I've tried the opposite approach. When a client mentions the chatbot, I'll sometimes open a few smolweb sites, fast, minimal, readable, calm. No pop-ups. No blinking corners. Just content, clear and immediate.

Their eyes change. "Oh, that loads fast." "That's easy to read." "I like that."

Not my project, but this was recently released and I thought it was really cool. It's only 5KB when compressed and feels a bit simpler/more automatic than HTMX.

Also natively handles prefetching on hovering links, has transitions, and comes with a loading bar.

Hi all, I wrote an article based on my (rather messy) experience setting up isso comments on my blog. It's also a casual look at how to set up any hosted service on hardware you control. If you're interested in self-hosting and such it may be helpful. Enjoy!

You know how this goes.

Three weeks on the portfolio. Rewrote the case study twice. Rebuilt the layout because something felt off at midnight on a Wednesday. Sent it to two designer friends who said it was strong. Found the right contact on LinkedIn, personalized the message, attached the link.

Three days later: automated rejection. No subject line variation. Thank you for applying.

Different company, same month. A referral came through – someone you’d worked with two years ago, mentioned your name in a Slack message to someone they knew. You sent a portfolio link you hadn’t touched in weeks.

First-round interview confirmed within 48 hours.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/972299

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I tested what happens when you paste code into popular online developer tools. Some sites contact 96 external domains, set 540 cookies, and run real-time ad auctions on your data. Here is everything I found.

The goal is to write small, clean, accessible HTML that works on any device, any browser, any screen, even without CSS or JavaScript. A smolwebsite should load on a smartphone from 2010, work in a text browser like Lynx, and be readable on a Braille display. Not because those are common cases, but because if your page works there, it works everywhere.

Hello, I was looking at WXT extension framework which supports multiple UI frameworks, but they are all JavaScript frameworks only. Is there any alternative way to write Firefox browser extension in a different language (like Rust / Python / Go, etc.) with minimal or no JavaScript, with a ok developer experience?

Transpilation to JavaScript is fine if it is well supported in Firefox with ok developer experience.

I also checked Dart but its support on Firefox does not seem great, like the extension only works on Chrome browsers.

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Recently the idea of serving Markdown to AI agents has gained traction. Cloudflare wrote about it and built a dashboard toggle to convert responses to Markdown automatically, using content negotiation to detect whether the requesting client wants Markdown or HTML.