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Jan 19, 2025
Cooper Gidge
Software and website developer, etc. 💻📱🌐
Why I Don't Use JavaScript Frameworks
Some people's RSS feeds only include excerpts of their articles, instead of the whole thing. And I get that. You put a lot of work into the design of your website, so you want your readers to read your work there, not in an external RSS reader.
I keep seeing companies using AI for things that shouldn't need AI. It's pretty good when it comes to tasks that require some creativity, like write poetry. But when it comes to anything formulaic, don't use AI.
Instead, use an algorithm. It is faster, more efficient, doesn't use any external API requests, doesn't require an OpenAI subscription, and uses virtually no power compared to AI.
Don't use AI because your corporate boss saw an article saying it's good. Try and explain to them that a traditional approach is better.
Obligatory End Of Year Post
For my own sanity, I figured it is worth documenting the history of this site every year. So...let's do that!
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Jan 1, 2025
When using oEmbed on Discord, make sure you include your website domain in the discovery URL. In my <head> element, I specified my oEmbed support like:
<link type="application/json+oembed" href="/path/to/oembed.json">But Discord (truth be told, they're all I checked) wasn't including it in their embeds until I changed it to:
<link type="application/json+oembed" href="https://www.example.com/path/to/oembed.json">So maybe it's not a bad practice to include the site domain in all href attributes.
How To Automate Open Graph Images With Eleventy
I recently set up automatic Open Graph images on this site. Now, instead of making a custom OG image for every page on this site, I automatically generate them at build time.
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Dec 5, 2024
Not Sure How I Feel About "Was This Helpful?" Widgets
Let's say "Was This Helpful?" widgets have these two goals: 1) Survey users to see if your article was helpful. 2) Help users if they select "No" by pointing them somewhere else. If that's the case, then these widgets are far from perfect.
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Nov 29, 2024
Today I learned that print statements cost more than you think. I had a program that needed to perform a calculation...100 million times. I, in my wisdom, had it print what it was doing...100 million times.
When I ran it with print statements, it took over an hour to complete. When I removed the print statements, it took seconds.
It turns out even tiny bits of inefficiency can add up. Who would've guessed?
Introducing...Bits! I said that I was considering this feature when I launched this site a few days ago, and now I've gotten around to adding it!
This post type will be for short, few-sentence bits of information that we learn, but nothing long enough to fit in an entire article.
Along with this change, we now have more RSS feeds! Now, you can choose the feeds you like best and not get bombarded with everything we post.
Bringing Readers To Your Site From Your RSS Feed
Some people's RSS feeds only include excerpts of their articles, instead of the whole thing. And I get that. You put a lot of work into the design of your website, so you want your readers to read your work there, not in an external RSS reader.
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Nov 24, 2024
Technical Debt and You
Assuming you write good, reusable code, then the more features you add, the harder it gets to maintain that code. Because one change no longer affects one thing. It affects a dozen things. You need to take all that depends on your code into consideration.
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Nov 23, 2024
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