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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Indeed, I feel like technical illiteracy has paradoxically increased as computers have become more common place. Even among software developers, a lot of people don't really understand how things work at a basic level, and just cargo cult solutions.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

From a blog post that is popular at the moment:

I had a "woah" moment once when one programmer got genuinely baffled about the fact that a website somehow "erases" the history of requests from the Network tab of Chrome DevTools. He was wondering what magic method was used to hide the communication. He hadn't realized the app was not a single-page JS application (SPA), and he actually wasn't aware there is another way to make web apps. The idea that each click actually makes the browser fetch a completely new page, without any JS involved, was alien to him.

[–] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Persist logs? What on earth could that option be for? My logs never disappear.

[–] trashxeos@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And here I was, when AJAX first released, I struggled to wrap my head around making it work. I didn't last long in webdev, it just wasn't my forte. At best I can shell script some tasks these days but I'm way too out of practice at this point.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

What is AJAX exactly?

[–] trashxeos@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

It's using Javascript to retrieve and update information on the page without refreshing or moving to a different one. Example usage, on a sign up page, it can tell you a username is taken before you try to submit the form. The name is an acronym for Asynchronous Javascript And XML.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 15 hours ago

Thank you