Community Open Thread 42 - A rare Tuesday edition

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Happy tuesday! I know I usually post these things on Fridays, but I was out last Friday and will be this Friday too - so how about a rare Tuesday open thread. Here are some links in case you missed them:

Tuesday is the new Friday! What are you working on, what are you enjoying, what should I make for the #teachathing code jam…sound off below and see you on Glitch dot com :beetle:

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I’m kind of just waiting for nixos 24.05 to come out, to see what newly breaks on glitch :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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meanwhile reheader is somehow being used by 1500+ people and it desperately needs a quality of life update. it was put together in a couple of hours, there’s a lot of redundant code, and the whole flow is a bit of a mess. been reworking it with the latest Nuxt, which is definitely overkill, but it makes things nice and easier. only then can i be actually proud of this project.

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it is out. and it is profoundly broken on glitch

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reminds me of how, I put in a bit of work for this one minecraft mod that embeds chromium in mc and contributed to a similar project on the server side and a shockingly large amount of people started using it.
Sometimes the weirdest things are the things people need in their life.
(people use this to host watch parties in minecraft is one use case)

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according to analytics, my biggest sources of traffic are the numerous dev.to “how to optimise your github readme” posts that a lot of beginners tend to follow and this Medium article (they spelled my name totally wrong). it also doesn’t help that when you sign in with github to reheader, the PR to add the image is made from my account (similar to how glitch’s export to github works) and so i get notifications from random repos when they merge my pr to add their header image :sob:

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on a related note, what do y’all think is the best way to style an <input type="color" />?

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I am not a big fan of the default color inputs, especially in firefox. I would recommend using something like coloris and using the default input as a fallback.

Docs: GitHub - mdbassit/Coloris: A lightweight and elegant JavaScript color picker. Written in vanilla ES6, no dependencies. Accessible.

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bonus: i love reading user reviews.

this one user wrote on their blog about reheader:

Using this website requires you to log in with Github first before you can use it. I’m confused as to why.

The resulting image will be 1000 x 300 pixels in size. If you feel like you want to draw it yourself, If you want to make your own picture, you can use this size to set the page. Then you can create your own art. Which I secretly took quickly, so I used Photoscape to paste it.

I hear you. GitHub login will be optional.

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