In 2012, we build the front end of an application by making heavy use of the JQuery UI widget class and extending it for our own needs. That application is still running today largely unchanged on the front-end.
We've used our Zojirushi almost every single day for almost 5 years now. It cooks perfect rice and keeps it warm and fresh for 12 hours. 100% worth the investment.
> time is possibly too short (especially if you have kids) to learn new things that aren't simple, even if better
Having a kid has drastically altered my ability to learn new things outside of work, simply due to lack of time. I never could have imagined how big of an impact having a kid would be, its crazy!
The worst thing is when you actually manage to carve out some time to do some learning or experimentation with a new tool, library, etc only to find out that it sucks or you just don't have the time to pick up or whatever.
> Having a kid has drastically altered my ability to learn new things outside of work, simply due to lack of time. I never could have imagined how big of an impact having a kid would be, its crazy!
yeah, I could have written this verbatim. Either I was not warned enough, or I did not pay enough attention/heed whatever I was warned of. I don't have a large family, so I've basically had ZERO kid experience since I was a kid... yikes... almost 50 years ago LOL. What worries me though is that it's kind of been an assumption at this job that you DO spend some off-duty time learning/tinkering. And I enjoyed it!
> The worst thing is when you actually manage to carve out some time to do some learning or experimentation with a new tool, library, etc only to find out that it sucks
I got briefly excited about the V language to maybe use for little utility scripts and maybe even as a first teaching language for my kid, then realized that when you scratch the surface of it it's basically kind of ugly underneath. (Example- The "this should never happen" error was literally most of the errors, lol.) It looks like something with a lot of great ideas but slipshod not-deeply-thought-out implementation. And the final nail in the coffin was all the evidence that the language creator simply bans anyone with valid criticism- I'm a free-speech near-absolutist so that one was the killer for me.
One of a few examples of what you're referring to. The thing is, before kids, we could afford to waste that time. Now we cannot. :/
Does annual billing make sense here? This is the sort of service I would only anticipate buying for a few months at most. Either the idea is getting no traction and I move on, or its getting traction so I start building get an MVP and do signups myself. Just a thought. I like the page layout, nice bright and clean.
So, this product: prelimix, doesn't exist yet? You're just getting pre-orders to determine if you should build it? If I understand that correctly, that's pretty funny.
This is neat but a lot of the nodes overlap in the projects I've tested, and there seems to be no way to fix it. I can drag some things around and sometimes get a reasonable view but then I can't see other nodes.
Thank you for your feedback. I made the latest UI updates, adding zoom in/out functionality and implementing a collision force between nodes to make navigating the node structure easier. I'm grateful for your input toward improvement!
Thank you very much for taking the time to test it! I’ll make the updates as soon as possible based on your feedback. I truly appreciate your advice for improving the project.
The Widget Factory was awesome for its time and not well advertised.