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I moved all my domains to Porkbun a while back because they had reasonably competitive pricing and a cute pig mascot. Would recommend.
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GigaFuzz posted:What are the go-to domain registrars these days? I occasionally help clients at work set up some basic starter websites and I've been using Gandi for a while, but I think the value has fallen off with the price rises and dropping free email. Cloudflare is great, your domain automatically gets hooked up to their system, and their prices are quite good. $9 or so per year for .com and similar prices for .net etc. No extra fee for registrant privacy information like some places like to charge for.
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Cheers all for the recommendations. I'd been meaning to check out Cloudflare and it slipped my mind.
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I used to use redpen.io to annotate up drafts, but it’s defunct. What do ya'll use? I’m looking for something where I can easily import a webpage visually and have other people see my spot-notes. I tried the OP but it's from 2013.
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My friend operates a small business and wants to hire someone to do SEO for her website. I’m a frontend developer but I don’t know the first thing about SEO. Super rough ballpark - what’s involved, how long would it take, and how much would a contractor charge? Is it a one-time thing or does it need constant work? It’s a beauty and health related business with a brick and mortar store if it matters.
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Good SEO involves content strategy beyond just making sure the semantic markup is right. You need to know what keywords to leverage for that market and vertical, what types of pages will help boost in google, what other services and platforms to leverage beyond just the site, and then you need to have a good reporting strategy to prove what you’re doing is a worthwhile investment. To do it good it is not something you would simply tack on to your skill set as an engineer because it feels related.
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Obviously set up a Google listing for the business and physical location, but that’s a half hour job. Ranking in your niche means consistently putting out content people want (or continually putting out enough AI content to confuse google). If they want, it’s easy enough to play around on moz.com with keyboard ranking tools, seeing what everyone else is advertising and searching for. I did that for a client today, and what I discovered is the people who would hire his services just don’t search Google for it often, so we need to find another way to advertise. I have some extra capacity, so feel free to PM. Her space might be completely different.
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I’ll send a DM! To be clear, I’m not thinking of doing this myself. Just trying to make sure my friend doesn’t get ripped off or taken advantage of.
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She's going to get ripped off and taken advantage of. SEO firms suck rear end, and all the places that are good at it have dedicated people, or a dedicated guy. She's better off just posting about her business on reddit so that she gets customers from people googling "business niche reddit"
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She wants to hire a marketing firm that includes SEO in their service. There are legitimate SEO firms out there, but they're mixed in with a huge number of snake oil salesmen.
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kedo posted:She wants to hire a marketing firm that includes SEO in their service. There are legitimate SEO firms out there, but they're mixed in with a huge number of snake oil salesmen. So how do I help her know the difference? She’s already been fleeced once, which is why I’m asking (maybe there’s a better thread for this?)
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Harriet Carker posted:So how do I help her know the difference? She’s already been fleeced once, which is why I’m asking (maybe there’s a better thread for this?) Check out their sites, talk to the people, and ask for references. Honestly, before you increase marketing, you should know how customers are discovering you, and focus on that, even if it’s boring. In-store promotion, local events, cobranding with businesses, all of these can have a much better impact and quicker than low amounts of online spending. Whoever she talks to should be asking a lot of questions.
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kedo posted:She wants to hire a marketing firm that includes SEO in their service. There are legitimate SEO firms out there, but they're mixed in with a huge number of snake oil salesmen. My boss has kept hiring those and it's basically always been the same bullshit. He still thinks there's some magic phrasing that will make google love us.
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tired: spend $500 a month on search ads wired: spend $5000 a month on snake oil seo that drives less traffic than the search ads would
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I have a web app that communicates with a web service frequently. Now I want a channel from server to client to push occasional session and user rights updates. And maybe notifications when other users are messing with the same data sets. What are the pros and cons for either WebSockets and HTTP/2 SSEs? The issue I see with HTTP/2 is that IT is dragging their balls all day every day. So if the TLS certificate expires and they lost my eventual ticket requesting a new one, HTTP/2 SSEs would break because no browser supports unencrypted HTTP/2 to fall back on. The communication between the web app and web service is sufficiently abstracted on each end. Is indifferent as to whether it’s REST or something custom on WebSockets (I’d figure, if a socket is open, funnel everything over it).
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Try and go SSE because it is more friendly to users behind corporate firewalls, has browser driven reconnection, and can technically scale horizontally a bit better. However WebSockets are pretty drat nice, just slightly weird implementations server side. NodeJS WebSockets are annoyingly not the same as browser WebSockets, Python does it’s own thing sync or async, and C++ land has a plethora of bad options. I’d recommend never using Socket.IO, it doesn’t don’t really provide any value but certainly has a cost to use.
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Combat Pretzel posted:I have a web app that communicates with a web service frequently. Now I want a channel from server to client to push occasional session and user rights updates. And maybe notifications when other users are messing with the same data sets. If the cert fails, your users probably won't look at the site anyway
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Does anyone know of either a guide or a repo giving a solid example on linking a React front end to a Postgres database using Apollo? The Apollo docs are decent at explaining how to setup Apollo Client and Apollo Server individually, but there isn’t really a lot of information I can find on how they relate to each other and/or the back end.
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May not be a popular answer, but that’s the sort of thing I ask ChatGPT to give me the broad strokes for. Seems to work well in lieu of library documentation that can be too abstract or broad.
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Gin_Rummy posted:Does anyone know of either a guide or a repo giving a solid example on linking a React front end to a Postgres database using Apollo? If you're not too far in on Apollo I'd really suggest using something else. I'm running it on one of my longer running React apps and it really hasn't stood the test of time. I would love to tear it out. React Query is your best bet for a new SPA in 2023.
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spiritual bypass posted:If the cert fails, your users probably won't look at the site anyway
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Gin_Rummy posted:Does anyone know of either a guide or a repo giving a solid example on linking a React front end to a Postgres database using Apollo? I mean, there's not much more to it than what you said. Is there something specific that is giving you troubles? You set up the server, have it's resolvers talk to the DB as needed, then your client is configured to point at that server, and makes requests via useQuery. There's nothing magic about the client / server connection. Apollo client just makes POST requests to the server like you would with Fetch, just in a hook.
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Lumpy posted:I mean, there's not much more to it than what you said. Is there something specific that is giving you troubles? You set up the server, have it's resolvers talk to the DB as needed, then your client is configured to point at that server, and makes requests via useQuery. It's the "you set up the server" part that just isn't working out for me. I follow Apollo's docs to a tee and end up with type errors on the server object (no overload matches this call) I am pushing in the "startStandaloneServer" call. Literally identical up to step 6 of their docs (https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/getting-started) and its broken. I think there are some inconsistencies in their docs since they're deprecating Apollo Server 3 and moving to Apollo Server 4? Really wanted to put together something with Apollo (as opposed to using something like React Query as someone suggested) to better understand the frameworks I've been using at my job, but I'm starting to get real tired of trying to brute force this.
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Trying to get npm build to get my output files juuust right... I'm using the rewired package to change the output filenames. I have config-override.js set like this currently: code:
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I want the urls in the output HTML file to have the beginning "/" removed, so they start with "./". I am doing this because the html, js, and css are being published into a different system and is not resolving the js and css files when their url starts with /. If I try removing the . from the filename configs I cant build. code:
For context I just started trying to learn how to use React and npm yesterday so I have no idea wtf I'm doing Update: below change did it, thanks! Polio Vax Scene fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Aug 23, 2023 |
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Polio Vax Scene posted:Trying to get npm build to get my output files juuust right... Webpack is painful to configure, even for those of us who've been doing it for years. And it's especially awkward to try to patch an existing config from create-react-app. I think there's a solution for your problem that doesn't involve fiddling with webpack though. According to this docs page, you can add this line to your package.json to build for relative paths: JSON code:
Polio Vax Scene posted:For context I just started trying to learn how to use React and npm yesterday so I have no idea wtf I'm doing I would recommend considering checking out some other options besides create-react-app - it's no longer maintained, supported, or recommended anymore. The docs currently recommend starting out with a framework like Next.js, but if a framework is overkill, Vite's react template is a strong replacement for create-react-app, and also much easier to configure and customize.
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I'm thinking I'd like to find a different web designer job, you know? Been working for my county for four+ years without a single pay increase, and I live in a state that really tends to skirt out on employee benefits that most other states enjoy (I live in Texas). It's honestly been getting to me a lot lately but I feel like I'm job-locked with no real path of escaping to greener pastures. Does anyone have some good advice or leads on where I might like to start looking first? It'd be real swell to live in an area not forever destined to drown in an autocratic chamber area.
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White Light posted:It's honestly been getting to me a lot lately but I feel like I'm job-locked with no real path of escaping to greener pastures. Does anyone have some good advice or leads on where I might like to start looking first? It'd be real swell to live in an area not forever destined to drown in an autocratic chamber area. 1. Try to attend design or tech meetups in your area and get to know people. Even if you're a goon, you must have some people skills to have got this far. 2. Do you have LinkedIn? Reach out to people at places you want to work and ask for informational interviews. Not referrals, which are usually worthless if the person hasn't worked with you before, but interviews where you ask what they do and what the company is like and get their opinion. Ask what skills you need to get hired. 3. Spend some time everyday sending out job applications. It's a numbers game where you apply to a lot of companies and you learn. If people aren't getting back to you, that means you've got to change something up. Get to interviews, gently caress up and learn some more. Everybody's heard of that story of that guy who had a magic hookup through their friend to a cool company but don't hinge your job search on it. Hope for the best, plan for the worst. I'm a web developer so I'm not sure of good design job boards or learning resources.
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What kind of design do you gravitate towards? I think first is identifying that so you can then find a more targeted search. There's a spectrum of visual designer to hardcore UXer that doesn't work past wireframes and everything in between like design systems, prototyping, motion, etc. "Web designer" doesn't mean anything these days and experience with native apps /mobile web may be important. I see a healthy amount of design jobs posted on LinkedIn and Twitter. I'm also a product design / design system Creative Director so if you want to pass a portfolio by I'm happy to take a look.
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So i've had a site setup using Hugo and Netlify CMS for a while, and I wanted to update it to a more modern stack, so i've been toying with Astro a bit. In my Hugo theme, I can take frontmatter and apply some terrible logic using the frontmatter as a variable, then output that to the page. It seems like that's not that easy in Astro. Am I misunderstanding it's capabilities? code:
The full logic is even stupider, i'm sure there's a better way to do this, even in Hugo. I'm just trying to get the largest ($max) and smallest ($min) values from internal width, height and depth and output each as a variable: code:
frogbs fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Sep 3, 2023 |
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I'm pretty sure what you want to do is doable with Astro but I don't know Hugo so I'm also not super clear on what you're trying to accomplish.
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prom candy posted:I'm pretty sure what you want to do is doable with Astro but I don't know Hugo so I'm also not super clear on what you're trying to accomplish. I've got three values that exist in the front matter for a post. I want the post template to take those values, figure out which one is the largest or smallest and assign new variables to each. I then want to use those variables in the post template.
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frogbs posted:I've got three values that exist in the front matter for a post. I want the post template to take those values, figure out which one is the largest or smallest and assign new variables to each. I then want to use those variables in the post template. Something like this? src/content/config.ts code:
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prom candy fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Sep 4, 2023 |
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prom candy posted:Something like this? Oh wow, thank you so much. This is incredibly helpful. I'm going to try this out.
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frogbs posted:Oh wow, thank you, i'm going to try this out. No problem i actually havent had a chance to screw around with Astro too much but I was like 95% certain what you were trying to do is doable so it gave me an excuse to spin up an app.
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prom candy posted:No problem i actually havent had a chance to screw around with Astro too much but I was like 95% certain what you were trying to do is doable so it gave me an excuse to spin up an app. Just wanted to thank you again for this, I've gotten much further along in my project after looking at what you provided and reading more of the documentation. The thing i'm wrestling with now is having a field in my schema and .md files that is occasionally empty. If I try to render some HTML based on that value being empty or not my Astro build fails. I feel like this is a pretty common thing to do in an SSG (I did it in Hugo no problem), but it seems like Astro is more strict. The field is called 'address'. In my frontmatter if it's empty it just looks like 'address: '. I'm using a JSX expression to render it only if it has a value: code:
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Edit: It looks like this may be a bug? https://github.com/withastro/astro/issues/6469
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frogbs posted:Just wanted to thank you again for this, I've gotten much further along in my project after looking at what you provided and reading more of the documentation. No problem! Astro is sweet and I don't actually get a lot of opportunities to use it. I had fun digging into your problem last weekend. In Zod I think you would express this as z.string().nullable(), or you could use .optional() and then not supply the address in the frontmatter at all if you don't have it.
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While we're talking about cool poo poo, Bun 1.0 is out: https://bun.sh/ Looks like it's super loving fast and has tons of DX improvements over Node. I was playing around with it a bit last night and it installs packages insanely fast.
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prom candy posted:No problem! Astro is sweet and I don't actually get a lot of opportunities to use it. I had fun digging into your problem last weekend. You're right again! .nullable() was the solution. I swear I tried it the other day and it didn't work, but I gave it another shot today and it worked fine. Must have been a syntax problem or something. Thanks again!
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Soliciting help with CSS ok in here or is there another suggested thread ? has to do with width/placing of something on a page
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