and some random topics.
The RSS feed includes the full article so you’re not forced to go out of your reader. It’s currently fairly lightweight imo, but I’m working towards a fully static version with a custom small SSG, so it’ll be even faster.
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You mention competing w/ cookiecutter – what specifically do you aim to do better/different? I’m certainly open to improvements, but I’ve also been pretty happy with cookiecutter, so I’m curious what pain points you’ve had that you want to address.
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While cookiecutter works nicely and is in general quite similar, I found a few nice things in Kickstart:
- Firstly, the fact that it’s compiled rust. I don’t need the python runtime.
- Secondly, the fact that it’s currently a really basic and minimalistic tool, it takes no time to set up once you’ve read the README.
- Thirdly, and since I’ve tried to learn rust, the fact that the current codebase is really simple, it’ve let me work on it (got one accepted pull request on it)
As a general look, the word “competition” would be a bit strong, it’s more of a compiled alternative.
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Nice work, and the tool looks nice !
I really like the simpleness of your website, making it awesome to browse, with no clutter. Just what’s required.
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Isn’t ublock origin independent from ublock ?
Aren’t they two vastly different tools ?
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I just found that uBlock Origin even blocks ublock.org by default ;):
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Badware-risks#ublockorg
(Not that I disagree, ublock.org is a borderline scam.)
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I noticed that too when clicking on the link. It’s kinda funny. It’s hard to keep everything straight these days, but use, uBlock/AdBlock/AdBlockPlus all are a little shady in how they monetize their development, either by letting it white-list “non-intrusive” ads or by collecting usage data.
As far as I know, the uBlock Origin project is currently uncompromising in this regard. Still, they all use public and community maintained blacklists/greylists.
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Just fyi, first paragraph, there’s a mistake:
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I use the Corsair K70 with Rapidfire switches.
I’ve been considering buying some crystal switches too.
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Now they’ll be even less in the standards.
Their graphical API Metal is already so against the standards that it exists MoltenVk, which is an emulation of Vulkan over Metal.
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I would like to add that, for some websites (such as mine,) being AMP-compliant requires adding more stuff (CSS, JS, some HTML,) resulting in worse load-times. Google already incentivises performance; ensuring every website I’ve helped out on scores 100/100 on PageSpeed Insights has resulted in a significant ranking boost. Why, then, do heavier AMP pages get preferential treatment? Maybe Google’s CDN is faster than the one I use, I don’t know, but does it matter when the page loads in < 200ms anyway? Out of non-scientific curiosity, I tossed a few AMP pages into PageSpeed and Pingdom speed test, and they were all substantially slower.
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Because the AMP initiative is fundamentally about control, namely getting more user data. This is being pushed under the guise of “fixing” problems created by the organizations/developers themselves, as this article does a good job of laying out.
It’s funny how some will say it is “unreasonable” to de-bloat a website, while AMP is a “good idea.” The lack of critical thinking by the developer community at large is quite scary on this issue. :(
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Having worked at a high-traffic news website, my (anecdotal) experience is that many professional frontend developers understand the problems of bloat and want to fix them. Unfortunately as always it can be a hard sell to management to fix technical debt.
We were lucky enough to have some excellent product owners who really fought and made thr argument that speed improvements would bring business benefits, but even then there is limited time and budget available.
By contrast the management sell for AMP is that Google will give you better search results for comparatively little developer time.
For what it’s worth, much the same value proposition is driving publishers to Apple News and Facebook’s Instant Articles, which are AMP clones to some degree. It’s partly fear of missing out on an audience.
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which are AMP clones to some degree
Apple News scrapes existing websites, RSS/ATOM feeds, and an apple-defined JSON spec from news sites, and presents articles to the user. Which part of that is the same as “force news sites to deliver their content using a shitty JS renderer that routes all traffic via google’s CDN” ?
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That’s fair.
From the publisher’s perspective it feels similar in that content is taken from your site and presented in a format largely outside your control.
My point was that this is accepted because publishers don’t want to lose out on a potential audience, but it’s not necessarily a good deal otherwise. For example, advertising is managed by the provider and the publisher is cut in at some set rate. It’s hard to negotiate with a giant like Google, Apple or Facebook and so you take the rate you’re given.
I’m actually ok with anything that forces people to rely less on advertising as a source of revenue - my personal opinion is that it’s a hostile experience and not sustainable.
However, I think it’s fair to say that many publications will feel that a reader on AMP/Apple News/Facebook is worth less in terms of advertising revenue than a direct website reader.
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It crashed when I tapped upload. I tapped ‘report’ and checked the Include System Logs box. What other information do you need?
[EDIT: ‘clicked’ –> ‘tapped’]
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5.1.1. Device is LG Spree (LG-K120). I’m looking at https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/logcat now…
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Technically, when you screen-capture using the standard shortcut (in my case Vol- and lock), it stores the image in some temporary folder, which still means it should work.
I’ve tested screenshots a few times, it seemed to work on my side.
If you have any update, I’ll try to investigate that problem.
EDIT: Which version of the app do you have ? In the last days, I’ve only seen crash reports for the first release, whereas another one got released a bit before.
To easily know: when you go on the app’s home screen, is there a button on the bottom of the app with the “Uploads history” label ? If no, you’re on an old version.
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I’ve re-made my blog’s backend to reduce the mess that it was before (see my profile for the link if you’re curious ;) ), I’ve released my android application and I’ll work towards completion of a few small projects, like my devlog.
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Ask crustaceans: Did your Android device just mysteriously auto-update apps?
A Redmi Note 4 with LineageOS 7.1
No android app auto-updated, but whenever I opened any google play application, it being play store, play games or anything else, the google play store app would start updating, despite me asking otherwise.
I’ve been waiting for part two, awesome !