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Software innovation might be freezing in place—and AI could be to blame. Theo Browne points out that Copilot and ChatGPT often return React-style code even for Solid or Elixir projects. Why? Because they’ve seen React a million times more. Python 3 took a decade to overtake Python 2. If that transition had to happen today, would our dependence on AI suggestions keep us from making the jump?

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If I want to write a site with vanilla #HTML / #CSS / #JS using #Astro as my #SSG are there any doc sources, projects, general setups, or tips I should know / look to for good reference? Seems like most of the things I see are about incorporating all the various frameworks that I have no interest in. I want to build a fairly simple blog and personal site. With minimal client side js. But I also want the benefits of an SSG especially when it comes to writing blog posts. Do you use or have you used Astro for a similar workflow? How do you like to set everything up?

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2️⃣ `feColorMatrix`: swap channels ☆ interactive demo, adaptive layout - check it out on @codepen codepen.io/thebabydino/full/QW

An interactive, responsive demo illustrating how `feColorMatrix` can be used to swap channels. Another very special one.

#SVG #filter #svgFilter #JS #interactive #javascript #code #coding #frontend #CSS #web #dev #webDevelopment #webDev #cssGrid #cssLayout

Behind the demo mastodon.social/@anatudor/1122

Hypothetically, if I were to restart a career as a web developer, how relevant would my skills be?
I haven't been paid to write code for 12 years now (that was around the time Internet Explorer 11, Django 1.6 and React 0.5 were released), so I am wondering how easy it would be to catch up.

#webdev#html#css

I think there is a Dunning–Kruger like effect whereby the complexity of rewriting an open source project from scratch is vastly underestimated the less you know about the scope of the work.

You could make 80% of #inkscape in a couple of months of javascripting. But this is 80% of Inkscape's surface. Not actual depth.

Rewrite it all in #Qt? #React? #JS? #Rust? These are ideas aren't bad. But they are vast projects that would cost millions of dollars.

Related to: mastodon.uno/@maxdid/114691504

A frustration question: is there a method (or whatever) in #DOM #JS to get the computed pixel equivalent of a given #CSS length value? Even better, of a given CSS length-percentage value? I’m doing a thing where converting to pixels is necessary for understanding, but I don’t want to have to write my own unit conversion code if I can possibly avoid it. Yes, including the “create an element, assign it the value you want, count the pixels” conversion hack.