The HTML-First Approach: Why htmx and Lightweight Frameworks Are Revolutionizing Web Development
5 points by yawaramin
5 points by yawaramin
AI slop
My work increasingly involves Large Language Models (LLMs), AI-powered systems, and machine learning pipelines for industrial automation, business intelligence, and intelligent applications.
Yup.
Aside from the annoying heading emoji, I didn't notice too many AI-isms in the text. But it's kind of disappointing. I like LLMs, but if I want an LLM's opinion, I'll go ask the LLM directly—whereas when I read someone's blog, it's because I'm interested in that person's perspective.
What makes you say that?
It is fairly obvious slop. It's hard to describe, people discuss heuristics like em-dashes and overused metaphors and the like, but it's really just in the tone -- if you've seen it enough, you can spot the text smell immediately.
Seeing this on (what used to be) a personal blog makes me realize I need some way to domain-flag sites/links outside of just my search engine. Does anyone have recommendations for a Firefox extension that can do this?
I only picked up the excessive emojis. But maybe I was biased away from thinking it was slop because it used to be a personal blog. And I guess maybe I haven't seen it as much as I think I have... I feel like I have a decent eye for it, but this one wasn't obvious to me.
A lot of emojis, a lot of em dashes, a lot of lists. But also the content of the article is simply bad, it goes into every direction with the most run-of-the-mill explanation for each of them. Like, seriously, the SEO part seems to have been written by someone living 2020.
I don't really agree with the idea that fewer lines is better. For a start, the React example has error handling which seems to be missing entirely in the HTMX example, and secondly the HTMX code seems to have a lot more implicit behaviour - when does the loading message get hidden/displayed? Does the data div get hidden if there's no data?
The React example is more verbose, but the behaviours are all listed there.
Who renamed the progressive approach of all life into "islands architecture"? It sounds silly like that