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The Grug Brained Developer (2022)

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1087 points smartmic | 4 comments | 17 Jun 25 20:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.613s | source
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butterlesstoast ◴[17 Jun 25 21:09 UTC] No.44303985[source]▶
Professor Carson if you're in the comments I just wanted to say from the bottom of my heart thank you for everything you've contributed. I didn't understand why we were learning HTMX in college and why you were so pumped about it, but many years later I now get it. HTML over the wire is everything.

I've seen your work in Hotwire in my role as a Staff Ruby on Rails Engineer. It's the coolest thing to see you pop up in Hacker News every now and then and also see you talking with the Hotwire devs in GitHub.

Thanks for being a light in the programming community. You're greatly respected and appreciated.

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deadbabe ◴[17 Jun 25 21:15 UTC] No.44304044[source]▶
Wasn’t HTMX just a meme? I can’t really tell if it’s serious because of Poe’s Law.
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brushfoot ◴[17 Jun 25 21:34 UTC] No.44304200[source]▶
Solopreneur making use of it in my bootstrapped B2B SaaS business. Clients don't need or want anything flashy. There are islands of interactivity, and some HTMX sprinkled there has been a great fit.
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1. deadbabe ◴[17 Jun 25 21:54 UTC] No.44304374[source]▶
Wish I had your clients, instead of ones that say a page needs more “pizazz!”
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2. aspenmayer ◴[17 Jun 25 22:13 UTC] No.44304535[source]▶
I’m getting zombo.com vibes from this client request.
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3. wvbdmp ◴[17 Jun 25 22:17 UTC] No.44304568[source]▶
The pizazz clients want sites for their customers, the no-frills clients want sites for them to use themselves.
4. foo42 ◴[18 Jun 25 06:07 UTC] No.44307052[source]▶
you can do anything at Zombocom!