• Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.org
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      I really try, but I’m starting to feel like a zombie all the time!

      One thing I try to do is not go so hard on JavaScript. I don’t like when websites do that and have problems due to that, especially when it comes to forms (though I do have an awesome example with being able to paste a long string of text into a text field and having JavaScript split it into the following fields, but only if it’s in the correct format).

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        JavaScript is fine as long as it degrades gracefully when disabled by the user.

        That feature sounds very useful.

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          Yeah, it’s a long story but while working somewhere they used a terrible SaaS for their day-to-day operations and I eventually built my own that they still use (I don’t work there anymore).

          The long string would be a bunch of specifications sent via email by clients (it’s an email-heavy industry) and I got tired of copying and pasting each part line by line (it was also hard because they weren’t sent as separate lines, but used a character as a separator) so I built it for myself.

          I guess that’s the magic of eating your dog food.