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> What is the reason that every single recipe site, without fail, follows this same horrible pattern? I.e. the twenty paragraph "When I was a child growing up in Atlanta..." followed by a crappy in-house video player followed by, finally, the actual recipe?

I lived with a food blogger for six years and might be able to provide some more perspective for these types of comments (beyond just SEO).

First, there's actually an audience that _is_ interested in this type of content. Some are repeat readers who want to follow food bloggers' lives, similar to how HN readers might follow a streamer on Twitch. It's a much more rewarding journey if people don't just see you as a recipe database and bounce, but actually engage with you and follow you over time.

Second, a lot of food bloggers simply enjoy writing and see their blogs as a way to express themselves. Some of them write these stories for their family and friends and didn't think they'd be at the top of Google.

Third, it takes a ton of effort to write a single recipe. I can't speak for others, but hers involved multiple days of planning/cooking/shooting, remaking it several times so she knew it'd be consistent for the reader, planning/shooting/editing the photos, and even scrapping recipes altogether if they didn't work out. She also had to deal with the business end of things (like getting a lawyer, accountant, social media manager, and managing contracts with sponsors). Her attitude was basically, "if I'm doing all of these things to provide someone with a free recipe, they can scroll past my story if they don't feel like reading it". (That being said, her site was pretty minimalist compared to other food blogs – she didn't run ads.)

FWIW, I don't have a problem with onlyrecipe.app, I just wanted to share this because I'd be interested if I didn't know already.

If you have an iPhone, you can physically connect it to your computer and inspect its elements through Safari's DevTools. It's a little unintuitive, but I wrote a walkthrough on how to set it up here (see the second section) [0].

I don't know why they make this so hard, ha!

[0]: https://mtm.dev/iphone-localhost-mac

Has anyone noticed any of this with .dev domains?

Came here to find this.

> The DX is so good that building things is incredibly fun, intuitive, and headache free. I can’t emphasize enough how empowering it is.

Yes! I've been a full-time React developer for about 5 years, and recently had the chance to try Svelte on a small pet project. I'd written most of the project in React and had a free weekend so I figured what the heck – let's see how it'd look in Svelte. :)

Within a day most of the functionality was in place, and the code just felt _beautiful_. I loved that it removed so much boilerplate (wrote some examples here[0]), and some of the React headaches (like using "Undo" in a controlled <textarea>) were just gone. The ergonomics (especially the built-in stores, error handling, and <svelte:head>) were lovely surprises!

I'm really bullish on it and so happy it's starting to grow.

[0]: https://mtm.dev/react-vs-svelte

I'd heard about Millionaire Next Door for years and mistakenly wrote it off as one of those scammy "buy my program" books about visualization.

Then it was gifted to me, and boy, was I wrong! Couldn't put it down. It's packed full of interesting tidbits and data. While I'd highly recommend reading the book yourself, I also wrote some notes on it here [0].

I'd love to see these same studies, but updated to 2021.

[0]: https://mtm.dev/millionaire-next-door

One thing I really appreciate about this is the design! It feels so calm and friendly – like a lot of care went into it.

I love how everything snaps to the grid, and that it's achieved via CSS transforms.

I use a similar extension for VS Code. My use case is to share certain lines of code with coworkers. I didn't realize it would be so helpful, but I probably use it at least 3 times every day.

Sometimes you find out that it's a Spirit Temple project and you won't be able to complete it for another seven years.

Ideally, we'd be able to control opt-outs at the browser level.

The second best thing would be a law to prevent consent popups from making it harder to opt-out than it is to opt-in:

[Accept] / [Decline] / [Manage preferences]

I tried both Eleventy and Zola along with a few other SSGs for my blog [1], and ended up going with Eleventy. I love that it's flexible with my directory structure, that I can write shortcodes with JavaScript (without adding JS to the client), and preview my site from my phone without any extra setup. (It gives you a URL when you start up the development server! Magic!)

It was almost trivial for me to add a social sharing image generator for my posts. [2] That's something I never thought my SSG would be able to do.

Definitely check it out if you're looking at static generators. Zola too, which is amazing in its own right.

[1] https://mtm.dev/static

[2] https://mtm.dev/eleventy-social-sharing-images

Just chiming in to say that I noticed this too. I don't know if it's "sinister", but it's definitely my favorite palette of the ones presented.

Looking at the things he's built [0], it seems like he focused on what he could build rather than what people wanted. A lot of developers do this.

Without an existing audience or funding for ads, he had to do cold outreach, which I don't blame him for disliking.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25105735

This has to be a nightmare for the patients. According to the article, some are already struggling with depression and anxiety.

> The information published could not be more sensitive: it included the patient's name, personal identification number, telephone number, email address and residence address, together with the content of the therapy sessions.

I'm saying that they're expecting their phone to come with a charger.

It's going to be incredibly frustrating for the average person to buy an almost-$1000 device, use it until it runs out of battery, and realize that a charger is a completely separate purchase. Especially because the included cable is USB-C, so it won't work with most old power bricks.

I feel like Steve wouldn't've let this happen... the UX is just so, so bad. It feels incredibly profit-motivated.

Tried it on my personal site, which I’ve received a lot of compliments on.

Input: https://mtm.dev

Output: 38% of users are expected to like your site

Really cool product! stevoski, if you see this and don't mind me asking, how do you position/sell a product that does less (but is more streamlined) than your competitors?

When I've tried to cold-sell customers in the past, they often want that one feature (a random integration, feature matching from the service I'm replacing, etc.) and aren't willing to make the switch until I add it.

Maybe this wouldn't be a problem if I was marketing instead of selling?

I just have to say how much I appreciate the design of this. You killed it. It reminds me of Ronin [0] or something you’d see on /r/unixporn [1].

Also, really cool that this is written in Rust!

[0]: https://100r.co/site/ronin.html

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/dekj2i/oc_a_spoti...

Glad to hear someone feels the same way about Git. I understand why some people love it, but I think it’s overly complex for most workflows.

Wow, I’d never thought of using it like this. Thanks for sharing, I just added something new to my workflow!

These kinds of salaries mean that if you reject the position, there’s a chance someone else without morals will accept it.

Anyway, accepting the offer doesn’t mean compromising your morals. You can always be a voice of reason within the company. Plus, having Facebook on your resume can open up a lot of opportunities in the future.

If they make you do something morally wrong, you can always quit.

* This comment fills you with determination.

In a related vein, I’m curious to HN’s preferences. For electronic reading, do you prefer serif or sans-serif fonts?

I love a good font (and try to use one on my own blog), but part of me gets really giddy when I discover a site with very little styling. It's like I've found some secret oasis that's going to have a high signal-to-noise ratio, or at least some more "raw" writing than you'd find on ${popularNewsWebsite}. Some sites that come to mind:

- https://danluu.com/

- https://100r.co/site/home.html

- https://meagher.co/

- https://macwright.org/

Where Times really shines is printed material. I find it (and Garamond) extremely easy to read.

For longform screen reading, I usually prefer Georgia, Freight Text, Source Serif, and Tiempos. San Francisco is a nice sans-serif font for this, too.

If I’m going into an interview, I’ll usually prepare some questions in advance.

But I’m terrible at coming up with questions during dynamic meetings. I find that I need time to reflect on topics before I can form a clear idea of what I need to ask.

This has backfired several times, usually in meetings with sharp businesspeople (who are so good at asking pointed questions!). Does anyone have tips on how to get better at this?