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Sounds like a good use case for the browser's localeStorage API


Storage for each locale the application supports.


Unrelated blog post: For a web app I recently designed a "favoriting/bookmarking" system that was requested by several people.

Only like two to three people used it for a while, before they left for other jobs.

Now no one uses it.


He rails against Nihilism, but is the poster boy for being a nihilist.

Ironic.


Nietzsche's quest was to discover how to lead the good life despite the implications of nihilism.


https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1626069-4chan

I just can't help but share this meme from 4chan about Nietzche here.


If you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares back into you


Rob Schneider isssssssss

the Compiler. Opening this Summer, 2022.


It is also a fun little game to program/make a clone of

I made one simple web page with JS, HTML, and CSS, and now I can play it whenever I want (or show it off to my friends who introduced me to Wordle a few days ago).

Essentially Wordle is just Hangman with a neat twist.


> Essentially Wordle is just Hangman with a neat twist.

I'd say the closer comparison is to Mastermind[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)


Wordle is basically a clone of Lingo, so that'd be the closest comparison available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(American_game_show)


I was thinking about Mastermind too. I played that one as a kid, but Wordle is a better version of the same idea:

- Mastermind is based on abstract codes, Wordle is words. Words are fun!

- Wordle is much easier to explain. I could explain it to somebody who hadn’t heard of it and we could be playing on pen and paper inside two minutes.


I initially thought it's just like Mastermind, but with Mastermind you are not told which colours (corresponding to letters) are right: you are just told there is one right in the right place and two right in the wrong places, for example.


I had the same exact idea. It turned into a fun weekend project[0] that allowed me to dust off my vanilla JS skills and dive deeper into Tailwind CSS and put my own spin on the concept by basically turning it back into an asymmetric multiplayer game.

I do commend Josh Wardle for implementing Wordle with native web components, I personally wouldn't have the patience.

[0] https://word.rodeo


it reminds me of the puzzles that had a starting word, an ending word, and you could only change one character at a time to make a new word to finally achieve the ending word, and mixed in with the game "master mind"


I believe they are called “word ladders” [0]. Coincidentally, I was listening to Genesis’s song “Supper’s Ready”, yesterday. It includes 2 word ladders in its lyrics.

  Mum to mud to mad to Dad
and

  Dad to dam to dum to Mum
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_ladder


that's the one!


> It should not care what time it is. The clock in my car says 12:00. Why? Because I have never bothered to set it. I don't care, and I have the correct time, accurate to the millisecond, on my phone.

Oh yeah buddy? I have it on my wrist with an Eco Drive watch :)


Am I a weirdo for using the console (F12) in my browser for calculating stuff like tips, rent/utilities for the month, and other such things? Lol.


No, I always use gdb :)

It also has a persistent history, variables, functions, base conversion, etc. I guess it doesn't have unit conversion or a math library, but it's a great programmers calculator.


Hah, I used gdb print expression for a calculator for decades (especially p/x for hex conversions.) I finally switched to "just fire up a python repl instead" around 2010...


Python just makes it too easy. from math import * and you have everything you need.


I love the JS console for this sort of thing. It has autocomplete for math functions, lists and variables. And I know (and have muscle memory for) the JS math library already.

The best part is its available anywhere, on any computer, in any web browser without installing anything.


Seeing as others in this thread use the bog standard console - and I’ve seen other developers do exactly what you’re referencing - it seems such console usage isn’t unique to you at the very least.


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