Honestly love tailwind. Once you get used to all the names/abbreviations and how they work with sizes and states etc. it’s much easier to see what’s happening when eyeballing code.
Makes reviewing and bug fixing easier too.
I get that early on it feels annoying. I recall disliking it the first time I learnt it, but then when I went back to regular css and classes I really missed it.
I recall saying something like “the function ‘draw_card’ doesn’t mutate the deck variable” and it goes “I’m sorry, you’re correct. I’ll fix it to mutate the deck variable” and it returns the same code but changes the the card variable inside function to be called “mutate_the_deck”.
I felt much safer after that interaction.
I was using phoenix and elixir right when Chat gpt came out and people were like “it’ll take our jerb”.
I tried to get it to build a basic module that built a playing deck of cards. At first it looked OK, the basic layout made sense, but then I realised it called functions that weren’t there, some functions were just empty, since logic was wrong and actually it was all around terrible.
I tried to fix it with prompts and it got worse or implemented my suggestions incorrectly and was still broken.
Ultimately it took a lot longer to get no where than if I’d just written it by myself. But I could see how someone with not much knowledge in the area could see the output and be impressed.
Omg… I think I’m showing my age 😅 I thought that was “ask jeeves” (pre google Internet search thing) and it was a joke about developers looking things up so the time on the job
I was just trying to figure out what attributes I could pass to a component to modify the ui without having to custom jobby it.
The docs simply showed an example of its most basic use case and a link to the original library they got the component off that they modified… The docs on that link also just show an example of it’s most basic use case…
They didn’t list all the possible things you could pass it anywhere.
Exactly. Recognising your own errors is an improvement
I do wonder how much they soft delete stuff, so they can keep the data to sell. Also if they keto a history, do even if you manually delete/edit, do they have a copy on a server somewhere?